Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-06-13
PAGAN BOB.
IugersoIPs Hapless Failure In Attacking
the President.
N,,, Ni,rk Sy1r

IugsrsoIps Hapless Failure In Attacking
the President.
Nelg York star.
The Republican party has chosen Its
champion and rushed him to the front in
desperate effort to break the force OF the
great popularity of the Democratic candi-
dates and platform, and to prevent final
and decisive capitalization of public opin-
ion in favor Of Cleveland and Thurman,
before their opponents take the field
Whether the present occupation OF the
able advocate who invented the Plumed
Knight is in addition to the role he was to
play at Chicago as the nominator OF Ores
ham, or implies relief from that duty We
do not know. IL is certain, however, that
the Colonel's political influence will not
be increased by his first effort in the cam
paigu Of 1883.
In his three-columu contribution to yes
terday's Press Mr.. Ingersoll starts out by
expressing his satisfaction that the CAM
psign is to be one of public issues and not
of personalities. Yet in the very next par
agrsph he proceeds to inaugurate can
Tass of personal misrepresentation, as fol-
| lows:
'I do not regard Cleveland as personally
populsr. He has done nothing, so far as
know. calculated to endear him to the pop
Mar heart. He certainly is not a man OF
enthusiasm. He has said nothing OF
striking or forcible character. His mes
sages are exceedingly commonplace. de
ia not man of education, of wide reading,
Of refined tastes, or OF general cultivation.
He has some firmness and q good deal OF
obstinaey, and was exceedingly fortunate
in his marriage"
A little further on be adds:
81 am perfectly satisfied that Mr.. Cleye-
land Is not popular with his party. The
noise and confusion OF the convention, the
cheers and cries, were all produced and
manufactured for effect and for the pur-
nose of starting the campaign"
Colonel IUgersoll has an extensive &C
ouaintanee with public assemblages. de
"a accustomed to face great audiences In al
stages of enthusiasm. We beg to inquire
when and where, in his own experience or
in the records of public meetings he be-
came ACQUAINTED with cheer that endured
more than half an hour except that mighty
shout last Wednesday at st. Louis! II re
has taken pains to inquire into the iac's
| regarding that uuequsled demonstration,
he has sscertained that there was nothing
"mapufac,ured" about it; that it was q
y,ritahle exclamation, arising spontaneous
| Iv az an unexpected moment, long IN ad-
vance Of the formal nomination, and that
neither the chair nor the convention itself
could ouell the popular acclaim until long
after it had passed all precedent.
Mr.. Ingersoll may not understand Gro
var Cleveland, but the American people do
know hun, and he has become so endeared
10 ths n,pular heart by the striking and
forcihle character of his doings and public
ntterapess. by his firmpess for the right
and his mastery Of gseat questions through
,be spplication of wide cultivation, that
he has excited enthusiasm unmatched oy
that shown for any American statesman Oh
our day.
Cleveland aud his critic on the question OF
Personal ability and popularity. The Jurors
ara the American people, and their verdict
WAS foreshadowed by the reclamation st
Unfortunate in the opening Of his effort,
Colonel Ingersoll pluuges irom the mud
into deeper mire as he proceeds: Aoout
civil service he says:
IWhen we come to Civil Service, about
| how many Federal officials were at the 81
Touis Conventions? About how many nave
taksn part in the recent mountainous In
ether words, who has been idieF
What an utterly stupid statement 70
maize. in view of the fact that the 81
Ionis Convention was notable for the en-
80 abstention of United States officials
from participation in its proceedings'
Fvery journal of importance in the eoun-
trv has noticed this striking feature OF the
Convention, and it is strange, indeed, tnaS
Il ahould escape the attention OF 80 assiou-
n.s a oatherer of news and current htsra'
tnra a. Colonel Ingersoll. Still more IN
fsIieitious is the Republican champion
t;it against the truth about pensions
what he says Is this:
1Another very great mistake, j think,
has been made by Mr.. Cleveland. de
sasms to have taken the greatest delight IN
rstoing pension bills, and they seem 10 DC
Mani the only bills that be has examined,
~ he has examined them asa lawyer
--onld examine the declaration, brief OF
nlss of his opponent. He has sought 10,
tschniealities, to the end that be mign'
veto these bills"
what the Democratic national platform
ssvs on the same subject is as follows;
5srh;le carefully guarding the interests