The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-02
ORGANIZATION
OF THE DEMOCRACY.
importance Of a Good Cam
didate for Governor.
A NAME SUGGESTED.

IL
A NAME SUGGESTED.
Judge Edmiston, Of Weston.
His Superior Qualifications.
How to Save the State.
reorganization and Effort Will
Do the Work."
Editor of the Register:
The Democratic State Executive Com
mittee having called a State Conven-
tion to be held in Wheeling on the 9Th
of January next, 1--WE take it for the
purpose of nominating State ticket
for Governor, &c., we deem it but
proper, in order that wise choice of
candidates be nominated, that the
names of suitable persons to fill said
offices should be presented to the people
of the State, prior to holding the Con-
vention, for their primary considera-
tion. 10 insure success, we must nom-
mate good men for office. Our State
has been literally destroyed and
impoverished, and the spirits and
energies of her people broken down by
the unprincipled men, who are to-day
ruling her government and controlling
her destiny. So great an evil demands
redress, and to remedy it, we must
choose a man for Governor of enlarged,
liberal and statesmanlike views-oDe
who will build up the State, instead Of
retarding her growth and prosperity,
and breaking down the spirits and
energies of her people.
The masses are unable to pay the
taxes imposed upon them by the party
in power for party purposes, and will
vote to free themselves of the Republi-
can rule in this State if the proper man
| is nominated for Governor. Aud in our
Judgment that man to be acceptable to
the voting masses and lead us to victory,
should be an original Democrat.
The fact must not be overlooked, that
there are to-day but two parties in this
State, (and we may say throughout the
United States) Democratic and Repub-
lican.
The large number of Democrats who
were enticed away with the excitement
of war, uader the belief that the Repub-
licaus were the true constitutional
Union party of the country, are begin
ming to see their error, and are daily
flocking back to their first love, and
will, by next October, (if the proper
man is nominated), be found voting for
a DEMOCRATIC GovERNoR-A WHITE
MANS COUNTRY AND Low TAXES!
The glorious Democratic victories
lately achieved in New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Connecticut, California
and Maryland, were upon direct issues
between Democracy and Republicanism
as laid down in their platform of prih-
ciples. Aud We can only hope to OBJ
tain success in this State by pursuing n
similar course, and arousing the old
hearted Democracy to arms, by in
scribing on our banner those ancient
and talismanic watchwords: LIBERTY
DEMOCRACY AND VlCToRYl!! ~
With the Office. holding Republicans
we can gain nothing by overture. They
are banded together as party, without
principle, having secured power under
false pretences, and now seek to retain
it by restraining the riH and consciences
of the people, by acts which they call
laws, opposed to every principle of free
government. They hate the Democracy
Us in days of yore, when they met them
under other names and on the same bat
tie ground, and were ingloriously rout-
ed, horse foot and dragons, and driven
to the wall, leaving them spoils 10 the
rictorS!
Therefore, in order that the same
party under another name may be again
routed and the people released from
their intolerable thraldom, we present
to the consideration of the voters of
West Virginia, Judge Matthew Ed
miston, of Lewis county, as being en-
inently qualified for Governor of this
State. Judge Edmiston is just now in
the prime and vigor of life and man
|
headed practical statesman, a lawyer
without a superior in the State, and
withal, an old fashioned Democrat of
the Andrew Jackson school. Born and
reared in the State, and having had
much to do with the people as q repre-
sentative and Judge under the old
regime, when qualification was test
for Office, and now feeling deep CON
cernment in his country's welfare, We
hesitate not in saying, that he would,
as Governor, exert his best efforts to
Iameliorate the condition of his suffer-
ing countrymen and promote the inter
ests and advance the prosperity of the
State. Elect Judge Edmiston Cover
nor of West Virginia and we may soon
expect to see our young State, now
palsied and exhausted icith Republican
leprosy, spring into new life, and immi-
grafton and capital pouring into her
bosom under the guidance and influence
of liberal laws and wise craftsmanship.
Five years of Republican rule has
brought our State to the verge of ruin.
The task of rescuing it from premature
decay is now devolved upon the Demo-
cratic party. We can save it il ice ,CiH.
Organization and effort tciu do the rork.
Letit be done, and thereby teach the
people that We are not only party of
life, and power, and energy, but that We
have the capacity of bringing dead
States to life, and peopling them with
an enterprising, Industrious race of
,ehite men, who will delight to aid in
building up our State, and securing to
all her citizens the blessings of good
government and equal laws, justly and
impartially administered.
We hope it may be the pleasure of
the good people of the State to give the
fitness and qualifications of Judge Ed
miston q favorable consideration, that
the Convention which is called to meet
on the 9th of January proximo may in
due form approve the wisdom of their
choice, and that the unterriied suf-
fragans at the proper time will reaffirm
his nomination by electing him the next
and first Democratic Governor cf West
Virginia. rsuru-s JEFFERSON.
Fire at n Pencil Manufactory.
New YORK, November 30.-Last even
ing o fire originated in the drying and
ljapanning house connected with the ex-