The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-06-27
rHEDEMoCRaTs ASDTHEJA JACOB.
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The gentlemen composing the far-
kersburg Convention for the nomina-
ton OF our candidates were men otin-
telligeuce, probity and honor. The impu-
tation that they were improperly con-
trolled by the editor OF the
REGISTER or any one else Is
false, from the very facts Of the
case as applied to them as gentlemen.
They were too intelligent to be misled
to do a base and dishonorable act; they
were too honest to be seduced from duty
to themselves or their constituency; and
their sense Of personal honor would be
an example which. if initiated BY editors
Of Radical papers, would greatly inn
prove the social relations Of life and the
moral condition Of mankind. The im-
putation is not upon US; it is upon the
whole Democratic party generally who
sent their delegates to that Convention.
il is a personal and base insult to the
individual members of that body, and
we can safely leave their own vindica-
ton to the party itself at the polls, and
to those gentlemen Individually in their
daily conduct and in their intercourse
among their fellow citizens, shaping
public opinion and moulding that con-
dition Of public sentiment which has
redeemed and will preserve the suprem-
scy of constitutional law in West Vir-
GINA.
But there is a duty due from US in this
connection. The Inte2hgencer, in speak.
ing upon this subject, uses the same
specific form Of language which truth
full men use in detailing facts. Let this
matter then be met, and met specific.
ally, from our own personal stand
point. Then, ls:. The editor states
as true that which he cannot know to
be true. 2. He states as true that
which he has satisfactory reason to
know is false. 3. He states as true
that which be believes to be false. 4.
He states a. a fact that which he
knows, in the highest sense Of judg-
ment and conscience, to be false. All
this, to.promote the schemes Of a selfish
malcontent, the petty personal ambition
OF bolter, and worm his own way back
into unenviable position with a party
he Justly denounced for its cruelty, OPP
preston, want of statesmanship, and
its overweening and ruinous corrup-
ton.
The Democratic party has ar
raigned the administration Of Gen.
ersl GRANT for many and grew
GUS faults and public offences, and this
Iatelkgeacsr was one Of the very first to
turn States evidence" against its own
party and mock the nakedness of the
great public debauch which called forth
the jeer aud the accusation, and thus
having bol.ed from its own party and
in danger Of losing all patronage, it
now joins with a boiler from Conservat-
ism to get back, and both plunge deeper
into the Radicalism which 80 long
cursed the State with its misrule. Mr..
JACOB as a Democrat and abiding by
these principles would make = pass
able Governor; but such a man, or
any man, carrying out the corrupt and
despotic measures which characterized
the defunct Rsdicalism of this State
under FOREMAN, and which now OPP
presses the South under General GRANT,
aided by the oficious vote Of this i'm.
portunate feebleness, could not be and
cannot be anything else than a tool Of
the worst men in the State.