Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-12-30
SNUBBED
OUR WEST VIRGINIA PILGRIMS
Csms and Saw, but Didn't Conquer
Much.
HIRRISOES COLD TREATMENT.
Allowed Them Fifteen Minutes After Eighteen
Hours Waiting.

\ As the West Virginia public is by this
Z time well informed, few days since .
ouartette Of West Virginia Republicans
packed their. grip sacks and hied them
selves 70 Indianapolis to give Gen. Har-
rison pointers on the SOuth. They are not
30 big or so pretty now as when they
started. After waiting Is hours, General
Harrison allowed them fifteen minutes to
tell all they knew. They spoke but
the President-elscs replied not.
h Purely out of motives Of enterprise as
Auews gatherer the REGIsTEE desires to pre-
sent its re.degs with an account Of the ia
mous nesting, which didn't spPear in Hon.
G. Hsrt's three column collection in Satur-
day's IutsRigsRcer. 1t is given below,
with notes from two leading journals at
tached.
Indianapolis SsRtnCL
Probably no Republican pilgrims ever
left tae city more disSHstsa-''ita--tSSpS
selves than-ths West Virginia delegation
Hssafter calling on Gen. Harrison yester-
day afternoon.
y This delegation, composed Of Charles
Burdstts Hart, editor of the Wheeling
IateEiqeneer; W. J. W. Cowdeu, Chairman
of the Republican State Executive Com
mittee; Charles Eagene Dana, large coal
operator and leading Republican Of the
Kanawhs valley, and y. B. Scott, Of
Wheeling, member of the National Rspub-
ican Committee for West Virginia, ar
\ rived late Wednesday night and waited
impatiantly till late yesterday = af-
teraoou--before securing en- audi
ence with Gen:-HarriSaR---Rhe Cen
eral, having discontinued his afternoon
receptions, visitors can only see him by
appointment. They were very reluctant
to talk politics until they found out that
they would have to wait nearly eighteen
hours after their arrival before being al
lowed to meet Gen. Harrison. How differ
ent it vas with the case of ex-senator
Davis, who was met at the depot by SON.
/ in-Law Mckee and escorted direct to Gen.
Harrison's house where he remaiced eigh-
teen hours. WhSn a reporter reminded
them that Gen. Harrison hsi msde them
wait IS many hours IS Davis had been en-
tertained az the Harrison mansion they
became altogether too mad to keep secret
the object of their visit any longer and
freely vented their indignation.
While waiting at the Dsnison to be
called by Gen. Harrison, they said they
wanted Goff in the ClbiJet, but the Re
pubRcars of West Virginia don't want
him put there through ex-senator Davis
!. in order to make room for his son-in-!aw,
"Sseve" Elking, in the United States SEN
ate. They are very indignant because ex-
S enator Davis had the 'cheek" to take
aud in dispOsing of the Republican
iees in West Virgins. Mr.. Scott was
Especially ySeVere on the old man and his
sOn-in-lsw Steve"
'sNet only is Elkins not bona fide resi-
dent Of our state said he, but it is
doubtful if Mr.. Davis is. The Republi-
cans Of West Yirginis don't want Steve
! Elkins to represent them 10 the senate and
they wont have him. If General Har-
risOn should put Mr.. Goff in the cabinet
We nave % SenuSuda WIZ u SLAAAoHIAy
fitted tobe a U. S. Senator in the person of
Archibald W. Csmpbeu, Of Wheeling. Mr..
Campbell is the largest owner OF the
Wheeling IatelligsRcsr, aud he has been the
candidate for the Republican party Of
West Virginia for U. S. Senator in the
days when Democratic supremacy seemed
impossible to overcome. He has been
1 Republican leader for many years. He Il
y kffty-dve years cid and q son Of Bishop
y Campbell of the Campbellite church. He
was a great friend of Gen. Garfield, and
could have had the Berlin mission IN
ISL"
When Gep. Harrison finally opened his
door to the West ViTgipisns they told him
thai the Republicans of West Virginia
preferred to have their wishes made known
, TO him by Republicans than by Demo
Crat like ex-senator Henry G. Davis, and
If hs cared to hear them they would ad-
. dress HIM in behalf of Nathan Gotf for the
n Cabinet, Gen. HsrTisOn sssented and
dismissed them after listening impatiently
for tttesn minutes
When they reached the Dsnison their
indignation knew no bounds and they
hurri7G to the depot, where they took the
fist train for home.
Like Davis, they want Goff IN the Cab !.
ine', bat they don't want it done under
bargain TO place Eikins in the Senate !
The compact they fear is one in which
both Gen. HARRISON and Mr.. Goff would be /
parties to use the federal patronage TO /
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