The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-11-06
WHY the Defeat.

There is no better time to learn WIS
com from experience than when It's
fruits ale freshest and bitterest upon
the taste. The result Of the late cleo
ten is now the theme of every tongue
It's better that we now trace 1t to It's
cause than to wait until time shall have
effaced present Impressions, thus losing
the truths that have just been forced
upon US.
The Democratic party began to lose
its grasp Hpon success just before It's
representatives met in Convention last
july, at New York. The place OF hold
ingthat Convention was an unfortunate
selection. Up to the time that New
York was chosen for its sittings, the
popular tide was in our favor, but from
the issuing of the call by the National
Executive Committee all who were
posted felt that we were beginning to
lose ground. "a Convention at New
York means that Wall street is going to
run the machine was the cry all over
the country. The changes that we're
making from Radicalism to Democracy,
on the gTeenback question, ceased at
once. 1t was plain that the first step
in the campaign was dangerous, if not
fatal to the Democracy in the West.
The Convention assembling, Mr.. BEL
MONT, no regular delegate, went in
as q substitute for some New York
member However innocent the trans
action, it had an ugly look. Whether
justly or not, that gentleman was gen.
orally accepted as the representative of
the bond. holding interest, and his per-
sOnaI effort to secure a seat in the Con-
yentlon increased the distrust of the
West. Then VOORHEES, and FITCH led
away the seven Indiana delegates,
whose detection insured the defeat OF
FENDLETON, and SEYMOUR was nomi'
mated, not by New York, but by Ohio.
Ills termination was not the result oi
Iammany interference or manGuvre
Io' he was not Tammany's man. New
i'rk merely acquiesced because she
Gould not help herself. Although be
was not the best man in the East tC
place upon greenback platform, he
Vas no favorite of Wall street, and
might easily have been carried through
mad not the Convention, in al
"our Of unfortunate haste, placed
upon the ticket with Mr.. SEYMOUR the
author Of the BRoADHEAD letter
''0n that hour the financial issues
upon which we could have succeeded
"'fe destined to hold but a subordinat,
'Os'isn in the contest. FRANK BLAII
""' made by the Radicals the leading
1'n IN the fight; his utterances wer'
reverted and tortured into threats o
VAT the Democratic party was held re
'Pon'IOle for purposes which wer,
I'''ner Its own, nor those of its candi
YATES and thousands who were ready
10 Z" with us upon principles that we
;,'uA''y held, separated from us on false
',ueS raised by our opponents, and act.
uuuer the delusion that the election
VI uEANr was the only guarante,
against another rebellion.
And just here it may be we'll to "a,
mat the hue and cry raised nv tho Pad
,CA' mat rebel generals had led tn,
New York Convention, was all tro.,
ana humOug. The little spsacbo. -
tRESroN, HAMPTON and others favor; -,
Tue nomination of BLAIR were N. =
nance OF Radical speakers and o,,.n
III support of this charge, but we ar
satisfied that every one of these mn,
would have remained from the bepi,
n'ng TO the end mute and motionless
.le convention, had they supposed tn,
'p' opening of their lips would eau
@D! 10 doubt that they had fully a
'ep'ed the results of their strupp
against the Government. They cam
e heid accountable for any improp