Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-09-06
FOR GOVERNOR,
A. WISE,
OF ACCOMAC.
Subject to the Decision Of the Democratic
State Convention.
The State Convention.

next springs election-not about the pro-
priety of holding such Convention. but
aOhen and where it shall be held. Staun-
ton and Charlottesville have both been
named. and perhaps some other places y
and nearly every expression in regard to
time has been different. The time APP
pears to be the most difficult of the pre-
liminary questions to be settled, and is
being warmly discussed by quite num-
Der of the Democratic presses; and we
regret to see these discussions becoming
acrimonious and leading to ordinations
and recrimlnations.
Some time in October or November,
has, we believe, been named by every
county meeting that has yet been held
and if we mistake not, these meetings
have all expressed a preference for the
Hon. Henry a. Wise, for GOVERNOR
This coincidence has been seized upon by
some of the opponents of that gentleman
in the East, As pretext for poStponing
the Convention, on the grounds that his
friends are endeavoring to forestall pub
lie opinion and force him upon the party
AS its candidate. We know nothing as to
the truth Of this charge in that section of
the State-they probably are best ac
quainted with their own and their neigh
hors' charactcr-but SO far ms tho remark
is intended to be applied to the West. we
will only say that the gentlemen are mis-
taken. We are actuated by worthier and
more Democratic motives. We have no
idea of forcstaling public opinion and for
cling any one upon the party as its candi-
date, or permitting it to be done by 9TH
crs.
We have choice and desire to express
it in the Convention, and there are sea-
sons of the year when it is absolutely i'm.
possible to get a representation from the
western counties, on account OF the bad
condition of our roads. This is the case
from the first of December, till the last of
April. Therefore it is that the West desires
to have the Convention held in October
or November, when her citizens will be
enabled to attend it. We will be COM
PEELED to travel to the Convention by te-
diOus. exposed, and expensive private con
veyances requiring days of time-on our
horses and in our carriagcs-and it is hard
if we are to be denied the poor boon Of
ern brethren can at any time step into a
comfortable car and be whisked to their
destination in few hours, while sitting
beside a cheerful fire.
We hope our eastern friends will give
this matter a second thought, and candid
~ ask themselves if we have not sufficient
good cause for asking that the Conven.
ton be held this fall, before the bad wea-
Their sets in which renders most Of our
roads nearly impossible? We know no..
neither do we care, what its effect may be
upon Mr.. Wise, or any other Of the gen
llcmcn whose names have been suggested
AS candidates. We prefer him to any
other man in the State, but if we find our
self in minority in that choice. we shall
cheerfully accede TO the will Of the maio.
rity and cordially support the nominee
The West has no intention Of forcing a
candidate upon the East. They yield to
them the candidate, but ask to have
voice in his selection, and hope that they
may have no cause to suspect that the eff
fort to postpone the Convention. is prompt
ed by desire to crush out" the expires.
sion of their preference between the gen
tlemen presented, in that body. That
might give rise to hard feelings, which, in
turn, might endangcr the success of the
party, as ours is the Democratic portion
of the State.
We would also suggest to the whole
State, the dispassionate consideration Of
the proposition made by the meeting held
in this place, on Thursday evening last.
This was not a meeting suddenly sprung
up by brace of county politicians"
but its propriety was discussed for several
days by the Democrats here in attendance
upon the Federal Court, and it was par
'iciPated in by gentlemen Of integrity and
intelligence from sixteen counties; and be-
sides, several gentlemen from other coun-
ties who were compelled to leave before
the holding Of the meeting. expressed
themselves in harmony with its action
There has not. to our knowledge, been,
at any other tine or place, anything like
so general an expression as that made at