The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-05-01
MIR. Campbell and his Traducers.

which, chiefly on account of the source
whence it has its inspiration, requires
some notice. So far as the Times eats
dirt on the. Carlile question, and now de-
tends what a few days ago it denounced,
the cause is too well understood to need
comment. Nor do we care to spend
words In reply to its abuse of the IN
TELLIGENCER. The chief feature of the
article Is an unjust and shameless as
sauGt on Mr.. A. w. Campbell of this
city; and since the INTELLIGENCER is
made the excuse for this exhibition of
malice, we feel constrained out of JUS
tice to Mr.. Campbell to notice it. The
Times says:
Why are the great merits of A. w.
Campbell, Esq, put in contrast with
those of Hon. ). S. Garlic, by the paper
from which A. w. O. so graceful
ly retired just in time to be available
as a Senatorial candidate? Has chRG-
rim, at not receiving Il single vote in
caucus or the Legislature, SO worked
upon his self-esteem that cOncealment,
"iike a worm il the bud feeds on his
damask cheek" until it grows purple
with splenetic rage, and, as one extreme
is generally followed by another, finds
vent sub rosa in an explosion of jealous
WrathY
Did he not write letters or cause them
to be written by correspondents all over
the country heralding himself as the
coming Senator-the shining light of
our sadly unappreciatIve state Did he
not as the last desperate shift use the
columns of Democratic papers to secure
prominence as a Radical candidate :?
Surely this was loves labor lost, and
the terrible Boreman was TO blame for
1t all. If there had been no Boreman
for rival, there might have been a
mighty A. W. Campbell, Esq, in the
Senate. a leading newspaper man
who had apparently trimmed for more
than three years, and had so conducted
his journal that he never attempted to
defend others from partisan attacks.
not even the man who stood foremost
In the active ranks OF the party; but
leaning upon prior laurelS, and sup
porting an amount of naughty dignity
that disguised all who approached him,
when prepared to be elevated to the
United State Senate, those around him
who had still heart in the cause, Sc
lected their foremost and ever trust
worthy standard beArer-the indOmitR-
BILE, the inevitable Boreman. Alas, it
has proved too much for his antago-
nist's mental calibre and colossal as
pirations.
Perhaps Senator Wiley is
back, In view of the coming Senatorial
contest. By striking at Boreman's in
fuence, and hitting Willey's short
cOmingS, there is a chance OF killing
two birds with one stone, and by secur-
ing fame for gunnery while covered by
the bAttlements OfOne's own newspaper,
may we not open way for securing
pair of Senatorial shoes two years
hence2
The Times means TO insinuate either
that Mr.. Campbell owns this newspaper
or owns its editors. Whichever it may
be, the intimation is false and malig
nant. Mr.. Campbell retired from this
paper on the 18th OF February, 1868, by
the absolute sale of his entire interest
in the paper and in the printing and
book binding business connected with
1t. Since that time he has not owned
the interest OF one penny in the con-
Germ. Nor did the Senatorial question,
so far as his partners knew, have any
thing TO do with his retirement. It
was foc reasons purely personal alike
to the four partners, perfectly under
stood by all and perfectly satisfactory
to all. Since that time Mr.. Campbell
has had no more to do with the INTEL
LIGENCER than has the person who at
tacks him through the Times. He
has neither exercised, nor sought to, the
slightest control or influence over the
course of tho 1STELLIGENCER in any
matter whatever. No line from his pen
having the remotest bearing on the
Senatorial election ever appeared in
these columns; nor did line on that
subject written by others at his request
or upon his suggestion, so far as we
know or have any reason to believe. The
letters published by US advocating Mr..
Campbell for the Senate we're genuine;
and some of them were written
by some of the best men in the
State. We have never had any ground
to suppose that any OF them were
even remotely inspired by him. We
know that nothing on the sub
Ject was which appeared in our columns
editorially, and whoever asserts or in.
slnuates the contrary Is calumniator
for whom we have at all times but one
reply. Regarding the assertion that
Mr.. Campbell "used the columns of
Democratic papers," we leave the Reg
lister, which we presume is referred to,
to answer. Thus much respecting Mr..
Campbell's supposed connection with
the 1NTELLIGENCER.
Let us add, what is known to all Mr..
Campbell's friends who took an inter-
est in seeing him chosen to the Senate,
that he at all times refraIned with the
most scrupulous care from using or per-
hitting his friends to use even such Or
binary means for influencing men.
as practice sanctions in such cases.
Like the dignified and honorable
gentleman that he is, his friends all
know that he declined every suggestion
urged by themore JEALOUS of them
which involved the use of means or sx-
pedlents In the slightest degree cues
tionable. His attitude from first TO last
was one that permitted no deviation
from perfect integrity and self-respect-
we do not mean that integrity which |
merely breaks no statute or violates no |
established canon OF propriety, but that
which preserves the truly upright man
from any wrong even in his own con.
sciousness.
We are among those who deplore the
fact that in these corrupt times such a
course as this does not win. Offices are
got by those who haYe the most means
In their hands wherewith to purchase |
them and who are capable of using it
for that end. Men can nearly always |
succeed who have no scruples about |