The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-05
LETTER FROM BARBOUR.
Pair Play" Answered-Mr. Faux
ner will be Supported by the United
Democracy.
Editors Of the Register:

Editors Of the Register:
Your issue of the 29th ult., contains an
article from "Fair Play" He says Of
himself, Il am young man, and have
voted with the Democratic party at all
the elections since l have had a vote
Certainly that has not been long. Did
he not imply that he has voted at least
once. Few thinking men would ever
suspect him to be very aged. They
would in charity hope this effort was the
/ first essay of his boyhood.
No member of the Piedmont Conven-
ton will corrobOrate the greundless as
sertion of Fair Play that HMr. Faulkner
received the nomination by intrigue
This youth says, Mr.. Martin is too hon
orable to "desire q nomination by any
unfair means But does he pretend to
intimate by implication, that it is al un-
fair means of election to canvass a
district? If Mr.. Faulkner thoroughly
canvassed," and Mr.. Martin did not, the
former is entitled to any advantages this
may have given him.
This young man ought to open his eyes.
| His opinion is MS oracle, but not the
oracle of the Democratic party. The fact
! that majority of the Democrats in the
! Second Congressional district, presented
! and nominated Mr.. Faulkner in
open convention should suggest to
, Fair PLAY that hcmay be mistaken as to
what constitutes an honorable high
minded Democrat That these qualities
inhere in Mr.. Faulkner, the Democracy
of the District have asserted by their
unanimous vote in making him their
standard bearer.
! The thrust of Fair Play at the Presi-
! ident of the Convention is as unkind us
it is unjust Perhaps Fair Play
would have made an efficient president,
/ but most men would consider him too
yo~Mg.
The president of the convention was a
duly appointed delegate from his county,
! and, rs such, had the same right to travel
100 miles to show his Partially AS did
the other delegates from Ran
! dolph county, who voted for Mr..
! Martin. No man can question the
right of either. If the President did
wrong to show his preference, the others
| did wrong to show their preference.
The fact is, and if he be not too young,
! Fair PLAY knows it, the vote OF Randolph
county in convention was very fair
expression of its popular sentiment.
Mr. Martin was presented and defeat
ed and we his friends must submit. Mr..
Faulkner was presented and nominated,
we must and will support and elect him.
There is no half way stand to be- taken.
The Democrats must elect their nominee
or bolt. Tovote for m,Y other ,aan than
Mr.. Faulkner Is 10 bolt. TO bolt is to
please the Republicans, to ignore pru-
dcncc, to disintcgratc the party. TO do
these things is to insure defeat; and to
be defeated in this district is II disgrace.
The gihbcriSh about the packed Con
vention at Piedmont SmaCks Of "sour
grapes Had the present nominee been
defeated this young man would kncvcr
have known that fruit was acid. None
but the disappointed ever complain that
the grapes are sour.
Ia response to the call of Fair
Play the young men Of the dis
trct propose to join the old men
and show him, and all who play
with him, that their manner of playingiS
foul. There are but two political parties
in this country Men are known by the
party with which they cooperate. The
Democracy of the Second Congressional
district intend TO corporate with the
Democratic party, and as an evidence of
this, they will stand together and follow
the example so nobly given by Mr.. Mar
tin himself, when he moved to make the
nomination of Mr.. Faulkner unanimous.
.,. QUELQU' IN.