The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-05-07
Tne party from Richie.


The Register transfers to its columns
win great gusto and approving com
nents the vituperations against this
,,oper that Gen. II. NJ. Harris, OF Har-
r,,vjIle. airs this week in the RftcAfe
p,,., We accept the TACT as rather
COMPLIMENTARY. Whenever we find
ourselves running counter TO the
wheeling Register we are very sure OF
being on the right track. There is
scarcely a man in the District whom
the editor of the Register would rather
have for nm opponent this fall. We
hope Gen. Harris, whom it pleasantly
styles ''the Hnngmnn," feels grained
by the distinc,ion.
We shall not now go into the merita
of controversy with this person. we
have no taste FOR 1t, and fear our rend-
ers wOuld have no patience under such
an Infection. II would require an
amount OF detail and style of Ian
gunge 10 do justice to the subject which
thoy would not thank us for indulgtng'
We might have TO call in the assistance
O. Mr.. Congressman Donnelly-And
would rather not.
For the present, suffice it to say that
tho accusations which this party"
brings against the IHTELLIoENcER,
boiled down TO perceptible consis-
tenoy. are simply these:
Isl. That We are opposed to the nom
inntion By the Republican Convention
Mt Clnrksburg, of Gen. T. NJ. Harris of
Harrlsville, ms candidate for Congress
In this District, and
I'd. That ws are, therefore and of
necessity, the bitter and ImpIacable
enemy and nssailant OF Union soldiers
in general aud particular.
I'd. Tint wo favor the nomination Of
Hon. O. ID. Hubbard.
As To these accusations we have to
say: The first is not supported by any
facts, but If it will afford the Register
any qualification, wo will assume 1t TO
lie true. But so assuming, the ID nc-
cusation Is n non seQ,uiur SO gross as to
be ridiculous. Nothing but inordinate
vanity or pitiful demagoguery, or
both, could have led this man to assume
that lie is the personiflcation and en-
bodimont of all tho vRlor and virtue
and soldierly merit of nil tho honorabIy
discharged Union soldiers In the Dis
tricl, and that as hla private and per-
soual ends nre promoted or thwarted
the great mass OF the soldiers are nom
ored or neglected. We beg this PERSONS
pardon, but lao is laboring under n
hnllucinRtion. There arc numbers of
soldiers in the State who have an ex-
isteuco wholly separate from aud indie
pendent of his. Gen. Duval, whose
friends have made him II candidate for
Congress- in this District, was Thought
to beHomethinE of n soldier during the
rebellion and Is esteemed ns very much
of IA man now. The ancient female nj
Harrlsvillo will probably recover from
her Authorization about the 18th o
May, and discover that Gen. Duval, il
preference to herself, is the candidate
of the soldiers. Besides, tho accusation
that we are unfrlendIy to soldiers i'
simply untrue; and on that issue wC
are wllllnRt TO bejudged by our readers
The truth is, this man Harris him
self has received more courtesies and
favors in our columns than, probably
any other person in the State, in pri-
waite station. While he was In the army
the INTELLIuRNcER printed, as our files
will show, more long letters from him
than from almost any other CORES
pondent in or ont of tho army and
those who know tho man will under,
stand thNt his reputation as a military
commander did not suffer any in those
letters, When no came to Wheeling
in the Spring OF 1868, an avowed candi.
date for office, and invited himself tt
make Il speech before the Legislature
Gas every one understood, to air hi
views and get II prominence befort
the public with II view to the approach
ing cSmpaign.) we voluntarily, anC
without the solicitation of himself O
any one else, took full report of hi
speech, prepared it for publication al
ter working hours, while he was asleep
and filled an entire page of the mex
issue of our piper with it. We did no
expect either thanks or pay, and ii
neither were we disappointed. VIVA
we did was done simply because W
feGt friendly towards tho man, and ha,
been led to suppose he deserved tn
prominence We sought to give him
Whatever any one else may have t
complain OF, he, at least, has nothing
and in his assaults upon us he adds in
gratitude to caiumny.
The other accusation that tho INTEL
LIoENcER favors the denomination o
Mr.. Hubbard, is entirely uusupporte,
by evidence. Tho INrEL,,arSorn n,
expressed no preferences for any can6i
date for Congress in this distric. or !,
any other. What tho private mott,
ences of its editors may be, we pTesnm
General Harris does not know, ,hou,
he evidently suspects they 10 not fav,
himself. The effort OF that party to In,
Mr.. Hubbard over our shoulders h
therefore no excuse and we must 8,
of It that II is the meanest and me-
malicious piece of spite we have Al
recollection Of
The party from Richie ought to |
and doubtless is, much gratified Il
in the commenda blework of trying
ride into a nomination on the strenl
of the supposed admiration forhim {