Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-07

sosne Of ts,e sSesnesss sAieA Haterea issta
cad Controlled ilss asessat
Al this xr:,iog The result in the First
district is exceedingly doustfdl. if Judge
Brsonon Is defeated. i IS by a snait msRr-
10y, 50 snaa THAI se may cali insignificant.
The causes which led 10 his defeat mar De
said 10 be four in number: Pirst. and iniiu-
ea,ial among these. was the personal pop9-
!arity OF Gen. God. He has long been
before the people OF this district. aad ea-
Joys the respect and confidence Of all citi
n regardless Of party. This was the
strongest element Of success in his recent
campsiea. On the other hand. Judge
Brsnnen was never before the
peopIe Of this county as q candidate
for their suffrages before. and therefore was
personally but little known among them.
in the second place. Gen. COTS position on
The tariff was construed more fayorsbiy to
him by the workingmen than Judge Bran
mons YES 10 him. Prejudice contributed
more TO this conclusion than real facts, and
the conclusion was, doubtless, fatal to
Judge Brsnnou. In the third place, the
German discontents, especially ia the Fourth
and Eighth wards'o the city, returned to
Gen. Goff and voted and worked for him.
Whatever Of opposition to him that was
looked for as coming from German RepuD'
licsns wa not brought to action by their
votes being cast against him, but on the
| contrary the vote cast in this city shows
that cot only did the German
Republicans renew their allegiance
to their party BY voting for Gen. Gof, but
m addition to this it also shows that in the
| central and northern parts Of The city, an
| other fact, and tia, is that q good many
! Temperance Democrats voted for him.
These are all historical facts, furnished BY
rhe recent Congressional campaign in this
couaiy. In Tyler county, the temperance
question vas the controlling reason whyGen
Gof got such a handsome majority, and in
Harrison county, his home, personal reason
prevailed to a great extent to swell his ma
jority.
itUay be said, perhaps, with much trnth.
hat IRE Gesmaus and the temperance or
7 tfohil ition people, united on one candidate
| in the person Of Gen. Gof, and that one or
lie other will be disappointed. .
Gen. Gof said, in his speech at the cap
io!, inSpeakiug Of importations, giving the
@Surts, that, that amount of liquor made
in and imported INTO and sold inthe coun-
NV, might Just SIS well have been manufac-
tuIed in this country is not. These we're
his precise words. The figures went way
10 into millions of dollars. The personal
aaU&e ard perse cution Of Judge Brannon,
and the Misrepresentation Of his position
On The tsriG question, all played their part
in his defeat. The late J. II. Good,
wO years ago, was defeated
in the district by Gen. Golf, by 1900
Col carried Ohio county over Mr.. Good by
rs, although at one time Mr.. Good had
carried it by a majority of 600 on a legis
Iatiye ticket. Col. Ben Wilson only beat
zen. Golf by about lOt in this county, and
once he only carried the district by about
-.
Reference is made to these facts to show
tia; there is nothing new or marvellous
about the election Of Gen. Golf Cf elected)
or tie defeat Of Judge Brannon in this dis,
uict. The vote for Cleveland in the city shows
,bst the tariff question was conspicuously
prCstnt at the ballot box. and this alone has
been and is tGe cause Of his small majority
in the city. In concluding this review OF
the county canvass at the late election
there is another item not yet mentioned,
and that is the party had just passed
through a very exciting and successful cam
raign at the October election, and a reac
ton amounting almost to i%naction and
apathy had fallen on the party, Gripping it
to a great extent. This was not the case
with the Republicans; they had been de-
ffated, and still smarting under that defeat
they became desperate in their means aud
efforts to carry the county, district and
State. If he is lost our apathy lost us our
CONGRESSMAN.