The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-30

have resorted to libel. Long exploded
| campaign ISLANDERS are rehRshed. 1t
isn't necessary for Mr.. Elkins to deny
them again, as he las many times. The
people OF West Virginia fully UNDER
stand the motive that inspires the at
tacks. The Register even reyamps its
old time yarn about Mr. EIkins saying
long time ago that 1.-THE work OF carry:
ing West Virginia was only matter OF
cash" OF course the Register knows
Mr.. Elkins never made such an asser-
ton. The story was started by the
Democratic prsss as long ago as the
campaign OF 1884. it was too absurd
then for belief. and tho popular favor
with which Mr.. Elkins is regarded to-
day shows that the people of West Nir.
ginia have not been foolish enough to
believe it since. This doodle" cry. by
the way, comes with such beautiful
grace from the Wheeling Register,
which has been one OF Senator
Camden's supporters. l will not say
it has been one OF his warmest support.
ers, for it has simply been "a matter oil
cash" with the Register, TO say nothing
OF fat cOnsulship secured through the
kind offices OF Mr.. Camden aud his col.
leagues. An episode of the anti. Cam-
den crusade OF 1867, in which the
Register figured, may be still fresh in
the public mind. II was then that tho
Register suddenly became an ardent
supporter Of Mr.. Camden, aud de-
nounced his opponents as traitors to
the party. 1t was also about that time
that Mr.. James NJ. Mason, OF Charles
Town, one OF the traitors" growing
tired Of the Registers abuse, gave out
the announcements that he had letter
written BY Mr.. James u. fancy, mana
ger OF the Register, now consul TO Bel
fast, in answer to the request Tor the
Registers assistance in the work oil
downing" Camden. In that letter, ac-
cordinv 10 Mr.. Mason, Mr.. fancy re
GREETED" that he could not join the
cause, as "the financial necessities OF
the Register" would not permit him
10 do so. A facsimile OF That letter
would look we'll in print at this time.
Under the head OF "Some Personal
History" the Parkersburg State Journal,
OF the 9th instant. has all interesting
article in view of the recent pubIica-
tons in Democratic papers concerning
the war record OF Hon. S. Is. Elklns.
The people OF West Virginia are not 50
much interested just now i'll how Mr..
Elkins fought thirty years ago as they
are in how he is fighting now, but since
certain Democratic papers have seen
lit to publish the falsehood that thirty
years ago he was fighting to break up
the nation lie is now earnestly fighting to
build up, the Journals article is not out
Of place. "Ghe whirligig Of time brings
many strange things TO pass" says the
Journal, and it proceeds 10 give some
history. 1t tells how, at the breaking
out OF the war, Stephen B. Elkins was
young man nineteen years OF ago, nav
ing graduated at eighteen from the
state University OF Missouri. Ills father
aud brother entered the confederate
service, and every member OF Elkins'
class, with one other exception. also en-
listed under the stars and bars. But
Elkns did not believe the states had the
right to secede, aud at nineteen years
Of ase he WAS captain OF Missouri!
company in tho Union army, the nth
Missouri, Col. Kersey Coates COM
manding. lie was directly under Cen
eral Tom Ewing, and later under Cen
eral Schofeld. Those were trying days
in Missouri and the guerilla warfare
and Onantreli's bush-whackers kept
TINT whole section in ferment. Capt.
Elkins and his company were in charge
of an outpost near Kansas City 30 dan
gerous that when General Schoield WIS.,
tied it he was accompanied by $50 SOL
diers and full staff and returned to
Kansas City that afternoon. Schofeld,
though but thirty-two years old, was u
full ranked general and magnificent
man, surrounded with all the pomp OF
war aud fu.l military stall. The im-
preston which lie made on the young
Captain Elkins, then an unknown
youth, was profound aud impressive.
IS
This much OF the IournaPa article is
history OF the past, much OF it occurring
before thousands OF the younger voters
in West Virginia who admire Stephen
B. EIkins for what he is and what he is
doing for their native state, were born.
But they are living to realize how the
whirligig OF time brings many strange
things TO pass," anil to witness the pos
sibilitles OF life under our System OF gov
ernmcnt. Thirty years, or thereabouts.
after the young Captain Elkins met tho
young General Schoficld. the "whirligig
OF time" had brought about period
when, under tho administration OF Pres.
idcn: Harrison, to use the language OF
the Journal, "the Hon. Stephen b. FL
kins became secretary OF war. The gen:
eral Of all the armies Of the United
Slates was the same man who at thirty
two had visited that outpost in Miss:
ouri-General Scholied. lie reported
to the now secretary OF war and for the
second time in his life met in all official
capacity tho former juvenile captain,
but now his superior. 1t reads like n
romance, but truth is always stranger
than fiction. For two hundred years
the ancestors OF S. Z. Elkins have been
Virginlans, and within u hundred miles,
M tho crow nina of his nrcsent home is