Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1891-05-31


constructed the following statement
which would amount to nothing il his
accompanying gestures had not shown
that even he was disguised with the pol
icy of his party and with its nominees,
! including himself-for which he has
good cause. as we all know:
J THE party to which | have pledged
my support" reminds US that
! FieIding's subscription to the corruption
fund is still unpad-''announced its
principles in the platform adopted at
the late convention. That document
was too clear and defnite"-he sighed
and shook his head in way which
showed that he wished it hadn't been
so clear on some points: he is one OF
those shfty fellows who cannot bear TO
be pinned down to anything-"to be
misunderstood, he continued.
! "The principal issue is. of course, the
LIQUOR question" Fielding glanced to-
ward the bar, but neither the judge nor
took the hint; we were not there to
pander to his depraved tastes. Sin this
matter, am thoroughly in accord with
my party. which"-and he lowered his
hind the bar could not hear hlm-"ls
distinctly opposed to the saloon power
But"-and he shouted this word so that
Sauires Jumped nearly out OF his boots
and became all attention in moment
1--WE do not believe in prohibiting the
! liquor traffic by state or national leg
/ islation. What we favor"-and again
his voice sank almost to whisper-"is
: local option, intelligently exercised, and
the Disappearance Of the illegal grog-
gerry.
''In George D. Brown our party has
J gubernatoral candidate whose moral
! character" winked at the
Judge and we all three had a hearty
laugh at the idea that George d. Brown
possesses such piece of mental ma
chinery as moral character-"is above
reproach. "The finances Of the State
in the hands of Lincoln G.. Smith, our
candidate for treasurer"-he ran his
hands through his hair in the effort to
| think of something to say in favor OF
such man as Smith-''will be safe and
secure. Locally we have in this district
some first rate men for State Represen-
tatives There is Reynolds"-fleldlng
washed the name of Reynolds out OF his
mouth with little old New England
rum which Squires had been induced TO
set out. He hates Reynolds, because
the latter was too wary to endorse one
of Filding'S notes about two years ago.
And so on, and so on: the colonel spun
it out In his paper, gradually working
his mendacious description OF my CON
duct up to point of frenzy, where |
| was pictured as walking the floor and
tearing my hair whenever | referred to
party principle or candidate. AT
the mention of a very popular young
man of Eastboro who was up for the
Legislature, was represented as dane
ing with fury and crashing my teeth.
At the bottom of this mass of false
hood the colonel printed an affidavit
from the Judge that l had said every
thing attributed to me.
When this interview had circulated
through Eastboro / did my best to an
swer il in another local paper. This re-
suited in so many contradictory state
ments about it that the public finally
settled down to the belief that the
colonel, the Judge and myself had had
riotous Zine in Squre's back room, and
that the in-keeper's old Now England
RIM had so tangled us up that none OF
us knew what had happened. On this
account lost the support OF the tenn
perance people for having INDUCED so
freely, and of the liquor element be-
cause hadn't carried it off better. l
was defeated out of sight.
Everybody attributed the result TO
the Globe, and there was strong pop
ular feeling that if l didn't visit the
office and break the colonels nose my
political future was ruined. In defer
ence to this sentiment l went and did
it; but this only gave the colonel an ex-
cuse for printing the next day double
loaded account of the disturbance
which was alleged to have resulted in a
glorious victory for him.
HOWARD FIELDING.