The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-06-17
A PrettY Strong Indictment.

A correspondent Of the Parkerskurg
Times, who signs himself an Ex.rebel,"
says Of the Democratic nominations:
ave believe we express the universal
sentiments Of tho public, when we say
that the nominations for State officers,
lately made at Charleston, have astonished
and disappointed almost everybody"
In the course Of his letter, he brings
forward this Indictment Of the Democ'
racy:
1.-THE leaders Of the party have shown
bY their late action, that they nave HoI
the wisdom to rise above the low par!ly,
prciudiccs Of the past; that they are sui
burrowing in the mire of old dead issues
which the war has long since SettLea ;
" Still harping on my daughter, WINE
the best interests of the State, according
TO their loud professions, arcgoing to the
dogs, The leaders of the Democracy
have charged the Republican party as the
cause of all the miseries and misIortunes
which atfliCt the country, yet they seem
determined to ignore the only measures
calculated To remove the evil ...
They well know that the great ma
jOrity of the people have repudiated Ger
tain doctrines Of the Government. once
held sacred by the leaders Of the Demo
cratic party, and the South, that fierce
and bloody war has settled these issues
for this generation at least These issues
having been settled, the people North and
South are tired discussing them. What
will it profit u man to spend his time IN
pouring over the resolutions Of l199 and
90? There was, no doubt, much poIit'
ical philosophy in them in their day, but
their usefulness has passed. The honest,
substantial men Of the South, the men
who when the tOcsin Of war was sounded,
girled on their armor and offered their
| lives for what they believed to be the
right, have long since Hcquicsced in good
faith. to the results of the war, and are
now CndcaYOring TO build up their shat
tered fortunes and devise new measures,
based upon new ideas, for the improve
ment and development Of their respective
States. Not so with the leaders Of
the Democracy in West Virginia. While
Henry A. Wise, the brilliant orator
Judges Henry w. Thomas and Hugh W.
Shelly, Col. John B. Baldwin and others,
once gallant leaders Of the rebel forces
are cooperating with Northern men and
Republicans-aye, with those who were
formerly their own slaves, in dcvising
measures to render their State united,
prosperous and happy, the Democracy OF
West Virginia seem to be trying how 70
devise measures to keep all liberal and
conservative men from cooperating with
them. The leaders Of the Democracy
profess to be in favor Of the repeal OF all
restrictive laws and the enactment OF lib
eral measures generally; for the reduction
of taxes and reform in the administration
of affairs, but 10 M impartial observer
they seem to be trying show not to do i.
The leaders OF the Democracy, like
UuaCk Doctors, have but one remedy tor
all diseases, the old party platform, which
they have been prescribing for the last
thirty years ut least 1t matters not what
may be the age or condition Of the patient
or the circumstances surrounding the case
the same old remedies are prescribed.