Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-09-20

WQeu tQey 10 hAAAk tA1cAE scHffCco VIII
no longer be Ia demand In the State.
As repodiators they had Q following,
but as debt payers they viii have none.
FOUR-RIYTlzs OF rHE COUNTIES OF
WEST VIRGINIA ARE DEMoCRAf-
IL.
There are 1000 Democratic voters in
the State Of West Virginia. These are
scattered over the fifty-four counties Of
the State. OF the fifty.four counties
forty-two gave Democratic msjorities
for Governor JACKSON at the last State
election, and forty-four counties gave
Democratic majorities for members Of
the Legislature and some other officers.
Although there is more or less politi-
cal talk going on in the State at this
time, there will be no election held in
West Virginia until in October, 1884.
The Radical party in this State is
split into two distinct factions, both
anxious to control the party machine in
order that they may pick up the
crumbs that fall from the table Of the
rich man ID the White House at Wash
iDgton.
The Radicals have no hope of carry
ing majority of the votes Of West
Virginia and thereby getting possession
of the offices in the State; and, indeed,
the Incentive to do 50 Is not great as the
salaries paid to the State officers are not
IS large as men Of fair business ability
and experience can earn in pursuits
more eongenial to the tastes Of men Of
business. The Federal offices are large
" paid by fees and offer much better
opportunities for unscrupulouS< men to
make fortunes with but little work and
this is why the Rehabilitation in this
State in its insane greed for Office is
riven into other factions, each scram-
bling with might and main for recog-
milton at Washington. 1t is this scram-
bic which hiss given birth to ring
composed OF the Federal office holders
in this State, which has its clutches
upon the party machine; and another,
or twin ming, composed Of ambitious
Republicans who would like to have the
Fl deral offices which fall to the faith
fuI IN West Virginia.
Next Summer each party viii put
State,ticket in the field. The Republic
can licket will doubtless be, as has here
tOfore been the case, selected by the
Ross eS-that is, the Ring Of Federal
Northumberland ii will be ratified as
the ticket Of the Republican factions in
the usual laDguid manner by the repre-
sentatives of the various Court House
cliques assembled in State Convention.
The Democratic State ticket will be
placed in the field by the $4,000 sover-
eign Democrats who will convene at
convenient places in their own cOuu-
ties and near their own homes, and
there select from their own number
men in whose ability, integrity and ac
quaintance with public affairs, they
have confidence, to represent them in a
State Convention. When these repre-
sentatives come together in State Con-
vention, they will look over the State
and make the best and wisest selections
they can from the entire body of $4,000
Democrats, fC the few State officers
which are ,quired to manage the
affairs Of the commonwealth.
Every man hf the $4,000 will have a
voice-an eqrsi voiee-in saying who
shall be Gon1nor, Auditor, Treasurer,
Attorney Ge4eral, Superintendent of
Schools and Supreme Judges, for the
four years nexs ensuing.
There will b3 no uuseemly scramble
for these positions; for the holding Of
any one Of them does not exalt a man
above his fellow men in honor, nor does
it profit him beyond that of any other
honest employment. Few men aspire
to these positions; but there are many
men who could not be induced to ac-
cept one Of them.
The Democratic party has been out
Of power in the Federal government so
long that its members have adjusted
their tastes and haE:ss, 10 the farm, the
trade, 10 business aud professional pur-
suits; while the possession Of more than
q hundred thousand Federal offices and
contracts amounting to many millions,
has bred in the Republican party
great hive Of professional Office-seekers,
There ale not less than half a million
members Of this OlIlce-seekers' greedy
gang.
This marks the Republican party as
being emphatically aparty of Office
holders and Office seekers; of Cliques
and Rings; of tricksters and schemers.