Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-01
THE CANDIDATES.

The two parties are before the people
pi the State with their tickets and COM
pariSon of the gentlemen at their respective
heads becomes matter Of legitimate pub
bic criticism and discussion. Fortunately
fcr our State politics this year both the
gubernatorial candidates are gentlemen of
lnexeepiOnable private character, and all
discussions viii be limited to their public
eareer and to their future espsbiity..
While defending himself from the charge
pfhaving been a prOscriptive radical, an sx;:
planation which the REGISTER in q spirit of
fairness was disposed to give him the bene-
6t OF, still Judge MAXwELL in effect admits
hat he did vote for the disfranchising
amendment to the Constitution on its final
passage BY the Legislature and the records
khow it. There is no intimstion from him,
nor is it claimed by his friends, that he
soted against the amendment at the polls.
While it is possibly true that Mr.. maxwell
bid regard the Registration law as uneon-
stitutOnal, for it didn't require a man to be
lawyer TO come to that conclusion, still he
favored an amendment to the Constitution
Fhich gave the Legislature power to pass
Buch law, and largely by his influence the
isfanchisement Of twenty thousand vo-
ters Of this State was accomplished. That
IS the record and there is no lodging it.
is perhaps true that Judge Maxwell did
bot sit on the bench but was absent as he
lsims when the test cath decision was rem
fered Stil, that fact does not relieve him
f being the advocate Of constitutional
amendment to prevent citizens Of the State
From voting and holding Office. That
measure was so Odious that even under the
pressure OF It's gag the voters Of West Vir-
Einia rose up and threw it Of and displaced
From power the party that had invented it
1t makes no difference in whose hand
|Eritng the original resolution appeared,
hOr would it be a matter ofsny consequence.
whether it was written in English, or Greek,
br Hebrew, or Latin, that does not initiate
against the recorded vote in the Senate in
Favor Of its passage, or Of the ballot cast at
the polls. The nomination Of MAxwELL
means the spirit Of Prescription is still
bhye m the Republican party,
There is nothing of that kind in Mr..
EusoS's record 1t is Just the other way.
Ehen MxxwELL was working to put man
hcles on his fellow citizens WILLIS VIII
FoS was working to knock them of. That Is
ust the difference between the two candi-
bates on that part Of the record.
h Again, 1t is claimed BY the opposition
hat Wu.soS is the enemy to corporate
Fealth. Is not MAXWELL the nominee of
the Observation-Disclosures party which is based
fpOu that single ides2 Did he not by let
er accept = nomination from that party
hnd plant himself upon its platform
fthe Republican party expected to at
|tract votes because OF WILsoS's supposed
(hostiEty 10 corporate or aggregated capital
+ IN any form, then they have most signaly
Failed IN the selection Of candidate with
which 10 do il. MAxwELL's nomination
means Mosshackism with its worst features.
If the Republican cry that WusoSs success
means stand stin for four years be true,
then it is equally true that MAXwELLs cleo
ton would mean a retrOgressiOn Of twenty