The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-01-26
BlaCkIllail.
qHB THREAT or SOUTHERN STATES
To Boycott the Worlds Fair if
the Elections Bill
Passes.
A SCHEEE TO FORCE CONGRESS-
! scHBVE TO FORCE CONGRESS-
To Vote Down the Measure.
How it is Regarded at
Washington.
1t Can Only Hurt the States Making
the TAreats-Desperate Democratic
TActlcs-HOno Elections More
Important than the Safes
Exhibits at Chicago.
A Colossal Fraud.

4 Colossal Fraud.
sO,eial pl,pates to he Mispigaleer.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.-No candid and
intelligent man in Washington believes
The talk about the South boycottinG the
Worlds Fair on account Of the pending
Election bill amounts to anything. 1t is
the merest bluff. 1t true, number Of
influential Southern men in Congress
ara giving eniorsemsntaa and attempting
to give force to the movement to frightep
.=tte Illinois Republicausan some Others
into antagonism to the Election bill by
that threat, bu. there is nothing serious
about it. No one can find any more con.
u4ction With the Election bill and the
Worlds Fair than there is between that
measure and the Appropriation bills, or,
in fact, near so much, as the President
is necessarily greatly interested in seeing
that the appropriations are all passed. II
ia we'll understood that the talk about
the South refusing to participate in tue
Worlds Fair II the Election bill Is passed,
IL simply a move 10 scare the Chfca2o
neorle into makisg a demand that THEIR
friends in Congress shall vote against
The ELECTION bill. Toe men who pro-
pose to vote for the Election bill are IN
no way or degree responsible for the
Worlds Fair.
UNREASONABLE PROPOSITION.
Itwould be Just as reasonable for the
Southern States to demand Of the Csar
Of Russia that he issue an edict against
the Election bill under pain Of threat
that il the bill Is passed by Congress no
one from the South will be found with.
In the realms OF the imperial power In
the future. The threat is so far fetched
that It is ridiCuling itself and sensible
men blush to see it talked OF Rravely by
men who have bsen elected TO Congress.
But the talk Of boycott BY the South
II tbe Election bill ia passed 10 in keep
;nq 9th other methodsemployed by the
Democrats TO defeat this measure. They
began filibIsteripg in the House almost
A wear ago, or as soon as the bill was re-
ported from committee. AS soon as 1t
vent to the Senate the Democrats there
beoan to threaten to perpetlally block
legislation unless the majority immedt'
ately announced ii would yield to the
minority and hang up the bill pefma
nently, As Roon as the measure cane
from the committee room tiltbuster be.
gan. It continued for months, untit 1t
seemed that the tariff and other import
ant bills would never receive copstdera.
Hon II the Election bill was not isid
Asi6s. Finally the Republican Senators
signed q pledge that they would vote 90
take % the Election bill as soon
"a Congress reassembled in Decemosr,
and keep it before that body till past ed
or defeated, If 1t was laid aside and the
tariff bill taken up. This vas done;
the tariff bill passed and Congress ad-
journed.
REPUBLICAN TRAITORS.
When the Election bill was again
taken up the first OF December the
Democrats began to consume time aud
filibuster. They hoped to force large
majority 10 yield to o minority. Some
Republicans who had signed the pledge
io;red the Democrats and made a com
bipnIion which forced the Election bill
aside and secured the paessgs OF free
Coinage bill. Then the Election bill
was aken up pgain. It has this winter
been before the Senate almost two
months-about three laonths altogether,
It 10 a party meDsura. 1t vas endoFed
by the parry long before It was drafted.
There Is a large majority OF Republican
in the Senate. The question ariges, VII
a large, healthy majority yield to the de.
nsnd OF well defined niDoity2 Car
it be scared into defeat by such rldl0u'
lous threats as that the South will boy
colt the Worlds Fair II the bill Ii
passed2 What has the Worlds Fair got
TO do with the Election bill? ls the
South as necessary to successful iaii
any say as fair elections are necessary e
the well being OF the Federal Govern
ment? These are questions sensible
Republicans hse propoandiDg to eacf
other tonight, aud they add to their in
ouirieg, which will be hurt the most, the
fair or the States which refuse tosx
hib,t because the Election bill ispassed
nLAcKMAII scHEME.
Certainly the threat by the leading
Democrats in the House that they will
refuse to appropriate any money for the
Worlds Fair II the Election bill is
passed, is intended to have strong in'
tluence upon the Illinois Rspublicans in
Congress, especially in view OF the isci
that the Democrats will control tat
House by large majority a few month1
hence and will have che whip handle oi
the appropriations. II is the worst sort
of backmail. 1t Is dragging politics into
an international and non.parltsap ex'
hibit with q veugence. ltia intended
TO extort from the Illinois Legislaturt
an instruction 10 It's men IN Congress g
vote against the Election bill. Should
Senators Cullom and FaEWell votl
against the bill it could not pass II
could not get over three or four majority
with them, Ii the very sub.cellars ot tn'
Capitol were raked for influences viii
which to pull men into party lines.
Having passed the Senate the vote o
the Illinois delegation in the Hous'
will defeat the bill by large maiontI
surely.
This boycott threat is the colossa
blackmall Of the age. It never had al
equal.
II Is not believed that tho move cal
affect the status OF the Election bill. l
surely will not unless the Illinois Legis
iature weakens and sends an instruction
which the Sucker delegation becomes
frightened at and suecumbB at thl
supreme moment.
MaeQasary Replies to Father IguaEtius.
C.NSToN, ONO, Jan. 20.-Rev. HoWart
X. MaOQueary in sermon tonight re
piled to the sermon Of Father IRnahug
monk, deliVcred at New York weel
ago. BE said the latter had attacked
Heber Newton over his shoulder, saytnl