The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-03-21


Charleston next week will be crack
er-jaclS" for size and enthusiasm.-Par-
kersburg State Journal.
General C. C. Watts has held public
Office without intermisslOn for sixteen
years. AS attorney general. United
States district attorney, state senator
and district attorney again, he has
made politics a profitable trade. We can
think OF no Democrat IN West virginia
upon whom more has been bestowed.
He is one OF the very last men Who
should be pressed for governor. unless
Il is intended to encourage Democratic
revolt. We have no wish to be person
ally offensive to General Watts, but II
Is time now TO speak plainly.-Monroe
Waterman.
A school without order and discipline
is worse than no school ut all and ev-
cry parent and good citizen OF the state
should encourage the faculty and board
OF regents OF the university In their en-
denVor to discipline the young men VINO
are there as students.-South Bronch
IntelligCncer.
The enemy do not want 1t so. but II
the Republicans are wise they will not
permit protection to be overshndowed
by any side issue in the campaign
PhilippI Republican.
There are 972,SOO school children in
West Virginia, OF which etS.SfS are en-
rolled. There are 6,l15 teachers. The
state expeuds annually for school pur-
poses 81. 6ll ,Gi9. No state In the union
according TO her size and population
can make better showing than west
Virginia in her educational advantages
New Dominion.
The gang OF boodlers who constantly
hang after the various candidates for
office ought to be dealt with in sum
mary way. It has gotten so that a
man who thinks Il wrong to spend
money to influence voters canhot DC
nominated or elected TO Office no mat
for what his qualifications for Office
may be, It is high time that an end
should he put to this state OF anairs.
we believe that It can be done without
,nuch trouble, Most men spend money
I'm politics because they believe their
opponent Is spending money, ana IN
order to counterfeit the influence OF ms
money they resort TO the same method.
-Fayellville Republican.
Our esteemed and valued contempo-
rary, the shcpherdstown Register. re-
ferrinE TO the many complimentary
things said OF Judge W. G. Bennett IN
connection with the Democratic noml-
nation for governor, Insists neNerInyI
loss, that the governor this year shoul1
come from the eastern PanhAhnle' anu
names Hon. a. S. cambridge ana Iot;
Forrest w Brown, OF jefferson, Hna
Judge +. Boyd Faulkner, OF Berkeley'
MS available men. We think howcNsi ;
that we do not misconstrue our trtend
~ tho Register when we say that he
,s evidently impressed with the idea
tb,t Judre Bennett Is the most avail
ohic man the party can name for the
oGice in Observation-Disclosures 1ndepcn-
dent
Colonel Clarence Smith. OF the Fair
mont Index. Is a very clever newspa-
pe- man, and he knows his business
wslI enough 10 not monkey with the
DemocratIc gubernatorial nomination
IhIs year The colonel Is smarter than
Mis- average Democratic newspaper as
Sociatcs and. possessed Of superior as
tute nolitIcal knowledge, Will not allow
himself 70 follow the ll-O-the-wlsp
"sst I'm" for him. The colonel Is 100
good n man 10 be led into pitfalls. NO:
Sear colonel, don't bite; stay out OF
noIltIcs.--There Is man In Falrmont
who tried 1t once!-Morgantowh FoSt'