The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-11-30
The Senatorial Question,

The Senatorial Question,
The Democracy are suffering at thi
time from what the French call an ZEN
6cNraS du rickGSse." Having everything
in their own hands in the next LegisIa
ture, they are overrun with great, horde
oil statesmen who desire 10 be elected
Senator. These aspirqnts all have thCil
friends and many OF them have theil
organs. For instance, the Martinsburg
Statesman iavors Mr.. FAULKNER for Sen
stor, which is excusable enough, Tor Mr.
FAULKNER Is one Of the very few mer
who have been named in connection will
the place that are really qualified to I'll
it. He ia in some respects the best quail
fled mah In the State for the position
Judge RAYMOND, Of Fairmont, is the 9th
cr man who could fill the place will
credit, and he and Mr. FAULKNER srt
the two prominent aspiranls from tht
Second District.
The man who has probably the mos
strength Just at this particular time is Mr.
]. N CAMDEN, o; ParRersburg. Hi
strength consists in the fact that he hsl
been twice candidate for Governor, ant
more particularly that he once led theior
lorn hope Of tho party, lin 1868 and thai
he gave his money literally to help tht
cause when II needed help. Outside o.
this record Mr.. CAMDEN has no strength
in himself. He is not lawyer or a mar
Of public affairs like FAULKNER or HAY
MoND. He has however the support o.
the Hon. HENRY G. DAVIS, who is, all
things considered, the slickest and slip
periest manipulation Of legislators in
the State. He has been backing Mr.
CAMDEN for long time past for the pO'
silion, and will no doubt fix several
members from the Second District ior
him. DAVIS recognizes in FAULKNRR's
candidacy cloud bigger than a mans
hand as regards his own future. He Is
shrewd enough to know that il FAULK
NER should bo elected u succeed GOvernoI
FOREMAN the chances are that In 1870
somebody else than himself will be
elected TO succeed the Hon. HRNRY G.
DAVIS, inssmuch as 1t Is not likely thai
the Democracy will suffer the Second
District to monopolize the two Senator
ships. Hefs therefore dead set against
FAULKNER as a candidate, and he is, we
may say, the most formidable obstacle 10
the latter's chances, which, otherwise
would be good. Mr.. FAULKNER, how
ever, is man who knows how 10 help
himself lie has not lived 70 years in
this wicked world Tor nothing. He has
been minister 10 France part Of that time
and when he was over there be studied
the characters and policies OF such con-
sumste:wire workersIss RICHELIRU, and
MAzARIN, and. TALLEYRAND, in the
original, and is therefore fully posted as
10 the arts by which those "heathen
Chimes" overreached everybody they
came in contact with. Witness, Ior
instance, how he "played it, upon poor
BEN MARTIN in the late Congressional
contest, II he had anything like lair
chance at Charleston he would play it up
on CAMDEN and the balance Of the mir
the same way. AS JAMES YELLowPLUsH
was accustomed to remark, "he's ono oI
them ere jockeys as never loses in q
trade" We understand that tho veteran
Chinee has taken rooms at Charleston
for the winter, and that he will entertain
a Ia ST.. Cloud. He will therefore make
matters lively for CAMDEN and DAVIS
As for the Third District. the report Ia
that WALKER is'working up his cauli-
dacy very industriously, but We dn not
see any paper in that region fAVoriDg his
claims. The Point Pleasant Register goes
in for Judge MOORE, which is the most
ridiculous thing VIC have seen in print
since the canvass opened. The Green
brier region Is supposed TO be favorable
TO PRICE, and he and WALKER will no
doubt monopolizs the votes oil the Third
District, Neither oil these however have
any chance worthy Of much attention.
The Democracy nre not ready to commit
such blunder as 10 elect WALKER to the
Senate. There are other members oI the
Legislature besides Messrs. GooD and
JORDAN who are not ready TO swallow
such dose as that. The Democracy can
not afford TO forget the lesson oI the JACOB
revolt inside the party in 1879. WALKER
was Indirectly repudiated in that remark
able campaign, and he is not iu any more
In popular favor now.
The stumbling block in the way Of the
aspirants for Senatorial honors is the
Capital question. The candidates ale Of
course uncertain how to play their cards
They are between scylla and Charybdls
as regards the First and Second Districts
on one side, and the Third District on tho
other. They "could be happy with
either were rolher dear charmer away"
As the time approaches there will be q
fearful amount Of squIrming on this ques'
tion, It has been intimated that Mr.
FAULKNER is looking to tho possibility oil
an alliance with the Third District on
the Capital issue, and VIC shall not be
surprised TO see the report verified.
Things look that way at this time. Time