The morning times., 1896-12-07
ALL SEARCHING FOR PLUMs
Flower of West Virginia POliti-
clans Come to Washington.
WILL CONFER WITH ELKINS
Republican Leaders From the Lit
tie Mountain State Feel Like
Somebody Now Since the Demo-
cracy Was Defeated Enough
Have Arrived to Make Colony.

West Virginia has come to town TO cele-
brate. the victory spf '96, which has no
precedent since 1870, when the entire
state was carried for the grand old party.
The foremost meninthe State are here for
another purpose, to 50 harmonic Indi vidual
ambitions and divide the miraculous dI "a
Of fishes as that West Virginia will never
again be referred to in the doubtful
column
Local West Virginians are assisting the
Distinguished NIsIIors general
function OF self-congratJlatiOn which is
emphasized b. the actual possession OF a
full delegation in the lower house, one
Senator and things in such train as that
two Senators are IL surety two years hence
Naturally, therefore, the drop into town
Of the West Virginlan enthusiasts and ceie-
orators is like unto the fall OF ripe fruit
on the sunny slopes OF the little giant Com
monw e3lth in the autumn The clans have
been gathering to such an extent that
last night the contingent assumed the
proportions OF colony Among these are
some men who hayemade history for them
selves long before the recent election
LATEST ARRIVALS.
OF the latest arrivals is Mr.. Charles
Burdette Hart, editor OF the Wheeling
lntelllgencer. The festive bee Is huInmiDg
melotiiously and blithely in the bonnet OF
Ar hart and tney do say tna,unisparucula
bee knows what he is hunming about;
In TACT That he is a prophetic bee. Mr..
Hart is reaching out, like Nat Goodwin,
for the Senatorship now held by Mr.. c. F.
Faulkner, who has finally gone out OF the
electoral count business Mr.. Hart too
is SO W ell knownand his services are so well
admitted and accentuated by the results
that there would be scarcely a respect able
| minority to say nay to his ambition Heis
q shining example of newspaper men whom
ii has been the fashion in late years 10 take
cut OF the sanctuIn Tor DubuC work.
He " went to West Virginia fifteen years
ago, when he assumed editorial charge ofthe
Inteliigencer, which at that time was the
only rose OF Republican Sunmerism in the
State But the InteIIgencer, even be
TO de wah,' was the oracle by which il
was the fashion to swear when uniOnsm
was in question Mr.. Hart fell heir 10 the
labor of keeping the Intelligencer at the
standard set by the famous Archie Camp
| bell, who made the epigTanimatic TetOTJ
to Adonis Conkii1g in the convention which
nominated Garfield. 1t was Mr.. Campbell
| who told Mr.. COnkIinc that he, Campbell
wore his sovereignty under his nat.
i'sst air ftirt JG,CasiIiU iUIic' e-tttls.tl II ana
| made the IHtclig"ncer even a greater
| power In the land than ever before, fact
which was amply demonstrated Uy its IL
| flueHce in the late result ON which West
Virginians are now feIiCitating themselves
| III Washington and at home He is one
! OF the most popular men in the State
still young. so young that If he fails this
| time he viii try IL ag.iu. 1t is believed
tiiat lie is here TO consult with Senator
EiEius about the distribution of the pat
rOudge