The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-01-24

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but GhRm and prstence, and Of no NOR
use in that respect than q nth Wheal 4
TO q wagon.
Bat New York Is not the only State II
which you have been pdrlieeps eTfmfni
10 the great crime Of electing Democrat
to Office. There 10 not State In thu
Union where you have your Third Party
organization In which you have not Is
listed in the preparation Of the same
great crime, II crime It be, and to this
West Virginia is no exception. At the
last Congressional election In the Second
District OF this State you, by running 9
Third party candidate, drove Cd votes
enough from Mr.. Flick, one Of the besi
Republicans in the State, to defeat him,
and 10 elect W. L. Wilson, one oil the best
Democrats In the State.
For all these valuable services the DEM
ocratic party feels under great obligations
10 your third party, and 70 you personally
for your efficient services in the Second
Congressional district, and they 90 party,
and especially that portion Of the party
who are opposed to the adoption Of the
prohibition amendment, rely on you and
your party for the same valuable assist.
ance ct the next election in this State. II
you have any doubt as to this, please cast
your eyes over Q late number Of the
Wheeling Register, the liquor organ Of the
State, in which the proceeding Of the late
prohibition meeting in Wheeling were
published.
Now, II cared 80 very much more for
the success OF the Democratic party, IS
you inhnuate, than 1 do for the success Of
the amendment, would pat you on the
back and praise you as good boy, and
tell you to 20 ahead In your good work.
But as don't happen to occupy that posi-
ton, propose to do what can TO prevent
you from comprising the death OF that
amendment by the use OF concealed
weapons. did, as you say, give you ere.
dit for sincerity In your proposed third
party movement at the commencement Of
this discussion, but your reply showed
the grave error into which had fallen.
WHO ARE THE AMENDMENTS FRIENDS.
You showed by this reply that your OBJ.
ject was not to aid the adoption OF the
amendment by the organization Of your
Third party, but that your real object and
purpose was the organization and mainte.
nance Of q third political party, antago-
nistic 10 all other parties, and that you
proposed TO use prohibition simply as an
aid 10 the success OF that party. By this
don't mean to say that you are not, alter
fashion, Probibitionist, provided you
can get prohibition in your own time and
In your own way. But your way is not
my way, nor is 1t the way oil the friends
Of that amendment, by whose votes it must
be adopted, II adopted at all. Il was
plain TO me, by your reply to my first Rrti-
clio on the subject, that you did not desire
the adoption OF the pending amendment
unless It could be accomplished by the
votes OF your Third party, and not even
then unless there should be elected at the
same time majority Of Third party can
dldates to both houses OF the Legislature,
who, alone, you declared, would BIO "com-
petent or willing" TO pass laws to carry the
amendment into execution. And you de-
clRred, In substance, that the amendment
would "become
BY.woRD AND A RHPRoACH
II 1t should bs adopted before your party
obtained control OF the Legislature. I
called attention to all this, and exposed
aud laid bare to the public Rszs your OBJ
jecsa and intentions 60 plainly thst you
have not had the courage to deay them,
but by your silence you confess what l
said to be true. know you feel very un
comfortable in the poaition in which you
have unwittingly placed yourself, and
the best advice l can give you is to take II
easy, and console yourself with the rehec-
ton that you are not the Hrst unfortunate
individual who ''went out after wool and
came back shorn." Your challenge to
discussion before the people 10 huge
Joke, and II intended for me decline 1t. |
I have no time to fool away In such nom
sensical performances; and II had the
time would Htlll refuse, because nothing
hut harm 10 the SUCCESS Of the amendment
could possibly result from ouch q discus
zion. / desire the adoption OF the amend
ment ct the next election, regardless Of
the source from whence the votes mecca
sary Tor the purpose may come, and re-
CARELESS OF what party shall control the
Legislature, which l am cure that you do
not; and, therefore, don't propose to
aid you and your immaculate party in do.
ieating It,
A PERSONAL ALLUaIoN.
One thing more, and for the present l
am done. You have ventured to indulge
in cowardly iHsinustlon against my 10y
atty TO the cause Of prohibition, predica.ed
upon lstters you claim 10 have received
from persons "conve!sant with my whole
career" which you say are not ct for pub
LEGATION, have NO doubt that you have
received come such letters, and I have as
little doubt tina: / could name the Crsnks
who wrote them. But as l may DO mis.
taken in this, and 80 propose 10 meet
these crsnks face 10 face, demand Of you
thUse letters, or copies Of them, with the
names Of the writer's attached, which you
can send TO me By express at my ex4I
psnse, and If they are Of the character in
dicated by you, l win make these .writers
retract what they have written, or prove
them to be liars and slGndersrs. This Is
strong language, but mean what say.
JAMES II. FERGUSON.
CharlesiOn, ". Va, Jan. 10.
II you've got pain or ache or bruise,
Salvation Oil will reach the case instantly.