The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-10-02
Ths Eis.ton In the Fsssnth Congregational District
OF Virssnaa.


rns Injection In the Congregational District
OF virssnl..
We are informed upon respectable authority that the
wings are lying quietly by with the hope Of setting our
candidates by the ears They are in fact stimulating
divisions They are holding out the idea that they will
run no candidate Of their own and they are, in fact
Turing our candidates on by occasionally limiting that they
will vote for one and then for another Their plan Is to
profit by our dssensons and bring out their candidate
at the eleventh hour Like the cunning fox. they will
step in and steal the spos away from the lion and the
tiger when they are too much exhausted by their own
struggles to defeat the trick The only safe plan for the
democrats is to put down these struggles at onceo hold
convention to nominate candidate, and to rally with
undivided energies around the who receives the
votes Of a majority Of the convention.
The danger is not to be despised Our feuds at the
election Of last spring exposed us to serious danger OF
defeat and considerably reduced popular majority at
the polls We hope our friends in the district will profit
by that warning. II was said that already six demo-
cratic candidates had been brought into the field Two
of them have Withdrawn from the canvass, in the follow
ing letter:
To the Voters of the Fifteenth Congressional District
GENTLEMEN Our having through the kindness OF
respective friends been placed before you ddate
for seat In the next Congress OF the United States we
beg leave grateful acknowledgements
for the generous motive which prompted the But il
this canvass commenced, that crisis has now arrived
when The sentiment OF this district must be
WI %he psy full Of hoPe and awaiting the
symptom of disaecon It is our duty to allay as far
in some portions Of the district and by timely sacrifice
of all individual designs Of own make effort to Sc
cure unity o. purpose and OF action
This object, we conceive can In no way be more Ell
ectuay attained Than by the withdrawal Of our names from
the canvass There now six candidates announced II
all remain before the people, we shall have an embittered
contest, in which friend will war with friend and watch
with our best and most unqualified thanks for the many
Of favor extended 70 us 70 withdraw s from
confidence and union without both OF which political
party the worst OF mockerie
Our names, as we understand, were submitted, in the
first instance, under impression that Mr. j. T. Martin
nounced he would decline in favor of Col Geo w Thomp-
In regard that matter the following correspondence
will speak Tor ITSELF
| GEO. w. CLUTTER.
WHEELING, Va Sept "a, 1919.
| Mr.. Martin replies
Martini
and solicitations Of democratic friends from
different portions of the dsttic whose Partially and gem
the vacancy occasoned the death ofmy successful
petitor in the last under circumstances which
ton it can only be changed by their expressed WILL either
by convention OF any other mode In which they may see
proper to manifest their wishes
| The next number of the Wheeling Argus contains a
letter from Mr.. Thompson, who says
When consented that my name should be used as a
candidate for the nomination for seat in Congress to fill
the vacancy occasoned by the death Of the Hon Alexander
Newman, will the of large and pect
able number OF the democratic party that this was
nry % .heIG arms and united aeon WIN er as
tory end consented that my name should be placed be-
fore you In yielding this eEnen. was no. acaatsd y
ferson T. Martin. Between rivalry factous
and now undisiurbed We have maintained this rela.
ton towards each ohe far have learned certainly
most within the last forty.eght hours at distant point
and in his absence have defended him against the vu
put him down and put themselves up.
We regret that cannot publish the whole OF Mr..
Thompson's letter. 1t concludes as follows:
In view of all the circumstance, aud Occupying the
aud political friends am liberty decline without
consulting their wishes, which Is now impossible TO do
will go their primary meetings in spirit Of Cancellation
and concessions and thus perhaps render convention
give permanency and stability to that creed Of politics
which think peculiarly characteristic Of Northwestern
sustaining moderate and practical construction Of the
stiintion Of the Union.
dence heretofore reposed in me- and with ardent wishes
for the welfare omy party and the prosperity Of i'm
''O ~ ''''N'" - N GEORGE w. THOMPSON
Since preparing the above for the press Saturday
we have received two other numbers OF the Wheeling
Argus from which observe with regret that Messrs
Clutter and Thompson points, and denouncng each
other We see, also, that the democracy Of western
Monongalia have had meeting, and appointed twenty.
two delegates TO attend the nominating convention a,
Backsve The democrats OF one OF the precincts OF Han.
cock county have also and approved OF the conven
ton as necessary to decide upon the claims OF the re-
spectve candidates" and appointed their delegate We
see another sign that COL Haywood (whig) addressed
the people Of Morgantown Monongaa) the 24th and
ANNOUNCED himself candidate not to be ruled off by
any Wheeling clique" But advise the democrats tc
beware of the Trojan horse, and take their own destiny
into their own hands
/ Mr. Poussin. ... ....
No paper has been more decided in its appreciation oil