The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-12
FROM HARDY COUNTY.
The Second Congressional District
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IN 8ehaIf Of Judge HOge.

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Editors OF the Register.
Several communications have appeared
in your paper recently in regard to who
should be the Democratic nominee for
Congress from this district, which did
great injustice to Judge Hoge and the
people or this side OF the mountains. In
one of these communications, Judge Hoge
was charged with violating the Constitu.
ton, which he aided in framing, by beng
q candidate for the Congressional noml-
nation. Now, it seems TO me, when such
An argument Us this is resorted to, the
people who want some one else for our
nominee arc hard up for something to
say. The merest school boy ought to be
able to give more reasonable and sensi-
bic interpretation to our Constitution than
this. The Constitution does not and
could not, mean anything more than that
when judge accepts any other office, he
simply vacates the office of judge.
II Judge Hoge should receive the NOM
ination for Congress, he will at once re-
sign his position OF judge. He will in
no sense violate either the letter or spirit
of the Constitution in doing this. The
trainers OF the Constitution never IN.
tented or meant that judge should be
less free man than other people. To say
that a Judge can't receive nomination
from the people whilst judge is to say
that the Constitution is nonsense. No one
ever dreamed of its meaning anything OF
the kind. Those who want MIR. Martin
nominated could find nothing else to say
against Judge Hoge, and hence this most
absurd objection. This same objection
was argued years ago against Judge
Trumbull, when he was elected to the
Senate of the United States. Most
people thought his case had forever set
tied this question. Chief Justice Chase
was strongly urged for the Presi-
dency, and no one ever even
hiated at there being anything
wrong in his allowing his name to be
used. Judge Davis was recently strongly
urged for the same high position, and no
one said he was violating any law or
constitution in permitting the use of his
name. 1t is small business for the
friends of Mr.. Martin to be engaged in.
1t is only done TO prejudice some people
against Judge Hoge.
In another one Of these communica-
lions the people on this side ofthe noun
tains are represented as being
SELFISH AND MEAN
in wanting all the offices; they are called
Bourbons. etc. Now. we on this side do
not desire the nomination of Judge Hoge
simply because he lives on this side.
Such thought never has entered into the
mind of any ore Of his friends.
His nomination is urged because
oil his ability and unbendlng integrity.
We want him on this account and not
because he happens to live on this side
OF the mountains. They have good men,
able men, on the other side, but
unfortunately they have not been put
forward for the nomination for Congress,
for people want an able, heightened man
to represent US IN Congress- man OF
independence of thought and action, not
one who would sit quietly and hear his
party abused as Mr.. Martin did in the
late conferencein Baltimore and never say
n word. We people on this side of the
mountains don't recognize that any man
has claims to the Congressional or any
other nomination. Judge Hoge set up
NO CLAIMS TO THE NOMINATION.
His friends Sc: up none tor him, but
they put him forward upon
his merits, because they know
he is good man, one who
would reflect honor on the district. This
is the reason, and the only reason. He
has been as faithful TO the party, and has
done rs much hard work for it rs any
other man in its ranks, but he did not
do it for, or in hopes of reward; ne did it
from principle, and claims no credit for IT.
His friends don't ask this nomination
for him to pay him for being Democrat,
but they ask it because they believe 1t
would rebound to the great and lasting
good of the party and the district. Such
arguments rs have been used against
him in this canvass could only
COME FROM SMALL MEN.
| pity the man who seeks to secure
the nomination for Congress from
this or any other district by
attempting to create bad feeling be.
tween the people who happen to live
in the different ends of the district.
would not give much for such democra-
CIV. No particular section of the district
has any more right to the candidate than
another. Wedon't claim any such right
on this side, and deny the right claimed
on the other side. We say take the
best man always, no matter where he
comes from. We think that Judge Hoge
is the best man and therefore uge his |
nomination. lie is tho candidate of no
but Of the whole people on
this side. He is not II candidate from
choice, but because of the urgent and
pressing solicitation of his friends, and |
these friends have urged and insisted on
his becoming candidate because they
CONSIDER HIM THE BEST MAN
for the place in the district.
There are plenty OF men
west of the mountains for whom the
people on this side would vote with pleas
lre, but Mr.. b. +. Martin is not one Of
Them. We don't want him and will not
support him in the convention. We
claim this as our right, and we mean to
exercise 1t too. We do not consider that
he has any claim on the party any more
han hundreds of other men. Because
he was unjustly turned out Of Congress
BY the Radicals don't give HIM any claim
lpor the party. He presented his bill
o Congress and every cent he thought
ne was entitled to was paid him. What
more can or ought he to ask?
One thing is very certain, the
friends of Judge Hoge will not
appeal to the passions or the
,reiudices of sections To secure his nomi-
will not attempt to array
me end of the district against the other
or this purpose. They have too much
RESPECT FOR THEIR MAN,
md too much regard for the success and
of the party and its glorious
principles to do this. Judge Hoge is
presented solely upon his merits. We
believe the party wants its best men