Year: 1870

tne "let ups the IRtetHgeRceT lights
FARNswoRTH and FOREMAN, and the
Parkersburg Times, in turn, falls iercely
on the flank of the IatelligeRcer. Speak
ing of the latter papers envious s!abs
at FOREMAN, upon whom, by the way, it
Ifawned all the while he was Governor,
the Times inquiries:


Are the editors of the Iatelligencer
still at their old tricks, slurring Senator
Boreman Will these little envies and
batreds never ceasei Is the Wheeling
clique 20 enraged against him as to be
utterly Incapable of forgiving the Sena.
TORS sin of triumphing over themi
These constant assaults against prom
inent Republican come very awkwardly
from paper which but a few days ago
had the bad taste to accuse the Times
of being under the control of Demo
Gratis. Is that the way TO unite tho Re-
!. publican partyi Verify if these Wheel
ling folks cannot have their own way,
they go crazy and strike right and left,
not caring whether they hurt friend
or an enemy.


So far rs these two papers are con
cerned, the squabble is between two
'let ups" But the pretty feature Of
this Kilkenny category is the attack of
the Intelligencer en- FARNswoRTH. Here
we have "let up" against "bitter
ender," and the resentments that were
scarcely smothered last year seem to be
breaking forth with renewed energy.
This is the way our cotemporary makes
mouths at the gentleman from Upshur


We had supposed that the wise policy
adopted by the Republican majority n
the Legislature this winter, would meet
general acceptance from the minority
who then resisted it. But if they pro-
pcss TO attack it before the people in
the spirit here manifested by the Pres
ident of the Senate, neither that gen
tleman nor any other Republican
need waste much trouble on the Gov
ernorship. The liberal Republicans of
the State do not propose TO be brow
beaten, and we are very sure will not
lower their flag au inch to anybody
:; who has no better reply to their argu-
ments than TO stigmatize them as "tTai.
tors" We have no doubt if Mr.. Farms
worth and these he speaks for must
have war, that they can be fully ac-
commcduted; but it is proper the public
should take ice who begins it,


The idea is held out, Especially in
another part of the same article where
FARNswoRTH is spoken of as "a repre-
sentative of the proscriptive policy
which was defeated at the recent ses-
sion of the Legislature,") that the let
ups" headed hy the Intelligemcer carried
through the so called liberal legislation
of the session, aud in SO doing defeated
the proscriptive wing of their own
party. Nothing could DO more inaccu-
rate, as the MtelligencT man well knows.
He and all who thought with
him surrendered to the "bitter enders"
from the very start, and in that sur
render violated every pledge they had
made to the people. They were content
to take whatever the bitter enders"
would give, and had they refused TO
repeal single Test Oath, the Iptel'igen'
Ger and its little gang of so called liber-
ais would still have been content. That
paper aud those for whom it speaks,
were pledged to a modification of the
registration law. Ga this point the
whole contest in the Legislature turned.
On this point the 'lat ups" under the
advice of the IntelHgencer, basely turned
tail upon their own track, broke faith
with the Democrats who had elected
them and went squarely into the arms
of the enemy. The Mtelligeacer led the
skedaddle, and resorted to the lowest
possible means to restore itself TO the
favor of the PEIRPoINT-FARNSw ORTIZ
proscriptives. But after all its dirt
eating it failed; those men declined its
advances. The SOW was not permitted
to return to her wallowing in the pros
criptive ditch. Hence we find her back
now in the "let up" gutter.


The declaration that "the liberal Re-
publicans will rot lower their flag an
inch" isr the silliest bravado ever con-
eeived in moral cowardice. 'The lib.
eral Republicans" as represented by the
IntelHgencsr, never had the manhood to
raise q flag of their Gown, in the last
Legislature. They covered under the
party lash, just as they will do again,
when FARNswORTH and his clan have
fixed matters in the State Convention,
and this the proscriptive masters of the
party know. The purpose OF the
Wheeling clique to SO into the next
Republican Convention and carry off
the plumber by bluster, is very well un-
derstood on all sides. But the "bitter
enders" from the interior understand
their infirmity of purpose too we'll to
heed their vaporings. The clique will
come in, and pick the bones if no more
can be got.


We heard story ouce of chap riding
a restive colt and leading by rope an
obstrcperous hound, that was contiB-
ually pulling back and darting in an
opposite direction. But the rope was
strong and the knot tight, so the rider
remarked to the canine, "You internal
whelp, I'll show you that you must
either lead or hapgw AS the story
went, the dog ocquiesced, and so
it will be with this Radical close
corporation in the city of Wheeling.
With FARNswoRTH and PEIRPoINT
astride of the Radical Rosinante,
the stout rope of party allegiance
around the necks of "the liberal Re