The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-25

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lature may not be Democratic. Fallacy
in argument follows very naturally
upon falSehood in statement. If mi.
nority ought to decline representation
because it is minority, then our Re-
publican friends ought to withdraw
their candidates for Supervisors in the
county, because the Board of Supervis-
ors is bound to be Democratic. Again,
ii Republicans in the Legislature can
not be trusted to do right and enact
justice unless the just and righteous
measures be advocated by Republicans,
that fact is the best reason why we
should elect as few Republicans to the
Legislature as possible. When the In
teligencer admits that the Republican
party cannot be trusted to legislate for
the public welfare except it have undis-
puted control of affairs, it simply con-
fgsses that its representatives are too
rotten and corrupt to be tolerated. 1t
offers splendid reason why Messrs.
CAMPBELL and HUBBARD should be de-
feated.
Still our cOtemporary would have the
public believe that liberal measures
would have a much better chance of
success "if We had able and infuent tial
Republicans from this county TO bring
them forward and advocate them" We
don't see the application of the remark.
Messrs. HCBBARD and CAMPBELL, stand
ing behind the shoulder of the Mtelh-
gencer man., may think it very fine to
inspire him to describe themselves as
cable and influential" but, aside from
the question Of modesty, the proposition
finds nJ response in ihe publc mind
People must be permitted to form their
own opinion Of Mr. HUBBARD's ability
and influence when they see him in a
Republican Congressional Convention
fail to secure even complimentary
vote from his own county, although the
party had had several years experience
by which TO test his services and al
though he vas candidate for ye-nomi-
nation. A candidate whose nomination
was made by county Convention so
packed as 70 exclude from representa-
tion the only reliable Republican ward
in the city is not, we beg to submit, the
man to stand pre-eminent as the popular
model of ability and influence. SINH
lar observations apply to Mr.. CAMP
BELL. The FIRST sample of his
influence with the Republican party
which s.. now recall, WAS furnished by
mis- windy demonstration against Mr..
WILEY in toe matter Of Senatorial
election, Mr. CAMPBELL coming ont OF
the fray with about as many votes as he
could count on the fingers of one hand
and the thumb of the other. The latest
specimen of his power over his party IS
fresh IN the public memory, and was
furnished when he commenced, through
the IHtelligencer, fierce opposition to
! BoREMAN's election to the Senate some
weeks after the election was over.
While the vote was pending the desire
to defeat FOREMAN was entirely sup
planted by wholesome fear of meet
ing him in the lists. His would be op-
popent shrank in nerveless helples5ness
from even the appearance OF q con-
test, and not until BOHEMIAN was seated
in the Senate did Mr. CAMPBELL so far
recover from his panic as to give def
mite shape to an opposition movement.
If we were called upon to select man
of sufficient courage and energy to Sc
cure reform of the registration sys,
TEN, we certainly should not select
gentleman who so lately shrank away
from conflict with that system, for a
Senatorial fight would have been moth
ing else, and iguominiously skedaddled
from an enemy whom be hated but
feared to face. The man who CO wered
before BoREMANis not the man to make
battle with the registration devils
whom FOREMAN has left as legacy to
the State.
But if all that the Inlelligncer claims
for its candidates were granted there
would still fail to appear a single res-
son why they should be supported by
Democratic votes. The argument sim
ply is that possibly the Democrats may
not get, through their own candidates,
all they want; therefore they should
take what they 10 not want through
the election of Messrs. CAMPBELL and
HUBBARD. The In telligsRoer claims that
these gentlemen are pledged, in an in
definite sort of way, TO the modification
of the registration law. The platform
upen which they were nominated say'
nothing of the sort. Taken in connec
riou with Mr.. HUBBARD'S speech, ii is |
: disavowal of any modification what
ever. The IRtelligeHcer knows this TO b.
the fact, and for that reason has stead
iIy refused to admit the platform Of it
own party to place in its cOlumns
The only reform to which the Republi
. can candidates in this county are ever
7 partially committed is the repeal of tn
u. Oaths for Suitors, Lawyers and Teach
[ ers, and when the IEteIligencer sssert