The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

A Good Man's Error.
The INTELLIGENCER regrets that National Committeeman Scott is quoted in the Democratic organ of this city as criticising the character of Mr. Hart's Minneapolis dispatches to his paper, the INTELLIGENCER. It is Senator Scott's privilege to criticize, as it is the INTELLIGENCER's privilege to point out to him that he does Mr. Hart and this newspaper an injustice, which, no doubt, is unintentional. Mr. Scott is quoted as saying:
"Perhaps you noticed, that Mr. Hart by his telegrams largely conducted the ceremonies tending to the election of Harrison. There appeared to be no other member of the West Virginia delegation that was doing much in the way of important work on several committees. Now, while I appreciate the efforts of Mr. Hart, and believe that he rendered valuable services, still there were others equally as busy and equally as effective. There was John A. Hutchinson, of Parkersburg, who was a member of the committee on resolutions, and took active part in forming the platform of the party. While I do not care to speak of myself, other than to show the position of the delegation in general, as a member of the national committee I was one of the seven that formed the sub-committee to perfect the temporary organization with Matt Quay as chairman, and John C. New as secretary. Delegate George M. Bowers was appointed on the committee to wait on the President to notify him of his nomination. Yes, there were a few incidental affairs that Mr. Hart did not attend to."
Had Mr. Scott read his favorite newspaper more closely before talking to the Democratic Register he never would have made the above assertions, for we know him to be a man who would not do any one an intentional injustice.
The "incidental affairs" which he claims "Mr. Hart did not attend to," were, in fact, attended to and given due prominence in that gentleman's dispatches, and in not a single instance were Mr. Hart's own actions exploited or referred to. The only mention of Mr. Hart's part in the proceedings were in the Associated Press reports, and in the resolutions of endorsement unanimously adopted by the West Virginia delegation.
As to whether the editor of the INTELLIGENCER overdrew the situation at Minneapolis or not, we refer Senator Scott to the result of the convention, which was precisely what the INTELLIGENCER's special dispatches predicted it would be from the start.