Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-06
At THE PIE COUNTER
West Virginians Are Still There and
Showing
NO FATIGUE FROM LONG WAITING
They Are After the Offices and
Want Them Just as Hard To
Day as They Did Six Months
Ago-How a Lot of Fairmont-
ers Were Surprised-Wanted
to Save Senator Faulkner An
noyance.
ssena, zss.oran to a. Register.

Ryee.ag TSlscrzn to Gas Register
WASHINGTON, D. c., February s.
One might reasonably expect that oy
this time the sharp edge of the West
Virginia appetite for Office would be
pretty well worn,off. but such is not the
case by any manner of means. There
seems 10 be almost as many
West Virginians with an intense
appetite for spoils hanging
about Washington these days
as there were six months ago, and these
late comers show, il anything, more
savage determination to get their mid
riffs close up against the pie counter
than did the ardent patriots who swarm
ed about the hotel lobbies six months
ago. or course this phenomenon Is
largely explained by the fact that they
have had a much longer fast and their
long-felt wants are much longer aud
have been more keenly felt than those
of the other lucky fellows who
began absorbing juicy quarter-sections
OF government pie while the corn was
waving, Annie, and the bloom was on
the rye. And the sight of the fat,
sleek, well-fed aud well-dressed fellows
who are In, as they saunter with con-
tented and lordly air about the hotel
lo6bies at night, smoking good ten-cent
cigars instead of the humble but
by no means unobtrusive sto-
gies, which in less prosper
Gus days they affected, inficts on the
unhappy "outs" the last cruel pangs
which turn their determination into
desperation. The ''outs" on such Occa-
siOns as this find their sole consolation
in getting together in some
obscure corner and Vlciously
damning the airs OF the purse
proud "ins" and telling one an
other how much better Democrats they
them selves have always been and how
much more important services they
rendered the party than the no-account
chumps for whom the uDgrSeful and
misguided members OF the Congress
sional delegation got Offices. Perhaps
the records of the Senators and
members are not gone over
with scathing criticism at these
sVmDosiums Of the unsatis6ed! And
NAV be the party shortcomings OF the
fellows who have got there, as we'll a.
their personal weaknesses and foibleS.
arc not meTcileSsiy ventilated. II
man wants to get thoroughly posted on
the records of all the West Virginia pol
iticians, big and little, OF this generation,
he can do it so quickly in no other way
as by joining one Of these groups of-the
lOng-expectant at the hotels OF an even
ing. They'll fill him up with enough stuff
in half all hour to meet sll the demands
of Republican campaign committee
during presidential canvass. But OF
course the poor fellows don't mean
half they say and don't believe one
tenth OF it, and will, il they ever get
those jobs, stnnd ready to swear that IL
is all vile Republican slanner made out
OF the wh I cloth. It is we'll known
that the ordinary hunger OF commerce
makes men reckless of what they say or
do, and keen political hunger is much
worse in It's effects.
Among the West Virginia visitors to
the city In the last few days we're the
delegation Of eager Fairmonters, who
came down to save Senator Faulkner
the worry and annoyance of picking
out man to fill the place left vacant
by the untimely death of Charlie Ha-
gan. The Fairmonters were all en-
Enthusiastically united in favor
OF one OF their own number
for tha vacant place and felt quite
benevolent over the service they were
prepared TO render the Senator in re-
lieving him of the bother of making a
choice of his own when ne had the
tariff and so many other i'm portant pub
lie, TO say nothing OF domestic affairs,
to occupy MS mind and time. The dis
appointment ard chagrin Of the Fair
monters can be left TO the
readers imagination when they dis
covered on arriving here that the
Senator had already had Col. Hollis, OF
Martinsburg, appointed to the place,
and that he was sworn into Office on the
morning of his predecessors funeral.
A man who has vacant Office on his
hands these days feels about as safe
aud comfortable, according to a relia-
BILE Congressional authority, as il be
we're taking stroll through Hades
with 4 can of dynamite in each pocket.