Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-29
As Ne have orce before staled. there

Delegates 70 be voted for in this county on
the 4th Thursday in Nay next That time
Is near at hanl-aImOst too near at hand
for an election which requires some con-
siderable preliminary attention 10 order to
secure the best possible result. As YET,
little OF no such attention has beea given,
and this, too, despite Of the fact that We
have never had SO important an election
before Us, unless We may except the cleo
tiOu for members Of the Convention. No
one has any idea who will be the proper
candidates for the places named. And
this Is time when ve ought to be certain
that We we're choosing good men, and
when II we have any go6d material on the
Union side We should bring it out The
most that concerns Is, OF cOurse, Con-
gresSiOual selection, and that is dih6eult
one, and principally because the district is
really scarce Of the right sort of men for
Zines like these. We have many who
viii quote from fair TO average but
none who are all Of what most of us would
desire. But from such as wr have we
shall be obliged 70 choose, aud of that fact
we may as we'll become speedily aware,
because it is time if We as Union men are
going TO do any thing, We should set
about st. Various suggestions about
time, place and the candidatis haze
been made in our paper by CORES
Poudeats, and from those suggestions and
from others, We ought to be drawing to
some determination as to what We are GO
ing to do.
Where and when will the Convention be
held2 is the question.
That point settled, the next thing in
order viii be to Try and come to same uu-
Outstanding about the proper man.
Ia the meantime, while We are coming
together as TO what is best TO be done
about Congressman, let US also have
thonSht shout Senator'S public officer
always important to the city OF Wheeling
aud Ohio county. Mr.. Gjst, of Brooke
eouaty, has been uominsted in our coll
umns and in those of the WPllsburE Her
SlE6, and as set is the only man in the 6eld
on either side of the Union question:
Who viii be his rival nomiree either in
Brooke or from here, on the secession side,
we do not know, iuAsmuch as no move has
yet been made by the people of disuu,ou
procliVities. They arc carefully scanning
their grounds in all the counties hezeabout,
We Opine, aud will move when tie tims
comes, according as the Union men shall
hare moved before them. Both Pickett
and Jones, VIC hear, are talked of in
Brooke. Jones VAS defeated in 81 By
Mr.. Caldwell, and Pickett was defeated
last month by Campbell Tar. We hardly
think they will be brought forward again
bat they may. Joe Naylor would like TO
TOa, Of course 50 would Lang6tt, We
doubt not, and as for Nichols or Dr.
ProvOeatiOu.
Mr.. Gist, the gentleman already nomin-
Atsd, is q clever, thrifty and enterprising
farmer, and is very intelligent gentle
man, bnt as to being the best man for the
Senate just now, we are not prepared to
say. He has had no public experience,
aud Is, therefore, not much known to the
Senatorial district in the light of candi-
date. Thts is a disadvantage at time
like this, and like the times we may have
yeE, in our Legislature, before all our
troubles, State and National, are over
We have man 10 this county who could
sweep the platter clear aud clean, in our
opinion, and who, too, has good share of
public experience, and who, moreover, as
we all know, is thorough going Union
nna- We mean @. D. Hubbard. The
only question is, would it be right and e1-
pedient to take Senator this time from
Ohio county, instead of going 10 one of
the other counties. In our opinion, this is
question 70 be settled in the largest spi-
rit of liberaIi,y. And we believe that the
Union nen Of The three counties Mil set.
tie :, in this way. II it were not so SEEM
ingly necessary to keep back George Por-
Ter, in Hancock, as the strongest man who
can be brought 10. bear there on the secs
SiOnists, We should write him down as one
of the 6rst men we ought to think about,
in this connection. but his friends say tha;
they mnst reserve him for local Purposes.
We only throw ont these suggestions
and these names, to-day, as commence
ment, and as incentives to our Union
friends to take some thought about the
SpprOachiuE elections. As We have re-
peatedly said of late, We are ready to &C.
qOieses in any rood Union policy, or sup
port any good man, who may be agreed
upon.
1t is due to Mr. Caldwell. that We should
state that, under no circumstances, would
he be candidate for reelection to the
Senate. We should have stated the 6st
ia its proper connection above.