The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-07-24

Jacob, who calls himself Democra
and unites with the Radical party t
defeat those measures for which tn
Democracy has been battling durIn
the past six years. He did not an
nounce himself to the Democracy bu
to the citizens of West Virginia" with
out regard to race, color or prevlou
condition of servitude." He has care
fully avoided making any appeal to tn
Democratic party as a party, but to tn
"people" OF citizens" meaning tn
followers Of Stevenson, Boreman
Farnsworth, and men OF that ilk.
He claims to be the choice Of nine
tenths of the Democratic party, ant
not only that, but he declares that th'
convention which met at Parkersburi
was not q representative convention
He refers to the resolution passed Their
indorsiug him with pride, and then say
the convention was packed" Her
in this house he delivered a deliberate
insult not to the party but to the peopl,
ofthe State, wherein he charges that th'
Legislature and Constitutional Conven
ton passed their time to the detrimen
of the public interests in forming ring
for his defeat a second time.
Governor Jacobs friends claim tina
he will carry the State by, some say
5000 majority. If he is not elected by
27,OOO, he will not get the hine,tenth'
Democratic vote Of the State which hi
claims. The fact is, he will get very
little more than the Republican vote
In the county of Ohio were he to get 8
majority of the Democratic vote, he
should carry the county by 5000. Car
he get it? He has said that if he be-
lieved that he is not the choice Of the
Democratic party he would withdraw
from the contest. Does any one believe
that he is the choice OF the Democratic
party of West Virginia. II he were
elected he would be the Governor o.
the Republican party. He is the can
ddate Of that party, and it is still war
ring against all the Democrats hold
dear. He has Republicans stumping
the State for him, and is in no partlcu
lar less the candidate OF that party
than Gov. Stevenson was in 1870.
The President then introduced
HON. B. F. MARTIN,
who said
FsLlou CIti=enS:-I came to meet you
as old line and old time Democrats. ]
have heard that there is difficulty
among the brethren over here, and |
want to know why citizens OF a proud
and growing little State, and the
daughter of the proudest mother the
sun ever shown on, should be in turmoil.
He reviewed the present constitution
and showed its faults. He said it was
not to be wondered at that the Republi.
cans hold on to this child Of theirs, the
constitution which was adopted by
about 1900 or $1,000 votes and only
500 against it. Men were afraid to vote
against it for fear of prescription If not
i'm prisonment. For under it all sorts
of special laws have been passed. A
Sheriff would break up and his secnr-
ties would 90 to the Legislature and a
law relieving them would be passed.
No matter what law the unscrupu
lous and partisan Governor OF
Legislature of your State might
desire, it could be got under the existing
There should be a
change, and that change the new con-
stitution offers you. 1t offers you the
fullest liberty in life, rights and happi-
ness. Under it you can have no more
test oaths, no more class legislation, no
more registration and no more test
oaths to the young lady who comes to
teach your schools. Suppose the new
should fail, what is there
to prevent the Democratic party from
putting upon you, my Republican
friend, the same registration laws that
you put upon them, and thus prevent
you casting q vote for Grant in Novem'
Der next. want a constitution that
permits no party to put these restraints
upon their fellow men. Some have ob
jected to the taxation clause, but this
section is precisely the same as under
the present constitution with this ex-
ception: when man dies, his grave
shall not be taxed, says the constitution
and this is the only difference in regard
to the Article on taxation.
1t has been urged as an objection to
the constitution that it permitted the
alien to transfer property the same al
the native resident And is not this
right2 Suppose q man comes here
from Germany, Ireland or any Other
foreign country, and buys him little
home, and dies before he becomes nat
uralizpd, should not his wife and family
have the right to that property Shoulc
it 20 to the State? Gentlemen, the ides
that is in opposition to this provision
OF the constitution is the Know Moth
ingism Of 1855 boiled down. tough
Know Nothingism in that year, ami
am prepared to fight it again when ii
comes up as an objection to this pro
vision of the new constitution.
But now to speak Of Gov. Jacob
He claims to be the representative o.
the unbought" Democracy. Un
bought | am "unbought," and be
don't represent me! Twas his friend
but when he bolted the nomination he
was my friend no longer but am the
friend Of as honorable man in all par
ticulars and better man in some, and
III tell you wherein he is better man
he never bolted nomination. Bought
When you attempt to buy up the De.
mocracy who inbabit the cities, and
towns, and mountains Of West Virginis
you have undertaken job that no man
can perform.
If Gov. Jacob knew anything tha
affected the purity of the Democratic
party, why did he not go into the Par
kersburg convention and deuounce and
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