Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-05-24
M'ELDOWNEY'S SARCASM.
Democratic Brains in the Republican
Party.
Wetzel Democrat.

WetZel Democrat.
The Republican party of West Vir-
ginia never did any good until it was
leavened by an infusion of Democratic
brains. First and foremost comes
Charles Burdette Hart, who is the ac-
knowledged leader and boss; the i'm
mortal we of the party in West Vlr-
GINA. From the beginning, he has had
a firm and secure tail hold upon the Nc
Kinley boom, despite every effort TO
shake him loose If Mckinley should
be elected President, Mr.. Hart will be
lawfully entitled to his choice OF the
West Virginia plums which Mr.. Nc
Kinley will set before the faithful OF
the Mountain State.
Yet Mr.. Hart was once a bad DEM
ocrat. He was one Of the editors OF a
savage and "pizen" rebel Democratic
newspaper in the city OF Baltimore.
Mr. Harris brains having been dumped
into the Republican vacuum first, they
are a lien first in priority upon the Re-
publican estate in West Virginia. And
they are a good quality of brains, too.
The next contribution is the very SUI
perior and fertile quality Of brains fur
nished by Mr.. John B. Floyd, of the
Charleston Mail. Considering the ser
vices which a distinguished relative of
the editor rendered the late Southern
Confederacy, a relative whose honored
name the editor himself bears, the
brain contribution of Mr.. Floyd is en-
titled to distinguished consideration.
Mr. Floyd aspires to the West Virginia
Governorship. He would like Secre-
tary of State better, but he knows that
he would never get it from Mr.. G.. w.
Atkinson. Hence, he has a mind to
take the Sure Thing from Ohio
county and hand out the plum himself.
Being from Kanawha county, Mr.
Floyd is necessarily hustler He got
mad at the Democrats some years ago
because he couldn't run things. and
threw his brainworks into the enemy's
camp in a great rage.
And now comes the Veteran Dorr.
who has been keeping himself in the
public eye by a series of political ca
vorts which at times become positively
alarming. Mr.. DORIS brain conribu-
ion is in a continued state of feverish
activity and discomfort. Mr.. Dorr has
made up his mind to go to Congress
from the Third district andit will take
a bold man to stop him. Mr. Dorr was
born a Democrat and was expected TO
continue Democrat, but he is not one
of the continuing kind. and why he is
not a Populist to-day is the subject of
anxious inquiry. If Mr.. Dorr will only
go on in his winding way and give the
Two,
ty as he once gave the Democrats, we
will take down our Grape and cease-to
mourn his loss.
Changeable Phillip Snyder is one Of
the latest brain contributors to the
e. o. p. in West Virginia He pulled
out Of the Democratic party while hold
ing an Office to which he was elected
by Democratic votes, but so quietly that
nobody can tell just when he left, and
the hole behind him was so small that
he was never missed. Mr.. Snyder is
not asking much; he only begs that he
be allowed to do that.
There is certain Mahood who has
dropped his mite of brains into tn Re-
publican hole, but the hole is not full
yet by several joints. Mahood is per-
haps looking after the office of consta-
bic in some of the coal mining districts,
where he can be elected by the negro
vote
All these renegades are after the "po-
litical stuff That is what they rene
gaded for, and on Republican princi-
pies they ought TO have it, Else they
are liable to renegade again.