The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-27

cause its best ideas are not even compre
handed by him. Not as the friend of tn
: neople, because, as is now being under
stood, they have suffered under his ad
mipistration. Not as an efficient officer
because the military, no less than th'
} civil history of the State, is replete will
the evidences of his incapacity and un
faithfulpess. Not as a good man or
great one, because ne good man coult
have made his record, and no great ont
would have left it without single ac
worthy of grateful remembrance. ID
has succeeded simply because be was In
vested with power sufficient to com
mand success, and because be was will
ing to compel political thrift by every
means that GoD or man may have put
Into his hands.
Twelve months ago this would have
been unpopular talk with the Repub
lican party. 1t is net so to-day. One
of the last of his official acts was to de.
feat the will of the people in Judicial
election in this District, and this act
coming home to the hearts of the best
Republicans in the State. has produced
that impression which long course Of
similar wrongs had failed to produce.
Look at the history of the Judicial con-
test between Mr.. PAUL. and Judge
CALDWELL. The Governor, making in
vestigstions prior to issuing certifi-
cate, rules out the returns of the Super
visors of Ohio county on the ground
that those officers were not under
oath, and yet was not himself sworn
when he made the ruling. He
decides that vote for j. W. PAUL. is
not vote for JAMES PAUL., although
the parties casting the votes swore that
they intended to vote for JAMES PAUL.;
he declares that the initial a." cannot
be presumed to stand for JAMES, upon
two or three tickets, and yet insists
that the initial "E" must stand for
ELBERT, upon hundreds of tickets.
When the certificate is issued and the
contest begins, he appoints his umpire
from the District where the
contest lies, takes man
who as practising lawyer il
interested in the result, and shameful
to know, a man who had previously
given us as an attorney, an opinion upor
vital point of the case, favorable tc
Judge, CALDWELL. There was hardly
an honest citizen of Wheeling whose
cheek did not tipgle with Indignation
when these facts were transpiring
There were few who did not ponder
over the currently received reports of a
direct connection between this judi
cial contest and the Senatorial election.
But it is over now. Governor BORE
MAN deprived Mr.. PAUL. of his cleo
ton. Thousands of both parties be-
lieve that Senator FOREMAN earned his
title by this act, and popular instinct is
sometimes terribly accurate in its de-
examinations. Be this as it may, the
success of this man assures the Repub-
lican party how fearfully political er-
rors may be visited upon their authors.
The policy of disfranchisement has left
in retirement the brightest, the Oldest
and the best Republicans in the State,
and it has lifted to power and influence
many of those whose example and in
fluence nurtured rebellion in its infan
cy. Men who were advocating Repub'
lican ideas in this State, when this Sen.
ator was yet fast bound to the ideas and
institutions from which came secession,
have been ostracised, sneered at, insult
ed because they crossed the path of his
ambition even by a thought. This is
not the first time that the prosecutors
of cause have become it's
first apostles, but in this case we
have heard of no conversion on the way
to Damascus. BoREMAN's six years in
the Senate will simply be part of the
penalty paid by the Republican party
of West Virginia for the great folly of
registration and arbitrary disfranchise-
ment.