Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-04-14
AccoMAc COURTHOUSE. VA.
SATURDAY. APRIL II, 1855.
Letters have recently been pub

li,hed by Mr.. W. G. Elan. late ed
itor of the Wing and by Boss Ma
hone in reply to the letter OF hon.
John S. Wise. asserting his inde
ocudcnce of the Boss and his meth
dds. The former discusses i'll his
renchant style, what he is pleased
to term Mr.. Wise's "nnexpected
somerSault into the ranks OF dis
sension and diSoIganization." and
predicts that Johnnie in his efforts
ITO lend the party" will come to
grief and doubtless he will, but IN
his defeat the victory will be q
grand one,,if by the seeds of dis
sens;on sown hy him in the ranks
of tho republican party. the Boss
is shorn Of his power. Elan, evil
Gently in coming to the rescne OF
lis chief, en'ertains grave fears of
The power of Mr.. Wise as Il "kicS
cl,' and to the extent that he is
alarmed, Democrats have reason
10 be gra,itivd and to rejoice. The
letter of the Boss leaves 10 doubt
that between him and his 'crmer
lieutenant "war to the knife" has
been declared and the average
Democrat will doubtless feel very
much about the fight between them
as the old man did about the fight
etwtcn Betsy and the bear, not
caring which won. We do no.!
know that we care much, but John
ME as lesser evil, las somewhat
ON sympathy. The following ex-
tracts from the letter of the Boss
will show to some eXtcntthe breach
be.we. b IN and SIR Wise:
He first c,iticises HIM for giving
his letter to tie public through a
Democratic newspaper and then
taking up he subject of party or
ganization handles him thnsly:
"One caunot avoid a feeling Of
acute sympathy for Capt. Wise in
seeing hian forced by his conscicn
tious convictions to declare wal
againsta system of party govern
mem of which, throughout it,
whole administration, he has beer
"A principal beneficiary. If this
system had antagonized him-hat
baff1pd and sacrificed him-wt
might see how easily he could turi
upon itand endeavor to destroy ii
but AS it is, it is left 10 our tende
imaclnations to conceive the ago
nizinc ihrces he must have under
pone to have reached the convlc
he mist break with all his former
associates and associations an(
fight against the plan OF party or
ga cation, against the unit rule
and express the stern resolution
thar these must down at his bid
ding. or he will ''go into some 9th
er party"
He dwolls at length upon the
coune of Mr.. Wise in the Third
District Congressional election anu
criticises him in the following caus-
tic manner:
s:Still we had a glorious victory
in 1886, notwithstanding the Ander.
son Mccormick law, defeating sew
en- ont of the ten Democratic nomi.
nees; and this victory would have
been still greater bnt for The nm.
fortunate inference Of Captain Wise
in the Sd. or Richmond District.
where, although he had no official
authority in the party, he actually
ignored the State Committee and
its Executive Committee. and pro.
claimed IN the Richmond Dispatch
las he now chooses it again as his
organ) that he would not submit to
the Labor nomination of Mullen for
Congress, but intended to have a
District Republican Convention
anil nominate Hon. Edmund Wad
dill as a candidate. He did all this
in thoughtless contempt of the &C
ton of the State Committee with
regard to that district-action.
which if not taken on his own Sug
gestion, was urged in committee by
the only member Of the District
Committee present, leaving the ia
bor men to nominate, nDon the i'm
piled understanding that no Re
publican nomination should be-
made, and that there would be a
coalition of forces to elect the La
nor nomiDeSS and defeat the Dem
ocratic candidate. In effect, prac
tically and truly, the whole course
taken was absolutely dictated b.
Captain Wise. Yielding to the ar
dor of his views, the District Com
mittee called the Convention, and
that body was persuaded hy Cap
tain Wise to register the foregone
conclusions lie had proclaimed in
the Dispatch. The result was A
double defeat for the Republicans
aud Labor men and a double tri-
lmph for the Democrats"
Replyingto the alIuslon of Mr..
Wise that the Republican party is