The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-09-22
LETTER FROM HANCOCK.
The GOfites, d" Pure and Simple .
Political News.
FA1RvIEw, HANCOCK COUNTY,

FAIRvIEw, HANCOCK COUNTY, !
September u, 1874.
Editors of the Register.
The GoffiteS are to have a meeting in
the Court House in this place on the 9th
of October, when they will be addressed
bv their champion, the General, whom
war hath left unbloodcd, but not un-
moneyed "Gottites,' that is the right
word for surely they are not Radicals,
seeing that Gof, and very many of the
Gotfites are very far from having the
distinguishing characteristic OF the Radi-
cal. which enables him to bear up under
the fun burden Of the civil rights bill.
And very sure the GOfiites are not Demo-
Gratis; they no more could be than could
the BourbOns of Continental Europe and
the toadies of the Bourbens be Demo-
Gratis and honest friends of the people.
They are Gotfites, pure and simple no
more, no less.
In the announcement for the meeting
referred to, it is said that "Ilon. John :.
Csrlile, the celebrated "Stumper,' to-
gether with other noted orators, etc
Now, here is name, "Stumper,' that we
do not think happily applied. The
Artful Dodger' WAS an excellent eplthet
for the Jew Fagin's boy, because the
epithet was highly descriptive; and cpl
,hets applied to persons should have rel
evsncy to character, or should have as
sociation with something with which the
person to whom it is applied holds noto
rrious connection. Now, had the an
nouncement aforesaid proclaimed that
the Hon. John S. Carlile, the celebrated
Cotswold ram" or 'the world-renowned
Devon bull" or 'the unrivalled Berk-
shire boar" would speak in our court
house, etc, there would have been fitness
and pertinency in the words. But how
lame and impotent to hitch on to the
name of Carlile (the cast-away and medi-
cant of every party Of the past genera
ton of Virginia and West Virginia.
the irrelevsnt title of "Stumper!'
You NAV perhaps have noticed that
the Radicals of this county, in their
county Convention, appointed, among
their delegates to the Wheeling Con-
grcssional Convention, several hitherto
well known Democrats-among them
such men As State Senator John Cum
nincham and Samuel Murray. If your
readers all we'll knew these men person
/ allv. there would not be the least neces-
s,ty for my saying that they were very
far from regarding such an appointment
as a compliment, and very far from Civ
ing countenance or attendance to any
such mongrel black-and-tan assem-
blace as that which met Ill hamilton
Opera House on the Sd inst. The fact
IS, Senator Cunningham and that
genial and sensible gentleman, Samuel
Murray, are only fair represent
atives Of a class Of Democrats who some
times differ from the mass OF their party,
but never desert it-only in the too crra-
tive imagination of despairlng and nard-
y pressed Radicals. Whenever party
has the blind-staggers as bad as the K"dN
OF West Virginia have 'em, you must
make great allowances for what they do
ana profess; SO you can just depend on
H. mat all those Democrats OF hancock
county, Of whom the two gentlemen
named are representatives, Will just 90
right along, like all the other Democrats
OF the State will do, and vote for Ben
Wilson, VIM. NJ. Lee, and the eternal
anniGiIa''on Of the party Of high moral
Local news is scarce. On the lVth
INST. the marriage of Mr.. Frank SPivey
ana MISS Lucie Sproule, oldest daughter
OF hush oproulc, ESQ, of this place oc>
CURED. CAMILLus.