The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-21
RANDOM POLITICAL NOTES.

sumo that every nun felt that no was
iorlu natO IN being thsro and that tho
convention hgd not been held In vain.
From tirat 10 lasttho boat OF feeling pro.
vailed, aud tho ob;Oc. OF the club or
GUrIzltion, tho bringing together OF
working Republicans for tho %ccmenting
Of friendly rotations aud the maintn-
nauco oil q complete organization OF tho
clubs for tho common good OF tho party,
WAS accomplished. Tho full effects OF
tho meeting WILL DO developed hOroaiter
aud will hn felt In every county OF tho
G;ate In the coming campaign.
The Republican league Ia n porma-
neut organiGatiop and this was its sixth
annual convention. This statement Is
made for tho bnuotiL Of tho indiscroet
young man who was scnt 10 report the
convention for the Register, and who
tried to make himself think that the
league mSoting wGa something new in
tho politics Of tho state. and was gotten
up in tho iHterosta Of candidates Tor
nomination for Office. The very ride.
ulous attempt in the Registers report OF
tho convention to misrcprcsent its char
aCter. tho absolutely untruthtnl state.
monte regarding it, the manufactured
stOrios of incidents that never occurred,
the false report OF ever routine proceed
ings. constituted, perhnps, in the mind
OF tho Registers young man, IN oxhib-
ition Of good journalism and good
politics, hut tho public will hardly
agree with him. The young mau's tai.
ent for distorting facts developed carly
in tho proceedings when, on Monday
night, he te%lographod the Register Il
grossly untruthful story about q tost OF
strength that was to DO made between
Mr.. Atkinson and Captain Dovcner in
tho election Of apresidont Of tho league.
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II didn't matter that every momber OF
the league knew that such 4 thing was
impossible uudur the constitution OF
the organization, nor did tho young
man care. His story was writton for
consumption away from tho sceno OF
the convention. The amusing feature
OF 1t, and the one which caused smiles
to ovcrspread the Countenances OF Re
publicans, whom the young man de.
scribod as falling over each other to
purchase the Register in order to read
his remarkable eilrlsion, vas tho grave
statement that, Mr.. Atkinson's candi-
d9to for president being certain OF cleo.
ton, Col. ltootCu wGs chosen TO preside
over the convection in order to pacify
Capt. Dovcner. T6cy knew that had
the young man been q seeker after
truth he could e.lsilv have asccrtGined
tia! it was Col. Eootcn's duty as first
vice president to preside ovcr the meet
ing in tho presidents absence, and that
he was chosen for that purpose ut 4
regular election OF the league something
| like n year ago, ana that Capt. Doveuer
didn't need paciiying. He is not that
kind Of 4 a
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In connection with this break Of the
Register man is IN interesting incident
which may or may not interest tho
friends OF tho journal which boasts Of its
fairness rs 4 newspaper. When Mr..
Atkinson read tho report in the RegiStr
that he was making an effort to. carry
his fight for Congress into the conven-
ton he wired tho editor OF tho Register
II brief denial Of the statement, saying
that it was incorrect and that tho ISSUE
as between candidates for Congress in
tho First district was in no wise in
volved before the convention and could
not be. Mr.. Atkinson naturally
thought the Register would DO willing to
set the matter right, and that as n fair
newspaper. it would only be too glad to
do go ms an item OF news in connection
with u report which it had made public
in its news columns. We'll, the mcs-
sage came back to Mr.. Atkinson along
with 4 bill for ~ cents for telegraph
tolls, and the Register declined to give
him tho benefit OF the denial OF tho
story that placed him in n false light
That may also be good journalism and
good politics. but it is manifcst!y Ut.
fair.
II the young lar before referred to
was aent 10 Fairmont for the purpose oil
misrcpresenting everything and every
body connected with tho league he
succceded admirably. Ii he was sent to
| give the newa as he found it he failed
miserably. II ho YVES sem to try to
create a ruction between Republicans of
tho Firat district, no did not play his
cards well. AS an evidence OF the utter
untruthtulness OF tho Dovenor-Atkin-
son story, attention is directed 10 the
fact that the friends Of Captain Dove
ner and the captain himself were solid
in the convention for the very man for
president whom the Register had de-
C!ured Mr.. Atkinson put up rs n candi-
date to represent his strength for Con-
gross. Mr.. Elliott, tho alleged Atkin-
son candidate, has been, in fact, Il can
dldntc for president OF tho league tor
many weeks. and among his warmcst
supporters, long before the convention
met, wore Captain Dovener'a friends as
well as Mr.. Atkinson's friends. Had
tho congressional issue been involved
tho league would not have selected
Mr.. Elliott, for tho league is not in the
business OF nominating candidates for
office. lts only business ia to supper.
men after nominations are made.
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1t is also amusing 10 noto tho Regis
ter'g effort to make 1t appear that tho
league resolutions arc opposed to the
foreign born citizens of this country.
They are nothing OF the kind and the
Register knows it. There were scores OF
foreign born citizens in the convention
and they voted soljdly for tho immlgra-
| ton resolution. One OF the strongest
speeches made in its support was by a
naturalizcd American who took the
! pains to inform tho convention OF the
fact. OF course, every intelligent
reader knows that tho plank declaring
for Il tax OF $500 per head on labor i'm
migrants, and for 4 restriction, and
sven prohibition. OF this class of labor
for a term of years, as a protection to
L own American and naturalizcd
American laborers, was aimed not at