The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-03-10
EDITORIAL coRltEspoNDEsCE.

TDIToRIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
senator II. @. Davis Not Candidate Tor
Re-EIeciion-APo Possibility OF HIS ResiE' |
nation Before the Expiration OF His
Tern,-How Hereford and Mathews he.
gard Each Other-Busy Hen Wilson |
Getting Ready for u denomination
who Will West Virginia Vote for nj
Chicago.
WASHINGTON, March s, 1880.
Correspondence Of the lnLsllIssnoOr. /
Its understood here that our senior
Senator, Hon. Henry G. Davis, will the
a candidate for reelection when his pres.
ent term expires, which will not be until
March 4, 1885. This determination has
leaked out here, although it has not been
made formally public, but doubt not is
entirely reliable. He is for some reason
ayerse to entering the arena for a new
election. As, is well known, the Senator
has accumulated great wealth in his va
rious business enterprises, and is to-day
perhaps the wealthiest man in West Viz
ginia. Having tasted the sweets OF public
life, and found that 1t could not confer
anything more than passing gratltica-
ton, and that it was apt to leave bitter
taste on the tongue, 1t has apparently hap
pened that Mr.. Davis has become fully
satisfied to seek happiness in some other
sphere Of life. Perhaps he will go TO New
York to live, where his rich son'in-law has
gone, and where there are SO many oppor-
tunities for rich men to amass still greater
wealth. Perhaps, like General Grant, he
will make a tour Of the world, or as MIR.
Seward did, at the close Of his official
life, set out on journey to see and study
all nations and all kinds OF life.
Be the purpose what it may, 1t 10 certain
that MIR. Davis has determined TO retire
from Senatorial life at the close OF his
present term, II not betores------s-
On the ether hand, 1t is quite as certain
that our Junior Senator, Mr.. Hereford, has
no notion OF quitting public life at the end
OF his term, which expires on the 4th OF
March, 1881. lie is an avowed candidate
for reelection, and from oil l hear will
leave no stone unturned TO achieve sue.
cess.
In case Davis should conclude to step
down and out before tho expiration OF his
term, and this he may conclude TO do at
the end oithis Congress, 1t is not at all
unlikely that his successor will be j. N.
Camden, OF Parkersburg. 1t seems 10 be
understood that Camden enjoys Mr.. Davis
special favor as personal and political
friend, and will have Gil his influence for
the sucCessorship.
HEREFORD AND MATTHEW'S.
The contest between Hereford and
Mathews is understood to be OF very
decided characterize much SO that either
would prefer the election Of third party
to the success of either. As things are
going between them 1t is not improbable
that q third party will bear off the palm,
and this third party may DO r. F. Dennis,
who is personally quite popular IN the
third district and wherever else he Is
known.
CAMDEN AND TIE GoyERNoRsHIP.
It Is understood that ]. n. Camden can
have the next Democratic gubernatorial
nomination II he wants it, and in view Of
what has leaked out in regard to Senator
Davis intentions it is not at all improba-
bic that Mr.. Camden will accept the nom.
nation with view of stepping from that
position into the Senatorship at the end OF
Senator Davis term.
COL. BEN. WILSON.
1t Is said that Col. Ben. Wilson has for
a good while past had an eye on the Sen.
ate, and there are those who say that he
is meditating an attempt on the successor
ship Of Hereford. While there is no doubt
that the Colonel squietly Eliminating this
matter in his mind, yet he is certainly lay
ing all his plans for the present for re-
election to Congress. He has no notion of
letting 90 that until he sees an assurance
OF something better pretty close ahead.
TIA Democratic President should be elect.
ed he would most likely put in for for
eign appointment, but at present he is
not wasting any time on such contin-
gency, but, as l said, Is getting in his
work as usual on the First district. II at
the end OF Hereiord's term it shall be de-
cided that the First district is entitled to
come into the contest with a candidate,
you may depend on seeing Col. Ben's cap
flung into the arena.
WEST VIRGINIA AND THE PRESIDENCY.
Speaking thus about our State politics,
reminds me thata great deal Of interest
attaches to the question how West Vir-
ginia will vote at Chicago in June next.
That Is, whether she will array heraelf for
or against q third term. One Of the calcu-
lations OF the third termers has been that
they would have the Solid South at their
backs, and that this backing, under the
lead Of Pennsylvania and New York,
would give them the nomination on the
first ballot at Chicago. But lately this
idea OF Solid South has been given up.
1t Is now seen that North and South Caro-
lima, Louisiana and Virginia would not
be solid ior Grant, and il is likewise pref.
ty well understood that West Virginia
Chicago. The tone OF letters received
from that State OF late show that Blaine
more than any one else Is the choice OF
the Republican masses, and there is no
account Of anypopular sentiment for Grant
as candidate.
HOW GRANT Is TO De NOMINATED.
The result at Chicago depends wholly
on the vote OF the South in that Conven-
ton. II seems very strange, indeed, that
the choice Of a third term candidate should
depend on section that Is not expected
to give him dozen votes in the Electoral
College II nominated, and yet such Is the
fact. II General Grant is nominated 1t
will be in that way. He will be nom.
mated by tho South in the expectation
that the North will elect him, and all over
the North are abundant indications that
his nomination will provoke wide and
perhaps an irreparable breach in the Re.
publican party.
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