Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-17
THE THIRD DISTRICT CANVASS.
The Fight Not Close Eaough 10 be In
teresiisg-PreEress Of the Cam
n,uf1u
u TO the Register.

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CHARLESTON, W. Va, April l5.-The
fight is on down here, but it is not at all
alarming, can assure you. 1t will not be
close enough to be interesting.
The convention that nominated Phil.
Snyder was the largest Congressional Con-
yention ever saw, and as harmonious as
a convention with half dozen candidates,
each of whom had made an active canvass,
could be. The convention that nominated
Judge Brown was little affair, with al
most half the votes in the hands OF the al
ternates, and for real growing and hair
pulling discounted the famous
Fight OF the. "Kilkenny CATS
All other things being even, the odds
would be largely in Snyder's favor. But
other things are quite the reverse OF even.
We have a clean majority of three or four
thousand in this district, and
Phil. Snyder is not the man to weaken
ticket. Judge Brown is popular man, a
good man and an able man, but he will
not draw any strength from the Democratic
party. So you see that
The Race is q Settled Thing
in the beginning and even a tyro in poll
tics could not be mistaken in the result.
A great deal has been written and said
in regard to the position Of Judge Brown
on the tariff question, and most OF 1t has
been wrong. An editorial squlb In the
State Journal announces that 1.-The Repuo-
licans OF the Third Congressional district
are making a square fight with Judge
Brown as their standard bearer on square
tariff platform"
The Journal is wrong. The platform,
the race and the candidates, when taken
together, are as unsquare as can be, and
you cannot join them up.
The Platform
adopted by the convention contains these
words: I'VE believe all American indus
tries should be protected by an adequate
tariff from the invasion OF foreign manu-
factures and pauper labor" That is what
call square" protective tariff plank.
Judge Brown is square" "taritffor-
revenue-only' man, and his friends can't
get around that fact. When the resolution
in regard to the reduction of the tariff on
wool was being discussed in the House OF
De legates last winter, Judge Brown said
~ here are three systems-a protective
The first have
Always Considered Wrong.
The second is equally falliCi.
Gus. The only right and legit-
innate system is to make the tariff on i'm
ports pay the expenses OF the Govern
ment" Of course, those are not Judge
Browns exact words. don't pretend to re-
member them, except that | remember
distinctly his saying in speaking of free
trade, after having discussed the protective
tariff system, "the second is equally falli-
cious" Those are mis- exact words, and
that is the exact connection in which they
were used. Now if there are three sys-
toms, and two of them are fallicious, how
about the third? Now, the question pre-
sentS itself, can the party that is running a
square" tariff for revenae-only candidate,
on square" protective platform, be max
ing square" fight?
Snyder is making
A Vigorous Campaign,
and will stir the voters out pretty gener-
ally. He is pleasant fellow and the pos
SCISSOR of such winning ways" that he
takes right hold OF the people wherever he
goes. He went down into one of the bOr-
der counties last week, and the Republi-
cans sent young man named Edwards "a
clever gentleman outside of politics) to re-
ply to him. Snyder made his speech in
the morning, and Edwards did not arrive
until after il was over. But in the after
noon he got the multitude together,
voice cried havoc; and let slip the dogs of
war" and did great many other foolish
things entirely too numerous to mention.
He referred to Capt Snyder as "the tool Of
a corrupt political ring; the agent of rail
road mOnOpOlieS. &c.'
Snyder replied to him, and as he is an
adept in the skinning business, it is fair
to presume that he
stripped the Young Man of His Hide.
! GO not know as to that, but this | have
OF reliable authority: An old Democrat
said to Mr.. Edwards, in language more for
chile that polite: Young man, I'm ID
glad you came over. Your speech made
Capt. Snyder fifty votes in this county,
and by God, sir, wish you would speak it
all over the district. I'll pay your travel
ing expenses myself, by God, sir
The Republican papers are makiRg great
ado over Walkers return to the Demo-
cratic party, and pretend, some of them, to
hold him in great contempt Mr.. Walker
has made no fuss about the thing himself.
He announced to the convention that he
was again Democrat; ne announced in a
letter, that was drawn from him in way he
could not but notice, his reasons for sup
porting Snyder, and has said no more. He
quietly left here with his family the other
day for his home in Virginia, where he will
spend the summer.