The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-07-29
EIectlng Congrcssmen..Morc Partic.
nIaFlv Mr.. RIhehnm,S Case,

Candidate, I0r rG'elecLlOn 10 congress III
the Second District, and remarking upor
the scramble there was for his place
among small politicians in the Eastern
Panhandle, We expressed regret, which
we think every, disintorcsted man shares
that there should be such frequent rotA
ton in the membership Of the House o
Representatives.
The Berkeley UatoH-whosci editor, a!
an unsuccessful aspirant for Congressiona
nominations, may possibly haves fell
plQued over our notwithstanding:
some structures on them, the point O
which is expressed In this paragraph:
Since that, however, they [tha INTELLr
GENCER have. had much 10 say about
1.-THE Congressional contest over the
River" in which they take decided
grounds against the denomination of Mr.
Bingham, Judge Bingham has also beer
in Congress long enough to learn thing
or two. Yet the ISTELLIGENCER meI
are oil the few who want some other per
son nominated. They haVe,one rule fol
the District over the River" and another
for the 2hd West Virginia.
Wcreply thAtthe case Of Mr.. BINGHAM
is not analogous at all to that Of Mr.. Nc
GREW, nor Will it come under the genera
rule VIC advocate. There are peculiar
reasons why Mr.. BINGHAM should NO
ask denominations We do not dispargt
his ability, though partly owing to somt
intirmities Of temper and habit and part
ly because his qualities are rather OF thu
snowy than Of the solid kind, he has in NJ
small degree WON out the fame won by
his feryid rhetoric during the passionat
times OF war, and suffered some diminu
ton of his usefulness. Mr.. BINGHAM il
conIessedly one Of those who owe theil
fame very largely to the peculiar temper
Of the people during the war, and who
seek to keep themselves affOat by fighting
over and over, after the people have
grown weary Of them, the battles thai
d they fought so eloquently on the stump
aud in the forum when the people were
in the mood to listen and be infamed.
Now that the popular temper no longer
fires in response to the wRr.like orators Of
Mr. BNaHAM's style, they find that their
occupation, and to some extent their use,
iulness, isgOne. The era for spread.eagle
in Congress has passed; and the time fol
practical solid business sense has como
round again. We believe Mr.. BINGHAM
with all his long experience, Is not now
and would not be IN future as useful In the
House as any one Of a,halldozen men in
tho district that could be named. But il
this were otherwise, he ought not 10 offer
because it is certain that he is the most
unpopular Of all the aspirants in the dis.
trict; and although the district is cstima.
ted to have $500 Republican majority,
there is such bitter and wide spread feel.
ing against him among Republicans, that
there is good reason tolfear if he is the
candidate the district will be lost. We
have taken some pains to ascertain the
feeling on this point and are satisfied the
Republican disaHection toward BrNuqAM
is serious and incurable. 1t would be
enough to recognize its existence without
asking for the reason. But the reason Of
1t brings usgto the final and insuperable
objecti0nto MI, BINGuAM's denomination.
1t isthathG stands bound by a solemn
pledge, such as no man of honor can at,
ford to disregard, that he would not ask
this denomination. He made the same
kind of a pledge in 1866. lie violated
that and made another in 1868. He VIC.
lated that and made another in 1870 lie
violates that now, and is prepared to
give another Of his solemn pledges at
BeIIaire, we have no doubt that if nom.
mated iustthis once more, he will never
ask to be nominated again. That alone,
VIC submit, is reason enough why Mr..
BINGHAM ought not to be renomirated.
II he thinks hecap break his word In this
way with impuhity, and still have the
confidence Of the district in his integrity,
1t is certain a very large proportion OF
Republicans do not share in his belief;
and his candidacy under such ciscum.
stances win imperil Republican control Of
the district, which Is safe for any other
possible candidate. ,AEr A. ,-i,rF 4
We trust our Berkeley friend will now |
understand better than heretofore the |
grounds on which VIC base our treatment
Of the Congressional question across
the river, and will see it is in no wise in,
consistent with the general reflections on
the subject that appear to have so dis.
turbed him.
One other remark in this connection
The Cadiz Republican speaks of the In.
TELLTGENcER as going out of its way to
intermeddlc with the affairs of that Dis.
tricti and We beIieEa &c was the wet
Nrgtntan, which the other dry sug.
gested that Congressional matters in
the Second District were none Of our bust.
ness. We feel constrained 10 take Issue
with these esteemed contemporaries on this4
point 1t Is every mans business to be-
interested in the election Of a Congress.
man from any district in any State Of tic
Union. Men are not sent to- Congress
to legislate Tor their own districts
exclusively. They lngislato for y the
whole country, and the effects Of
their acts have no respect for State or dis.
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