The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-04
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

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DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
An elaborate editorial article intend.
ed to express the opinion entertained
BY the Republican party in this State
concerning its late allies, the Jacobites,
appears in the West Virginia Journal
OF last week. The Journal is publisbed
in Charleston and is the chief paper ot
the Radical party in the Third District
and indeed contests with Governor
S1EvENsoSs Journal the honors OF
party leadership in the State. The ar.
ticle alluded to sets forth very frankly
and undisguisedly the present political
situation. aud speaks very plainly OF
some things which have been only
biuted at by the Wheeling IntelNgeneer
aud the Clarksburg Telegraph.
'RecountiDg the history Of last years
campaign the Jouraa! admits that the
Republicans, being in hopeless minor
ity, could only expect to succeed by
dividing the Democratic party.
,'%"Tbey took sides for this purpose
with the independent wing Of that party,
but without taking part with either,
farther than was necessary for tue di-
vision OF the, party and the destruction
of their plans. The Republicans 10
this state OF things declined to make a
State ticket looking tor an independent
ticket which they could cid 10 the divi-
sion and destruction OF the dominant
party Get on evil. The expected event &C.
CURED and they threw their entire vote
with the Independent ticket, MT because
IL pas more Republican or less Democrat
&c or more honest, but because it was the
proper wedge for the times with which
to split the log"
There is here confessed precisely
what was charged upon the
Republicans last fell by those who
were laboring to maintain the organiza-
ton OF the Democratic party. So far
as the Republicans were concerned, it
was a campaign of falsehood and de-
ceit. They pretended to sympsthize
with the Independents and shouted
thsaselves hoarse in denunciation Of
The supposed wrong Inflicted upon Cow
ethor JACOB BY the failure Of the Con-
vention to renominate him, and affected
to believe him the personifcation OF
honesty, while all who opposed him
were denounced as monsters of vice.
They now cody confess that they be-
lieyed che JAooB ticket no more hon
est" than that regularly nominated, but
they found they could make use Of ii
for a certain purpose. What that pur.
pose was and what Tie bargain was is
set forth as follows:
"Republicans ure assured ifMey tfre'c
TIER entire vote ,cith The Independent tick-
Ct the Independents would be silent upon
the question of rejection or adoption Of the
ne,0 constitution, which was the great
evil at which they intended to strike.
The republicans kept their promise to a
man; the Independents almost to a
man broke theirs, and their bad faith
fixed the new constitution with its Of
ficials who had sided with the enemies
of their party upon the State"
We heard a great deal during the
campaign about mythical CAMDEN
ring" Does not this look as though
there was 70 JACOB ring" somewhere ?
Who "aesured' Republicans that the
JACOB men were willing to bar
gain away their right to a
free opinion as to the merits
OF the new Constitution Who claimed
10 have authority to make a bargain sc
shameful and corrupt? We can now
very well understand Governor JACOBS
reluctapce to define his opinion con-
corning the Constitution. We can now
understand how it was that his friends
10 the eastern portion Of the State were
assured that he favored ratification,
because they never would have voted
for him otherwise; while in Radica
neighborhoods the report was curren
that the Governor was IN favor OF re-
lection.
II Governor JACOB made any sucl
promis as that referred to by the Jorna
(and We are much inclined TO brlievt
that he did 90 promise, he must have
done % without proper reflection Oh
with the intention o;violating bis word
He could not fail to see that the defea
OF the Constitution, the very echeme h
had promised to aid, would be death 4
him. II the Constitution were rejec.et
bis election as Governor "wouldn'
count" II the independents had KEEP
their promise. they would simply hav
sawed Of. the limb they were sitting
on, ard the Radicals would have laugh
ed Il tben fall. The bargain SCENE Il
have beer one in which each part.
fully intended to cheat the other, and
in which It xas necessary to cheat ii
order to win, and the two were bsnde'
together to cheat the people Of tn
State. The result is tina
the e" Republican leaders til
parties most active in the disreputaol'
business, were the victims in the gam
ol duplicity. The JACOB men oonsnm