The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-10-31
The First Dlsi rIct md the scuntorshIl

IltE Fourth Congressional district in this
State has a U. S. Senator, and the Second
district has had one since 1871. 1t looks
now rs II It might not be immodest in the
First district TO ask that her claims be
Heard hy The next Legislature. We do not
believe in claims unless putforward on the
substantial basis OF merit, but still Excepting
the matter Of merits strictly in yiew) the
Panhandle has never had U. S. Senator,
ei,hcruntlcr the old State or the now, and
yet che is the great tax.paying portion. Of
the State. The farmers OF this State would
like to be reprcsented.by man who lives
on farm and is n farmer, and yet who is
II trained scholar and lawyer, and rs such
able to cope on legal points and agIichl.
;ural questions with the best minds in
Congress, This is the sort OF man MIR.
J. G. Palmer, Of Brooke county, is. Like
old senator McCreary, Of Kentucky, who
wAs i farmer and II lawyer, and who with
head full Of brains never would hunt or
hold Office, p.llmer will have, to he drafted
into tho service OF the party and tie
State. But wouldn't it be refresh.
ing circumstance in the history Of politics,
especially Of Democracy in this State, to just
once let the Office hunt tho man, after the
Jeil.rsonian maxim, about which we hear
50 much and never see anything, and say
with Dio.cnes, behold We have lit lam
tern and found 4 mani" Nowadays the
politicians light their own lanterns and
seek and ind the offices for themselves,
and tie old patient pack horse, in the
shape Of the people, does naught but re-
ceivG lis appointed load and carry the
amounted one Of King Caucus into office.
And this wcarisome monotony is gone
through with year after year, and accord
ing to Herbert Spencer, the American poo.
pie have, got to beso much OF load carry
ing donkey that they really, don't know
ANY better than to stoop down on all fours
and assume the load that King Caucus de-
crees for them: .A'.i g l'N.,: 10
OF course the organs, which are already
tuned W. to play, in the interest Of the
various wire-pullers and thimble riggers
who are in quest OF the Office, will all laugh
$500 :, - ,n',.a sh r;no, tes ,ho rnha,;ons
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wholly rr.J.,ho;ri b,cLs a, ,I.T,r.on,s
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sw,,lnw.d ~, "a ns,d ,,So r;vh, b,,o {, nav
inr,Ios,;n, ,o,h. Hated S,n,oa c,no,o-
hr,;ry Crnno,r and nv ;rdar1or,,or, nar
ocrat wholiyes like Cincinna,na II NON his
farm hi u.Lo ocsc 81, anna, Z in
Dannrrr ,,;c co,nvention in tb;s dis,rict and
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SheSl wv bcniVcI"cy saiutafy cpuiscl,
which 70 their sorrow they have not
needed. i'Gt! nsagra.4! g.sau 9sFtEl
Oi course it vii! be said to Palmers dis.
paragemcnt as an orthodox Democrat that
he once,old the Democracyito 30 10 The devil
Ill his Washington Hall speech in 1SS0, and
thatat Weston he told them that they had
already gone there, after their great dodge
performance, but this only proves TINT he
has more. bruins and independence and
clearer vision than'th balance Of them,
and also serves to verify tile truth Of the
Scripture that teaches TINT. faithful are the
wounds Of 4 friend, but the kisses OF an
enemy are dsceitful." "is;.t,f
Palmer is plain, mathematical sort Of a
IL III. shortest distance betwpen two minis
al ,,a..St,-SL -; y; Nv:
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INV r,i han ,tv,a .on aa ,s,,,; y, : ,
Nay seed, IN hli h., md wool sacks In lis hand
And, in hisown expressive words, lhe
would sec the Democracy go 10 the devil''
before liz w6i.ld nsk them Tor Nomination
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