The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-06-21
VARIOUS ITEMS.
from the Cbarleston courier. ]

From the Charleston Cougier.I
We are promised onieunusual regis
trationyillainy this season. Continued
practice makes perfect In return we
promise unusually vigorous prosecu-
tions under the second section Of the
bill to enforce the Fifteenth Amend
ment.
Alfred Meade, a mild mulatto will
represent Marion county loyalty in
the Radical State Convention next
Wednesday Alfred is said to be the
best man in the delegation, Peirpoint
and the resi- being far below Meade
iocrity.
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The Republican papers are boasting
that the Administration is reducing the
debt quite rapidly We can suggest a
plan BY which to facilitate the process.
Let them confscate every dollars worth
of property in the country and hand it
over to the bondholders. If there is
property enough, the entire debt could
he paid in six weeks. This suggestion
merely carries the present plan to its
lawful limits, Federal taxation as now
arranged il nut another form Of contis-
cation. 1t is unequal confscation too,
forit touches all the poorInan eatsand
wears and owns and earns, leaving tile
rich mans abundance exempt and I'M
tithed
Captain John NJ. Phelps served with
honor in the Union army and since the
close.o the war had much experience
in legislation and other public business.
/, Acting heretofore with the Republican
party, he has found it impossible TO CO.
operate further with an organization in
the State whose sole policy is proscrip-
ton for the sake Of party. We happen
to know that this nomination came TO
him unsought, and that he accepts it as
the representative Of that just spirit OF
liberalism which has found expression
( from many Republican sources, and
which will lead large numbers of the
Republican party, at the coming elec-
! ton, to aid in throwing off the pros
criptive policy which has so long i'm
peded the progress of the State. Hav-
ing frequently been honorcd by the Re
publicans of this section with high
/ positions, no valid objection to Captain
Phelps can come from that quarter.
He is an able stumper and will do good
work in the canvas. .... ....
1t is remarkable how many advanced
Radicals were last Wednesday on the
very eve of going into the Democratic
ranks and were confirmed in Radical
( ism by the Democratic nominations
and platform. Had a Republican
! platform and Republican ticket been
nominated, the accessions to the Demo
cratic ranks would have been literally
fearful. And so it has been at every
| Convention within our recollection.
Give your opponents all they demand
and they will be with you unanimously.
Just ground your arms and they will
take You to theirs.
Two years ago the Radicals were
swearing they would never consent to
negro suffrage. Now after fraudulently
giving the negroes the ballot, they are
sending them to their conventions to
help mature measures to perpetuate
white vasSalagc in this State. In spite
of this record of treachery and fraud
the Radicals expect to win support by
fair promises. The people will have
no more to do with party that never
made pledge which it'did not break
DEMOCRATIC STATE Executive Cow
MlTTEE The Democratic State EXecu-
tive Committee, appointed by the late
Convention, organized on the afternoon
of June Sth. This Committee consists
ofthe following gentlemen: Lewis Baker
and George K. Jingle, of Ohio county;
j. W. Gallaher, Of Marshall; j. NJ.
Jackson, of Wood; A. f. Summers and
W. II. IIogeman, Of Kanawha; 7. p.
Kline, of CabelI; \. G. Tibbetts, of
Monroe, and John Basel Of Harrison.
Lewis Baker was elected Chairman
Of the Committee and George r. Jingle
Secretary. 4 sub committee was APP
pointed for this region, consisting OF
Messrs. Tibbetts, Kline, Summers and
IIogeman. DIR. A. +. Summers is
Chairman and W. II. Hogeman Secre-
tary; headquarters in Charleston, at
the Office of Laidlcy d lIogeman.
The Executive Committee both for
this section and for the entire State, is
admirably constituted, being composed
of the best workers in West Virginia
We think the Convention did wisely in
locating a portion Of the Committee in
this end of the State. The labor will
thus he divided, and as communication
between the subcommittee here and the
counties in this part Of the State will be
immediate and direct we may look for
good results 1t cannot be doubted
thai the duties imposed upon the old
Committee were too onerOns. To their
discharge they gave more Of their time
and labor than should have been cx-
pcctcd. 1t was in recognition OF their
efficient service that the Democratic
State Convention unanimously adopted,
on motion Of Colonel Benjamin Wilson,
of Harrison, the following appropriate
resolution:
Resolccd. That the able and faithful
manner in which the State Executive
Committee have discharged their duties
has done much to advance the interests
and give strength to the party, for
which they are entitled to the thanks
Of Democrat, all over the State
The CEaHagoa Farmer, in article on
Holes in the Pocket, remarks that a
va>tamount wealth often runs to waste
through very small leaks and then quot