The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-01-02
NEITHER PARTY WILL SURRENDER.
The West Virginia Election Contests VIII
Ise Holly Fought.

WHEELING, w. Va, Dec. So Especial. !
Judge A. B. Fleming, late democratic candidate
for governor, L. s. Senator Kenua, Senator
Faulkner, ex-senator Camden, State Senator
B. II. Oxley, Secretary of State Walker and
four or five other prominent democrats met
Chairman Riley, of the state committee, Atty
Gen. Caldwell and other local lights here last
evening and discussed the proposed election
contests, and afterward they all denied that
there was any deal between the two parties for
a compromise by which the democrats are TO
seat their governor and the republicans get the
L. $. senatorship, as was stated in specials from
indianapolis last Thursday. The republicans
also deny the report, and the IRteltigenoer,
whose editor Mr.. Hart, was one of the VISITORS
will say, in the morning:
The visit of four West Virginia republicans
TO the president-elect was so void of news for
the hungry correspondents in indianapolis that
one of them, Wheeling product, concocted
and furnished to the rest of them a startling
story of an alleged deal between the demo-
cratic and republican leaders of West Virginia.
According to his weak invention the republic
cans are to give up the governorship which
they have fairly won after hard fight, and the
democrats are to let the republicans have the
to be glad to fall in with this scheme, because
since International victory they will have patron
age enough without the little that belongs to
the governor. Democrats are supposed to jump
at the suggestion because the little the gov
ernor will have TO give will be all they can hope
to get.
''The INteUigencer does not, of course, know
everything that is in the MINDS of the demo-
cratic managers, but does know that no such
nrODOS1fIOn n hp
publicans, aud does not believe the democratic
managers idotic enough TO hatch or entertain
such idea. The republicans of West Nir-
ginia, aided by democrats who desired a change
of state administration, have fairly elected the
the next governor OF this state. The men who
elected Gen. Goff will stand by him. and Gen.
Golf will stand by them TO the last extremity.
"No other proposition could for moment be
entertained looking to anything else than the
complete possession of that for which Gen.
Cot made the gallant fight which has so greatly
added to his fame as a republican leader. The
people OF West Virginia may be assured that
10 ambition of Colts, and none that his party
may entertain Tor him, will lead 10 the aban-
dOnment OF any point IN the republican posi-
ton. Every inch of the ground Will be con-
tested as hotly and as pertinaciously every
inch OF ground was contested up to the closing
OF the polls on election day. Gen. COTS ma
iority for governor is small, but it is as good as
though II were ten times great.
1T is the expression OF the will OF the peO-
pie, and the republicans of West Virginia can
have other policy or intention than 10 take
possession OF that Office, if there be law and
justice in the state to give it to them. This as
surrance is not necessary for the people of West
Virginia, but il can do no harm to let the peo-
pie OF other states understand that the stories
they are reading abOu. the demOcratic-repub-
lican deal in West Virginia are purely inven-
tons, put out for the purpose OF making a few
dollars"