The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-08-22
POLITICS.

Governor Stevenson, oil the PArkeFs-
burg Joaraal has been nominated for the
House Of Delegates, much agsinst his
own will. The county went 200 Demo
cratic in 1876.
Colonel Hassler, Of Jackson county, is
a prominent Republican, and was once .
member Of the House Of Delegates. His
brother il. prominent Democrat, and Is
the Democratic nominee for Senator in
that di.trict. They were on opposite
sides during the war, one in the Federal
and the other in the Confederate army.
So good a Southern Democratic news-
psper as the Richmond STATE thinks that
Mr.. Thurman i. just nov =, very proper
subject for public compassion"
Democrats In Louisiana and Missis-
.ippi fear that the yellow fever may in
directly give the Republicans several
Congressional districts in thOse States, "a
i. will prevent the Democrats from be.
ginning their canvass until late in the sea-
son.
The Charleston Mtvs ia another Demo-
cratic newspaper tina, refuses to follow
Senator Thurman's lead. OF his srgu-
ment for the substitution Of greenbacks
for bank notes Il says:
This will do we'll enough as between
him and the sdvocates Of any kind OF
paper money As legal tender, but it does
NOT conform TO past Democratic opinion
and policy, or with the judicial opinions
OF the soundest men nov oil recently on
the bench Of the Supreme Court
In q speech at Columbus, Ga, last
week, Representative Harris Dem, who
i. working to get back to Congress, re
ferred to the liberality which he had al
ways shown in distributing government
books and seed. among his constituents,
aud added: They we're yours. Your
money bought all the books and all the
seeds 1 sen, you. They veresmsll thing,
bat l have not learned to despiss small
things. sent ieeds al over The district,
and Iexpect a iull harvest in November
Representative John Randolph Tucker,
Of Virginia, in an address a. the recen.
opening OF the Miller Labor School at
Alton, Va, expressed himself Is follows:
aIt you End In the hands Of your child
q book that teaches him that r E Lee
wAs a purjured rascal because be
obsyed the yticef Of his mother State and
went with the land Of his birth, while o.
S. Grant istons Of the world's immortal
heroes because he sided Fith his section
and succeeded At last in compelling Lee
to yield TO overwhelming numbers and
res~ourees,' burn the book and take your
child away from that school, orIn you
end your child with > book that teaches
that the people OF The South we're traitors
10 resisting federal Aggression and deiend-
ing their soil from. invasion. or which
falsi6es the history Of our great struggle
for constitutional freedom, burn the book
and take your child from the school, for
the teacher Who would Pit such book
in bis hands Is not = safe guide
Mr.. Alexander q. stsphsns-Won an
easy victory nhis Congressional district
in Georgia, and although his nomination
was announced several days ago no sign
Of opposition to him Is forthcoming. He
might have been defeated had his nom
~inGtiOn been left to the operations Of a
veil organized party machine. But his
determination in appealing directly to The
people rallied the latter TO his support,
aud he is known to be an honest man,
sincere and outsPOksn in hi, eonyictions,
his preliminary canvass vHa almost o
tirsly one-sidsd. II his health does not
break down he may PERFORM useful part
In federal legislation for many year,.