The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-23
jefferson County Poliiics

The grand Sanhedrim of radicaliSm
met in ShepherdstOwn on Saturday, the
10th. The object of the meeting was
the nomination of candidates to FIJI the
offices of Senator, members of the House
of Delegates, and County Superintend-
ent of Public Schools, made vacant by
the expiration of the terms of some of
the present incumbents. The partiality
of the party for rascality had in advance
| fixed upon the denomination of Chap
line for Senator, and it only remained
for the convention to make a public
declaration of what had already been
determined upon. With all his faults,
he has been swallowed by his party, and
the dose has no more effect upon their
gutta percha St0machs than would the
administering of dose of Seidletz pow
ders. They are Indifferent to his false
checking, his whisky smuggling, and all
other of his numerous delinquencies.
Well may we conclude like leaders,
like people"
In the nominations for the House of
Delegates, some respect to honesty of
character, if not to possession Of brain,
has been paid. David Billmyer has
been put on the track for a second heat.
What he did in the last Legislature to
cntitle him to a return is more than we
have been advised Of AS n colleague
to Mr.. b. the convention has recOg-
nized the meritorions claims of Mr.. Ed
mund Chambers, and given him place
on the ticket. We have never heard
aught alleged against the private char
acter of Mr.. C.. Like our friend John
Spangler, he is only distinguished for
the mulcality of his disposition.
Now we cannot but express our char
gin at the want of respect shown the
ticket put forward by us nearly month
ago. George Anderson deserved conSid-
Grafton for his unfaltering loyalty. And
our old, standing candidate, of GRte-bel-
lam days, why was he overlooked and
his claims thrust aside When we re-
member the fate of Captain Smith, we
are reminded of our graSshopper song,
the first verse of which we append -
| A grasshopper sat on a sweet potato vine,
On n sweet potato vine
On sweet potato vine,
When an old turkey gobbler he walked mp he
hind
lie walk ed up behind
He walk ed up behind
| And he ydnked him of the slceet potato vine
OFF the sweet potato vine
OFF the sweet potato vine,
And We yanked him of the sweet potato vine.
There are said to be 357 verses in this
song, and all alike except the first and
last, and they are like the rest. the
song originated in this way: A grass
hopper was reposing on sweet potato
vine, one beautiful morning in August,
meditating upon the beauties of the
scene about him, in sublime uncon-
scionsness of the melancholy fate await
ing him, when he was suddenly "yanked
off, by an enormous turkey gObblcr,
and his days were ended.
| Now, if our readers will just ina agine
Captain Smith to be the grasshopper,
quietly summing himself on the sweet
potato vine OF Radicalism, ready to
jump at anything that is offered; whilst
Just in his rear, Mr.. Chambers is ap-
preaching in the form of an immense
turkey gObbler, about to "yank him
off, they will have picture similar to
the one presented in our grasshopper
song. What the Captain designs doing
in the matter, we have not heard, but
we advise him to fall hack upon his old
Independent dodge.
For the position of Superintendent. OF
Public Schools, the convention has pre-
sented the name of Capt. Jas. w. Grubb.
Whe he is, or where he came from, the
devil and the Racicals only know, for
he certainly is new arrival. We have
heard of Grubb-wor.n, but never before
of Capt. Grubb. Stubbs and Grubbs-
lje-whillikens-arn't these Radicals be-
coming poetical. Oh for laureate to
wreathe in appropriate Verse the melo-
dious names of Grubbs and Stubs, that
they may 60 down to the ages as i'm.
mortal as the heroes of Iliad.-Spirit o.
Jefferson. &