Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-04
THE FIRST DfsrRICT.
Impartial Review Of the Candidates
and Their Chances of Election.

Impartial Review Of the Candidates
and Their Chances OF Election.
A eorresondent who signs himself
"Workingman" sends the following, which
he claims is fair and impartial review of
the situation in the First district, and the
probable chances of the two candidates:
+ 1t will be conceded by every intelligent
and unbiased Democrat in the First dis
trict, and throughout our State, that Gen.
Golf has filled all of his public positions
with honor and credit TO himself and the
people Of the State and Nation. His long
public life is without an official blemish.
or even shadow OF wrong. Duty was
necessity with him in all the many and
various positions he has been honored with
by the General Government
With great and answering fidelity to the
honor and trusts confded in him, he man.
fully and successfully discharged his null
tifarious duties. As Democrat, / have
naught to say againstIhis public life, and GER
tainly less, if possible, TO say against his
private life as citizen. 1t would be well
for our country il all our eminent citizens,
and those who aspire to become eminent,
were like General Golf in these two partic-
ulars. As public officer and a private cit
izen, do not antagonize General Gof. l
am personally an admirer Of his, for the
reasons furnished by his exemplary life,
both as q citizen and public officer.
His opponent, the Hon. J. Hanson Good,
has a private character as pure and free
from irregularities as that OF General Gof.
But Mr. Good has no public character out
side of his profession, and hence naught
can be said for or against him on that
point He is only known among Us as an
able and brilliant lawyer. he was once
member of the State Legislature, and this
makes up his entire public life.
As a legitimate consequence then Mr..
Good is, comparatively speaking, new
and fresh man, coming directly from the
people themselves, aud not from the politi-
clans as Gen. Golf comes. Mr.. Good is
more fully identified with the people and
their wants and has sympathies more in
common with them than it is possible for
Gen. Golf to have, because OF the isolation,
by virtue of his position, to which Gen:
Golf was subjected during his long official
career. The difference then, between Gen.
Golf and Mr.. Good is wide and unbridgable
in this respect with all the advantages
in favor of Mr.. Good.
Mr.. Goods relation to the working
classes in this city gives him a strong claim
and hold on their affections. He has always
been their champion when their rights and
interests were invaded or threatened. That
they will remember him on election day,
haven't any doubt whatever.
Gen. Golf, it is alleged, is millionaire,
or a prospective one, and can't be touched
with a feeling of our in6rmities. His
wealth should not be used as an
argument against him. haven't
any doubt but that he has properly
acquired it, and deserved it. Mr.. Good is
a poor man, relatively and comparatively
He 70 rich. he iS Of the
pie, and moves in their ranks every day.
He owns no national banks, or their stocks,
but lives by the sweat of his brow only.
He knows what il is to work, and what
working people and a manufacturing con-
stituency need.
Gen. Golf can not have much sympathy
for those who work for their living, because
he has never mixed with them in his life
to any great extent. He belongs to
wealthy and ariStOCratic family, and inner
it's. in large degree, feelings cngendered
by such circumstances.
Gneral Golf has been three times before
the people Of this district, and as often de-
feated. He is now before us again as the
desperation candidate oil the Re
publican party. The party had
no man in its ranks in the
district that had ghost OF chance to beat
Mr.. Good. Will General Golf do it? think
not General Golf is a good worker, know,
and an able speaker, but he has too often
been candidate and defeated every time,
with less popular men against him than he
has how to succeed this time. General
Goff is a pronounced Republican in
all of his political sympathies, and
give him credit for being honest about
the matter. The Republican party, as
party, led by Gen. Golf in this district, is
what / am opposed to, and not Gen. Golf
personally. The policy of that party to-
wards the working classes has not been as
kind ana emmgnrened as It should have
been. 1t is not the workingman's party by
any means.
All who are opposed to mOnopoles, to a
wasteful expenditure of the public money.
and in favor of retronchment and reform,
will vote for Mr.. Good, the peoples candi-
data for rOnUraSs