The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-15
The Fall EIeetIons---The Duty OF Ihe
Union Party.

The Fall ElectionS---Ene DnLy OF ihe
Union Party.
The wellsburg Herald is not apt to
become ..enthused" upon political top
les, and is generally content to leave
the business OF appealing to the people
10 its more partisan contemporaries. 1t
has a calm, matter of fact way of its
own of stating the issues from time to
time, and of phlegmatically pointing
out the necessity of action and organi-
zation upon the part of those with
whom it co-operates. We have no fault
to lind with our neighbor because he
prefers logic to rhetoric,o or fact to fancy.
On the contrary we rather admire his
Ingenious disposition 10 avoid the ex-
aggeraIive style and to say and do
about what is fair between his friends
and bis opponents. Hence we attach
all the more importance to his edit
nriaI OF yesterday on the subject OF the
fall elections and the duty OF the Union
party in regard thereto. He takes
very proper view OF the late township
elections, and sees in the extravaganza
boasts and gratulations of the cop
perhead press throughout the State
a cunning attempt to create capital for
the fall campaign. It has been their
policy TO magnify to the utmost the
Importance of their scattering gains
here and there, and to induce the belief
at home and abroad that a reaction has
set in, which if properly encouraged
and cultivated by Copperhead energy,
win result In a grand victory next oc-
tober. The Union papers have hardly
eoudescended to any serious contradic-
ton of these ridiculous attempts upon
the public credulity, generally deeming
them soitransparently absurd as to need
no refutation other than mere jocular
allusion. This go-easy style the Her
aid thinks needs amendment, inasmuch
as it tends 10 beget not only indiffer-
ence among Union men, but inspires
sort of hope among their opponents
that maybe there is an opportunity pre-
scented to effect a surprise and carry the
State by default. Our township cleo
lions in many, instances were scarcely
contested, as is shown by the meagre-
ness of the Union vote. All sorts
by the conservatives" with n view to
quieting opposition and conveying the
impression of no-party contest. But
ms soon as the election was over the re-
suit was claimed to be a grand demo-
cratic, conservative, resctionary tri-
umph over Radicalism, and sweeping
1ebuke of the people OF the wicked
party In power. This will be their pro-
gramme over again in the coming con-
ventions of the summer and fall. The
effort will be to detach men who have
heretofore acted with the Union party,
by parading before them not only the
results o the spring elections and the
prospect of certain gains in the future,
but by impressing upon them personal
considerations, such as wrongs or
sligbts received at the hands of the
Union party and promises OF prefer
ment in. the ranks of the "conserva-
tives." Upon this special point the
Herald speaks as follows: - 49,
Our opponents are cunning and I'M
scrupnIous. For this we do not fault
them here, because It is expected OF
them, but for a loyal, Union man, who
war, to desert them now at the eleventh
hour, and before the war Is hardly I'm
ished, so as to throw the political pow
er Of the State into the hands of the
rebel sympathizers, Is hardly to be ex-
pected. They will harp about taxes
and make a wonderful fuss about econ
oLny, but what evidence Is there that
our taxes would have been any lighter,
had West Virginia followed their
teachings in 1861, and been whipped
back into the Union; or what evidence
have we, that their management now,
would have been any more economical2
Yet high taxation, the extravaganza OF
the Radicals. is the string upon which
they pull, In order to draw over weak
kneed Union people. No man Of
sense or reflection, Is deluded by it, but
that is not the class of men upon whom
they prefer TO operate. They work
upon those who can be deceived by
cIap.trap, some of which class, we pre-
sumo, we have among us, II they have
not gone over to the enemy. N
The October election for delegates To
the Legislature will, in view or many
considerations, be closely contested by
the rebel sympathizers. They wish to
TevolutioniZe our State government TO
the very foundation stone. The regis
tratlon law Is To be repealed and all dis
qualifications removed from red-hand-
ed rebels and bushwhackers who are
permitted among us; the Free School
Law Is 70 be repealed as a sop to those
whose souls are sore from taxation,
and in order that democracy NAV thrive
in its cOnRODial soil: thew will IN thau