Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-05-22

financial question, ana tne DelnOCTdlS
are Just as well pleased with bloody
shirt" campaign as with anything else.
Indeed, they privately prefer a sanguin-
ary combat. Such a contest brings into
fighting attitude the old liners who were
in military prisons during the war and
under political suspicion afterwards.
The Democrats of West Virginia, like
their partisans in other Southern States,
have weather eve on Ohio all the
time. Thurman is one OF their favor
ties for President. second only to Til
den, If heis second to anybody. There
is not much talk about Hendricks. In
truth there is not much political talk OF
any kind. l remembered
DANIEL LAME,
as one Of the pioneer Democratic poll
ticiaus of the new State, and rs the
original expOunder OF the new Coustitu-
ton, and called on him with the expect
alton Of striking a paying mine Of in
formation. Mr.. Lamb lifted his ven
cradle head from the law book over
which he had been poring, and said OF
late years he had been out Of politics,
and was not well informed. But every
politician who is not in office is quick to
saw he is out of politics, and the inter-
viewer takes but little stock in a profess
sion Of ignorance. So Mr.. Lamb was
kindly but persuasiyely talked TO. He
said parties were not ranging themselves
ON the finance question. For
himself he was a haTd-mOney man,
and he spoke OF the popularity OF Thur
Tr,F ~, h.,,
Grant stood among the West Virginia
Republicans, and as 10 whether the
general opinion south OF the river was
that Grant was the coming man on the
Republican side Mr. Lamb said he
thought Mr. Hayes had better pros
peCt of nomination than Grant, and
then / half believed that Mr. Lamb was
really out of politics, as he prOieSSCd.
He recommended Governor Matthews
as a gentleman who could give some
valuable information; but the Governor
hal gone West. There was in his office,
however. gentleman who kindly gave
the public the benefit Of some Of his
own mot the GOyemOrs) private cor
respoHdence, showing that the
TuDEN MOVEMENT
is braCing up i'm some OF the rural dis
triCtS OF West Virginia. In fact the Til
den movement has never ceased 10
move, and the extent 10 which it pre-
walls is little less than surprising. Til
den talk crops out in nearly every poll
tical conversation You may enter into
here, and the same circumstance is not
less notable in Ohio. As general rule
pride of locality leads Western Demo
crat % prefer a Western man-and cs-
pecially an Ohio man-iOr President;
bu, the idea that Tilden was swindled,
and has right TO a yindlCatlOn, that the
question in dispute at the time OF the
Electoral count should be brought
prominently before the people again,
has taken such deep root
that IL cannot be grubbCd up before the
next National Convention; and when
Tiidrn's name is mentioned the enthu-
Siasm rises, and il becomes evident that
hc has the strength of martyr. The
persistent and sometimes tiresOme cry
Of Fraud Fraud" has not been with
out its effect on the people. The seem
ingly silly performances Of some Demo
cratic papers quoting President when
ever HAYES is referred to; calling Tilden
the President Il, jlrg, and applying the
apprObrIOus terms fraudulent"
thief &c, to the present Executive
have all had weight with a class OF peO-
pie, and have braCed up the fortunes OF
Uncle Samuel. West Virginia, how
ever, is a
SAFE DEMOCRATIC STATE,
and is happy in the lack OF Presidential
timber. Her Democrats love Tilden and
Thurman, and will support unanimous
lv any man who may be nominated by
the National Convention. They are
strong enough to 90 it alone. They
have a good majority even over the Re
publiCaus and Greenbackers, should
these parties combine, and there Is no
rutlle about coalition to strengthen the
party In the peculiar division OF par
ties in West Virginia
THE REPUBLICANS
should naturally he Tor Grant. They
cannot unite enthusiastically on Sher-
man ; resumption as a basis; on the con-
trary. many OF them would be alarmed
at the cry of business wreCkcrs.' The
Federal otlice-holders, the men who
were turned out OF Fedora, offices, and
the men who wanted Federal offices and
did not gel them, are for Grant as a rule
But it makes no difference who the Re-
pubIicaus Of West Virginia are for, they
are i'm such minority shat their vote will
not be worth much even fOr ''mOral et-
feet" CAPULET.