The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-28
OHloINAl WILSON MEN FROM
SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA
LEAVE, OlSHEARTENED.
arrived IN Sig Burg Only to Find
Tney Had seen Steam RoIIereo
~ Chtlton.-Capftal Gossip.
(ey Charles Brooks Smith

10y Cnaries Brooks Smith
WASHINGTON, ID. c. Jan. ~
How thoroughly disgusted-how utter
~ hopeless Of getting a square deal
az the hands OF the supreme powers
economically that be-was shown
by the failure Of a delegation OF Dem-
ocratic leaders from southern West
virginia. who had an engagement 10
call at the White House late Monday
evening r. state their troubles. TO do
20. one by one that particular delega-
ton departed for home, not quietly
either. None OF them failed 20 voice
MS Indignation 10 those who would
Listen Though they may cool on and
MN better OF IL later on. they united
IN damning things as they found them
mere. with a generous and vigorous
assortment OF damns. The distribu-
non OF their anathemas was far from
being equal. albeit II might have been
Just In their opinion. since the gilded
twins. Messrs. Watson and Chiffon.
were the recipients OF an oyerwhelm-
ing and preponderating proportion.
Engagement Not Kept.
The White House engagement OF the
down-state party men was not kept
by them. II was arranged on Satur-
day INC Monday late was set for the
time for It's fulhllment. When the
hour came the delegation had dwin-
die from a crowd 10 one lone single
patriot who had stuck 10 out. and was
game to the last. Beckley faithful
may well feel proud OF the patient cour-
< OF this hero. for he halls from that
thriving county seat. All the others
had %quit--and they quit in a hun. And
when they started on their trek back
TO West Virginia they unbosomed
themselves Of n few observations
which were at once OF the character
Of both a promise ar5 a threat. BY
this time the boys back home will
know that no Wilson man need tear
up any railroad mileage TO come here.
II would be foolish and costly. He
would be run 2 by the Watson
Chiffon sixty horse power machine.
Original Wilson Men.
The d~elegation which didn't stay
TO keep its engagement at the White
House was composed Of original
Wilson men. They wanted first to
lay the party situation, from their
side of II. before the man whose
nomination ut Baltimore they so fire.
vently espoused, and in the second
place say a good word~for the mar
Cottle, OF Fayette county. But when
they learned that Ned Smith. of Ma
rion and VIM. Osbourne, OF Boone,
had been formally endorsed by Sen
ator Chiffon and recommended by
him TO Attorney Geenral McReyolds,
they gave one final gasp and died
with a Tecumseh-like curse upon
their lips. That is all Of them did
except one. That fellow from Beck
ley stuck IL out, and was ready TO
fulfill the White House engagement
II there a been anybody TO fulfill
IL with him. But there wasn't. He
was the last OF the race. lie was
found sitting alone in n hotel lobby
when the hour for meeting the Pres
ident arrived. He was undaunted
and full of fight had he anybody TO
hght with him. But even his anger
and disgust did not blind him ~ a
realization that there was no use
Tor lone man to fight IL out
longer. Thus-behold. the heroic fig
IRE Of the Hon. +. l.. Ellison. editor
OF the Beckley Messenger. whose
very early enlistment in the Wilson
candidacy no mar dare question I'M
less he be prepared 10 defend him
Editor Ellison Talks.
Editor Ellison talked both for pub
LEGATION and otherwise-and IL would
have been a hearts delight TO have
had him give permission TO print the
otherwise" But he didn't. How
ever. here is an extract from the re
vised n expurgated version which
Will not fail OF understanding on the
part OF the keenly o~bservant."
The political outlook In the state
Is better than II has been for years"
said Mr.. Ellison. especially in the
Fifth congressional district. While
there r sore spots over Senator
ChiltOn's recommendations for federal
appointments and a general disappoint-