The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-08-04

dentg recent letter denouhelng senator
Camden and the other Democratic
senators for their party perddy and
party dishonor" will be endorsed Hs
wise and patriotic" To endorse the
Prostdent aud tho Wilson bill and at
the same tune nominate Camden leg-
islative ticket, will DO acts. IN them.
solves, enough 70 give the Ohio county
Democracy tho political jlm-jams Bnt
lit,lO matter like consistency
never stands in tho way Of
Democratic convention following
out the lines laid down by the
bosses. Incidental to the probability
that tho legislative ticket will DO for
Camden, IL may be observed that Ohio
county will bs one Of the few counties
In which Camden has gotten in his
work. Throughout nearly the entire
soutlIern portion OF tho state the nnti's
have been successful, and in several
counties in tho northern portion the
senator has failed TO connect, notably in
Lewis county. his former home A
number OF legislative candidates have
been instructed for Ex-Governor Will
son, and in other counties tho convsn.
tions have endorsed his campaign
against Camden. All this means that
the senator Is losing ground, while tho
Chiffon acCorkle combine Is grad
ually Gxing its hold on the state. The
money Mr. Camden will spend in Ohio
county, is, unless reverse tide sets
IN, pretty sure to be money wasted.
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d. A. ..,,,.,, - 1hn oonnsaastnro1 ~ .
uation. The Registers local political ar
ticlo on Friday caused laugh by its
assertion that There are unmistakabie
signs floating around thus early in the
congressional Eight in ibis district TINT
tho Republicans are worried over tue
vote to DO poIled by Mr.. StaIey, the Pro-
hIbi.ion candidate" Tho joke lies in
tho Reuters apparent ignorance Of the
fart that Mr. Staley Is not tho Prohibit
ton candidate Tor Congress, but Is the
Populist nominee. and stands upon n
"middle OF the road" platform. pIOlging
him not only to not make any coalition
with Republicans. but to vote for a
Populist for President in case he Is
elected and the next presidential cleo
ton Is thrown into the house Of rep
resontativcs. Tho absurdity Of the
LsOiSters statement Is OH q par
with all OF iIs ridiculous attempts to
create lissensions among Republicans.
The fact OF the matter is, our Demo-
cratic friends havo greater cause to fear
tho populist candidates as factors in
tho coming election than tho Republi.
cans have, for the reasop thGt Dcmo-
Gratis can vots for them with mOrs COLI
sisteucy than can any Republican
There is not n very wide clIasu be-
tween tho Democratic and P0pulist
platforms. Both are for free trade, aud
PopuIist and Democratic fusioUs IN tho
west III 1892 arc inaiuly rosponsibl 10 for
the presence OF Populists In the house
aud senate to-day. The perturbation
on account Of the Populist nonina'
tions for Congress is among Democrats.
Republicans are not doing any worry
ing this year.
s"s
1t seems TO be finally settled that
Chairman William L. Wilson will ac'
cept u reconciliation in the Second dis.
trict, whatever may DO the fate OF his
emascula.od tariff reform" bill. aud
his federal oiliCeholders and free trade
friends arc making ready to start him
ON tho road TO defeat by nominating
him with wild hurral. Tho wild
hurrah, Of course, will be for It's moral
elect on the FARMERS who are getting
starvation prices for their wool and the
miners whom he proposed to throw out
OF work by trying to place coal on the
free list, in the interest OF the Nova
Scotia coal syndicate's consuming do.
sire to gain control OF the New England
aud Eastern coal markets. speaking OF
the free coal question roninds me that
an inciden: occurred during Mr. Cor
mans sneech in tho senate tho other
dav, witch must have immensely in
terested Mr.. Wilson's constituents. In
tho report OF Mr.. Gorman's speech ap'
pears his passage:
Ilc went back To tho platform Of 1881. on
which lIO Snid Mr.. Cleveland was elected w INC
grncU VI God anI u gteA: deal Oi hard WORK. 4
did not provide for free raw materials The OH
prepared by hts distinguished radical irtehu
INT, MllSl plurcn ~ cGuE duty Oh coal.
~ WaE III tho sumo situation tLcn.' INFER
ruulCl Mr. Ylily ''tlIRt nm now WnS III tbs
hands OF half dozen men who forced duty Oh
CNnl. II was not my chOicG.'
II nm MT attacking you" sHId Mr.. German
lyon Siid prepared bill with taxed coal In
It," replied Mr.. Mills hOIly.
Mr.. jiOrmnn then gHvS lhe history Of tho con.
yrulI0m uf ISIS, whc'0 no said the radicals were
A resolution was adopted endorsing tho Mills
bill taxing coal Mr. Cleveland accepted 1t anu
stood on IL
Mr.. Wilson's constituents have vivid
recollection OF what Mr.. Mills rcfcrrcd
to when hu said that he "was In the
hands Of half-dozcn men who forced q
duty on coal" Mr. Wilson, who was a
Nom bur Of tho Mills ways aud means
committee. was ono OF those men and
went before the people OF his district IN
tho ensuing campaign aud congratu'
lated them on tho iact that hO hnd been
there to stand between them md Tree
coal, It was vindiCntion, Jie thought
and they thought, from the charge made
against him previously that ho favored
free coal. He eloQuontly described to
them how lo had fought for their lntor'
ests before tho committee md had con-
qucte,l. Had Mr. Wilson voted for free
coal then, OF hal Il bcea. known that he
over would so vote, much less father a
bill TINT would contain such feature.
his Democratic constituents never
would have honorcd him with q rc-
election to Congress. Now that hO has
gone back upon that record and, Ut the
dictates Of MIR. Cleveland aud tho Nova
Scotia coal syndicate, not only con-
struCted tariff bill in which coal was
placed on the FREQ list, but advocated It's
nnssnrn with nsnorinl emnhasis on tho