Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-01-17
A SIGNIFICANT ARTICLE.
The Third District OF West Viz
ginia Versus the Other Two,
Especially the First
/ From the Charleston Courier. j

From the charleston Courier.
Some newspapers published in
the upper part of the State are
talking rather fiercely about the
Third District-her doings and
her deserts. 1t seems that she has
lately taken care OF herself in the
way of preventing the disember-
ment of her territory, and in de-
feating the removal OF the seat of
Government. For this she is to
be punished with the utmost
severity.
All this talk is gasconade. The
Third District ought to have COM
menced some three years ago, to
TAX g care Of her own interests. She
would then have been more
highly respected. Her people
have been constantly called upon
to vote favorable to other sections,
while demanding nothing for
themselves. They have done the
voting for the Democracy in all
the straits of the party, and have
supported several measures and
candidates, not exactly to their
liking, simply to oblige their
brethren in the other parts of the
State. But there has been no
reciprocity, and our people are
beginning to act independently.
Hereafter their votes for appro-
prialions, for measures Of legisla-
ton and for candidates will be
given to those who can honestly
appreciate and faithfully recipro-
cate their good wishes and kind
deeds. They are no longer to be
guAed. They rate at its proper
value, the proposition made them
the other day, after the capital
movers had failed, that the First
District would allow the capital to
remain here if the Third
District would give up Braxton
county. The bargain was all on
one side. Our folks had defeated
the removal, and didn't propose TO
pay the First District for leaving
what she couldn't take away.
1t is said the First District del
egates and Senators will be
exasperated by a refusal on the
part of this District to give them
anything and everything they
want. We understand their eX-
ASPIRATION. We carried for them
the contest out of which came the
right of some of them to sit in our
public halls, and their first act was
to try TO cut our throats, in a polit-
ical way. We expect them to do
all that can be done, TO keep the
people of this section of the State
harnessed to the Democratic car,
we to pull and they to ride and
drive That sort of thing will
not be submitted TO, and while we
are about it, we may as well say
that if the portion of the State
which has taken upon itsefto send
us our great statesmen, continues
to put men in the legislature who
have no more idea of laws than
a yoke of steers, and no better un-
Outstanding than John Robinson's
Rhinoceros, the people not only
of this, but of all sections of the
State, will feel safer and happier
in seeing the Government menag-
erie placed under different man
agement. When we ask for leaders
don't give us logs We have now
in our possession number of
bills upon subjects of great general
importance, and involving vast
public interests, out of which it
would be as difficult to extract an
intelligent meaning as it would to
charge a galvanic battery from
the tail of a lightning bug. And
these woful mutilators of the Ian
guage are made to represent, in
the public estimation, the brains
and research of the Democratic
party. If our friends in the upper
end would do themselves and the
State a service, let them send their
"eminent statesmen" to the rear
and choose for their legislators
men whose genius does not eXalt
them beyond the realm of COM
mon sense. Less pretension;more
merit. Less bosh; more brain.
Less demagoguery; more back
bone.
If that section ofthe State which
has undertaken to furnish the
Democratic party with its mental
force, will only live up to It's con-
tract On the sections will come to
a better understanding, and peace
among the brethren will be much
more prevalent.