The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-24
OUR CoNaREssIONAL ELECTION.

gress. Personally Mr. SCoTr IL an
amisble, well-meaning, inottenslve
sort Of person, who out
side of his politics would not hurt any
body if he could, and-if he were not
such delightfully."- infsatiie kind OF
statesman of whom it were cruel to speak
with severity-we might add, who could
not hurt anybody if he would. At any
rate Mr.. SCOTT, who was being impressed
with the certainty of his defeat,
and whose mind has been going
through course of preparation
for the doom that awaits him
has done nothing to deserve at the
hands of his party the cruel treat
ment they give him, in feeding him with
false hopes and fattering him with de-
lusive pictures fhis prospects. Nobody
knows better than the editor of the IN
telligencer that SCOTT is thousand votes
weaker in this District than GoFF, and
that Wilson is q thousand votes stronger
in the District than when he defeated
GoFF two years ago. And yet that paper
is actually imposing on the guleless
innocence of the little rose-water states
man from Richie, assurances 20 the con-
trary, and no doubt inducing SCOTT TO
confde in them. A more barbarous
proceeding could scarcely be imagined
Backing up these assurances, come
such attacks upon Col. WILSON as that
VIII ch is elsborstely psrsded in the Intei-
ltgencer of yesterday morning.
The objection of Confederate
proclivlties" is one which |
has been urged with constantly Iessening |
effect, by the Mtsttigencer, against every
prominent Democratic candidate IN the |
State for the past ten years. And yet
we have all seen that paper swallowing
those objections and supporting the men
against whom it had urged them most .
tiercely, as in the case OF MIR.
DAVIS and Governor JACOB. This proves
that our cotemporsry hiu.self takes no
stock in his own talk about "rebels" and
rebellion. =" and that he can hope to i'm
pose only on the densest ignorance and
credulity that can be found in the
country.
Then we have some discussion about the
50 called "rebel claims" which in their
desperation the Republican leaders are
holding up to scare the people into giving
them another lease of power and plunder
and villsiny. 1t is no use to mince this
matter. 1t would be suppressing the
truth were we not to assert that the
Mtsliigencer knows that 1t states what Is
false when it undertakes to connect
Colonel WILSON or the Democratic House
of Representatives, with any purpose or
measure to pay one dollar of money for
losses incurred in support of the re-
bellion. The editor of that paper, II he
have common information enough to
write tor newspaper, knows that the
last Republican House of Representa-
tives allowed and aided in paying South
ern claims by the million, while the
present House has never allowed, nor
has Colonel WILSON voted to allow, one
cent for any claim or loss, on account OF
the rebellion, to any man in sympathy
Herewith. The editor OF that paper
further knows. If he have the
very limited intelligence needed to edit
a Republican organ in the interest of Re
publican roguery, that JAMES G'
R,ArSr himself introduced in the last
House of Representatives the most prom
inent, preposterous and obnoxious bill
for the pay yment of a "Rebel claim" that
could be found in the whole list consid-
cred and rejected by the Democratic
House of Representatives. And yet IN
nIsin disregard of the record and of pop
ular common sense, the Inteltige"cer
faunts its flaming fslsehoods about "Rebel
debts" before the public, reckless alike o'
self-respect and the commonest decencieS
of political wsretare.
This Confederate bus iness, so Tar as 1t
relates to Colonel WILSON, WAS all sim.
plitied and discussed by the lntettigsncer
and other Republican newspapers two
wears ago. The people, by their
votes, pronounced every charge
utterly false. They elected Col.
WILSON. He has made his record.
That record is one continued retutation
of the buried fslsehOods which the Re-
publican organs in their des-
perst,on have resurrected against
him. The people have tried
him. and in spite of the vigor with which
be is assailed those who may have
wsvered and doubted in 1874, doubt no
longer.
This demsgoguery about the success Of
Democracy being the triumph OF rebel
lion with lis ideas, its measures and Its
claims Is one for which, in common with
sensible people generally, We have con-
tempt which respect for our readers will
not permit to be fully exepressd in these
columns and that contempt reaches not
r,a-o,r tho demseoguerv. but the dema-