The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-09
0tne0ttelli9etrrer:
WEST VIRGINIA POLITICAL. MAT
TERS.

| The Grant Movement up In Hancock
County-.-ChRrEeS I'm Regard TO the
Asylum and PenItenttRrY-..Demo
cratic IHcIics I'm the domination of
Candidates I'm Ihe late Campaign
BY yesterdays mails we have the fol-
lowing report of the formation and first
meeting OF Grant club upi Hancock
county:
Pursuant to notice, meeting of the
Union citizens of Poe township, Han
| cock county, West Virginia, was held
| mt the school house i'll New Manches-
ter, November 9th, 1867, at I o'clock
p. NJ.
! The meeting was organized by call
| ing Alexander MORROW, ESQ, 10 the
Chair. and Jasper Whims Secretary.
Samuel +. Rose WAS chosen Treasurer.
The object of the meeting, as set
forth, was 10 organize club favorable
| to the nomination of Ulysses 5. Grant
for the next Presidency.
On motion, Daniel DonehOO, d. s.
Nicholson, JAS. &. Marshall and Jasper
Whins were chosen Il committee for the
purpose OF procuring suitable speakers
TO address the club at their next meet
ing.
r. u. Pugh, Morgan Miller and d. S.
Nicholson were, on motion, chosen II
Committee on Permanent OrganiZa-
ton, to report at the next meeting OF
the club.
Short addresses having been made by
Rev. J. S. Pomeroy, j. w. Hart, ID. s.
Nicholson, and others, the following
resolution was offered which was unan-
imously adopted:
ReSoiUed, That we earnestly recon-
mend that the Union citizens OF the
olher townships of this county, form
Int hu
promote the interests and create a hur-
monious feeling within the ranks OF the
Union party.
Ordered, that copy OF these proceed
ings be published in the Wheeling
DAILY lNTELLIGENCER, Wellsville
U1lion and Wellsburg Herald.
On motion, the meeting adjourned to
meet in the Court House on the first
Tuesday in Decem her, at o'clock p. NJ.
A. MORROW, PTeSid e't.
JASPER WHIMs, Secretary.
Tie Clarksburg Telegraph makes note
of the fact that in the recent canvass in
this State, the Democratic papers
charged that an extravagant, if not cor
rupt, use OF the public money had been
made in connection with the Lunatic
Asylum at Weston, and the Peniten-
tiary at Moundsville. Like the editor
of the Telegraph, we do not profess to
be able to speak advisedly as to now
much or how little of truth is contained
in these charges. But we say, let the
charges be Investigated. AS that paper
observes:
"They are too grave to be thrown aside.
and simply call them "rebel lies" II
they are rebel lies let them be investi-
gated and proved to be such. If, upon
their investigation, they are found to
be true, let the abuses be corrected in
the most summary manner. The Union
party mast be party of economy, and
il must be an honest party, and faith
tul guardian of the trusts reposed in IL,
and if 1t has any servants who are un
faithful, let them be cast out. II the
charges are without foundation the
honor OF those implicated demands an
investigation. Ifthey are true, the in
tereSts of the State as we'll as of the
I Union party, demand an Investigation
in order that whatever abuses exist
may be Thoroughly corrected"
The Wellsburg Herald makes the
following remarks in regard to the tac-
tics of the West Virginia democracy in
the late canvass:
The Democracy wherever in IA hope
less minority voted for Independent
candidates, who can always be found
ready TO be run, and where an Inde-
pendent candidate was taken up by
them, in nearly every case, his antece-
dents had been diametricaHy opposed to
those of the party that took him up.
By this sort of management, the Union
majorities in many of the counties ap-
pear to be reduced, though in but very
few they have been actually overcome,
and in some few cases, as in that OF
Fleming of Marion, and we are not so
sure about Hervey of Brooke, there is
some little doubt to winch party the
candidate has the most decided leaning
when it comes TO the pinch.