The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-14
RANDOM poLIrLoAn NOTES.

Though much more than month has
passed since the election, the campaign
has not been SO long gone By that peo-
pie have forgotten some things that oc-
CURED during the eventtul weeks pre-
cedinr the 9th Of November. In the
light of the course OF certain Demo-
cratic newspaper organs then people
with memories are finding much cause
for amusement now. a case in point is
the Wheeling Registers persistence in
running the Hon. Nelson L. Whitaker
for the United States senate IN spite oil
the fact that Mr.. Whitaker has never
announced himself as candidate, and,
so far as the public is aware, has never
authorized any one else to announce
him. The course OF the Register is
doubtless thoroughly appreciated by
Mr.. Whitaker for what it is worth.
Though man OF affairs, Mr.. Whitaker
ENJOYS a good joke quite as much as
ANYBODY, and 1t is dollars to doughnuts
that he is having plenty OF fun over the
ridiculous figure the Register is cutting
in spreading "taffy" all over him, alter
its violent abuse OF him during the
campaign. Il will be remembered that
the character of the Registers cam
paign against Mr.. Whitaker was such
as to disgust the entire community, and
is popularity believed to have so dis
gusted many Democrats as to cause
them to vote not only for Mr.. Whitaker
but the entire Republican ticket. The
Registers course did not stop short oil
tho most offensive personal abuse OF
him. and was always directed toward
the effort to show that he was unfit to
represent the people in legislative
body. He was singled out as the one
man on the Republican ticket who must
be defeated at all hazards. Tho result
of this assault BY the Register was that
Mr.. Whitaker ran many votes ahead oil
his ticket.
But that is not all. Even SO indis-
Greet party organ as tho Register can
have motive for course adopted. and
in this case the Register has two
motives. The first is go manifest that
it is dong no harm. The effort to
create the impression that Mr.. Whita-
ker ia candidate for United States
senator is partly inspired by a desire
to create disadectioI among kepu6li-
cans. l. will not succeed, because Re
publicans SEQ no reason for dlsattec-
ton, and because they have no notion
of being led by the Register, or any
other Democratic organ. They will
settle their own. affairs in their own
way. The second motive for the Reg
ister's course may not be so plain 10
tho general public, though it Is per-
hans appreciated by Mr.. Whitaker and
the men who are employed in his mill.
During the campaign the Registers vile
abuse of Mr.. Whitaker, and its false
hoods concerning his legislative record,
drew his mill employees about him
almost to a man, and the many Demo.
Gratis among them openly announced
their intention OF voting for him as
rebuke to his villi6ers.. At last the
Register, in the madness OF its despera'
ton, capped tho climax by assailing
the manhood OF every man who worked
in the Whitaker mill, Democrats and all,
in an editorial charging that they had
signed an endorsement OF Mr. Whita-
ker's character as an employer OF labor,
under protest and through fear OF dis
missal il they refused.
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This remarkable break caused such
storm of indignation among the work
ingmen OF Wheeling as has seldom been
witnessed. Mr.. Whitaker's men, with.
out regard to party, especially those
who were signers of the document re.
ferred to, denounced the Registers libel
OF them, and workingmen all over the
city supported them. Democrats who
had not before declared their intentions
began to openly work for the Republic
can ticket. and the Register lost their
friendship and support. After the cleo.
ton tho Whitaker employees INDUCED
in remarkable demonstration. Hun
dreds OF them marched through driy-
ing rain, carrying banners on which
were inscriptions not at all compli-
mentary Of the Register, and mailing the
election OF their favorite rs rebuke to
the unclean methods OF the Democratic
organ, as we'll rs victory for protec-
ton. Many Democrats were in the pro-
cession 20 testify their feeling against
the newspaper abuse OF Mr.. Whitaker,
their employer and friend. 1t was n
humiliation for tho Register such as few
party organs have ever been called upon
to exnerience. The Register realized