The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-06-27
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Wien the Democratic party of Yves
Virginia came into power, 1t was upor
the strongest pledges OF honesty IN The
conduct Of the State government. The
issue that has been made in the party by
the candidacy Of Gov. JACOB peculiarly
involves the question whether. those
pledges shall be kept. 1t was the misfor.
tune Of the party that, during It's very
first year Of. power, some parties who
held d high place in its estem. took ad
vantage Of the confidence rtposed ID
them to make raid on the treasury, in
violation Of law and honesty. Gov
JACOB, so far as his authority enabled
him, interposed himself between the raid.
ers and the treasury. The people all
over the State know these things are true
The facts we're fully disclosed in public
before the Legislature; and for weeks they
were thoroughly canvassed at the seat Of
government, among members of the
Legislature, citizens, officials and visitors
and through these the undOubted state oil
the case was disseminated throughout the
State.
The war on Gov. JACOB by the plumb.
erers began even before they had been
exposed. 1t began just as soon as they
found him an obstacle; and 1t has been
wsged ever since. There is no ignorance
that this hostility to him was the CHIEF
element that contaminated his ostracism
al, Parkersburg. The simple state Of the
case is that the Ring who were caught
last winter with their arms up to the Ell.
bows unlawfully in the public Treasury,
and who are eager and hungry to get them
there again, want to drive Mr.. JACOB from
the executive chair, that there may be
no more executive hostility to their plum
deripg schemes and that there may be the
least possible fuss about past offences.
Mr.. JACOB has been brought forward by
honest men in his own party as the autag.
onist OF this villiany, whether accomplish
ed or purposed. The question the Demo.
Gratis ofthe State have got to decide among
themselves is whether they will sustain
him in this attitude, and thereby redeem
their pledges; or whether they will allow
the plundering crew to strike him down,
TO the overthrow and abandonment OF
those pledges. This is the naked ques.
ton, gentlemen, and whether you like or
not you have got 10 face it.
We do not as yet consider the Demo
cras responsible as party for the robbery
of the treasury referred to. They have
not had an opportunity to pass upon it,
as a party. They will have that opportu.
nifty at the coming election; and II they
vote the candidate of the peculators into
power, and thus vote for a continuance Of
population, then they will be responsible
as o party and the protest Of minority
will not save them from the stigma.
We say to our Democratic friends that
the responsibility of deciding this question
belongs to them. The Republicans, as a
minority, have none of it They are
duty bound to cooperate with those Of
their political adversaries who seek
to put down the plunderers, but IL
the effort tails the responsibility will
rest with the party in possession OF the
government. If the Democrats think
they can afford to elect the ticket whose
nomination was engineered and dictated
by this Ring, who hope by its success not
only to escape the consequences Of Of.
fences already committed but 10 find
opportunities for unlimited repetitions oil
their rascalitiOs In future, let them try 1t.
Those who protest against it by support
ing JACOB will, at the worst, have the
satisfaction Of finding that when the
crash does come-as come 1t will-they ut
least will. not be buried in the ruins.
But there are the most cheering indi.
cations from alIquarters, that the days Of
this Ring are numbered, and that by the
time election comes round few Democrats
Of character and repute will be found
supporting a nomination tainted by the
venal championship OF the Vince ling
Register and Charleston Courier.