The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-08-01

ardent energies OI MS LIei ana ne could
not leave It without q pang. His vener.
able aspect, his feeling words, and the
painful circumstances under which he
stood up and pledged anew his fealty to
the principles he had so often and elo.
quently defended and the organization he
had been so long identified with, inspired
a feeling Of warm sympathy and admira.
ton in all present, and even those who
had most zealously worked for his defeat
felt every emotion Of resentment dis.
armed.
If ever set of party managers over.
reached themselves, we judge 1t Is the
gang who have got control of the Demo.
cratic organization In this State. Two
years ago they put forward Gov. JACOB as
forlorn hope, not expecting his election.
To their infinite astonishment they were
successful. No sooner was the new ad.
ministration warm in its place than the
gang, who had an eye to the public plum.
der, began to make close combinations to
get entire control Of the party organiza-
ton, for whose success they claimed all
the credit Some were to have offices of
honor and some offices of emolument
Flushed with victory and eager to enjoy
the spoils, a convention to make a consti.
tuition, with all its perplexity and cost,
was forced on an unwilling people by
these party brigands. They: could not
wait for the present Democratic admins.
tration they had helped elect to serve Quits
allotted time. A new constitution, sweep
ing all the officers in the State out of their
places, must be rushed through to make
places for the hungry crew; and to bribe
people TO vote the constitution through,
so as to make their schemes successful, an
election !or officers under the new con.
stitudon was ordered to be held at the
time OF voting on it.
Everything went forward under whip
and spur, and it looked up to certain
time as il nothing would or could inter.
pose between the Office brokers and their
goal. Their appetite had been whetted
by the obstinate refusal Of an honest man
in the gubeInatorial chair either to allow
the treasury to be robbed or to join the
plunderers in dividing It; and he was
marked for special vengeance, and in due
time made its victim, 50 far as the gang
was able to infict it.
All at once groundswell of protest
sweeps over the State. Democrats begin
to feel that the drivers are plying the
whip and driving the team little too
hard. They begin to ask themselves, aad
then one another, whether it is true as
assumed that HENRY S. WALKER and
LEWIS BAKER and their confederates are
qualified by capacity, merit and title to
rule the Democratic party with rod so
relentless as they are flourishing, and
whether the Democratic party of the
State, as honest Democrats understand its
objects, can afford to be parties to, or
even to submit TO, their rule.
These doubts have grown into convic.
tions; and to-day thousands of Democrats
who have no mercenary ends to gain, and
who are not willing to have their party
made a convenience for a gang Of bro.
kers in public offices and the public trea.
surY, stand up in protest against the. lash
OF these mercenary drivers. The unpre-
tending honest man, who first interposed
his authority between the plunderers and
the treasury, has become the central fig
ure Of this popular uprising. The wave
Of protest has rolled on till the ring Is
threatened with overwhelming defeat.
The spectre Of JAooD In the Gubernato.
rial chair for the next four years rises be.
fore their distempered vision, and the
CONSERVATION Of MACBETH at the feast,
when BANQuo's ghost rose up and took
his vacant chair, was not greater than
theirs.
And now this very gang, seeing that
the people are going to put their Banquo
into the chair they had laboriously pre-.
pared for one of their own number, are
reduced to the extremity to save them.
selves from such humiliating defeat Of de.
stroying the chair ITSELF All the argu.
ments with which they have piled their
followers in favor Of their Constitution.
false and sophistical though they were,
are to be recanted, for that very Constitu-
ton which they thought would soon lift
them from poverty and obscurlty into
places Of power and plunder, must now be
kicked overheard to save them from four
years more ofthe man who for year and
a half has been so much in their way. Il.
ever set Of pretenders started out larger,
and came back through smaller hole,
than these fellows have done. we do not
now recall the circumstance.
THE Register is OminOusly, painfully
silent about the caucus of the Gath and
the scheme Of CAMDEN's adherents to de.
feat the new constitution. There Is
strong and growing anxiety among Dem
Gratis to know what the Ring organ thinks
of the scheme and means n do ahort II