The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-19

OF hA practice viii show In what esteem
he ID held BY persons having business
before the courts OF this state.
II the President be In search Of a true
Democrat and an able lawyer we'll
equipped for the district a,torncyshlp,
he need go no further. Ex-Attorney
General Alfred Caldwell viii MI the biz.
Scnntpr Faulkner ~ Little Roy Itluc,
The senior senator from West Virginia
~ the chairman OF the Democratic con-
Srcsslonal committee, lie occupied tho
same position In tho memorable CAM
pnlgn OF 1891, and achieved considerable
notorlety M the Little BOY Blue, ullas
the horn blower OF the party In that can
vas9, He went over 10 Washington about
once II week from his home at Martins
burg 10 soc how tho boys who did the
work OF the campaign were getting on,
and before leaving the town on hia re-
turn hc invariably sounded II toot Of
sure coming victory or his little horn.
In other words. he always contrlvcd to
have an Interview with some newspaper
man to whom he impaired the news
cleaned by his committee from every
part Of The country. Including the four
congressional districts OF West Virginia,
which news vas always to tho effect
that everything was lovely everywhere
for the Democracy, and that victory In
November was n dead sure thing. And
yet that was Waterloo year for the
Democracy. They were almost wiped
out.
The original OF this Little Boy Blue
was n different kind OF a horn blower.
He sounded the alarm when the sheep
were In the meadow und the cows In the
corn. but the Faulkner boy Blue never
seemed to know in "a that there was n
fence down or u gate open or break
whatever In the Democratic preserves
In that great and memorable and dig
nstrous campaign. And yet their whole
reservation had been broken In upon
and practically occupied by the Repub-
licans.
So astounding was the difference be-
tween the boasts made and the prcdlc-
lions INDUCED In by Senator Faulkner,
and the actual outcome OF the campaign
In November. that the consensus OF
opinion was that either he never knew;
n thing about the drift OF the canvass
or else, acting on the well known motto
OF the late John G. Thompson, TO claim
everything and concede nothing. he de-
liberately fooled the Democracy In order
to prevent u still more extensive stain-
pedc.
Well, 1t was Abraham Lincoln who
said that you can't fool all the people
all the time. and. for thar matter, you
can't fool the Democracy all the time.
In reappoInt!ng Senator Faulkner to his
former position 1t seems 10 have been
assumed that he could fool them ugain
this year with the am periodic tOuts
on his congressional horn. This accounts
for his becoming their Little Boy Blue
once more. He has footed two or three
times already In this canvass. young -
1t Is. His most formal and pronounced
toot. however. was given out last week
just after his return from the Bryan
demonstration In New York. One would
suppose from the utterly boyish way In
which he went on about It that he had
never seen a big meeSing before in his
life.
1t was positively the biggest thing on
earth. Never saw anything like 1t. The
people are for Bryan. He Is dead sure to
be elected. Has the south certain. and
that means 159 votes. Has all the
try west OF Iowa, and that means 81
more. Then he has a, great job l"t Of
states TO pick and choose from md Ill
In with, like Ohio. Indiana. %1lline!s,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
and that means his almost unanimous
election. In fact, Mckinley Is not In 1t
at all. lie may carry n state or two
somewhere In the east. possibly.
This Is the substance Of his last and
loudest loot on his little old 1894 horn.
II sounds for all the world like his per-
sIstent assurances up to the close of the
last campaign that William L. Wilson
was all hunkE-dori In his district and
that Howard and Anderson and Harvey
had a cinch on their certificates. And
yet the first named was beaten by over
1000 votes, the second BY nearly four
thousand five hundred, tho third BY al
most four thousand, and the fourth BY
nearly three thousand. In other words,
the state Yves swept By the Republicans.
Now il Senator Faulkner DID not know
anything whatever about his W state
in 1891. at the close Of the canvass. how
much docs he probably know OF the pub
lie sentiment nf this great country thus
early In the campaign? Literally Moth
ing, and therefore all his Little Boy Blue
toots are simply so much wind and moth
ing more. They can't fool the people. not
even the DcmU-pops. this year.
Little BOY Blue should have told the
newspaper nan something about the
betting In New York IN the two candi-
dates. Strange that those fellows there
are so stupid as TO offer such great odds
on Mckinley, who will only perhaps
carry Massachusetts and no sure thing
ut that. And why don't the Demo-
cratic campaign committee. who have
already the result In their possession,
wade In and scoop and dcspoil and I'M
povcrIsh the gold bugs and plutocrats
OF that beniEh,cd and bc3ottcd city?
They have 1t in their power to enrich