The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-27
Weod County Politics.

The course of the Republican Conven-
tion at Parkersburg, in refusing to adopt
the "let up" platform presented by Mr.
J. H. DIss DEBAR, has thoroughly dis
gusted the liberal Republicans of Wood
county. A number of them have ad-
dressed letter to JOHN A. HUTCHIN
SON, Jr., Republican nominee for the
House of Delegates, desiring to know
his status upon the policy of proscrip-
ton. Mr.. HUTCHINSON responds in a
lengthy letter, which let's broad day
LIGHT through the little trickery OF SEQ
FIELD. CHURCH & Co., who tried to run
the Convention in the interest OF pro-
scription. and shows that while they
gained an apparent triumph in defeat
ING a liberal platform, they have caught
a terrible Tartar in the shape OF I'D
eraI candidate. 1t is noticeable IN
Wood county, as in many other parts OF
the State, that the natives of the soil
and the old residents are generally in
favor of removing all political disabili-
ties, while those of the carpet bag per-
saasion, the adventurers who, lacking
appreeiation in their own States, have
come to ours to manage our affairs and
subsist upon the misfortunes of our
people, are in favor of perpetuating and
if possible increasing the enormities Of
prescription. The fact is suggestive.
We quote from Mr.. HUTCHINsoN's
letter, the points indicating the policy
he will advocate in case of election. To
those who addressed him he says:
recognize the claims which the Re-
publicans of Wood county have upon
me. and cheerfully respond to the ques-
items which they, through you gentle
men, have asked me, as follows:
|. Should | be elected, | shall favor
and vote for the repeal of the Lawyers ,
Teachers and Suitor's test oaths; be-
cause the recent Legislatures have, by
indiscriminate exemptions, if for no
other reason, rendered the enforcement
of those laws odious and illiberal.
2. If elected, shall advocate and vote
for such Just and necessary moditlca-
tious of eur present registration law, as
will secure fairness and impartiality In
its execution.
g. The Legislature should take steps
to amend the Constitution in regard TO
those who were in rebellion, in the man
ner prescribed in the Constitution; q
proceeding which will involve two
wears, as you say, and submit the ques-
tiou of amendment in this particular,
TO vote of the people, for or against it..
As the people made the Constitution, it
must be left to their wisdom to
amend it.
4. The registration law, in my humble
opiniou, might be more economically
enforced by constituting the Boards of
Supervisors of each county, rirtate oticii,
the Boards of Registration. This would
be a saving to the State Treasury OF at
least five thousand dollars. The Super
visors than, should have the appoint
ment of the township Registrars. This
important office may very well be con-
ferred upon the Supervisors, because we
know they are selected from the best
and most intelligent citizens of the
county; are capable of performing the
duties required, and have deep interest
in the concerns of the people.
5. shall, if elected, zealously sustain
the beneicent Free School System,
which we have now in operation in our
State, and aid in strengthening its hold
upon the popular mind; because it is the
simplest and yet most powerful plan
which freeman can devise for guarding
agai net wrong and oppression.
s. / shall, if elected, insist upon a
liberal system by which immigration
can be turned successfully into the val
leys and along the mountain sides of our
thiuly populated State, that its mines