The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-12-08
are working the same clay Lewis
Baker has not set deollnedthis Office, aud
Until he does the gentlemen named and
some Others had. better keep back"

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"Col. Ben Wilson has concluded to
come out for Congress in this district two
years hence,p continued my informant.
HE is satisfied that the people want him,
and that he Is the man, General Cot
Will not consent 10 make another run, aud
on that account will not DO In Wilson'S
way. Oh, Of course no will find plenty
t6t opposition both before and after TIC
nomination. He will have the friends Of
the late J.. II, Good 10 fgliti Prof. pendle-
toms ndnerents will antagonizc him;
Judge Brannon has by this time
got tonic tho Coloncl's stereotyped railway
scheme; John j. Davis will lacerate
him OF, general principles; Gallaher will
fight him in the nominating convention
and turn four or five votes he controls IN
Marshall county against him Lew New
man will vote a.gaInsthim the State House
ring will wirite.a letter 10 the Register from
Charleston iorninst him, and in his lone.
someness ho will not even llnyc John Q.
pendleton to console him. Charlie Beh.
lei, Frank Jepson aud George Baird, jr,
are his only tangible support in Wheel
Ing. Still tho Colonel will be nominated"
Said tho same man, who was evidently
wound up and eloquent: 81 am rather
doubtful. about tho matter OF Senator Cam.
den succeeding himself two years hence.
THERE'S Il strong opposition to 1t and at
tenpts are already making to bring it up
in Il strongly concentrated form at the first
session Of the Legislature in Charleston.
Governor Jackson wants 1t badly. Dan
Lucas wants to mir his alleged Jeilersonian
ideas in the late Senator Mason's seat;
Eustuce Gibson wants u promotion; ex.
Judge Raymond, II he were not 80 collsti-
tutionally tired, would like to rest III tie
Senate Chamber for six years; Prof. Pen
dleton is not averse to it; John Doneioo
would makcitasinecure; Joe Gallalicrcoy-
els it; ex-Jujgo Moore, Of Muson county.
yearns for it-.but why enlarge, all the pre-
tcntious oticc.seekers in the State are
alter it. John j.. Davis is tho most III
earnest Of all the competitors. lilo is
already out for it. That is what his run
as an elector.at-large meant this fall: tha1
is what his vigorous opposition to General
Golr meant. Davis does nothing gratui'
tously. He hopes either TO succeed
Camden or defeat him. The scheme is tc
multiply candidates between this time
and the winter OF 1857, and to oyerwhe}n
Camden rather than to defeat him after
the manner OF the usual Legislative
chicanery: the latter TOO expensive. Cam.
den is not going to stand it. He is already
sounding the shadows und depths and as
heispratty well upin West Virginia matters
he will be able to gauge things before thu
time for. troublernmes. Camden, il tile
Democrats remain in power, Of which !
am very doubtful, should succeed himself,
lie has done more for the State than any
man in it in the matter Of developing its
resources. The narrow gauge system o.
roads running out OF Clarksburg, which
is bound to penetrate every county
drained by the Elk and its tributaries, and
the upper, Monongahela was conceived
and carried out by him. The Ohio River
road, which in time will bind the whole
southern side OF this State, is his enter.
prise. OF course lie goes into these
schemes rs a business man, but the re.
suits to the country developed exceed Mr..
Ca,nden's returns.