The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-08-27
WEST VIRGINIA.

The latest returns from Westp Virginia
would indicate the reelection of Governor
Jacobs by much larger majority than we
were incliped to anticipate from the first
favorable returns. The Greeley organs are
trying very hard to show that there is no
political significance in the result, but this
would not have been the tenor Of their harp
strings had the result been as they " conf
IDENTIFY expected" before the election. "Old
Probabilities" has made few mistakes of
late, but he says it is owing to the failure
of local returns, and that as soon as he can
get all the wires so arranged that they shall
faithfully chronicle results, he will guarantee
every probability" precisely as he gives it
before hand.
Now there is no use in denying what is
a fixed and incontrovertible fact. The re-
election of Governor Jacobs by a heavier
majority than his most enthusiastic friends
could have anticipated in advance, is deci-
dcdly a pronounced anti-Greeley victory /;
for the reason that the present Democratic
+, organization in that State is controlled by
the extreme Southern wing of the party,
and the so-called $ Liberal" recalcitrants
gave their entire sympathy and support to
that extreme wing. The struggle was
square contest between Greeleyisin and
anti-Greeleyism, and would have been so
chronicled by the Tribune and the
whole Democratic press Of the country
the Greeleyized portion of it, we mean
had the result been as " Old Probabilitiesn
confidently predicted.
Now, the point to which we desire to di-
rect the attention Of the Conservative press
D in this State is this that precisely what
has occurred in West Virginia can be real
lied in this State and in every other State
South, in spite of all the political leaders, if
Democrat of character and commanding
abilities Shall throw himself into the wake
ofpublic opinion and raise the anti-Greeley
standard high above the passions and pre-
JUDGES Of the hour. 1t only wants
strong, resolute and determined man to
breast the current, and full nine-tenths of
the Conservative party will go with him for
any position he may seek to COM
mand. The people are not in this
Greeley movement, and will only go
it because it is a bitter pill which
they can see no escape from taking. We
can name man in almost every Congress
.sional district in this State, who, if he were
to come out 1at-footed against Greeley,
and take the stump for Congress as an in
dependent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of all
conventions and nominating cliques, would
be elected by decisive majority over any
and all pro-Greeley competitors. 1t
wants man of nerve, pluck and character
to do it, and the success that would crown
his efforts would not only elect him to
Congress, but would make lin the aert
Governor Of the State, in spite of all caucus
combinations and arrangements. The peo-
pie arc ripe for such movement on the
part Of our ablest public men. King eau
Gus has vouehsafed them candidates of such
calibre that a feeling of disgust is almost
universal in the. public heart and mind.
What resolute and determined Democrat
mot one of your Walke3zed sort, but an
unflinching true blue-is ready to step into
the field for the Govenorship in '73, rails
ing the anti-Greeley standard, and bearing
it high above the passions and prejudces of
the hour, as well as over the head of King
Caucus, whose sceptre the people are every
where Disguised with as the most infamous
and unprincipled one under which free
people were ever swayed? Who is the
" coming man" of the State? 1t is the
man who takes the position we have indi-
Gated.
WE would call the attention of the tenn