Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-10
A LUGUBRIOUS WALL.

. bring tears TO lHS Eyes VI O'Oi 'AAS
most implacable enemy Of the RepuD-
lican. party aid secure the heartfelt
svmnathy of the most violent di5senter
from the policy Of the lntelligencer to
stop at nothing, no matter how false,
misleading or hypocritical, when party
ends are to be advanced or the pubnc
Is to be led or cajoled into false po-
sitior. or made to misunderstood any
given measure. or policy The Intel
ligencer, ever ready to do questionable
nclitical work fulfilled its mission in
the last campaign with a fidelity to
purpose worthy CT higher aims and a
better cause, and how, begrimed with
the mud it threw, and with the after
taste of numerous preyarications in its
throat, it both RACES and weeps at the
base ingratitude of the bosses of the
party for which it "toted' water
through the heat and burden OF the
political day, and the sound Of is
whimperings I'll the air. We hasten to
mingie our tears with those of our
contemporary, and to mourn in sin
cere coincidence with it over the base
ingratitude Of political leaders, and
yet, while we answer sigh for sigh and
sob responds to sob, we cannot refrain
from the thought that the punishment
mee.ed out to the Irtelligencer in the
shape Of ingratitude and contempt fits
the crime of misleading the people in
things political.
Tie Intelligencer is really in a bad
state of mind, and we don't blame it
for giving conspicuous publicity to its
disappointment, sorrow and anger. Sat
urday, while the hot and burning tears
followed each other in rapid succession
down the furrowed cheeks of the dis
consolate grandmother Of Fourteenth
street, &Hd while is shrunken frame
was ccnvulsed with deep and inconsol-
able emotion it still had energy enough
to threaten while it deplored, and to
rage amid its lamentations. The spec
tacle was at once pathetic and
ludicrous, and the public generally
could not restrain a tendency to smile
while furtively wiping away those
lacTynosic2l evidences of commiser-
alive emotion which walled I'D invol-
unfairly from sympathetic souls. We
deplore the tendency to levity under the
Circumstance and hasten to suggest
that such grief as is displayed by our
esteemed contemporary is entitled to
all due respect. and that in the pres
ence of dead but yet unburied hopes
there should be a softened tread, no
converse save in subdued tones. and
that the heavens be hung in black. A
truce to laughter, and-excuse these
tears
The troubles mainly about Jim"
Hall. It's A case of poor Toms
a-cauld." Like a homeless cat, in
strange alley, in the presence of nu-
merous small and constituencies boys,
and with the growls OF unknown dogs
sounding cminously near by. he stands.
in the presence of imminent danger Of
losing his political existence. He's
holding on the City Collectorship with
q grip akin to that of a half-drowned
mariner to floating spar, while, strain
his eyes as he may, there is in sight
neither sail nor shore, and his list
ening ear hears no CHEEKY voice.
James is adrift upon 4 tempestuous
sea, and that's why the Intelligencer
is disposed to refuse all comfort, and
IS decidedly Of Tire impression that
politicians are an ungTateful lot, and
that, after all, sack-cloth and a sprink-
ling of ashes constitute a very becom-
Ing raiment under certain mental con-
ditions and states of fact. And think
Ing thus and feeling that way. the In
tclligencer is under the impression
correct in every particular-that tho
big party bosses have gobbled in all
the plums, that the First Congressional
district has been extended what it
terms "the frosty nit" that the future
of the party has been endangered. and
generally that some folks have been
real mean. 1t also realizes that "Daw-
son is very smooth" expresses the
hope that Mr. Hart will be allowed to
maintain his position" as Minister to
Bogota, and intimates that Scott and
Dovener will have a hard time to
square themselves with the party in
this end of the State over the distribu-
ton Of the Offices, while in double
leads the paper editorially expresses
the belief ard conviction that "this dis
! trict will vigorously resent the af-
'front.'" as is evident from the temper
OF the many friends of the candidates
who aspired to preferment at the hands