The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-10-28
WEST VIRGINIA ERECT.

Asthe returns from the State come
IN it appears that the Democratic
party had things pretty much its own
way last Thursday. The Radicals got
thunder and lightning all round the
sky. The splendid victory won in
Ohio county is echoed in all quarters
OF the State. The Eastern Panhandle
answers back to the west that the
Democracy are in the ascendant and
the south gives back to the northern
section of the State the glad response
that everywhere the friends Of consti-
tntional reform have gallantly carried
the day. Two months ago the oppo-
nents of the Convention carried
seventeen counties out Of the fifty-four
in West Virginia. We now have
returns from seven of that seventeen
and in each of them the friends Of the
Convention have elected their candl.
dates. Ohio, Wood, Kanawha,
Brooke, Richie, Lewis and Har-
rison all voted against the
Convention, but in each the Demo.
Gratis have elected the men whom they
desire to represent them. In fact, 1t
appears this morning that the Radicals
have probably carried only one of the
eleven Senatorial districts in the State
and will elect only eleven Of the
seventy-eight members Of whom the
Convention is to be composed. The
Legislature next winter will bear nearly
the same complexion. In the palmiest
days of the registration law and Demo
ocratic Acknowledgement, tie Radicals
were unable to make as clean sweep
as the unfettered people of the State
have now made in favor of the Dem
ocracy.
We have deemed each Of these
redeemed counties worthy OF
special crow and we are sure the De-
mocracy OF the State will heartily echo
our iubilation. The most remarkable
change is that effected in Kanawha
county where the opponents Of the Con-
vention had more than Five hundred
majority two months ago. and we must
congratulate the Courier upon this
splendid result. Wood county too de-
serves honorable mention. The Rail-
cal candidate for the Convention there,
or rather the one whom Democrats gen
orally will most rejoice to leave out in
the cold was the former chief engineer Of
Democratic Acknowledgement. eX.GOv-
ernor STEVENSON, who is completely over
whelmed under majority Of over three
hundred in favor OF Colonel JACKSON,
an eloquent and effective advocate Of
the Democratic cause. Harrison conn
ty, too, has done magnificently; a result
which we attribute largely to the efforts
Of Hon JOHN J. DAVIS, Colonel HoFF
MAN, Colonel Ben. WILSON, Judge
CAMDEN AID others who were untiring
in their labors for the right. Ohio
and Brooke, and Richie, the little
GEM" and Lewis, bully for Lewis!
have exceeded our most sanguine
expectations and ranged themselves on
the side OF Democracy and good gov
eminent. In fact, the Democracy have
everywhere rolled up magnificent
vote anu more than wiped out the last
vestiges of Radicalsm in w It Vir-
GINA.
The remainder of the returns will
not alter the result we now anticipate.
In the face Of the tide that has swept
the Democratic candidates into place in
the counties we have alluded to
above, it is not to be expected that any
of those that have proved true in the
past forsook their colors on the Goth.
All honor to the noble Democracy OF
the State who have thus doubly re-
redeemed their heritage and assured
West Virginias rank 10 the catalogue
Of Democratic States for 1872
The IntelHgenccr makes the grave
charge that an editor of the REGISTER