The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-10-09
WEST VIRGINIA.
How Her Election r0.Morrow /. Viewed
from Abrouti.

How Her Election To-llorrow ls Viewed
from AbToliti.
Washington ID. C.l Republican.
The West Virginia Republicans have oul
heartiest congratulations upon their pros
pect OF electing to Congress two such me,
as Nathan Goil for the First, and John W
Mason for tho Second District. In ever,
way these gentlemen are worthy, not onl,
OF the party they have been chosen to rep
resent, but as well OF the people who huv,
chosen them. Both are men OF honor, oil
character, OF integrity. Their talents are
fur above the ordinary. Asapublic speake,
Mr.. Golf has special gifts. Asa LAWYER he
stands at the head Of the West Virginia
bar. He is hard working, painstaking
jealous man. In 1876, MS a candidate 70,
Governor against Matthews, his Demo.
cratic opponent, he made brilliant and
noble fight. Everywhere throughout the
State he Infused enthusiasm into the peo
pie.
Mr.. Mason is.A man whose record is
written all over with one great workman.
illness. And he is Il manly man. The peo.
pie OF his State who know him best esteem
him most. As "a servant Of the people he
has always restrained his actions 10 the
just limits Of persistent devotion to his
convictions, endeavoring to aim his hcav.
lest blows at opinions, and not against the
characters Of his anniversaries. Such man
is Mr.. Mason.
So much for these candidates. Need We
commend these men to the people OF their
State? AS much rs they have to commend
them to West Virgnians, who know full
well that they are men OF the.people and
for the people, will not the great cause for
which they are battling be IL far safer,
higher, nobler commendation?
A bright future is in store for the Young
and buoyant State OF Wes. Virginia, but
il will never come under Bourbon rule or
be reached by the help OF Bourbon Con.
gressmen. 1t will never come to this State,
nor to any pcple who live in II common.
wealth governed by men who drag back.
ward instead Of leading forward. It will
never come to this State, nor to any people
who live in q commonwealth governed by
men who drag backward instead OF lead.
ing forward Il will never come so long rs
passion and prejudice, hatreds, dead issucs,
and exploded theories nrc the "doctrines''
clamoring for support. 1t will never come
while legislatures, with bare. faced, open
audlci,y turn q State upside down, and by
Il system OF fraud and jugylery and rascally
gerrymanderlng. so. "reapportion" Con.
gressional districts TINT counties in the
eastern portion Of the State shall be in
districts in the western portion, three hun.
dred miles away! This did the last
Bourbon legislature OF West Virginia.
We have too much faith and hope and
confidence in the people OF this State to
think TINT she will longer remain in tho
political Egypt whittier she was carried by
the dissensions OF some OF her own people
q few years ago.
See her, with coal enough in her bosom
to supply the furnaces OF Great Britain for
thousand years; with her inexlaustible
treasures in iron and salt-will she cling
to the dead carcass OF Bourbonis,n, with its
"frse trade and sailors rights?" Is West
Virginia satisfied TO DO ridden and ham.
pered and held back by political hacks who
tell her farmers and her miners that A
DAYS work is from sunrise TO sunset; that
all ll'tarilr is "Radical robbery" that the low.
est wapca is the iairest reward ? !. We have
too mucl, respect for West Virginia to look
for anything else, except sweeping repu.
dia,ion OF all this bosh and OF those who
shout it. VIII she follow men who tell
her, as is now being done on the hustings,
that the "Republic.ln party is bankrupting
the Government" when the public debl
has, within tho past month, been reduced
seventeen million dollars
Now, word to the Republicans OF the
State. Let them remember the cause IL