Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-06-15
ARE AGAINST BE- 3
78s REAL TRUTH on THAT CONFsRl,
INDIANAPOLIS,
Wa.sa Was Participated IN 0y Prominent Re
rgo.icsns 10 Boost Blaine for the Nomination.
Why Conger, of Ohio, Took Such
Prominent Part-GreSham Part-
sans Also Take Hand IN Il.

WAsHlNGTON, d. c., June l4.-Gen.
Rovnton, the representative of the Gin
rfnnati Commercial Gazette telegraphS
IN his paper as follows about the con-
ferapce at Indianapolis in favor Of
Riaine for President: Take Colonel Con-
,ar', ease. the acknowledged leader in
tba movement, aud who formally eX-
rl.,inS through the Associated Press
rhsr il was undertaken in the interest
NJ rbe Republican party and as party
necessity. Does he suppose that the
country has forgotten his virtual decla-
ration. after the President had declined
to appoint his candidate for the Akron
Do,t-office, that it would put an end TO
aay future aspirations which General
Harrison might have?
This ease was a notorious one In
Washington Colonel COnger appeared
h,ra after Representative SmySer, sup
,.--ed bv large number of the best
citizens of Akron, aud many soldiers
bad recommended the present pOStmaS-
-a~and demanded, as his right as men,
b,r the National Republican Commit
tae. that be should be allowed TO name
rae postmaster for his own town of Ak
ror This was new form Of demand,
and new class of rights. But it was
,r.serred 10 the President in exactly
th., BALD form by Colonel COnger. To
strengthen this appeal he pretended to
be- FOR Major Taggart, soldier candl-
da,e. This, il was soon discovered, was
for home effect, as it was aScertained
that Colonel COnger was playing a
deeper game, the expectation being that
his opposition would result in both the
omen candidates being dropped, when a
third man, in whose interest he twice
wrote privately, would secure the place.
When the President finally appointed
the man whom Representative Smyser
and a most influential body Of the citi-
zenS OF Akron recommended, the cOun-
try will remember the interview which
Colonel COnger gave the Chicago news
papers, and the similar utteranceS which
he printed in his own. 1t was neither
the office, nor the author that attracted
the general attention which the inter
view secured 1t was the fact that a
man supposed TO be worthy OF represent
ing a great State on the National Repub-
Ecan Committee, and sufficiently dlgni-
fed to represent it, should deem IL hit
tiDg 10 thus attack the President. What
Colonel Conger gave TO the public on
taat occasion will show the weight
which should be given 10 his effort TO
found an anti-HarriSon party. 1t was
as follows:
Il think the appointment of W. B.
Gamble as postmaster at Akron one OF the
greatest political OutrageS that has yet been
perpetrated by this administration. 10 IS
burning insult 70 the old soldiers, and a
slap i'm the face to the Grand Army Of the
Republic It is an insult 10 Buckley Post,
10 the Department of Ohio, and TO the Ma
tional Encampment, which represents over
400 900 men. All of these branches of the
great veteran organic ton had spoken In
no uncertain tone in favor Of the appoint
ment of a soldier. If had the record with
me. and the resolution passed at the En-
campment at Boston, ] would give them,
and shall do so when | return to Akron,
and | will give the entire records OF the
case for publication, and every soldier in
the United States shall have a copy placed
before him.
The Gamble appointment is not only
slight TO the Grand Army, but it IS also
slight to nine-tenths of the business men
of Akron. who were in favor of appointing
"a T. 4
another Office in this country he will have
hard time 10 explain away the insult ne
has offered TO the soldiers in turning down
an AnderSOnville prisoner, who had ma
tional Endorsement, in spite of the recOgnl-
ton which has been promised TO the soldier
by the Republican party in party in more
than "a thousand resolutions passed IN Re
publican convention"
This affords fair and just standard
by which 20 Judge large proportion of
th. Indianapolis gathering which as
Sar5ed under the banner OF Col. Con-
ger and, with due regard TO the fitness
Of things, elected him chairman.
No one will therefore be surprised to
hear that considerably more rhan half
OF those whose names have reached
here as attending the conference were
in exactly the same fix as Col. Conger,
that is, they each failed in the pursuit
onicc, and had thereafter been bitter
opponents Of President Harrison.