The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-09-14
AGse Of Ingralitu4c.


The Register has a lengthy editorial
indulgjng in a great deal of talk about
the plans of prominent West Virginia
Republicans. OF course the Register is
in the confidence of these gentlemen and
knows precisely what 1t is talking
about. When it states emphatically, as
1t usually states things which exhibit
its lack of political sagaclty, that SEN
ator Elkins intends to use all his power
and aid to sacrifice the four congress
slonal candidates in an effort to carry
the legislature, everybody knows 1t
gives the information direct from a Sc
cret conference with the senator, who
has permitted the Register to make this
statement in advance Of all other news
papers, and even before he knew about
1t himself. The Registers lle-perhaps
we should say Statement" appeals to
the intelligence of the people of West
Virginia, for all men, women and chill
dren know how ardently Senator Ellins
desires a Democratic majority in Con-
gress. They know he keeps awake OF
nights scheming for 1t. Here's what the
Register says, and 1t is necessarily alb
solutely true, because the Register says
it, and because 1t surely has the APP
pearance of having been concocted in
the Incurable ward of an insane asylum:
At the love feast, however, Senator
Elkins may Tor may not) tell all about
his plans In this little matter. He
might, also, tell Messrs. Dovener and
Dayton, and Edwards and Freer. II
those gentlemen shall grace the festive
occasion, how he intends TO make the
election OF a Republican legislature
paramount to everything else in the
coming election; how he will choke on
all the congressional aspirations II
necessary to secure the legislature, OF
which Mr.. Elklns knows too well he
cannot AFFORD to lose control Mr.. Ell
kins can tell these congressional candi-
dates at the love feast, IL he will, that
there Is absolutely no hope for them
this year, and that they might as well
lay themselves down without murmur
as sacrifices for the benefit OF their
party boss.
Those who are familiar with Senator
Elkins' course in the past campaigns
in West Virginia. and with the course
of the Register in always predicting just
what did not come to pass. namely,
Republican treachery and Republican
waterloos in consequence, know just
how implicitly they may rely on this
Statement" OF the Bryanite organ. The
organs reputation for being in Mr.. Ell
kins' personal confidence. and being
therefore able to tell precisely what his
plans are with reference to the Repub-
lIcan cause in this state, is already es-
tabllshed. The above quotation needs
no confirmation, even with the merest
novice in politics. who can readily per-
ceIve, after reading the Registers ar
tIcle, that Mr.. Ellsins, whose splendid
and successful efforts for RepubllcanIsm
have been such a terror to the Democ-
racy of the state in the past, has re-
solved, not only to commit political sui
eide by handing four Republican con-
gresslunal districts over TO the Regis
ters party, but has given the Register
that exclusive information In advance
of even the more pre;entIous yellow
journals.
II Senator Elkins is really sincere in
planning thus to benefit the Democracy
OF the state. without letting the Repub-
lican party know anything about 1t, the
Register is certainly ungrateful toward
him in giving the matter away so soon,
In othcr words. the REGISTER shows poor
political sense In dlvulging plans which
would mean the Democratic redemption
OF four congressional districts, II it had
not let the cat out OF the bag.
Senator Elklns' loyalty, his splendid
leadership. his ardent Repuhl!canlsm,
his support OF every Republican nom
Inee in this state. FOR governor and
congressman down to constables, in the
past and present. Will stand even the
ties. OF the Registers aslnine publlca-
ton, from which the above quotation
is but an item. We trust this modest
statement OF our own will be taken seri-
ously, In spite of the Registers superior
knowledge OF the subject.
Every Republican of prominence in
this state, every Republican worker.
every Republican voter Will be on deck
in November. The campaign OF false
hood, Of Misrepresentation and Of WILL
ncatlon Of everything Republican, from
the national administration down to
local affairs, which he's been inaugu-
rated in West Virginia by the Dema-
cratic press, viii be rebulsed by the In
telllgcnce OF Yves, vlrgnians