The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-19
GILMER COUNTY.
Doings at Court, and Political
Affairs,
GrvNvIrrr ,Sapfamhar ID

GLENvILLE, September IA.
Editors of the Register: ,,'-
The Circuit Court of Gilme1 count,
convened on the 18th of September, anc
alter charging the grand jury, the judg'
gave away to the different candidates
and political speakers that we're present
that the issues of the day might be dis
cussed. '.i
Colonel Ben. Wilson was first to lead
of, and for one hour entertained tht
audience with speech that no opponent
could have detracted from or lessened by
all the srtifice or trickery common to the
Republican political harsnguers and
harsssers of the present day.
The Colonel was followed by Mr.. Il. r.
Fleming, who personated Mr.. Scott, and
for the bad cause that Fleming had to
defend, done remarkably we'll.
Colonel Wilson followed in a three
fourths OF an hour reply, End from the
enthusiasm and cheering that followed,
it is reasonable to conclude that not less
than five.sixths of those present were ad
lnirers, and would be voters of Col. Will
son. 1t is claimed by the leading DEM
ocrats ot the county that old Gilmer will
give three hundred Democratic majority
this tall. nL. ~. q. 1'.. ..
Messrs. Wilson and Fleming were fol-
lowed by Messrs. Turner and Maxwell,
candidates for the State Senate, and II
the discussion is fair test of the men,
we bespeak for Mr.. Turner very large
majority. When Judge Maxwell was
charged with being the originator,
schemer, and planner of the distranchis-
ing amendment to the Radical constitu.
ton, and the father of test oaths and reg
istration acts, his embarrassment bespoke
for him that he would have liked for the
hills and mountains TO have closed in upon
him, and hide him from public gaze.
We fee no hesltancy in saying that
if the Democratic party is true to itself
and does not suffer the Republicans to
dlsorgahize and deceive it, Mr.. Turner
is sure of success, and that by very
large majority.
Messrs. Wilson, Fleming, Turner and
Maxwell having consumed the day IN
discussion, the night was lett for Colonel
Ben. Byrne, who made very interest
ing and ,entertalning speech Of more than
two hours.
After the consumption of both night
and day in political speaking, the people
still seemed clamorous for information
and instruction on the great issues of the
day, and with long, loud and unanimous
appeals to what they termed the wheel
horse of Democracy, they extorted from
Judge e. d. Camden a promise that he
would address them at noon on the next
day. In pursuance of the promise,
Judge Camden assembled the rostrum
of the court room, and In
one of his telling speeches made an
impression upon his hearers that time
will not erase or memory cease to cherish.
The age, experience, and popularity of
the Judge, who has never failed on any
occasion Tor years and years past to re-
ceive the majority Of the votes cas-. in
Gilmer county, at all times and on all &C.
casions when he was candidate, is the
principal reason why he Is more looke1
up to and attention paid him than most
NY other public man that comes to the
q unt,. Gilmer county will be in tie
.ure what she has been in the past,
10 to her prir ciples, and will swell her
Ia ,iority ior the nominees Of the Demo-
c attic party at least ene-third more than
ever before Documents Of all descrip-
tions are needed, and the Wheeling RIG
I,TER should be placed in the hands OF
every voter in the county until the cam
paiyn is over. OBSERVER. Z.