The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-10-23

6patiol DLpcteh 10 the IntssItoencer.
GRArroN, W. Va, Oct 22.-Reports
are received at Republican headquarters
here from all over the district that un.
mistakably foreshadow the certain de.
feat Of William L Wilson at the polls
on November Q. On his own public
record and his glaring Inconsistencies
on great public questions, that leave
scarcely parallel in the history OF
American politics; on the business de-
preston, hardship and suffering that
have fallen heavily on the people during
the past eighteen months, as result OF
the blighting tariff agitation, which was
led by him as chairman Of the ways and
means committee; on his acceptance OF
the hybrid Gorman- Wilson bill, which
10 now the law OF the land and has
brought down the farmers wool to 10
cents per pound, closed up lumber mills
and damaged the mining interests be-
cause OF his baneful legislation affecting
these three great industries OF his peo-
pie; and on his defiant declarations both
at home and in London that il he is re.
elected coal and all other so-called raw
Materials shall 20 on the free list along
side Of lumber and wool, and another
tariff agitation shall be precipitated IN
q renewed struggle to obliterate every
protection duty from the statute books
and substitute pure free trade meas
ure instead; on this record and on his
platform that the war on the tariff shall
continue, there is no mistaking the fixed
and unalterable determination OF ma
jority Of the people Of tho Second con-
gressional district of West Virginia that
William L. Wilson shall never go back
TO Congress as their representative.
EVIDENCE OF THEIR DESPERATION.
The people realize the magnitude OF
the contest and its vital interest to
them, and they intend to defend their
own homes and firesides by voting for
Dayton and protection and sending to
Congress- q man who will represent,
them and them alone. This is the true
feeling OF majority OF the people OF this
district. That 1t is true has been en-
phasizeu by the very plan OF campaign
which the opposition has adopted. That
blr. Wilson can never be reelected TO
Congress in the year 1894 by calm and
dignifed appeal to the intelligence oil
the voters OF this district on the clean
cut and truo issues OF this campaign Is
recognized by the chairman OF his cam
paign committee, Col. John I. McGraw.
This plain fact Chairman McGraw has
been publicly and conspicuously adver-
tislng by the huge hippodrome CAM
palCn he has been making
Well knowing that the people could
not be aroused on the true issues OF tho
contest to give Mr.. Wilson even the
scmblance OF an enthusiastic support in
the cause OF bis campaign, Chairman
MCGraw has resoried to every political
expedieut that could be devised, with
tho aid Of lavish use Of money, to
make campaign OF great noise and
cIamor in supreme offort to drown tho
voice Of the people, and by these arti-
fetal means attempt to excite the
voters to believe Mr.. Wilson's canvass
is elicltinG response from tho people
IN great wave Of popular enthus'
iasm."
SOME oP TIE METHODS.
The agencies that have boon em.
ploycd to accomplish this end are well
known and have been published in tho
daily press in description OF Mr.. Will
sons canvass. 1t consisted OF barbe-
cues conducted on the scale OF big
iroIic, with their attendant free feeds,
brass bands and other attractions; free
transportation and paid runners to per.
sonally solicit voters 10 attend Mr.. VII.
sons meetings; tho importation OF
1000 Pennsylvanians on free excursions
by rail and water TO swell tho numbers
at the Morgantown meeting, and many
other instrumontaIites OF this charac.
Ter.
Even the war OF a past generation
was resurrectod TO overshadow tho
Issues OF the living present in an effort
l,, 10 arouse tho people in certain sections.
This was witnessed by tho presence and
Speech OF the ox.Coniederate. Governor
Oaios, OF Alabama at the Martinsburg
convention; and, later, ut tho Randolph
county barbecue, by tho appearance
aud addresses Of tho ox.Coniedorato
generals, wado Hampton, of South
Carolina, and Bradley r. Johnson, Of
Maryland; and the enactment OF scene
that was dramatic as we'll as disgracetul
when General Hampton uttered tho
words: ~ want oncc moro to hear tho
old rebel yell" and no heard 1t. Neither
tho "robel yell" nor bNrbacuos, roasted
oxen, free rides, imported pennsylva.
mans and brass bands have accomplish
ed anything except to expose tho
desperation Of the Wilson managers
mud disgust people with such campaign
CARS THE CLIMAX.
After tho nOiGO and bIustcr Mt cvOry