The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-06-25
JACOB A ..BOLTING" RADICAL
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR.


a man is pretty well known to another
the judgment which is to be formed OF
his intended action is made up of this
knowledge Of his character, and OF
what he is doing and what others are
doing in bis interest. Putting these
two elements together for judging OF
Mr.. JACOBS intention, we have long
since been satisfied of what his course
was to be. 10 the first place, he passed
by the most able, consistent and upright
men of the Democratic party in differ
cot parts of the State; men Of tried
honor and fidelity to the rights Of the
State; and appointed other and extreme
Radicals in their stead to places Of
trust and character. These outside
appointments were not Of Liberal Re-
puhlicans," but OF men who never
abandoned party tactics, and it is be-
lieved that most OF them now support
GRANT. He was a candidate for nomi-
nation prior to the Democratic Conven-
lion; he was there in person to pro-
mote his schemes; he was there In
consultation with his own friends 10
that body; he remained candidate
until he saw that the Convention, COM
posed OF the talent, age, experience and
probity of the State from the most
widely discovered points Of its popula-
ton, from Hancock TO Monroe, from
Jefferson to Mcdowell, from Maryland
10 the Ohio, were in favor OF Mr.. CAM.
DEN, and that but few were in his own
favor As a man Of honor he was
pledged to abide by the nomination.
As a man OF principle he would not
accept an election by the GRANT party.
Heretofore we have said little or
nothing of Mr.. JACOB. We preferred
10 await the development of his own
tactics; we preferred to wait to see who
would be his associates and supporters;
we wished him to make his own demon
stration as 10 whether he intended to
support principles or whether he would
abandon all old obligations Of party
and principles and unite with those men
who were his personal foes and our
deadliest enemies; the men who had
violated constitutions and passed dis,
iranchising enactments and disabling
laws; who had deprived our beet citi
zens Of the right to vote; who had
placed in power incompetent and cor
rupt men; and who are now opposed by
the uubroken integrity OF the Demo-
cratic party.
We have waited until Mr.. JACOB
should speak by his own conduct and
by the acts and language Of his sup
porters, 80 that there shall be no impu'
tation OF personal notice in what we now
say. And we now cay that JOHN j.
JACOB, regardless Of past associations,
and of the future history and welfare Of
the State, is the received and acknowl.
edged candidate of the GRANT party in
the State of West Virginia. 1, is Ger.
tain that Governor JACOB personally, or
some one or more who spoke authori-
taLlvely for him, sent telegram to the
Convention at Grafton, giving them to
understand that he wasin fact a candi-
date, only suspending his action until
the combination Of all the enemies of
the Democratic party should be compile
ted.
The Parkersburg Journals edited by
Governor STEVENSON, the most consist
ent and the most extreme supporter of
GRANT in the State, the man who did
more TO fill the cup Of iniquities in the
OF pressions Of orr people than any
other man in the State except ARTHUR
!. FOREMAN; in his issue of last Thurs
day he says:
Governor JACOB TO BE A CANDIDATE.
-Wehave seen Q pirate dispatch from
Charleston which states that Governor
Jacob will, in all probability, be an
independent candidate for Governor,
after the Baltimore Convention. ~
And ARTHUR I. FOREMAN, nndoubt.
eily with full knowledge of that dis.
patch, at least fully possessed of Mr..
JACOBS purposes. has been in Wheeling
and, as a result Of that visit, the Iatelh'
gencer, in its issue OF yesterday morning,
says:
"If no Republican ticket is nomina-
ted, il is certain that Governor Jacob ,oiI
be an independent candidate, and, with
Republican support, his election would
lie assured"
That is, Governor JACOB is to be the
GRANT candidate for these gentlemen,
and they in advance pledge to him the
united support of that party. These
men, denounced by the people for their
cruel, fiagitious and unprincipled con-
duct in their despotic rule OF our people,
and now denounced by the Liberal Re-
publicans of the United States, headed
by HORACE GREELsY, for their want Of
sense and their greater want of regard
for the charities and humanities Of life,
have arranged for JACOB to be thar cam
-didate.
WHY wait until after the Baltimore