The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-12
At'hesliag gegister.
The First Congregational Distrie'-
Mr.. CrIsweil's Resignation.

H.ysoS CRIswEIL, ESQ, withdrawing
from the candidacy in this District
What private reasons may have induced
tbi, step we do not know, but we dc
know that by CRIswELLs Withdrawal
the Republicans have lost the best op
portunity Of securing Republican
member of Congress from this District
that they are likely to have during the
mex, ten years. Unless some other
Republican should step in at the open
loor and receive the solid Republican
vote. the election Of Democrat to
r-nresent this District is toregone
conclusion. The member OF Congress
will be either Colonel WILSON or MIR.
DAVIS with the chances decidedly In
favor of the former. Mr. WILSON, as
The REGULAR Democratic nominee, repre-
,rnting the sentiment Of the party In
r,Istion to Federal affairs and support
ing the nominees Of the Democratic
National Convention. will receive the
almost solid vote of his party. Mr..
DAVIS, as an independent candidate
opposing GREELEY, opposing GRANT,
opposing the Constitutional amend
meats, opposing everything that wears
,be semblance of Republicanism, is
catering for Radical votes. 1t is
impossible for him to receive the
support Of any but the politicians
who have been bargaining with
him. They heve made contracts that
,bey cannot fulfill. They have pre-
tended to sell the whole Republican
party, but they will find it difficult to
deliver the goods.
But we started to speak Of Mr.. CRIs-
WELL. We received, last Saturday, from
Mr.. C. an address Ito the Republican
voters of the First Congressional Dis
rict." An examination Of the manu-
script explained to us the reason why it
WAS sent to this office rather than to the
iafslliqeacsr, and we had the document
in type and were counting largely upon
the sensation" its publication would
produce. But, last night, shortly before
the hour OF going to press, we were
waited upon by a messenger from
Moundsville bearing note from
Mr. CRIswELL requesting that the ad-
dress be omitted from publication. We
were sorry for this, for it really con-
lained some things that were quite too
good to be lost and which the Republl,
can voters Of the District would have
keenly relished and warmly endorsed.
For instance, it said, in denunciation
Of the refusal OF the managers to per-
nit the assembling of Republican
Congressional Convention:
Has it come to this, that three
or four gentlemen with the Wheeling
lqxiHqsncsr at the head (the hireling
OF John J. Davis) can strangle your
convictions OF right and duty, deny you
the right OF being heard in matter
where the most vital principle is at
stake, and force you into the support Of
a man who ia unwilling to accept the
results of the war and who to-day is
the bitterest and most hostile enemy to
Republican ideas of any man in the
nation. Against Mr.. Davis personally
| have nothing to say. recognize him
ss q high-minded, honorable gentle
man, who may be honest in his extreme
notions of State rights" and his uncom-
promising and determined opposition to
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and FIT.
teenth Constitutional amendments. Mr..
Davis unless he is willing to fslsify the
record he made in his last canvass,
stands pledged to the undoing OF every
thing that has been accomplished by
the Republican party in the last ten
wears and stands firmly on the old ex-
ploded dogmas contained in the resolu-
lions of '9S and '99. He refuses to fol-
low his party in the support Of Greeley
because he detests and sbominates his
record as Republican. While he is
quite anxious for your votes, he has no
sympathy Tor your cause; if 80 1t has
never been publicly expressed. Voting
Tor Mr.. Davis as Republicans involves
a surrender of the principles for which
we a. party have ever contend
ed. Can these principles which have
been emblazonei on our folds and which
have been baptized in the blood Of our
iallen heroes be surrendered for such
paltry considerations? | appeal to you,
rs Republicans, as men governed by
principle, and ask you. are you pre-
pared to invest with political power the
man who would scorn to embrace q
single Republican idea and who is only
pandering for your votes that his power
may he increased to destroy your party
and your principles.
All this would have been very good
reading for the Republican voters OF
the District if Mr.. CRIswELL had per-
mitted its publication, but, as the mat
ter now stands, they will probably be
deprived of the benefit of the sound
truth he tells and will disregard the
earnest appeal he makes. The fact is
Mr.. CRIswRLL is a Republican from
principle, and has no sympathy with
the miserable shysters who are trying
to deliver the votes they have already
sold. Upon this point he says:
IL am to-day candidate because
love Republican principles. Fol