The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-21
A Gay and Festive Candidate 70
Democratic Votes.
.'New, Excellent and Popular" Ma
teriaI fort Democratic Candidate.
SIIOO FLY {!
Card from ga Well Known Liberal
Republican who FavOrS the
General Policy of the
Democratic Party"
Etom d. Epinl Aeusant Reqisltr.

From The Point NedSdnt Register.
understand that it is currently report
ell in some portions of this Senatorial Dis
trict that | am about to go over to the
Democrats. This is n ialSehOOd, or to use
IL milder term, Il false impression, which
is being made by my political enemies for
the purpose of weakening my strength
in my party, while it would give Il cor
responding strength to their own, so far
Mt least rs the office of State Senator is
concerned. What, Mr.. Editor! l gOOver
to the Democrats, when ever since 1901
the name Of Democrat hHS dcen eQuicdtent
to the Word trrdSOAi go over to party
when hundreds Of thousands Of its mem
bers have and are with rankering hate
plotting, Scheming, threatening ant irGging
irdr against the government Of my fathers
and their tdtherS! go over to party
who not content with their Olon acts OF
treason against the government, but who
have now added to that the crime Of base
ingrahtude, by first ignoring, and then
without their consent, SlcallOWfng up tie
Conservatives Of the c0untry, who alone
gave them all the respectability they have
I 20 over to the Democrats, who have Tor
their leaders in the Southern States such
men rs Henry A. Wise, Governor Vance,
N. B. Forrest and Wade Hampton, and in
tho North such men rs Vallandigham,
DAN Vorhees, PendletOn and Brick POmc-
roy! No sir, l shall nerer 90 OCer to the
Democrats unhI the sun shines al midnight,
and the moon becomes the luIRiNdTy Of the
day, the great RdnaWhG Titvr shall change
its course and run up stream, when these
aud all other imposSihilities become poss-
iblc, then, and not until ther, will be-
come Il Democrat and go over TO the
Democratic party.
Strange circumstances sometimes give
rise to false r;mOrs, and in this case it
may have been that social friendships
have been construed into political alliances;
| this is sometimes the case with those who
do not properly discriminate between so
cial, civil and political relations Again
il may be because have expressed my
self ny opposed to negro suffrage, that
some have suspected me Of coming over
10 the Democratic party. If the latter
should have induced any one to believe
the report referred to, permit me TO say
that could not 20 to the Democratic par
ty to get rid of negro suffrage for no par
" has ever taken Us much trouble to pro-
cure negro votes aS hcpreScnt Democratic
party are doing, On this question, so far
as il enters into national politics, the Chi.
cago platform expresses exactly what has
been for some time, and what is now my
views. And here let me say once for all,
that may not be misunderstood by any
one of any party, that | endorse the Chi
cago platform, the nomination Of Grant
and ColIax, the whole State and District
ticket. In Il word, am Republican oI
the school whose history is written in the
blood of the patriots who fought to main.
tain and perpetuRtc this government Of
ours, from eighteen hundred and sixty-onC
to eighteen hundred and sixty.tive, and ]
propose to fight it out on that line.
Very respectfully,
JOHN NJ. PMELPs.
Point Pleasant, .August 3, 1869.