Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-15
GOEF CORNERED.
HB AT LAST GIVES A RELUCTANT CON-
SENT,
Through His Managers 10 Dsbats The Issues Of the
Day With Hon. ". L. Winn-An Add
tOual Illustration Of Republican
Ideas Of Courtesy.

However unusual and strocious the idea
may be to the mind of the average reader,
there seems to be no doubt of the fact that
whenever the Republican State Executive
Committee enters into . correspondence
with anyone, the party Of the second part
must expect to read the reply to his COM
munication in the columns of the hteui-
geneer some hours, or days, rs the case
may be, before the mail brings him his
personal copy Of the letter.
The REGISTER yesterday morning called
attention to the bad break Of Chairman
Cowden in rushing a lot Of private unfn-
ished correspondence into the columns of
the Republican organ, in q desperate at
tempt to manufacture party capital, and
expressed the surprise everyone must have
felt at 90 fragrant q breach of courtesy.
But on top Of this break, we have an
other infinitely worse. As late asten O'Clock
Thursday night, Chairman T. 8. Riley
informed q REGISTER reporter that he had
received no further communication from
Chairman Cowden of the Republican Com
mittee, and considered the correspondence
at IN end. At that moment Mr.. Cowden's
reply to Mr.. Riley was in the InteRigeneer
Office, where il had been for several hours,
a. is proven by an editorial comment on the
inside z OF the LateiligeReer, which 20
to press 1T an early hour in the evening.
At an hour sufficiently late to make it Ger
tain that Mr.. Riley would not get the let
ter through the mail that day, or night
and presumably between midnight and
Yesterday morning. copy Of the original
letter given TO the H~teLigeneer wasdropped
into q letter box, where it reposed until
the early morning collection yesterday,
while the Inteligeneer press was working
of the original and it was being distributed
about town. At $50 q. n. the copy in
tended, a. Q formslity, for Mr.. Riley, was
stamped in the postofiee, and about halt
dast eight IL was left ut the Democratic
headquarters by q carrier.
II has been suggested that, without
going much further in the direction a.
ready trayeFsed, the Republican Chairman
might have merely sent Mr.. Riley q marked
copy of the Intelligence by messenger,
saved q two-cent stamp and an envelope
for other uses during the campaign.
Solar as the eleventh hour srSreement OF
Mr., Golf to debate with Mr.. Wilson Is con-
eerned, it affords the utmost satisfaction
to Democrats everywhere, who are a unit
in expressing the hope that the General
will not funk, and will be allowed by his
managers to engage in the discussions, the
dates for which will be hereafter agreed
upon. But here is the copy OF Mr. Cow
denis letter:
WEST VIRGINIA
REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
WHEELING, September IL, 1855. J .
Hon T. s Riley Chairman &c.
DEAR SIR.-Since you decline my In
yitstion to Judge Fleming to meet Gen.
Golf in Joint discussion, and attempt 10
cover your retreat by proposing that Hon.
W. L. Wilson meet Gen. Goff, l accept
YOUR invitation on behalf of Gen. Gotf, and
ask you as the challenging party to
name the five places at which you wish
discussions to take place.
Very respectfully,
W. J. W. CowDEN, Chairman.