Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-07-18

There are two adjectives which are
always conspicuous in the Intelligencer
reports Of Republican conventions
enthusiastic, harmonious. They are
employed with reckless disregard OF
their Appropriateness wish is in
variably father to the thought. Nor
does any amount of ridicule from read
ers whose love of truth is paramount
to partisanship, cause the party organ
to discontinue their use. Republican
assemblages are always described as
harmonious" albeit there may be
such scratching and fur flying as is as
sociated with the popular idea of a
convention of Kilkenny cats. In the
dntelligencer's political lexicon. har-
mony and Republican are synonymous.
An editorial article in Saturdays is
sue of that paper accuses the Register
of exaggeration in its report of the
recent district convention. 1t Is evil
dent that the standard of comparison
was the Intelligencer report, which
was significantly silent concerning GER
tain contentious on the floor of the
convention. The editorial criticism,
evidently written for its effect upon a
limited rural constituency, mentioned
no detail in which the report was in
accurate, which is also significant.
Either the Intelligencer looks through
partisan glasses which put roseate
tint ON Republican rows, or the politi
cal editor is initiating Ananias, that
Biblical parsonage who attained emin-
ence in the art which appears to be in
dispensible TO the preparation of a
political article in the Fourteenth
street sanctum.
A meeting of the Ohio county dele
gates to the Democratic Congressional
convention at Weston will be held
Tuesday at s O'Clock, in Handlan &
Weidebusch's law Office, in rooms and
8 in the Hub building, corner Market
and Fourteenth streets. A full attend
ance is desired, as the purpose of the
meeting is to organize and perfect ar
rangements to attend the convention.
This will be necessary, as the dele
gates will leave here Wednesday at
time to be agreed upon at the meet
ing.
Notwithstanding the fact that T. M.
cent Ohio county Republican conven-
ton for a denomination on the Legis-
lative ticket, he has not been dis
couraged and is an applicant, so his
friends say, for a position on the In
dustrial Commission which was re-
Gently established by Congress to arbi-
trate labor disputes and adjust differ
ences between labor and capital. The
position pays comfortable salary and
is worth going after.
The death at the pen last week of
James Edward Jones, the colored boy
who was convicted and sentenced for
the murder of young Stanley Mason,
has revived a story that has been re-
Gently used against Captain Dovener
among his opponents In his own party
and has caused considerable degree
of soreness to be aroused against the
Captain among the colored population.
AS will be remember, Capt. Dovener
assisted in the prosecution Of the color
ed boy, and he has been charged with
having volunteered his services to
prosecute the colored boy for the
murder OF young Stanley Mason OF
course, the Captain denies the charge
of having offered his services, but not
withstanding his denial there is a con-
siderable portion of the colored people
of this vicinity who think otherwise
and entertain no kindly feelings to-
ward the Little Giant" on this ac-
count.
YESTERDAYS STORM. H.