The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-06-04

WE print elsewhere, the report fur
nished by the Secretaries of the Dis
riot Convention, whichnominated our
for Congress at Clarksburg.
In the report appears a resolution
unanimously adopted by the Conven-
ton, expressive OF the appreciation felt
Tor the eminentservices and deservings
Of our present representative, Hon.
Chester D. Hubbard. We were not
present in the District Convention, and
did not know till we saw it in this re-
port that such resolution had been
adopted; but there is not loyal man
in the District who will not endorse 1t,
as we do most heartily. This people
never had truer or more capable repre-
at Washington than Chester
D. Hubbard, nor one more highly es-
teemed in the official or social circles
In which he there moves. We can say
not only from general report, but from
some personal observation that during
isservice in the House of Representa-
tives, Mr.. Hubbard has won for him
self a high rank at Washington,
by his personal bearing, by the purity
of his private life, by his fidelity to his
friends and principles, and by the
ability with which he addresses him
self to his duties as member of the
House and of It's committees. We
should esteem II n misfortune TO lose
him from the position If he were to be
succeeded by any less capable, less re-
liable, or less deserving man than Gen.
Duval. Probably no other man In the
District could have successfully COM
peted with him for the nomination of
the Republican Convention, and we are
confident that no other man will give
the General "A warmer support than
he will receive at the hands of Mr..
Hubbard.
The nomination OF Gen. Duval is a
very popular one. There is every
reason why. it should be. No
people anywhere more thorough
ly appreciate true Union SOL
der than loyal West Yirginians.
This appreciation is all the stronger
with us, over and above the natural
impulses of patriotism, because our
very existence as IA political comnu-
nifty WIS achieved by the sword which
was unsheathed to defend the nation.
Those who do not have II personal &C.
duuintance with General Duval ind
enough in his reputation as n man and
I'm his record as IL soldier who did his
fighting under fire and not on paper, TO
entitIe him to their support. Those |
who have met him aIe more than sup |
porters; they are warm and enthusiasts
tic friends. They find him unassu-
ming, warm hearted and genfnl, every |
inch IA man, and the benu-ideal OF
citizen soldier, whose GOODNESS and in
trepid courage on the field were never
surpassed, yet whose unaffected mod |
esty makes lin unconscious that he
has ever done anything, or Is anything,
to cause him 10 be singled out by
the respect and admiration of his fell
low men. Like the great prototype
of soldierly excellence whose name
crowns the Republican column Of the
nation, Duval il man of action,
rather than of words. lie can talk
well and to the point when necessary;
but lac has never made talking busi-.
ness, though in a conversational why
few men have II happier vein of hunor
or richer fund of anecdote.
1t was 1--WE regret 10 hear) the sneer OF
his military rival for the nomination
that General Duvnl could not canvass
the District" if nominated. Possibly
not, II IL Canvass" means simply linz
itIess defamation from the stump;
but the people have learned that there
may be better things in a man than mere
meaningless words, and that these
without IL man behind them count but
little. To all who served with General
Duyml III the army, or who ever grasped
him by the hand either there or in
civil life, his name, much less
his presence, has more magnetism than
the finest array OF the "wenk, washy,
everlasting floods" of vcrbinge with
which political campaigns are usually
deIuged. These are times when we
want men with some better stuff in
them than words, which, at best, Tat
lerand has told us, were invented to
conceal, not 10 express, mems thoughts,
but which do not always cover every
thing even that substantial.
With Duval for our standard. bearer,
we shall sweep the District by such a
vote as will give the quietus TO all
Democratic aspirations hereabouts in
that direction. Even Ohio county, the
stronghold of the enemy, is in danger,
and will be stormed next November, if
our people SO into the canvass ms they !
ought and as we feel sure they VIII.
WE have not yet paid for our extreme
Northwestern real estate purchase, and