The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-11-07

The Ohio County Movement
The editor Of the Berkeley UNi0H Il a
subject Sor DE pity or all intelligent peo-
pie. Here Is the way he expresses him
Self About the result Of the late election !:
II is no use crying over spilled milk;
The Republican party has been handed
over 10 the enemy by deseTten and oilice'
soekGES, commanding viii llls men who
started tbs Ohio county platform last fall
They t5Wed die wed that WIS sure 10
produce Democratic fruit
The writer Of the above would have
his readers 70 understand that the great
change ttaEIia3 rrcantly occurred through.
out the State has no deeper cause or
more rational explanation Than the Ohio
coanlY movement a year ago. Perhops
he tihy hsDs heard'K the great conlre.
very tliat once occurred ii Il rural pit
like harrisburg over tue fall Of '''nrrIi
steeple. Just after the rall Of iie slecPIf
the Water Ia certain creek rose higher
than 1t was ever knO~n 70 rise "
fore. And hence spr.6g ,rlDSq controversy
that finally bccametataduS, std toni, che
name OF PropterAoc," and 4" Post hoe"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS those who pro.
G4Sad IyfBtlttte tIMt the water rnsc on
aevunl Of tue fall Of the s,ccptc, and the
latter tiIose WHO simply proicsscl 10 SEC
that The one event merely followed gtter
other tie aud not on account d IT,
II Is now very generally conceded TINT
tho common sense virw OI the Two OC,
currCnccs was the latter one, md accord
ytiio" Propter bocs" have been the
subject Of great deal Of ridicule in The
school books. So uluCl 40, that they have
ever since served to represent all sorts Of
stupid people, like the editors Of the Der.
kelley Union, who ignOrantly and laugln,
bly, attribute widespread chango like
that involved III the late election to a
few persons here III Ohio county, sin.
ply because that like the rise in
the creek amer the fall Of the stccplc, the
defeat Of the Republican party occurred
qttSr the Ohio county movement.
Whit fine perccptivo and logical powers
tllOseelltoFsoll he Union must have to see
in the elect rctntbsnn more rational and
potential explanation than simply tie
work OF few discoutentcd and disap-
pointed politicians hero in Ohio county.
Mighty m6nofvalor must those politicians
be, and altogether more popular and intlu.
enllaIlwith the party throughout tho State
than tho Berkeley Ua0n editors have
ever heretofore acknowledged them 10 be.
WeopInO tIiattbose gentlemen are neItll-
er ConCeited or crednlOus enough to ap.
propriate this unintepded compliment TO
their farrcachiug influence Next to the
iRtnation in former days that when
JoHN @. CALHOUN took pinch Of
snuff tho whole State of eUuun Carolina
was accustomed 10 snecze, We have
seen nothing cqualling this extrayegant
compliment paid by the "biIter rnders" Of
the Union to Tic Ohio county movement.
We differ u little from the editors Of
that paper In our views Of the result in
tho lale election. We think we can sec in
thereturns something more correspondent
and adequate To the clnngc tint las &C.
Cured than tho mere disappolntmcnis Of
few politicians. va think We can see
In them few traces Of the malign iniIu
ence Of certain men who hive made Re.
publican rulc'in tho Eastern Panhandle
Of Vest Virginia odions and intolerable.
What else caused tho unprecedented
changes In Jefferson, Berkeley and Nor.
gan counties, where so many people were
dIsfranClllsPd and where, us WIS public
ly intlnat4u in this city three years
ago by member Of the Legislature from
that part of tho State, the number could
be and would DO increased II it wasnocO
sOry.
We rather think that tho doipgs ofsueh
men in The Eastern part of the State, and
such Others rs NAT. HARRISON in the
Southwest had something TO do with tho
change that has taken place. Att all events
quito lua much as the tlisappninlmenls Of
Ohio county politicians. a 10y