Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-10-22

auOlueE eleCtOft iOr We are dutuoTlIeu 70
say that the use of Judge SIS. nameis not
only without authority from him, but
against his positive direction.
1t will be remembered that only few
days ago gentleman from KanaWha, hap
pening to be in the city, addressed a note
to the LHtelligeneer which expressed, sub
stantialIy, what is above set forth in rela-
ton to Mr.: Summers. The question is,
have the Mcclellan managers here received
Judge Summer letter and if they have7
why do they give the public no notice ofit2
One would suppose, if they mean TO deal
squarely and fairly both as regards him,
personally, and the public. politically, that
they would feel bound to make some men.
ton of his having declined the honor which
they conferred upon him by putting his
name, without any authority whatever, at
the head of their ticket. One great
trouble, however, with the Judge, ever
since this war hogan, has been that he
does things in such gingerly sort of
way that scarcely any body or any
side can consistently claim him as their
own. His proper plan would have been
at once to have come out in card in
the Kauawha Republican and repudiatedthe
unauthorized use of his name in such an
unmistakable way as would have made it
rash thing hereafter for any doubtful or
gauization to thus trihe with his reputation.
is really any mans misfortune to have
such a mixed status in the public mind.
Col. Whaley, present member, and Hon.
John N. Phelps, the presiding officer in
the State senate at its first session, are
candidates for election to Congress in the
srd district. Their respective interests
seems to be ohampioned by correspondents
in the Kanawha Republican and Point
Pleasant Register. "a Soldier" writes
thus. as against Mr.. Phelps and in the in
terest of Mr.. Whaley, to the Republican:
Mr.. Phelps was once a minister of the
Gospel, and counted more than ordinary
as a preacher; but, o, Ephraim, how art
thou fallen! We do not speak this in ref
erence to the fact that he left the pulpit
and took the sword; and yet in these
times when satan Is so active, we need all
the good captains we can get to lead on
the Lords hosts, to eight the good fight
of faith" and he does wrong who deserts
his post; nor do we refer to his leaving
the moral field and entering the political;
and yet while we can find politicians
better skilled in craftsmanship than he,
the state of morals in this army, aud
out of it, and the right shaping of pub.
lie opinion require all the good labor |
ers in the moral field we can get, and that
mi MI NJ fhFnnnh
leaves the field to which God has called
him, and enters the political arena, takes
a long stride downward. But herein has
he fallen. he comes before the people as
Rev. Mr.. Phelps; and we learn that he fire..
quents the grog shops; that he uses liquor,
as we'll as fine speeches, for electioneering
purposes; and that he has already an sp
petite for strong drink not easily satisfied.
Some who were once his friends, and now
mourn his fall, have fears that should his
political life be much prolonged, he will
be plunged into the hopeless degradation
of a confirmed druukard. Men who TALL
from a great height are not easily arrested
in their downward progress. Dare we 30
peril our cause as to trust in the hands OF
a man whose character is SO unlikely to
stand the test, in the ordeal at Washing
toni ~ r,.f-.fr EE
90 muCn as against air. fueIpS'
Per contra, correspondent of the Point
Pleasant Register, comes at Mr.. Whaley
thus:
OF Mr.. Whaley's Unionism we have moth
ing to say. believe it is generally admitted
by both friends and foes that he has made
a pretty clear record for himself during the
session to which he was last elected, bul
the inevitable and resistless force of cie-
cumstances alone, are responsible for the
consistency and rectitude of his conduct.
For we do not believe, neither could
we believe, that MIR. Whaley, untnflu-
euced by considerations other than
the convictions and proclivities of his own
mind, would ever have given the Admins
tration the support he has. he saw that
the public sentiment of the patton was
making rapid strides in that direction, and
that his only salvation grew out of an ear
nest and straight forward support of it's
policy. But the people have become Salts
fed that the only safe way is to put men
into Office who, from principle and through;
out, have stood upon and defended all the
great measures adopted by the Admins
tratiOn in its efforts to crush out this re.
bellion. This Mr.. Whaley has not done.
Our friend Ellery R. Hall, one of the
Union electors at large for West Virginia,
publishes the following card in yesterdays
FairmOnt National. We consider it good
thing in its way: at
FAIRMoSr, Oct. 20, 1864.
To he Voters of Marion County:
Without any solicitation on my part,
and against my protest, the County Con-
yention saw fit to place me in nomination
as candidate for the office of Prosecuting
Attorney at the coming election. My du.
ties as one of the Lincoln and johnson
Electors, will prevent me from addressing
you except in this way.
am an unconditional Union man, in
favor of the election of Lincoln and john
son, and opposed to any peace except that
which is tO56e secured by the overthrow