The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-04-15


meut Is 70 lnaISe our statc Constitution
conform to and recognize this grand
party measure by striking out the dis.
elimination against color. Yet this self.
righteous, very straight Republican voted
against this. Moro than that, when Mr..
DAVIS moved 10 insert "whlte" in the
FLICK Amendment, in defiance Of this
grand Republican measure Of our party,
Mr.. PEmPolSr sought 10 make the mo-
ton successful by dodging, and inducing
other Republicans to dodge the vote, so
that the Democrats might he able TO vote
the word I'M But the "lct-lp" Rcpubli-
cans whom he denounces and Il number
Of Democrats voted against the motion
andVlcGcatcd II. In both these acts Mr..
PETRPolNT put himself in direct antNgo-
nism with his party, with the Administr0'
ton and with Congress.
The same general inaccuraCy US 10 facts
is shown In the assertion that but two
Democrats in the House voted against the
Amendment, whereas there were four. If
the Amendment twas carried in the
House" as asserted, "by Democrats and
lc:.ups," it affords US some satisfaction to
find rs We have shown that the "letups"
In that body numbered II, while the
"bittcr. cndcrs" were but IA.
Now, how did the vote stand in the
Senate! A similar state Of facts, We arc
told, existed in that treachcroB body.
1.-THE Democrats combined with the let
ups in the Senate and carried the Amend
mcnt there" Astllcrc are hut five Demo-
Gratis in the Senate, viz: APPLICABLE,
DAVIS, PATRICK, WILSON and Cook, and
as but three Republicans (BoREMAN,
WERNIS0ER and HUNPREYO voted
ogainst the Amendment, II follows that
Messrs. Brown, Of Wetzel, GATHER, Of
Taylor, GATHER, of Gilmer, CRANE, Of
Preston, DAYTON, of Barbour, DooIlTTLE,
OF Marion, GOLD, Of Berkeley, HAREAN,
of Grant, KooNcE, Of Jefferson, LEONARD,
Of Wood, PHELPS, OF Mason, RAMsDELL,
of Wayne, YOUNG, Of Pocahontas, and
FARNswoRTu, Of Cpshur, President)
fourteen in all, and all Republicans, are
"lct.upS.n This is the Governors CLASH
fiCatiun, and if lie is satisfied with II We
are. Only three "stright Republicans"
in the Senate! Al the rest "lrt'nps," and
they Just ms bad MS the rebels, And hor-
riblc 10 ruIatp, McHrs. BROwN and boo
LITTLE, tic Senator's lIoIn the, Governors
own district, aud one from his own cOnn.
". among the rest! Itisvery sad.
But here We find ilmt fourteen Re-
pubIicans voted Tor the Amendment in
the Senate md three against, and We are
aware OG ne good reason for impcaclling
tue Rcpublicanism Of any one Of them.
Out Of 4S members elected TO tho two
Houses, us Republicans, 81 voted for the
Amendment and II against. OfthOsc in
the House four, Mcssrs. BALLARD Of Mon
ror, BOWER, Of Putnam, LAMON, of
Berkeley, and WELLS, Of Tyler, voted
against tho caucus nominee for Speaker,
though LAMoS and WELl.s generally voted
right afterwards and cannot Justly he i'm.
pcaClcd. We do not sec that il can be
fairly claimed that more than WEIGH,
BowYRR and BALLARD, Of Monroe, can
be considered 10 have lost standing in the
party, and each Of them denies that he is q
Democrat. Leaving them out Of the
count II gives us %, or leaving out WELCH
and the four who voted for him II leaves |
% mdoubtcd Republicans for and II
against the FLICK amendment. If that
don't make tia, Republican measure IN n |
legislative sense, wlatd docs? That it is
Republican measure in principle, and en-
hodlcS the very essence Of our government
is u proposition that dCties reftltatiOn.
When Gov. PErRPOINT comes to COM
prchGnl these facts, he will perceive that
he makes very poor array. 1fthis is tho
hest show he can make on paper, in u case
where he olIgltto he well Informed, we
arc constrained to doubt whether he was |
horn to be m editor. At this rate his sue,
cess on the tripod will he just about as |
brilliant rs It was in the capacity ola pO-
liticaI leader here in the Legislature.