The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-05-17
FOR CONGRESS.
Editors Of the Register.

Editors of the Register.
It has Become so much the mode 70
express ones views on subjects OF general
interest through the daily press, that /!
feel like indulgiog myselfi If you viii give
mespace, IN the expression OF methougnts
tor the benefit (O of the Congressional
nominating Convention in putting before
them the name of Robert N. DelaplaiD,
of the city of Wheeling as very ut
person to represent the First district Of
| West Virginia in the national Congress.
The qualifications of the gentleman
named for such position are numerous.
With an exceedingly liberal education as
the ground work, his life has been spent
10 . school where integrity OF purpose
and hoL esty of intention are taught as
the foundation of everything, when honor
is more than name, and consequently,
cannot be bartered as is so much the
practice, to our shame be it spoken, in
these degenerate days.
A Republican form Of government is,
as its name implies, government BY the
whole people. with no distinction of class,
no hereditary birth privileges, and under
such form of government as ours it
would be heresy to advocate the crea-
ton of auy rule or order which in the re.
hottest degree would infringe upon the
franchise Of the people. If it were prac-
ticable, the establishment of govern
ment school wherein the appointees under
a properly restricted appointing power,
should receive an aper to their education
in the practical study of all laws apper-
tanning to the adjustment of finance and
trade, of civil and religious liberty, and
the general culture necessary in the rul-
ing powers, and after graduating from
such school, be the candidate par excel
lence for legislative and bureaucratic
honors. l am not sure but that the PEG.
pie would be more honestly and honora-
bly served. But such an idea is utoplsn;
Is antagonistic in its principals 10 the
government "of the people by the PEG.
ple,' but it is not heresy to advocate
the claims OF one whose life has been
spent in the practical search for just such
knowledge.
To be enabled to enact laws which will
meet the requirements Of trade, and yet
not interfere with the rights of individ-
uals, the legislator must be learn
ed in his knowledge of cause
and effect, and in no manner can
such knowledge be gained in SO great a
measure as in the counting room of the
successful merchant. These questions
are presented for his judgment daily. and
the measure of his success depends on the
correctness of his decisions. His mind
must be evenly balanced. and in an hon.
orable merchant the questions of right or
wrong is not debatable one.
The community in which Mr.. Della.
PLANE has resided all OF his life, and the
great number of West Virginians who
have been brought into intimate contact
with him, will recognize the applicable.
ty of the foregoing TO his character that
is "!Sans pear ct sa,'s reprochc," charac-
ter that the investigating committee of
the entire world can. find no
point or blot of shame on which to place
its finger.
These are my reasons for presenting the
name of Robert M. Delaplain to the
Democratic Con vention, and l am assur-
ed that they will find an echo in the
reasoning minds OF the people of the
First district. DEMOCRAT.
Wheeling, Nay, 1876.