The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-02-20
A MISSISSIPPI MYSTERY.
The Democratic Roem for Whitney and
Whnt Came OF II.


Whnt Came OF II.
New York Press: 1t is now said that
the Mississippi legislators who signed
the call for Mr., whltney's presidential
candidacy were in error. They thought
that he was u silver man. NOW they
have unsigned the call.
But this does not clear up all the lOE
In this extraordinary political mlstFai.
this balmy, RourboRRy, wet and misty
wind that has blown up from the SOUTH
What Is the meaning Of this riotous
period In the Whitney call:
LET It not be forgotten-it must
never be forgotten-that the city halls
of the Eastern and New England states
were the scenes during the past twenty
five years of those heroic debates ana
intellectual conflicts which resulted IN
political justice, white supremacy IN
local government, and the mmterlaI
advancement OF the southern people
II this refers to Mr.. Whitney's SER
Vices as corporation counsel, we assure
the Mississippi Legislators that his
heroic debates and intellectual con-
hicts did not relate at all 90 the subjects
specified. When the Whitney binocle
waved in heroic debate In the neigh
borhOod OF an eastern city hall the cir
Giles II described were drawn around the
sacred rights OF the mayor. aldermen
and commonalty In and 10 assessments
OF property adjoining new streets In the
annexed district. The intellectual con-
fllctS OF the successor to Davis and La
mar In the affections OF Mississipp!ans
were over the city's Immunity from
punitive damages 10 brokcn-legged
citizens who sought TO fix upon the
community Il share OF the responsibility
for n slippery sidewalk or trcacher-
Gus coal hole. We doubt u the whole
set Of New York reports holds case In
which Mr.. Whitney argued for "polItl-
cal justice, white supremacy and the
material advancement Of the south"
These things were not In his brief.
II the meaning Of the Mississippi leg
islntOrs Is that the franchise for Mr..
Whitney'S Broadway cable road was
obtained In an eastern" city hall by
heroic debate and intellectual conflict.
we are obliged to inform them that Mr..
Croker never put these things through
In precisely that way Ais processes
were not intellectual in such things.
There was not opposition enough to
them to dignity by the name either OF
conflict or n debate or TO make mar
tyr, let alone a hero.
We think that the Mississippi legIsla-
tors have got hold of the wrong Whit
ncy. There are several OF that name in
the New York city directory. They
have. too, got hold Of the wrong city
halls. We have kept close eye on all
OF them In this section for many years
we've all had to: we wanted to keep the
halls-and we assure the Mississippi
legislators that there have been in them
no such Eoings-on as they describe.
Somebody has been stufIing them.
II. on the other hand, the Mississippi
legislators In this bewildering averment
mean simply. without especial regard
to Mr.. Whitney. that the reign of the
boodler in the boards Of aldermen OF the
north has been coincident with the
reign OF the brISadicr in Congress of the
nation and the legislative assemblies OF
the south, we are with them In their
lucid declaration OF what we have long
contended for as Il patent historic truth,
But we had never hoped that they
would so frankly be with US.