The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-30
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Some time ago the INTELLIdENcER said,
and on several subsequent occasions has
maintained, that the Republicans OF the
Third Congressional District have a fight
ing chance. But this is not the best and
the worst Of 1t. Now there is q panic in
the Third District, aud tie trouble is in the
camp Of the Bourbons. This is plainly
seen from tho address OF the District Ex'
ecutiye COMMITTEES to the faithful, which
breathes panic in every line.
The managers must have heard that
Judge Brown is getting along pretty well,
thank you, for they stop shortin a bombas-
tic g~!oriGcation Of the party's achievements
Of last fall to show how the thing went in
West yirginia-"TruC, the old Third Dis
trict yindicated It's devotion to the princi-
pies Of Democracy by a rOusing majority,
but in the Second District Democrats
parleyed while Republicans rotoi, and in
the First District Democrats stayed from The
polls while Republicans actually elected a
Congressman where the Commonest dill
n would have left them as they are To-
dry in a Hopeless minority. Ga tho heels
Of this thuuderClsp from a clear sky, 80 to
say, Third District Democrats are exhorted
to .siye at least n day to your country
and your country's %cause;j' which means
vote. Nothing less than u panic could have
thro Tn so many gentlemanly Democrats
into this italicised state OF mind. Nothing
less than a spirit of Generalization border
Ing on the stampede could have forced
them to admit, in italics, that the Repub.
licans Of the First District "actually elect
ed" a Congressman, when other Democrats
have claimed that it cost $4,000 in~hard
cash to defeat that excellent but misguided
MAJ, Mr.. j. Hanson Good. A purchased
victory can't be called an actual election.
This is not the time to say much about
the Republicans Of the First district being
in a "hopeless minority" We shall be
m,re concerned about that in the Year Of
Grace 1884. And with respect to the Sec
ond we eau only regret that 1t wasn't a
little more so. 1t is to be noticed that the
Third District committee assigns no reason
why Democrats in the First and Second
Districts did not vote. To say nothing Of
the highly interesting fact that many who
had acted with the Democratic party voted
the Republican ticket, isn't it barely posi-
BILE that the causes which have made
necessary this fearful appeal in the Third
District operated last fall in the First and
Second? Waste OF the State moneys, mis-.
use OF the school fund, violation OF the
Constitution, bosses and bossism, setting
up candidates in out-of.the.w way places such
s Baltimore and Washington, knocking
down and setting up candidates, proscript-
i've Bourbonism in It's most intense and
most offensive form-is it not probable
that these things have been heard and felt
in the Third rs well as the First and Sec.
ond Districts2
There are men in the Third District,
heretofore in utilization with the Democratic
party, who ask nothing from its hands but
good goyernment-men who are not will
ing to dicker for office and swallow any
disc however nauseous. The Bourbon
party has not given good State government,
and II it can not be trusted at home It is a
reasonable inference that it is not to be
trusted at Washington. There is disatIec-
ton in the Third District, and there will
be more Of it before there is less.
The address Of the Congressional Com
mittee is only one OF many indications
that the Democratic leaders see the hand.
writing on the wall. But the gush OF an
guish which marks the address is the first
public acknowledgment Of the swift COM
ing day Of wrath, and it will do its part to-
wards precipitating the crisis.