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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22
AFoEMaR WEST vIRGINIAN.
Capt. I. j. Matthews Appointed to n Higl,
State Once In Itnho


Capt. I. j. Matthews Appointed to n High
state Once In Idnho.
Capt. Thomas J. Matthews was for
many years q citizen OF Cabcll county,
West Virginia, and was prominent in
political and business circles in the
southern portion OF the State. At tho
beginning OF tho present administra-
ton he was appointed timber and
land agent OF the Interior department
and was stationed ut Blackfoot, Idaho.
He proved himself IN able and efficient
officer, and discovered many extensive
violations OF the United States timber
laws. The captain was SO fnvorably i'm
pressed with tho outlook and advant-l
ages OF that new, rich country, that no
moved his family there and declared
his intention to become citizen OF
Idaho. Naturally aggressive, and abso-
lutely irrepressible, he showed to those
wide-awake people that ho possessed
the right kind OF stuff for high State
appointment. The Blackfoot Ne,rs, just
received, announces his selection by the
Governor as commissioner OF immigra-
ton and superintendent OF labor in the
ACCUMULATION OF statistics of value to
the State. The Nc,rs indorses Captain
Matthews appointment as good one.
Tho INTELLlGENCER adds its congratula-
tions, and assures the Governor Of
Idaho that in the selection OF Captain
Matthews he made no mistake. The
first thing anybody knows he will be
trying to coax some OF the good West
Virginians to emigrate to Idaho.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22
Tho Wilbur opern Commune,

4 Last night at the Grand Opera House
the Wilbur Opera Company opened a
weeks engagement. No name was Civ
ell to tho opening opera on the pro-
sgramme, butithad been announced as
"Fanchettc.n It's atuneful opera with
a,pretty story well told, and the per-
torrance was good, all things consider
ed. It5was certainly too good to require
the Interpolation; Of variety business.
Miss Morton, as tho Queen, sang and
acted well, while Miss Kirwin, in the
title role, was very piquant, and dash
ing.8 Miss Bolton acquitted herself
5creditably. Mcssrs. Conley,5 frederick,
Clarke. Kohnle and Drew were all that
could be asked ofthe parts. Tonight
a"Falkan5will be given. The ensemble
and chorus work Of the company IS
brilliant and pleasing, and the company
rs biz as the stage could accommodate.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22
PnlIcc pic,iIlns.

William Gould, Franz, Kasley and
John Sutton last night attacked Marcus
RosenthGl and took a piece OF bologna he
carried with him. Marcus was beaten
up somewhat and tho bologna dis
appeared. The three men we're ar
rested later by Officer Porter. Officer
Cruce pulled in Harry Pickett for
creating a disturbance at Mrs. Brinly's
house. Al. Rodgers was arrested by
Officer West for drunkenness, and
Chief A1cNichol locked up John Will
Jams on the same charge.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22
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Tho Suit Club Cases.

Among the decisions handed down in
the supreme court at Charleston on Sat
urday those OF the state VS.. Shipley
and Kemp, petition Tor writ OF error and
supersedeas refused, and Jones vs..
Singer Manufacturing Company, writ OF
error and superscdcas allowed; bond
$500, both of which are from Ohio
county. Shipley and Kemp are the two
agents of the, pittsburgh suit club who
were convicted OF operating y lottery.
The decision ends the. case, and they
lose it. The sentence OF tho circuit
court OF this county will have ltobe car
ried out. 5 3! =. e5s. : .t.1s a 4
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22
X Other City Committees.

Wilbur Jacobs little bill for extra
work done. on the Atlantic engine house
improvements did not pass the commit.
tee on fire department last night, but
was referred to Architect Hamilton and
Chief Healr:for report. Other. bills az.
gregating 81 500 were recommended 10
be paid. "a Chief Healy was authorized
to purchase twelve thorse blankets for
the protection ofithe cityinags, and ho
and Captain ,Ottowere appointed com.
mittee 70 hasten the work on the Vigi.
liant engine house. 80 E
Observation-Disclosures Chief
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

McNichol to purchase six belts, clubs,
whistles and tassels; two gum coats for
tho patrol wagon drivers. ono horse
blanket aud 100 feet of rope to stretch
at Tires. Bills amounting to $5S SO wero
recommended to be paid.
b The committees on city prison and
cemeteries approved bills aggregatlng
respectively Sol 81 and $3.50 rs.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22
y a New u il!xchanco opened.

.DeBardelaben & Co. have now their
Wheeling Turf and Baseball Exchange,
in the rear ofsMilieIiearn's place, under
the Grand, Opera House, on Twelfth
street,Topen for the public, and twill
befound . very interesting place to visit.
! Full and otticialiniormationis received
daily ofall racing events, the time, the
winners and full particulars as the race
progresses. To visit it, while a race is
jonis almost like watching the raccitself,
ms the positions Of the horses are an
jnonnced every 5jow, seconds. The OK
change is we'll patronized, and DeBar-
gdalaben & Co. understand their bust
ness, and are in Wheeling.t TO stay..9
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

The Angel Fruit Cake at the Wheel
ing Bakery is something new and
novel. Have you tried it?
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

Excursion tickets will be sold at re-
duced rates at all ticket stations OF the
Pennsylvania Lines west OF Pittsburgh
on December "a, % and 81, 1901, and on
January i, 1922 good returning until
January 4, 1892, inclusive. tn
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

DERBY Silver Pinted Ware 90 per cent
lower than any other. as
II. l.. IIILLiIAN & CO.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

BEWARE OF FRhuDs. DO sure you get
the genuine Dr. Thomas, Eclectrics Oil,
5ltcures Colds, Group, Asthma, Deafness
and Rheumatism. {s5 DIV &,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

\ L. scIwA1Bis tho onlydealer who has
Anheuser-B Busch beer on draught on
Main street, between Tenth and Elcv-
enth.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

Buy Christmas Fruit Cake at tho
Wheeling Bakery.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

2 WHEAT Is HASCAER soil Watches tho
lowest. They .unrantue all pr!ccs. ELlfE.sgn
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

Cir rings from Jacob W. Grub.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

Holiday Excursions via Pennsylvania
-H-Gl... .gf-t. .--a IiueS. rt-- I.-'Fs .IEHl
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

4 GARFIELD TEA is peculiarly adapted
to persons OF sedentary habits, as its nc.
tionsis mild, not drostic demonstrating,
leaving no after ill-eli'ects. i3 81 " 4;
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READ s,ifcl Is Co.'s nd.
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GET necklaces from Jacob w. Grub.
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READ n 3. s,,ircl & CO.'S I'd.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-22

MEEk-At Philadelphia, on Saturday morning.
December 49, 1871, WILLIAM S. MEEK, OF this
city, aged IS ycArS and 6 months
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READ S.ifcl s. Co.'s ad.
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DIED.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29
GsraIgii',Fhii?ps lC'.
Get in Their Work.
The S5O,0O0,OOO Concern
Takes a Slice off Their
Wage-Earners.
o. Yes! the Mckinley Bill is For the
Benefit of the workIngmen.

Superintendent Schwab had been in
conference with a committee from the
Edgar Thomson steel works in regard
to the new sliding scale of wages
which the firm proposes shall go into
effect the first of the year The con.
ference was held in the general offices,
and a scale the firm would like to
adopt was presented to the men. Their
scale, however, is not official, as the
men were asked to prepare one, when
the two will be compared, and if posi-
BILE an agreement arrived at The
men say they will have their convert
ing department scale ready in about
two weeks.
The scale as presented to the men by
the firm would make some very heavy
cuts, cutting some of them as high as
90 cents to the ton, while the per cent
of reduction proposed will run all the
way from 13 to 80 per cent. This re-
duction will not affect the laborers, and
will only be made on the tonnage men,
which, among the 1000 men employed
at the mills, will make an all around
reduction of about 10 per cent. 1t is
not thought however, the reduction
finally will be SO great as the above.
As soon as the firm has arranged the
scale with the converting mill employees
it will commence on the rail mill, and
then other departments, preferring to
take each department separately. All
the mold settlers, mold swingers and
pull arounds in the converting depart
ments are to be done away with and
new machinery put in to do the work.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29

ne mane IN opening his campaign, ana
that is practically the same speech he
has been repeating ever since his en-
trance into public life More than
that, there is hardly a so-called argu-
ment in that speech that had not been
set up and knocked down years before
Mckinley was heard of. 1t is true he
has made a complete change in his ut
terances and ideas on the silver ques-
ton in the past few years, but that only
serves to emphasize, through contrast,
what has been said.
The story is told that at one of his
'monstrous' meetings when he came
TO that point where he solemnly says:
This system of protection is not so
much for the present as the future. not
for this generation so much as for pos
terity," a grizzled old mechanic sang
out: "Hn bet ten to one that when
posterity gets here you'll be saying the
same things"
Ex-Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania,
tells story illustrative of the same
thing. He and Mckinley made a
number of speeches in an Ohio cam
paign-at least Beaver had made a
mum Der while Mckinley had made one
number of times-and they went to
Canton for the final windup On their
arrival there it was found that McKin-
ley's speech had been printed and scat
tered broadcast in the city and through
out Stark county. Beaver thought it
reasona ble to suppose that all who
cared to know what Mckinley had to
say had read it and he was puzzled to
know what Mckinley would do He
was amazed when the doughty major,
on being set on end, began with the
same sentence, repeated the same effort
and ended with the identical words that
mad been printed and in the hands of
every man in his audience for at least a
week.
However, the fact that Mckinley is
possessed of a single set of phrases which
he repeats, parrot-like, on all occasions,
Is too well known to need further illus
eration. The miserab BILE trick of street
fakir TO draw a crowd that he indulged
IN at Piqua and called 1t making tin was
, break in the monotony that only
shows how ridiculous he is when he
trusts himself at something new.
All his lines of defense and points of
attack are well known to the valiant
and brilliant captain of our forces He
has no reserves and his only safety
lies in avoiding contact Whether he
recognizes this himself or not is doubt
full, for it very often happens that after
one has stuck to absurdities for a long
time he finally comes to a firm belief
that it 10 all sound sense and power
among the people. But if Mckinley
does not comprehend the situation it is
plain that his manager does Chairman
Hahn gives as one of his pretexts for
declining Chairman Meals challenge
for series of joint discussions between
the candidates the information that
Mckinley is drawing vast crowds and
that he does not care to have "Gov.
Campbell share the benefits" That
the chief reason for refusing the chal.
lenge is the fear that Gov. Campbell
might ''share the benefits" is not
strange; it is the confession of it which
causes a mild surprise. When arro-
gance is gone there is little left to the
republicans in the way of campaign
thunder.-Plain Dealer.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29
A Fair Statement of the Case.

The Jacksonian, Wooster, puts the
case truly:
The McKinleyites and their journals
do some tall and grotesque contracting
and relaxing in their frantic endeavors
TO demonstrate that an oppressively
high protective measure such as their
tariff act assuredly is, is Q blessing and
benefit to the agricultural classes
They as matter of course can not
prove any such proposition, for they
know what Blaine told them was true
that the bill would not open a market
for another barrel of pork or bushel of
wheat.
The laws Of supply and demand are
solely what gives the farmer chance
to sell his products, but the Mckinley
bill infiicts upon him an oppressive,
wanton and unwarranted taxation, that
extracts not only the money his farm
proceeds bring him. but forces him by
conditions of sheer necessity to mort
gage his property and get into debt.
They have discovered these facts, and
every intelligent, thoughtful farmer
has arrived at the fair and correct con-
clusion that the Mckinley bill is the
fraud and crime of the centuries and
only a support and aid to huge, rotten
corporations and powerful consuming
and swindling monopolies.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29

The Pittsburgh Commercial, Nc
Kinley robber tariff organ, says:
'In New York we have 300 900 out.
casts Why are they outcasts? Be-
cause they get only forty cents day
for making shirts. Forty cents stand
ing between woman's chastity and
vice. They can pray to God of course,
but wages are reduced, and then there
are but three courses left-starvation
suicide or vice. For Gods sake change
the system that debauches our women.
Why should there be infidels? Because
you make them by the cursed system
which forgets the poor and lonely"
And yet the republican party, which
is the God and morality party" you
know, at one time had a salaried COM
missioner in Europe to encourage the
emigration of pauper contract labor to
this country to undermine American la
Dor, and now it permits the law against
contract emigration to remain dead
letter. And this same republican party
in its legislation for twenty-five years
has encouraged the making of thou
sands of millionaires and millions of
paupers. Before this republican party
came into existence there were but Ave
millionaires two Of them slave holders)
in the country and no tramps Now
there are twenty one thousand million.
aires, over million tramps and many
millions of homeless people living from
hand to mouth. There must be some
thing the matter with the religion of
the G. O. p. or else its religion does not
harmonic with ITS politics -Bucyrus
Forum.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29
MckinIey's Great FUNK.

The refusal on the part Of Maj. Mo
Kinley, through his campaign man
ayers, TO meet Gov. Campbell in series
of joint debates surprises no one. In
deed the strangest part of such refusal
is the fact that it is generally accepted,
even by the republican press, as mat
ter of course. The truth is that, while
Mckinley is solemnlv regarded by those
who make up his following, as the re.
pository of all that is known or know
able OF the tariff, even the more obtuse
must recognize that he has long ago
exhausted his stock of arguments The
speech he makes to-day In the speech
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29
Oil No.. 1t Does Not Pull Down

The following well said words are
from the London Democrat:
In serenade speech made by Maj
Mckinley 1t East Liverpool recently he
is reported 10 have said:
And there is one thing more want
to say on a protective tariff. Il has
never pulled down; Il has always build
ed up; and for this reason, If for no
other, the protective tariff is the true
friend of every girl or boy struggling
upward"
The major may possibly have con-
vinced the boys and girls, If they were
young enough to know no better, that
he had uttered an aphorism, but older
thinking people know he was pettifog-
ging his case When he said his kind
of protection never pulls down, he over
looked the depression of the farming
interests it has brought about the
price of wool it has tiattened out, and
the cut down in the wages of the work.
men and workwomen in many of
the factories petted by the protec-
tive tariff. But the major was right
In saying protection has builded up,
though he fails to particularize He
might have mentioned the building up
of the grasping, heartless trusts and
combines which are eating up the sub
stance of the industrial interests of the
country with the Unsuitable appetite of
the horse leech, and he might have re-
ferred to the Chinese wall built by the
protective tariff round this great coun-
try of ours to keep out such foreign pro-
ductions as we need and must have
and to keep in the immense surplus of
farm product which--thanks to be-
nefcent Providenoel-we are blessed
with this year, which are wanted
abroad to supply the shortage. The
major might also have referred to the
countless mortgages placed on farm
lands and workingmen's houses the re-
suit of republican legislation to build
up the stupendous fortunes of petted
uannnnnlists
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29
The Clermont SUP has this to say as

The Clermont sup has this to say as
to Maj. McKinley's consistency:
Maj. McKinley's record upon the
silver question does not harmonic with
his speeches. He is now opposed to
the free coinage of silver; but upon the
9th of November, 1877, while member
of the house of representatives he voted
for the Bland silver bill, one of the pro-
visions of which was the free and un-
limited coinage of silver. The presi-
dent vetoed the bill when both branches
of congress passed it over his veto and
Mckinley voted for it a second time.
The bill thus passed over the veto is
the law under which the present silver
dollar is coined, and it is the same dol
lar that Mckinley now holds up before
the people as dishonest dollar" 1t
reminds us of one refusing to support
his own offspring. o consistency
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29
He Feels 1t.

Maj. Mckinley feels that he is a de-
feated man. He has turned his atten-
ton to winning the legislature. In a
recent speech he said: Defeat me if
you will, but do not sacrifice the legis-
lature." Major, no special plea can
save either you or the legislature to the
republican party. To elect you would
be to pronounce in favor of protection
for projections sake" That the peo-
pie of Ohio will not do They know
what your protection means 1t is the
protection which the wolves give to
lambs. They will 'have none of it
They are tired, very tired, paying
tithes to the special classes They are
weary bearing burdens that tariff bar
ons may live in ease and elegance.
They want their rights and they are
going to have them, and no palaver or
honeyed phrazes you or your friends
can utter will save you from the gloom
of defeat 1t seems q great pity to
snuff out the light of ambition in the
young Napoleon, but the welfare Of
the multitude demands that it be done,
and the people of Ohio are going to do
it. Your suggestion, major, will be
carried out
And as to the legislature that is some
thing very important John Sherman
has been the friend of the special
classes. His intellectual vision has
looked over the heads of the people to
where the plethoric money changers ag-
gregate themselves He has devoted
his life in devising means whereby they
might increase their sheckels, and grow
purse-proud and naughty. The people
are tired of this. Their eyes have been
opened, and the assumptions of their
servant are seen. They know that Mr..
Sherman labors for the money changers;
that he has made profound study of
how best to add riches to the rich; how
best to still further the impoverishment
of the'poor. He is in love with those
who toll not nor spin. He has no SYM
pathy with those who eat their bread
''in the sweat of their faces" 1t has
taken long time for the people of Ohio
to find this out Now that they have
done so they are determined that Mr..
Sherman must go. They are impatient
at his deceptions, and will no longer
endure them. No, major, the legisla-
ture must go also. The state will re-
main in the keeping of the democracy.
James E. Campbell will be the next
governor, and the legislature will be
democratic.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29

Glessner, of the Hancock Courier,
pertinently says:
The republican party is trying hard
to catch the vote ''a-comin' or a-goin'. :"
They point with pride to. their protective
tariff tax averaging go per cent, and
with ecstacy to their free trade fraud
called reciprocity. "You pays you
money and takes your choice" just so
you vote to keep the g. O. p in power,
which is their real and only principle.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29
ITO BE CONTINUED.

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specific than of any other medicines and what
is more it is giving wonderful satisfaction and
curing many cases given up by physicians as
incurable." Melville Bros, Lima, Ohio.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29

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Warranted the most wonderful blemish cure
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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29

At Toledo F. J. Smith set 49, 300 ems
corrected matter on Mergenthaler
linotype type-setting machine in eight
hours, breaking the worlds record. He
took the regular run of copy.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1891-10-29
drunkenness, or the Liquor Habit, Post
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HAtnRa, Golden SnaNiHc.

It is manufactured az powder, which can be given
in glass Of beer, cup Of coffee tea in food
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