The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-09-30
A Sun Hunt Going on In OhIO-A Warn.
ing 10 the Republicans.

ing 10 the Republicans.
uhhehI!ills Letter in yesterdays Cincinnati oOu
mereiL.
There is increased activity noticeable q
late among the Democracy. Especially 1
the close counties is there apparent a con
siderable revival. Take Belmont an,
Washington. In the first there Is Ii
liveliest kind Of quiet work being put Ii
by the Democrats, and in the latter com
mittee Of sixty, modelled after the Frank
Lin Committee Of One Hundred, has beel
appointed.
This kind Of committee business Is busi
ness. In this way the bottom is reached
and voters got at and appealed to ant
manipulated personally, So, II a man Il
recalcitrant or reluctant his case Is knowr
at headquarters Immediately and is at
tended 10.
You may make Ohio howl with STUMP
speeches, and wind up Q little orator OF
every stump, guaranteed 10 run to tho
end Of the campaign, and you may dis
tribute political documents and printed
speeches until every family In the State
has more wrapping paper than they car
use In year, and all will be useless anG
Intellectual compared with the sure, silent
searching work OF the committees OF ar
hundred, or OF sixties or fitties, as the
case may require. Every person chosen
on such a committee isa
TRIED AND TRUE
Party man, chosen for bis earnestness and
ability In canvassing, and for his industry
and activity in cow.shedding and
fence cornering. Generally, II possible,
men are chosen who combine with these
qualities lively hope OF fayors 10 come
from the party. To each OF these is given q
precinct composed OF his most immediate
neighborhood' and peopled by familiar
friends and acquaintances. Thus thor.
oughly instructed and impressed with the
iact that the old party expects every man
to do his duty, ,ihe goes out and tackles one
man In the cow.shed, and another in the
fence corner, and another by his freside
and makes personal representations andsa
personal appeal in behalf OF the Central
Committee. This distinction fatters the
object OF his attention. he Is pleased that
an agent has been sent from headquarters
TO talk with him, so important is consider.
ed his vote, and he is readily won II he is
undecided. For the other side to not
come through agents to him personally, but
stuff his box at the post-oftice full OF drea-
'ry documents, and once or twice give him
an opportunity to hear a stumper spout
for thatside by going several miles to the
CDlnfFu tnwn ThnRn 10 u r..
this style OF campaigning 1t is the only
really etticacious manner; or, perhaps It
were more correct TO say that the usual
manner Is not efiicacious without this ad-
ded. When 1t is adopted you are sure to
see signs OF revival in the party adopting
1t Every party man is fetched up with
round turn, and every waverer Is aseer.
tanned and disciplined, and every weak
one In the ranks Of the opposition besieg.
This is the kind Of canvass the Democ.
racy have gone into in their desperate
tight ior the Legislature and the United
States Senatorship. You know nothing OF
It except by visiting the localities worked.
1t is essentially a still-hunt-the kind
OF hunting the Democrats are noted for,
and thinking OF it I am reminded of the
remark Of Mr.. D. L. King, OF Akron: "I
know that old party, and I'm always
qIiet."
1t is the knowledge that the old fence.
corner machine has been set grinding
that has given the Democrats little more
sand otlate. It Is that that caused Carson
Lake to say to me exultantly, "We've got
the hooks on you now, and we'll beat you
under your very eyes, and you won't know
how 1t was DONE" carson is young, and
not got well broken with the ''silent'' pol.
icy.) ltis that that caused a Democrat to
come to me the other day, anxious to bet
hat the Democrats would have the As
sembly on Joint ballot-A bet he refused to
make with me month ago. He got the
bet, and he will be out hat.
WE'LL INFORMED.
Now the Republicans can make no plea
ot Ignorance Of the enemy's movements,
and where its sapping and mining is 90.
ing on. They have been warned, for In.
stance, in this correspondence, OF each
move in the tactics OF the Democracy.
They were warned when the Democrats
gave up the election Of Ewing and agreed
to turn all their attention to gaining the
Legislature. They have been and are
again warned Of the method employedand
the eteeling Of thepeople employingit. The
revival howl about Ewing by Democratic
papers and politicians, and loud assurances
OF confidence in his election are the yeriest
campaign rot. It will deceive one. You
can not get Democrat in the State to bet
one cent even on the election OF Thomas
Ewing His defeat Is as certain as any
thing ever was at the polls. It is Ques-
ton ot majority against him. They have
not the least hope left in the campaign,
exceptthe hope Of the Legislature, based
upon the efficacy OF the still hunt. But
still hunting Is not patented. No party
has monopoly OF 1t, Still hunting Is not
restricted by statue or game law to anv
particular season. It can be lawfully In
dulged in by any party, at any time, The
more still hunting the Republicans do
from now on TO the 14th Of October the
better. And, by the way, In at least three
close counties that l know OF the Repub-
lican Committee are practicing that kind
Of hunt with wonderful silence and sue
cess, and on election day the confident
Democrats in those counties will think
they have been kicked by masked mule.
II the power in the State and United
States Senatorships are worth having,
they are worth working for, saying moth.
ing OF the momentous National issues to
be influenced for good or bad by the Ohio
election.
Clarksburg, Weston q GIenyIIIe.
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