The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-04-08
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S23 | Counting Roorn...". 81
THE INTELLIGENCER.
WHEELING. APRIL S, 1890.
In tho Wrong Pew Again

And young Carter Harrison Is not bad.
looking Democratic Presidential TIMBER
Register.
Still harping on Harrison! We
thought we had demonstrated sufil-
ciently the other day the fallacy OF the
Registers claim of political sympathy
with the mayor-elect of Chicago. The
Market street organ seems to be UNI
able to tumble to ITSELF 1t has not read
correctly the meaning OF Harrlson's
election and the ignominious defeat OF
Altgeld. The later gentleman stood for
the peculiar faith and views the Regis
ter has so ferociously advocated, and
which are so strongly crystallized in
William Jennings Bryan. Altgeld, as we
have remarked before is the man our
nelghbor trains with. therefore it can
have no part in the triumphs OF Mr..
Harrison. The mayor Of Chicago was a
bitter opponent OF Bryan and Populism
In the last campaign. The Register
with its usual obstinacy warmly espous-
ed the cause OF free silver and that ut
terly indefensible conSlomeration Of
ruin and anarchy known as the Chicago
platform. Why, then. does the Register
persist In giving out heimprcssion that
It is in sympathy with the Harrison
gold-standard brand of Democracy? BY
Its record the Register can not even
squiat at Harrison.
rp rair fnrca tho etc ~ tho n
telligencer as to the elements thatenter-
ed into the recent contest in Chicago the
Washington Post is summoned as n
witness 1t says: In the defeat OF
John P. Altgeld. the Democratic nation
al committee gets well-deserved re-
Duke for its stupid blunder In meddling
with a local and personal matter outside
Of Its legitimate sphere Of influence.
Without any necessity or reasonable ex-
cuse, the committee saw fit to indorse
the candidacy of Altgeld, who. as an in
dependent candidate, was waginE re-
lentless war on the Democratic nomi-
nee. Outside of Chicago the immediate
and inevitable effect OF this voluntary
blunder was to needlessly discredit the
party with all classes Of citizens except
that limited number who find in Ait
geld a representative and champion Of
their principles and beliefs. In the city
itself the effect Is to reduce the regular
Democratic vote-according to the COM
mittee's standard-to the pItiful 1896
polled for Altgeld in total of 100000.
And this man, turned down by the DEM
ocracy OF his state, repudiated by the
Democracy Of the city. distrusted by
the conservative men OF all parties. is
TO fill the place Of special adviser to
the Democratic national convention
next year, and possibly throughout the
presidential campaign"
And young Carter H. Harrison Is not
bad looking Democratic presidential
timber!" No, he Is not. because he is an
honest Democrat,and therefore the Reg
lister can assume no interest in him but
what is false. There Is some more
cheerful reading We desire to call to the
attention Of the Register 1t is found
in the Washington correspondence OF
the Chicago Record, which says:
The election in Chicago has given the
politicians here something to talk about,
and their comments arc what you nigh;
expect Everybody looks at It from his
own point OF View, and CONSTITUTES the sig-
nliicance OF the 1900 plurality as he
would like to have others see 1t. The
mo5sback Democrats say 1t Is 4 terrible
blov to the Bryan wing OF the party. and
the. silver men insist Mayor Harrison Is
Just as earnest for free coinage az is Alt
geld, and Is the only man who ever cred.
lied the Almighty with the authorship OF
ratio OF 16 TO l."
There Is no doubt that Altgeld had the
sympathy Of the Democratic national
committee and the Bryan faction, and II
he had been elected they would have
claimed 1t as personal triumph. Hence
their opponents have a right to BET all
the. comfort they can ont OF Harr!son's
victory and they hope It will encourage
the nnt-s!lver men in the Democratic
party 10 come put and take hold and or.
German; Faulkner. Caftrey, Hoke Smith
J. Sterling Morton and other such men
80 that they may recover the control oil
The party. and nominate ex-Secretnry
Olney. or some other candidate OF similar
views and standing, at the next convcn.
ton. They argue that n combination OF
mSE f S,b PSsnnsy,ynn!a, Ohio and M
.to'Hb' wan .Ne" Jersey. Maryland and
New England back Of them. would be O
Tremendous power In the national conyen
ton, ana draw enough support from tn,
sonth 70 overcome the Bryan men. par.
tlculhrly rs tho prosperity OF the coun.
try. the employment OF labor. tho nd
yance OF wages. the redemption OF mort
cages. and the abundance OF money vii
make II uphiil work for the calamity talk.
ers during the next campaign.
BY the way. Which Jenersonlnn din.
ner is the Register going to attend in
New York? $40 or 81?