The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-02-05
farce Of an investigation and throw him
out OF his seat,
a GRAVE CRISIS FOR doTF TO sETTLR,

out OF his seat,
GRAVE CRISIS FOR doFP TO SETTLE,
1t becomes now q matter for him an
his friends to consider seriously whethe
he should involve the State In certai
turmoil with the equal certainty that h
could hold but month or two at least
This is the situation briefly and plainl
stated aud the people Of West Yirgini
should understand 1t, There will still
be Democratic professions OF honesty
and they will still be Judged by the dis
honesty with which they have covered
themselves as with a ashroud,
GoPF WILL NOT WAIVER,
General GoiF is not the man to stanC
back in dread Of the resistance tina
would meet him at the threshold Of tn,
executive office, which resistance 4
thoroughly planned, but he may wei
hesitate TO push his case further belorI
q tribunal which has already rendered
judgment against him. He leaves early
tomorrow morning to attend. to somt
important matters In the House, whittier
he was summoned tonight by telegraph
lie will have ample time to consider tht
situation and determine what he should
do.
Republicans are eRraged, but the ma,
jOrlty, small as II is, does not mind that
knowing that at the last 1t can and will
seat as Governor the candidate who was
not elected,
SAVE FOR REVERENCE.
Every voter In West Virginia should
save for reference the INTELLIGESCER's
full and fair report ofthis closing debate
on which the Republicans are content
to so TO the people Of the State, tits
in Itself crushing condemnation OF the
Democratic position.
Republicans arc not alone in their in.
dignation. The best Democratic law
yerl here agree with them, and so do
Democrats who are not lawyers.
Judge Ferguson says openly that he
never placed himself where Senator Nc.
Creery sought to place him to'tlay, and
further, that the Democrats in the Leg.
islature are unsupported in their posi-.
ton by law or reason.
THE DEMOCRATIC POSITION.
The Democratic position now stands
thus: They are opening and reading the
returns for Governor, but not putting
them on tho record, where they would
be OF service to General Goif; they are
opening them without provision for taxi
ing care OF them they are Contesting the
seat Of q man who they declare has not
even prima faCie case but stands on IN
exact equality with the man who con.
tests the seat. Their contest is to oust
nobody from nowhere. The reading OF
the returns stopped tonight with Cabell
county. 1t Is being nOised about that
when Kanawha Is reached they will re-
fuse to read the returns from that Coun-
ty, thus giving Fleming an apparent ma
jority OF about l,lOO.
WHERE WILL THE yILLAINY CEASE,
But the scheme is said to go further
and take in the delegates from Kanawha,
upon whom no notice Of contest has
ever been served, and upon whom no
notice can now be served. Democrats
say TINT these KQnawha delegates are to
be thrown out. A few days Rgo should
have declared this rumor absurd. Now
wait to sec what may happen. The
move is said to be in Senator Kenna's
interest, as the Gubernatorial contest
has been from the beginning.
KENNAs DODGE WON'T WORK,
Notwithstanding all the effort Sena:
tor Kenua and his friends have made
and made successfully in the Guberna-
torial matter, Mr.. Kenna can't be elected
again to the Senate. He begins now for
the first time to sec things aS they are.
Three ballots were taken to-day, the
Kenna men hoping 10 drive their favor
ito through by the assistance OF Carrs
vote. Eighty-threo votes were cast:
First ball0t-KGnna 10, Golf 80, Carr,
Harr and Kirk voting for James Bassel,
OF Lewis county, aud DOrr for o. w.
Daley, Of Mineral. On the second,
Shanklin, of Monroe, broke from Kenna,
and voted for ex.Spcaker Rowan, OF his
county. Merrill, OF Writ, followed, and
Dorr came tumbling after. On the third
ballot Merrill went back to Kenna just
for the fun Of it, Shanklln and Dorr
sticking to Rowan.
RINNA TO DE TAKEN DOWN.
There was no conference or caucus 10.
night, the understanding being that
Kenna is to be taken down in open ses-
sion. However this may be, Merrill
says he las polIed his last vote for Ken.
M. shanklin says he is off TO stay and
other recruits are expected tomorrow.
Vanpelt is billed for public speech In
explanation OF his vote on the first bal.
lot at noon, in which he will give some
strong reasons whyhe cannot support
Kcnna and why Kenna cant be elected.
The Rntis expect that fifteen or
twenty, according as their nerve lasts
them, will Join the revolt before dinner.
Carr hRs his own lightning rod up higher
than the Kanawha hills, This Is the
meaning OF his daily refusal TO vote for
anybody except some one who has not a
CHEST OF a show 10 be elected. He sue.
ceeded so well in his determined effort
to be elected President OF the Senate, and
enjoyed so much tho eager rivalry OF the
two parties toget to him first when his
hour came, that he secs no reason why
the same good luck shall not put him
In tho United States Senate. The reR.
son is that hG cannot get the votes.
A tiIO nay AHEAD.
Hc certainly can get no Republican
help, and II the Democrats try to carry
him through the subsequent proceedings
will bo interesting, but they won't elect
President Carr. His secret has been
well kept aud Ills position is not now
generally known, but the fact is precise
" as have stated II, including tho ab.
solutO certainty Of the defeat Of his as.
piratIons. Between the sensational ru-
mors concerning the further CanyasSinR
OF the returns mud the Senatorial com.
plicHtlons, tomorrow bids fair to DO o
day OF almost us much interest as this
has hnnt, and lIia huu far ntttutFinnn1 nil