The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-06-23

The West Virginia deleRatloh Of
twelve arrived at the Palmer House
over the Baltimore & Ohio at II o'clock
Yesterday morning. They came in Col.
J. A. Robinson's private car ""Atidlothi-
an" and they met with quiteian expe-
renee while coming through this great
state Of Ohio.
At nine o'clock yesterday morning
they passed through little town just
east OF Defiance, o., and big crowd was
near the tracks; watching the train as
it passed through and commenting on
the banners hung cut from the car
windows and car doors. The West Vir-
piuia delegation had a banner, hand
some silk affair with gold fringe ana
bright colored ribbons foe streamers,
which bore tho inscription West Viz
GINA solid for Cleveland"
Some Hill man, evidently fred with
righteous indignation at the banner
and its inscription, shot at 1t, and the
ball, missing tho banner, 7hroke tho
heavy plate glass in the car door. Just
missed tho head OF a delegate, and
lodged in tho woodwork OF tho roof OF
the car.
The inscription on the banner is to a
certain extent misleading for while
nine OF tie delegates are for Cleveland.
three OF tliem are undecided and have
strong Hill tendencies. Tho West Vir-
Cinia headquarters are in room No. 10
Of the Palmer Honse,
The West Virginia delegates to the
Democratic national convention at Chi
caco this month are a breezy set.
There was some disposition at one
time to press the name Of ex- United
Stotes Senator Henry G. Davisas n del
egate-at4drge, but the West Virginia
Democrats remembered that the ex-
senator was Steve Elklns' father-in-
law, and would have none OF him.
They wero q little timid, too, about the
ex.senator's grammar if he got into the
convention as tho West Virginia dele
gate, Tor the ex-senator has done more
to disturb the shade OF the late Lindley
Murray than any man now living. 1t
is not long since he was asked II he had
seen jim Robinson lately.
II hain't saw Jim for week." said
the ex-senator, "and ! hain't saw any
body as has saw him."
For these reasons, grammatical as
well rs Elkinsiastical, the West Vir-
ginia Democracy turned the ex-senator
down and elected Benjamin Franklin
Martin in his place.
Martin is good country lawyer, who
lives at PruntYtown, in Taylor county,
and is Democrat from away back. He
has about all the practice worth having
in his county, and being Its leading law
yer, as well as its most prominent
Democratic statesman, he rules there
like Brobdignag among the lilliputians.
He was asked once why he did not
move out OF that sparsely settled neck
Of the woods to Wheeling, or some OF
the larger towns IN the state, whore his
talents would be more widely appre-
ciated and his industry better rewarded.
He answered:
II would rather bean emperor in Gaul
than a peasant in Rome"
EX-SENATOR cAMDEN's lEEir.
The delegates-at-largo from West vir-
ginia are ex-United States Senator
johnson n. Camden, from the Fourth
district; Judge John Bill ST. Clair, from
the Third, and James B. fancy. from
the First. Camden is the millionaire
representative OF the Standard Oil com.
pnny in West Virginia, and, besides be-
ing good fellow. has kept the clothing
OF impecunious Democratic West Vir-
ginia workera in good repair for the
last twenty years. II any OF the sinews
Of war we're wanted by tho West Vir.
ginia Democratic management during
that period, it's frat, last, and main
recourse, has always been upon "Jonce."
Judge John Bill 81. CLAIR Is too we'll
known to most Chicagaans to require
any elaborate mention. He Is tho West
Virginia member OF tho National
Worlds Fair Com mission, and by virtue
Of his commisslon as such member and
his general got up, he II a mogul among
the minnows both OF the national. state
and city commissions. Like hc con.
turion of old, whom he says to ono Of
his fellow mombers OF the national
commission "yamooae," that fellow
member Vamooaea; aud whelG he says
to member OF tho local management,
SQUAT" that mcniber Of the local man
agement squats. 1t is unnecessary, after
this reference TO his power in Worlds
Fair matters, TO shy that Judge st. Clair
is M equal iorcc in Democratic West
Virginia politics. When he raises his
Democratic voicc in West Virginia the
Republicans there flee like birds TO the
mountains, and when ha Is out OF the
stats and some Of tho Republican Co
lia5a bcsin TO plume themselves, tho
Democrats cry out III chorus "Whero
is our Davii7 sord 10: bills Clair. "
As for James .. fancy, the remaining
West Virginia delogate-atlarge, hc Is
the editor and ono oil tho largest own
ers OF tho Wheeling RvistGi, The ex.ca-
tholFa organ Of West Virginia Demo-
Cracy.
glnia dclcgascs-a.-!arge. but thCrc arc
other mon OF might among tho minor
members Of tho doIcgation,. Ex-Con-
gresham john ]. Davis is q brass
bound, douh!e-p plated, copper bottomGd
Democrat IRON Cinrksburg, II Harrison
county. He knows all tho detects OF the
tariff systems from the TING Of George
Washington down to William McKin-
lev Is up on the resolutions-6f 40, and
stands ready to fight any Republican
from the point Of pin to the mouth Of
acannon.
A SATIoNAI DEBT PAYER,
Capt Alexander Matthewsi Of the
Third district, who lives at 'Rcwisburg,
in GrcOnbrier county, is a valiant Dem.
ocrat, and Is celebrated az tho most sue.