Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-02
ONWARD CANDIDATE.


| seem to be playing in hard luck this
campaign. Their first reverse was in
| the discovery that the Quay candidate
for Supreme Judge was mixed up in
| fraudulent concerns in Philadelphia. OF
| course, it would never have done to put
man resting under such charge on
| the Supreme Bench-even Quay's
staunch constituency couldn't stand
that. So Adams had to come off the
| ticket.
Now Candidate Barnett has got into
trouble 1t is all his own fault, too,
in unwisely trying to boost his candi-
dacy by parading members of the gal
liant Tenth regiment around the State
with him on his stumping tours.
This circus play of Col. Barnett's nat
urally led indignant members of the
gallant Tenth to expose portions of Col.
| Barnett's war record not heretofore
known to the public, and the result
may be that the Quay managers may
I
ticket-though there is hardly time for
| that.
1t appears that this clustering, boast
| ing soldier, who ism I at home anywhere
unless he has squad Of the Tenth SOL
| diers with him with drums and full
paraphernalia of war, now rests under
the grave charge OF arrant cowardice
on the field of battle. The charge is
brought by members of the Tenth regi-
ment over their own signatures. For
example, one set Of charges against him
comes from Corporal George w. Miller,
Company G, of Uniontown, staunch
Republican in politics. Corporal Miller
makes this statement in connection with
one of the sharp scrimmages of the gall
| lent Tenth in Luzon:
| During the Bocave rest the chaplain,
| Rev Joseph Hunter, and / went to the
| rear to fill our canteens. Other men did
likewise The water was on the right of
the railroad, and on the left, just across
from the spring. l saw a soldier ensconced
behind one of the rice dykes. 1 did not at
the instant notice that he was an officer,
and I inquired:
What in the are you doing
there?'
81 Do you know who you are talking to?
Do you know you are talking to an Off
cer?' Lieutenant Colonel Barnett ad-
dressed me-
=" No, / didn't know that I retorted,
and if I did 1 wouldn't have cared
d, for l don't think you are in your
place or doing your duty"
Barnett's battalion and the rest of the
regiment at that moment were from 200 to
300 yards ahead of him, on the firing line,
where the skirmish had ceased a little
before.
Barnett said nothing to my last retort,
and so far as L know never tried to have
me punished.
OF course, Col. Barnett and his polit-
ical managers wisely decline to dis
cuss" these grave charges, but it is an
open secret that if they had been known
beforehand Col Barnett would never
have been put on the ticket AS it is
it is doubtless too late to discard him
as Adams was discarded earlier in the
campaign, although the same paper
that published the charges against
Adams which caused his removal, the
Republican Philadelphia North Amer
lean, John Wanamaker's paper, is call
ing for Barnett's resignation and de-
claring that he cannot successfully
ignore 'the accusation that he played
the coward"
1t will be seen that the effort of Bar
nett to turn to political account the
display of squad of the Tenth boys
in uniform on the stump has proven
first clas< boomerang.