Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-07-28
0rIe:' 7amia6fe friends of The WashipetoI

0Ge amia6le friends Of the Washington
\ Pa.) Reporter are disposed, we see, to be
trife impatient with what we.said con-
corning their course in first. protesting
against the nomination of Hon. Andy
\ Stewart, for Congress, and afterwards COM
ing into his support upon party grounds:
They think that we ought to he content to
hoe our own row down here and let
them manage their own affairs in their
own way, as brother Douglas would say.
We are. quite willing to concede this priv
elege to our Reporter: friends, and will also
admit that separate and apart from them
terest which quite number of our rea-
dcrs, who either do now, or in past times
have lived in the goth Pennsylvania Con-
gressional District, feel in its political and
social we'll being, we are not specially con-
ccrned in its local affairs. We may. say
however, that quite a number of readers
in the counties of Washington and Greene
look quite as regularly to the Inte!A9encer
for news about aud comments upon their
local matters, as they do to the papers prin-
ten in those counties, and we generally
make it 81 point to give them all that we
can spare of our space. On this ground
then alone, We would be fully justified in
entering somewhat infinitely into the con-
sideration of so public and SO important
topic as the election of Congressman
from the goth district. 1t is our fortunate
or unfortunate position, just which you
please, to occupy q local relation to three
States of this Union, in each of which we
have respectable number of subscribers;
and what happens in the goth District of
Pennsylvania. OF the 18th District of Ohio,
or the 10th District of Virginia, is almost
a matter of like concern to our readers.
But even if this were not the case, and
still further, if it were the case of Mont
gomery and the Washington Examiner, as
it was the last time, instead of the case of
Andy Stewart and the Washington Re-
porter, rs it is this time, still would such 81
repreheusible practiceas protesting against
q public mans fitness for office in one
breath and advocating his election to that
Office in the next, be ct theme for con-
demnatory establishment on the part of
any public journal. And this was our
feeling precisely. We frankly confess that
we were astonshed to see so uniformly a
respectable and high-toned journal us the
Reporter taking so paradoxical, and, VIC
may add, so demoralizing n position as it
took in reference TO Hon. Andy Stewart.
If Mr.. Stewards nomination was one "not
fit to be nade"-and we do not put this
quotation in the mouth of the Reporter, as
it seems to think we dot was not i'm
proved simply by the fact that it lad been
made, and if it was not so improved, there
was no propriety, nor yet any rational JUS
LITIGATION, in the Reporters drawing ficti-
tious distinction between Andy Stewart
the man aud Andy Stewart the nominee.
And we submit that in so grave matter
as the election of member to the Con-
gress of the whole country, who would
to the extent of his constituent influence,
illustrate and affect he tone of the aggre-
gate membership of that body, we had not
only the right, but i: was legitimatcly
within the scope of our duties to express
a candid opinion upon the double entendr4
ethics by which his nomination was repn-
dated and his election advocated. And
this would be none the less true were the
district in which such an anomalous can
didate lived, a Thousand instead of a
dozen miles away, and even though q
considerable number of our readers were
not his constituents.