The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-10-05


silently stole away" Yet the crowd
still held on, crying the louder, "GoH!
Goa'! Golr!"
Poor Fleming. lie is modest man,
conservative man, and n gentleman,
too, who knows when lie las had enough
oi,anylhing,! thOreiore.he is to be pittied,
for the bitterness OF soul that would
come TO any man to be TINS sChrivelcd up,
an,.ihiIated, repudiatcd, in the house OF
his friends would naturally be great;
hut TO him it must be terrible. The
tide was nevertheless irresistible and
Tgwcpt "Windy" and the Judge both out
OF sight, aud men who this afternoon
yelled for Wilson against Golf, tonight
veil for Golf against Fleming. This is
| the gratifying feature about it too. They
have met in the interior. They Will
not meet again.
Such promised land as that, you
people in other sections will never see.
The Judge could not bear another such
meeting, and he didn't want the meet
ing either and the correspondence that
led M TO il is very interesting reading.
[ append it hcretoand ittells the story.
In order that it may be u little more
mlIy understood, it may be well to say
that General Coli was announced to
speak at Philippi oil Saturday last for
several weeks past and for q number Of
weeks past il has been announced that
the Republican Senatorial Convention
OF this district would be held here to-day
and that he would address it. Doubt
less the doughty and egotislical Govern
or "Windy" conceived the bright idea
that here was brilliant time for hilA to
retrieve his dropping political fortunes
and steal march on KGnpa. He knew
he had n rhinoceros hide and could
stand bad drubbing in order to earn
the record OF being the only Democrat
who dared to meet Col, and then he
knew GoT could draw crowds while lie
could not. 1t therefore fell out that he
had himself announced to speak both ut
Philippi and here on the same dates.
lie got an awful drubbing at PhiIippl.
It was fearful. 1t pierced right through
the Thinoccros hide and made him
souirm and twist and twist and sQuirm,
and The crowd was q hcartlcss one there
too: oil, so hcartlcss! They yelled
at him and cheercd Golf till
they raised the roof, and while
Coli had to spend over half
an hour in shaking hands with the boys
who must shake with the next Cover
nor, poor "Windy" stole away alone TO
his hotel. Here, doubtless, he consoled
himself with the thought OF how the
tables would be turned when he got to
Gibraltar Randolph away from Repub'
bIican Barbour. And SO when il was
gently limited, so gently done that it
would have knocked any ordinarily SEN
sitive man down, that the decent and
proper thing to do on Republican Con-
vention day, when time in consequence
was limited, ii u joint discussion should
be asked all, that discussion should he
between the opposing candidates tithav-
| ing unfortunately and us il destined by
his evil star, happened to Judge FIcm.
ing that his appointments i'll the "in-
terror" had struck the Generals COurse.)
"Windy" became ADVANTAGEOUS nj once.
He would pay Golf back for the Philippi
drubbing that he would. Ilenow had
the General in the rock-ribbcd Gibraltar
Of Democracy and lie calculated the UNI
terrified would be out in force, and
should he give way and foregoe his
sweet ravenge No! ten thousand, nos f!
lIe threw himself into the brcech at
once. He couldn't wait for committees
or any such nonsense us that. lie must
be rcvenged and thereupon he hurled
ut the General the haunting letter you
find enclosed. He couldn't, he wouldn't
give way for Fleming, deCency or any
thing else, not he! He thristed for
blood and the timid Judge doubtless wps
secretly glad OF "Windy's" foolhardiness.
lie isnaturally prudcntand far-seeing; he
had forecast the horizon and found afew
clouds there. He had, it was true, an
appointment ut Kingsville in this coun-
ty for the day, but Sunday evening and
Monday morning all Kingsville came
trooping into Beverly attracted by a
greater light, and then he had no eX-
Cuse TO 90, and Chairman Bakers letter
caught him like gale amidship, and it
turned himupon beam ends. He couldn't
buck out, "Windy" wouldn't give way,
the Judge didn't want him to and 80
they fenced little, trusting hog luck
that the gallant General who had eighty
five miles before him TO meet his Frank
lin appointment by Wednesday noon,
would have to 90 q part OF the way this
evening and hence could not accept his
challenge, or in case he did remain, that
the crowd, and especially the Senatorial
convention part OF it, would put out for
home, contamination devOutly to be
wished Thus it fell out that our next
Governor had the two challenges for the
same day. 1t was almost inconceivable
how tho General could stay for the night
meeting and meet his Franklin appoints
mcnt, Cighty-livG miles away. II in
yolvcda longnight ride tomorrow night |
over rough road. But the gallant Gen
eral had seen service. The old war
spirit came over him and recalled that
once before in dark days, he had rode
that route and had done II too i'll an
equally short time. That whole.soulcd
Republican, Col. A. Winchester, got his
daidcrup and vowed that II the Gem
eral STAYED he would see to it that the
Franklin appointment was met, and so
IL also fell out, that both challenges were
doubtless to the great distress
and dismay Of the poor Judge.
The business Of the Senatorial Con.
yention and OF the District Delegate
Convention likewise called for the same
iay was railroaded through in the morn
Ing in order to give time, and at . o'clock
We all went out in front Of one OF the
stores to hear and sec. The discussion
with 'NWindy"i in the afternoon and with
The Judge in the evening were both SO
arranged, as you will see from the cor
-espondcncp, that the General led oil in
IN hour, the other replying in an hour
md a half, and the General concluding
IL a half hour.
A. g. Dayton, of Barbour, introduced
lie General and O. II. Scott, Of this
place, performed the same Office for the
Governor, General COTS opening was ,