Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-05-28

miliar."
Why it is that the responsible editors
and proprietors of the Union do not face
the duties of the position which they have
voluntarily assumed before thepublic-but
instead choose ratherto transfer their politi-
cal comments to the local column of their
paper, we do not know. At all events
since the proprietors do not consider that
the results involved in the late election in
this and other counties of the State,
were of sufficient importance to warrant
their own attention, we will take it for
granted that they do not expect great
deal of ours, and will act accordingly.
But there is one remark or two let drop
by their Local Editor which seem to call
for our attention. He holds out the idea
that our aim was particularly directed
against the Democratic candidate for
Sheriff, and that we were especially anx-
ious to compass his defeat.
To effect this, Frank q. Peirpoint of
Marion, was imported TO our city, on Tues
day evening before the election, (the cleo
ton being on Thursday to tell our people
how they snouIu EoIe.
Now we need only tell our readers in
reply to this statement, that there is not
line-nor word-nor letter of truth in
it. We made no effort against any one
Democratic candidate, either by name or
in intention: not one. We urged our call
upon the Opposition on the ground of
principle, and that only, and there was not
in Jour feeling an iota of personality. On
the contrary we had, and always had, for
the candidate who is especially dcsig-
mated, a more intimate degree of per-
sonal friendship than we had for any can
didate who was running on either side
As to the importing of Mr.. F. q. Peir-
point, either by our agency or that of any
one else known to us here, the statement
is utterly false. We were not even at
home when he spoke at the Court House,
and SO far as we know, Mr.. Peirpoint's
speaking in Wheeling was matter alto
gether of his own motion-a part of the
programme he had laid down at the COM
meneement of the canvass in the counties
composing this Judicial District.
And now one word as to the election
and its result: Any one can see the
grounds upon which the preferences ex-
pressed at the polls by the electors of the
counties as yet heard FROM were based
For instance, in this county, Judge Thomp-
son has some eleven hundred majority. -
No one would think of claiming this rs a
political majority in the face of the fact
that the county is Opposition. But to
show that such can not be the case we
have only to point to the vote given to
Mr.. Elijah Day, as Commissioners of the
Revenue, one of the signers to the call for
the Republican Convention in this city on
the I'd inst. His vote stands 1898, and is
within go of the vote polled by Major
Loring for Sheriff The truth is just this:
the people voted OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ing to their personal preferences. We
know plenty of Wings and Republicans
who voted for the Democratic candidates
some because they were pledged to do so
long ago, before the tax question came up,
and some because they felt bound to do
SO by personal ties or on personal grounds
of same sort. The vote in Hancock and
Brooke, recorded elsewhere in our paper
to-day, proves this. In these counties
Judge Thompson has majority, and yet
the chief offices are gained by the Oppo-
sition. So in Marshall county. Aud the
same cause which operated to produce
these conflicting results in those counties
operated still more strongly here in this
county. The people did not know Judge
Thompson's competitor-but they did
know the Judge, and, as man, they es=
teemed him highly-both Opposition and
Democrats-and in addition, were averse
to having Judge located away from the
populous end of the circuit. Major Lor-
ings vote was a complimentary one also
NOT a political one. He is deservedly
very popular man, and every body, what
ever his politics, is his friend-and hun
dreds were so much his friends that they
oVercame all political repugnances, and
went in for him actively for days and
nights preceding the election. We felt
entirely satisfied from the first that Major
Loring would be elected Sheriff, and SO
told our political friends all along. But
we, nevertheless, did not hesitate to do
our duty in opposing the success of
parry suAOse majority in the Legislature
were responsible for the tax bill, and who
were likewise responsible for all the gross