The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-10-22
GhaGnteAiqEnten:
The Canvass In Virginia.

paign gong on IN the oiu
psrAtory to the election for State oihcerE
next Tuesday week. Two ex'Conieder-
s,es head the two tickets as candidates
hr Governor. The Republicans are run
ming Col. HUGHES, once raging seces
.ion writer on the Richmond Examiner
and the Conservatives Or Coniederates, o.
Democrats, as they are variously called
are led by General KEApER, who figured
more or less prominently as an officer II
the rebel army during tha war.
Since the canvass Of 1869, known as tht
WALKER campaign, there has been nc
such political excitement in Virginia as
The contest now going on. The Rich
mond papers are full of it. Our two ex-
changes from there, the Wig and Dis
match, are both supporters Of KEMrER, as
are the most prominent papers in the
State. They pour hot shot into the
lUouEs ticket and especially into HUGHES
himself. The Rhig has been oyerhauling
his record as q member Of the editorial
staff Of the Examiner, which was JonN
NJ. DANIELS paper, during the war. The
extracts quoted are unpleasant reading
We fancy to HUGHES at this time. OF
course he had not the least idea when he
wrote them that he ever would be q Re.
publcan candidate for Governor of Viz.
ginia. No indeed. ais thy servant q dog
that he should do this thing" Alas for
HuGuEs that the future was sealed book
to him, for he is now so inconyeniently
and distressingly quotable against him
self.
The Wing quotes what he said about
the negroes during the war. That Is hard
on HUGHES for he expects Of course two
thirds of his support FROM the negroes.
Then it quotes what he said about the
Jews, and that Is hard, too, for Richmond
has many of that persuasion dwelling
within It's limits. 1t also quotes what he
said about the Quakers and the Demo.
Gratis at the time he favored impressing
them into the rebel service.
On the other hand the friends of
HUGuEs allege that he did not write these
specific articles. But the Whig contends
that they were in harmony with his gen.
eral course as writer on the Examiners
staff. or course the Coloners friends
have 10 admit that he was an out and out
Secessionist; but in doing so they claim
that he is all right now, just as MosBY,
the guerilla, is all right, and just as
LoNdsTREET and Ex-senator FooTE, and
many others, are now right, who were
once wrong.
1t is expected that the negroes will
vote the HUGHES ticket with great una.
nimity, and that tho whites will vote for
KEMrER with equal, if not greater, una
nimity. There is o sort OF balance OF
power somewhere among the whites that
both are cOntending for. 1t locks TO US as II
the KEMPER men would win it. They ap'
pear to have the elan, as the French say,
on their side. They have on their side
that innumerable host OF stump speakers
that always come 10 the surface in Viz.
ginia in great contest like this one. Vir.
nina abOunds with Captains, and CO.
lOnels, and Generals, and legions Of law
yers, men Of all sorts Of titles, who are
famous Tor their rhetoric, and who delight
In such an opportunity for airing their
talents. Their souls are always in arms
aud eager for the fray. They are like tho
Hibernian poet, they always have a
grievance in The wrongs and suferiDgs OF
their oppressed and afflicted country.
And these they can cxpatlate upon, W orld
without end.
Poor HUGuEs, althoug h q native of tho
soil, can not vie with these troubadours in
thus coming to the beach like "poor
exile Of Erin" and declaimlng against the
alien rule Of the Goths and Vandals, alias
tho carpet baggers, whose iron heels are
upon the necks Of the first families in the
regular old "sic semper tyrannis" style
that we sec in the pictures OF the State
seal. On the contrary he has to run the
gauntlet wherever he goes Of the frowns
and scowls Of the supposed respectability
Of the State. He has TO see and hear
himself denounced as an alien-a deserter
-sjudas, a mercenary,a a scallawag, and
anything and everything that is un.Vir.
sinian, and consequently undesirable in
its character. But such is the price Of
glory and likewise Of Inconsistency.
But Col. HuauEs political record is
not his only draw back in this canvass
now going on. It seems he Is liable to
The pains and penalties Of the anti.ducll-
ing provisions of the Constitution of Vir.
gtnia. This discovery has been made al
helast hour oi the compaigr and is al
laded TO in our dispatches this morning.
lie was the bearer Of a challenge on the
1OIh day Of July 1870, and the act Of As
saOly provided that any citizen Of Vir.
slnia who, after the 26th day Of January
Of that year should send or convey a
Challenge, either as principal or second,
should be disqualified from voting or hold.
lns any office in the Commonwealth.
There seems to be no doubt that the Col.
Old convey an unmistakable challenge on
The day and year above stated. The hos
ule correspondence Is published in full in
heNew York Herald Of Monday and YET
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