The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-12-16
qHB LAUGHABLH FARCE,
Entitled 1.-THE GubernatorisI
Coute st, About at an End,
THEREPORT OF THE MAJORITY
Being Written by an Outsider, No
Democratic Member Being Equal
TO the Task KEGS Bad Treat.
ment-AlInorIty Report,


gotrtal DiipdicA 10 he HlitaiOneG,
CHARLESTON, Dec, l6,-It appears that
there is to be another upheaval in the
political regions, ms the gubernatorlal
contest committee will be here In full
the irst OF this week, The Democratic
members have been marching up hill
and then down again, and will probably
repeat their performances, After q
months agony at Wheeling they sue
cepded in carrying out the tremendous
undertaking OF adiourning over to
Charleston; perhaps matters may be
again expedited by adjournment buck to
Wheeling, This Is scarcely likely, how
ever,
The much talked Of majority report Is
said to be about completed. The gentle
men who are experimenting its pTepara.
ton had hard time to find a man who
had the graceful literary style to get the
thing in shape prettily.
AToUoH job,
The ISrELLIGENoER correspondent
does not vouch for the truth Of It, but
It is said that Wilson, Walker, St. Clair
and Watts all tried their hands at the
Job. All gave up In despair, and no
wonder, ioEto-hake black appear white,
to give wrong the semblancs OF right, is
no small undertaking. Col. st, Clair in
particular became disgusted and his
private room In the Capitol echoed with
bad swear words and he consigned the
whOle business TO certain unmention.
able locality-a hot place not believed
in by Bob lngersoll, and about which
Henry Ward Beecher is said To have
been bkeptical,
JUDGE HOUSTON CALLED,
Atthis stage a happy thought occurred
10 some one OF the numerous literary
tyrOs, and the name Of Judge Thomas
D. Houston was mentioned. Here was
the solution TO the worse than fifteen
puzzle. Houston was the man for the
work. lie has been at 1t for several
weeks, concealed In room adjoining
the one occupied by st. Clair when the
latter Is here.
The report has been far enough along
iorsOme time TO warrant the issuing Of
the call for the Legislature, were there
positive certainty that Chairman Kee
would sign the graceful production OF
Houston. Kee has not l0nged to come
here at all, but vowing he would ne'er
consent, he consented. OF course II will
be bitter pill for him to swallow-to
sign the report snatChed away from him
at Wheeling; but how Is he going TO
help it2 Something has TO be done, and
soon.
KEE BADLY TREATED.
Kee Is the most competent man Of the
lot to prepare a report, but he has not
been permitted to do SO. The question
now is, will he sign2 He will-alter
some heated aud animated language,
not tit to 90 In the report. How can he
help it-that is, signing2 There Ia
nothing else for him to do. HOuston's
tender way Of putting matters may not
fill him with superabundanCe OF Joy
lie may be melancholy, but the pressure
is stroug and Kee will sign. Then the
call for the session OF the Legislature
will follow. 1t will have to follow, for
there will he no further excuse for de.
lay. A few thousand Democrats are In.
sisling that II must come, and the papers
like the Wayne MeWS are speaking right
out In meeting.
TuR MINORITY READY.
The minority report Is ready. It is
not a ringing campaign document, but a
legal paper, putting matters in their
simplest light, so that all who read can
understand. The INTELLluRNcRR can
assure It's readers with certainty ofstating
fact thatit was written by those whose
names will be appended 10 II. This re.
port will give the history OF every dis.
puted vote about which there was a dis.
agreement, and will plainly prove that
General Gof was elected by from one
hundred and forty 10 one hundred and
fifty majority, Either one Of the mem.
beers could have written 1T; both have
united, joining their efforts together,
The Republicans Of the State are 10 be
congratulated over the simple aspect Of
the whole affair, the law being plain In
every Case and 80 clear as TO be comprs.
hended by the casual reader, even.