Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-10-28
WEST VIRGINIA.

The Large Republican Gain 10 October
From the National Republican, washington D.
&.
A letter was received Yesterday from
Chairman Atkinson, OF the Republican
State Central Committee in West Nir
ginia, by citizen OF that State now
temporarily residing in Washington, in
which the politics in the new Virginia
is quite fully discussed. Mr.. Atkinson
has made a careful survey OF the results
OF the election, and he finds they make
a considerably more favorable showing.
for the Republicans than was sup
posed. For instance, as was stated
at length in the special dis
patch from Wheeling, printed in The
Republican, the second day after the
election, the Republican managers con-
coded a Democratic majority OF 5000.
The returns are now nearly all in, and
they show Democratic majority OF!
only 5000. Four wears ago the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor, Major
Mathews, received majority OF some
thing over 1900. Jackson's majority
according to Mr.. Atkinson's survey will
not exceed 5000, which shows a falling
off of more than 5000 votes in the last
four years from the streng Ii OF the dOni
nant party. This is most remarkable
and encouraging exhibit. Too much
credit cannot he accorded to the gentle
men who have conducted the contest
OF the Republicans against bourbonism
in West Virginia. 1t was almost hope
less from the start, but the fight was
made with "a much energy and enthusi-
asm as il victory lay within their reach.
The chairman OF TIE committee SAYS an
organization after the most modern and
thorough plan has been effected IN every
county in the State, and that upward OF
a million documents and newspapers
have been circulated among the people
from the committee head quarters I'm
Wheeling. There is bat little hope OF
the electoral vote OF the State being
thrown for Garfield, although the tariff
issue renders the situation so uncertain
that there NAV be considered at least a
fighting chance for the Republican nom-
inee.
We reproduce the above from the
National Republican in order that the
people of this State may have sample
Of the reports which the Chairman OF
the Republican Committee, backed by
the persistent and INSCRIPTIONS mis-
representations Of the Wheeling htshi-
gcncsr, is sending out regarding the re-
suit of the election in this State, for the
purpose of influencing political senti.
ment abroad.
We desire the people OF the State to
obs rye that thes. reports are sent, no.
as mere specu atoms, but pretend to be-
based upon actual returns, while in fact
they are without foun lation and in al.
most every particular, the most unblush-
ing falsehool Is.
We have given semi-ofiicial returns
from all but three counties in the State,
AMI will venture theprediction that the
official count will not vary our figures
fifty votes either way, and We have shown
that the Democratic vote has been in
creased over two thousand in the State;
that it is the largest vote ever given a
Democratic Governor; that the Demo.
cratic candidate, according to our count,
has clean plurality over the Republ-
cans OF 1885, and according to the
count OF the Chairman of the State Com
mittee. of IL, 20; that this is an increase
over the majority by MATHsws in 1876,
OF nearly four thousand votes; thst the
Republican party, instead OF gaining,
has lost iO5 votes; and that it is the only
party in the State that does show loss.
Or to compare the actual returns with
the reports sent abroad by ATKINSON
and the Iatelligcncer, the differences will
appear as follows: They state the Dem
ocratic majority over the Republican
vote to he 5000; the returns show To-
267. They state that MATHEWS received
a majority in 1876 of over 1900; the
returns show his majority to have been
L., 192. They state that the vote OF the
dominant party will show a falling oil
Of more than 1900 votes in the last four
years; the returns show that it has
gained 2.l5l.
These are some OF the slight di>crep-
ancies appearing between the returns
and the reports OF these Radical mana