The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-05-12
THE AFTERMATH
oFthe Annual Session OF tho State
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
THEY RETURNED FROM HTTSBURGH
Excursion Yesterday Morning = a
Special Meeting on Bonrdtho Train,
at Which Resolutions nro Passed.
Most Of tho Editors Returned 10
Their Homes During tho Day.

Tho members Of the West Virginia
Editorial Association who wont to Pitts.
burgh Thursday on tho special cxcur-
sion over tho baltimore & OHIO road,
arranged by President Stuart F. Rood,
returned to the city yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock, the trip from Smoketown
having boon mado since 7:25 a. IN. The
newspaper men were loud in their OK.
pressions Of pleasure and gratitude for
tho elegant treatment they received at
the hands OF tho Pittsburgh press boys
A special meeting OF tho association was
hold on board tho train. in tho special
car occupied by tho members, and tho
following resolutions adopted with n
hurrah:
RSolrti, That tho thanks Of tho asso.
citation are duo and hore6y tendcred tho
Pittsburgh Press Club for their I'm.
bounded hospitality and numerous
rourtosIGs in providing for our enter
tainment, and through whose influence
many other courtesles were extended to
the members while guests Of the club.
ReSolred, That the thanks OF tho asso-
citation arc rendered to the Citizens
Traction Company, Of Pittsburgh, tho
Pittsburgh ball club, alcsSrs. Norton
ind Henderson, OF the DuqueSne the.
R,er, and the actor, ]. X. Murray, and
to Mr.. Samuel S. Brown, proprietor OF
the Monongahela House. whose cor
dialities leave with each Of US pleasant
memories OF our excursion to Pitts
burgh.
The returning pilgrims did not long
remain in Wheeling, most OF them TAX
ing the afternoon trains to their homes,
on the Ohio River and Baltimore &
Ohio roads. Several returned home d.
rectly from Pittsburgh, via Fairmont
and Cumberland.
The makeup OF the editorial associa-
TONS legislative committee as an
nounced in tho I~STELLIGENcER has been
added TO. The new momber is MIR.
James F. Thompson, OF the Martinsburg
World. Tho other members OF tho com.
mittee are. Charles II. fancy. chairman,
@. i. Hart, A. i. White. R. E. Hor-
ner and President Reed. The scope OF
work for this important committee is
large, and it may be tho means Of de-
cided improvements in state laws re-
gurdlng newspapers. It il proposed to
recommend to the legislature the n
actment OF Il law providing for the pub
LEGATION in Il or moro papers in each
county, OF q synopsis Of the new laws
made by the legislators.
Mr.. Andrew Price. editor OF the Mar
lington Times, out in Pocahontas coun-
tY enjoys the distinction, il such it may
be called, OF being from tn, innermost
recesses OF away Back" the exact
location Of which has heretofor. been
doubtful. This gentleman actually rode
sixty miles on horseback before he
reached a railroad or other evidences,
SO called. OF civilization. His ride was
from his home town, the county seat OF
Pocahontas, 10 Beverly in Randolph
county. over a country which can be
called "Roughesl West Virginia"
Probably no other state on the sunny
side Of the Mississippi can furnish so
retired q community.
The word "polihcs" and all concern
ing it was barred out during the stay OF
the editorial association here and on
the Pittsburgh excursion, but an INTEL
LrGENcER man succeeded in getting this,
from n well-kuown Fourth district man,
who is as cute as they make EN- any
where: ave arc going to have q hot
contest in tho Shoestring this iall. IF
Warren Miller and Farmer" Capehart
ge2 the nominations for Congress- re-
spectively on the Republican and DEM
ocratic tickets, it could not bo much
warmer. Ii Judge McCluer gcts the
nomination we will beat the Demmies
sure. With Mr.. Capohart it will be diff
ferent All this talk about the Farm
or" losing strength in the district Is
bosh, and he is a great deal cutter u poll
tician than most people give him credit.
His latest move for popularity has been
to send some OF his blooded horses to
various points in the district, where
they will be kept during the campaign
among the farmers"
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