The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-10
JOSEPH BELL.
]. d. WHITMAN.

The Elections In PennsyIyAnIR aud
ohio, and the Election I'm West HIr-
KtnIh.
The uses Of adversely are said TO be
sweet. We presume they are just as
sweet, politically, las any otherway. And
II so, the returns from Pennsylvania
and Ohio ought to exercise salutary
influence on our Union people In West
Virginia. Our neighbors on either side
OF us have carriedthsir States for years.
Election after election has occurred, and
they have still found themselves in the
majority. Under such circumstances,
work and organization seemed an I'M
necessary trouble, "a sort of useless ex-
pendilurs OF exertiou. The besetting
and fatal feeling of those in power is
apathy, resulting from sense of Sc
curity. Work is ever the portion OF
those who have victory to win, not OF
those who rely upon their accumnla-
tons, and 1t seems as II the political
"outs" were the only people who can
be successfully appealed to for earnest
live, untIring effort and thorough or
Eanization.
1t was not thought possible over In
Ohio that majority of 1900 could
be reduced to par. The idea was
laughed at. And yet see the returns
Behold how a gain here, another there,
and third somewhere else, gradually
and surely told upon the majority OF
last year. And as 1t WAS in Ohio so 1t may
be West Va. on the oath of this month.
We had nearly 1900 majority last year
out OF a total of some 10000 votes. 1t
will not take large changes throughout
the State to reduce this majority. And
II we have not before realized the fact
that such n contingency is possible, we
may as we'll wake up to 1t now. The
Democracy, elated by tLeir recent
gains elsewhere, will no longer deem
the task of carrying West Virgins, ;. for
the first time in its history, n hopeless
undert akiug. To this end they will
labor from now until election day.
Firm and decided as has been their re-
pulse hitherto, they will orally once
again" with new and high hopes.
we do not presume in this connection
10 enumerate the consequences that
may follow an adverse result in West
Virginia. We may, however, emPha-
size upon one, and that is the scheme
that sooner or later would be apt to
follow in favor of reinteHrating the Old
Dominion. There Is a prediction that
way among not Il few Of their number
who either now vote the Democratic
ticket or expect TO do so whenever their
Acknowledgement Is removed. And al
cloud, no larger than IA hand yet under
fayorinR circumstances 1t will grow
and ut last assume formidable proper
lions. The tendency of all parties Is to
develops and adopt the nucleus senti-
ment around which clusters their out
side strength. And while We admit
that the rsintegrRtion sentiment among
our opponents may not be the active
and aggressive element to-day, yet it is
"A germ that lies snveloped underneath.
We know the record OF the Democracy
against the new State, but We do not
know what It's policy might speedily
become once power was In their hands.
We say, then, to the friends of the
Union party and OF West Virginia.
that 1t becomes them to run no risks on
this important question. IL they mean
10 defeat the Democracy and make sure
ofwhat has been achieved, it is their
duty and their interest to turn out in
full force on election day. With the
warning OF the recent elections before
us we may make sure that decided
encounter Immediately confronts us.
The time draws near at hand. Only
two weeks from to-day and we shall
meet the enemy full of vigor, force and
determination. Mt the ballot-box. They
are nerving themselves for IA grand at
tack upon our whole line.