The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-16
A FIG FOR SUCH EASTERN DEMO.
Gratis.

Mr.. MNrtln the SnOI0e OI the FeOpIe
The D~magoxues 10 the Contrary
Notwithstanding,
Editors Re Sister.
If we are not greatly mistaken the
services ofthe political fool-killer are very
much in demand in the immediate vicin-
ity of Moorefeld just at the present time,
Judging from the tenor of certain COM
munication that appeared in last Satur-
days REGISTER.
1t is evident that the writer imagir ed
but is APPARENTLY unconscious of the pres
..nce of huge beam in his own, and is
simple enough to believe that he can
hoodwink the good people of this district
By throwing around certain sinister
d signs gosssmer film Of professed
honesty, which even the most astute
mind can easily penetrate. lie charges
oilers with stirring up sectional strife
with selfish motives when that is the
very business in which he himself
is engaged. He is another veriication
OF that homely truth taught by 1Esop,
that a lions skin cannot cover jack.
ASS ears, and that there is vast differ
ence between the melancholy way of the
one and the terror-striking roar OF the
other. This difference he would do we'll
to study. He comedies that we have
good men for Congress on this side of
tue mountains, yet he does not bring
them forward nor advocate their nomi.
nation. 1t is the whole Hog (e) or none
with him. Why pretend otherwise2 He
only made this concession as piece of
bombastic tlsttery to fool somebody, if
possible, believing at the same time that
all the intelligence of the State was con-
contracted in the snout and tail of the
mesgre remnant of the +. +. VS. that
still linger in the eastern panhandle, in
comparison with whom we are all noun.
tain boosters over here. Teanks be to the
Democratic party, we are not all disfran-
chised.
A VACANT JUDGEsHIP
appears to be in demand, and that, no
doubt, makes Judge Hoge the best man
in the district for another position.
Ii he has other qualifications that make
him superior to other men they are yet
unknown to the public.
If Hoge is good judge the people
had better retain his services rs such,
rather than run the RISK of having his
place filled by legal numbskull. And
II the ludgeship is profitable position
brother Hoge would do well 10 remem.
Der that bird in the hand is worth two
in the bush. We have class of free.
dom loving Democratic voters on this
side Of the mountains, to which the
writer of this article belongs, who, in
different to the party lash take great de-
light in spotting just such political
tricksters and the low tools who do their
bidding: We prefer an honest Repub-
lican to Democratic wire-puller aud
though heretofore opposed to Mr.. Martin
are ready in this campaign to give
him cordial support simply be-
cause he hxs shown himself in
capable of STOPPING to those unbecoming
tricks that are so characteristic of the
half way politicians beyond the noun
tsins. The contemplate insinusiions
thrown out by the gentleman against the
private character of Mr.. Martin. who is
in every respect the peer OF Mr.. Hoge,
except that he lacks all traits of the
Affected style of the dnte-6eil,m Goldfish
aristocracy of Old Virginia. is sstisfac-
tory proof that
"Men that make
Envy and crooked malice nourishment,
Dare bite the best"
and deserves and will no doubt receive
ut the proper time the hearty rebuke of
every honorable Democrat in this dis
trict. Mr.. Martin when in conference
at Baltimore acted precisely as any
Christian statesman ought TO do under
like circumstances, namely, kept his
mouth closed when tie opening of
it would have been injurious to
the cause Of Christianity and ofno benefit
to the Democratic party. Because some
OF the ministers Of the Methodist church
disgraced their calling by mixing their
politics and religion, that is no reason
why Mr.. Martin should do likewise. On
this occasion he exhibited a rare good