Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-09-28
MASON COUNTY.

Greenbackers Gone Back to the Democra-
cy and viii Garry the County for That
Party.
To the Editor Of The ReqiSIS.
PoISr pleasant, W. Va, September q.
in your issue of Sunday, the 2lst l lind
letter purporting to have been written
from this place, which, while it claims to
foreshadow the political result in this county
certainly misreprents the facts to a very
considerable extent and tends to convey the
impression that this county will 60 RepuSi-
can at the approaching State election.
Your correspondent states that Hayes car
ried this county over Tilden in 1876 BY 472
majority while in truth the vote stood, &C
cording to the official count Tlden 1900,
Hayes 1880 and Cooper 80, while in 1880
Garfield received 1853 votes while Han
cock received l,S46, difference of only !.
Your correspondent further states that
Guthrie, fusion, for SupremeJudge carried
the county by about 400 majority, and the
majority against Gov. Jackson was little
over 500" Guthrie's majority was only
257, and that, too, at an election
when there was less than 1850
votes polled against 4,2j8 in 1880, and
when it is known fact that scores of Dem
ocrats voted for Guthrie merely on the
grounds that he was a Mason county man.
Governor Jackson received in this county
1917 votes, while Sturgiss, the Republican
candidate, received only l,747. True,
French, Greenbecker, received $40 votes,
but that was in time when the Green
hackers could number their greatest
strength, and since that time the majority
of that organization have gone back to the
Democratic party, and will note with them
at the coming election.
The Democracy of Mason county have
never been as well organized as they are at
the present time, and there is no doubt but
what they will elect their full county ticket
and cast a majority Of votes for the whole
State ticket, as well as for the Hon. Eustace
Gibson, our candidate for Congress
RENARKs-We did not take the pains to
verify our correspondents figures of last
week by reference to official tables; but
since our attention is now called to them
we have done so. By re'eren 3e to the ta-
bles printed in the Philadelphia Times
Almanac, and represented as being from
; he official reports furnished by the proper
officers, we 6nd that Hancock received
,S4S votes; Garfield 1858; Weaver 367;
being a majority against Hancock Of 372
votes. The vote of 1880 is printed in a
book entitled The Statues OF West Vir-
ginia on Corporation, by Randolph Stall
maker, Jr., Secretary of State, and is sup
posed to be official. In that book, Gov,
jackson is credited With having received in
Mason county 1868 votes; Sturgiss l,747;
French is 62l. Majority against Jackson
sos. The same authority (or at least the
copy on our table, gives Guthrie l,6lO votes
to Snyder l,2O5, making q difference of
4C5, as we figure it.
We have no doubt that our present cor
respondent states the truth IN saying that
Judge Guthrie received good
many Democratic votes on the
ground that he was a Mason county man,
and we are gra'ifed to learn that the ma
jarity Of the Greenhackers have gone back
TO the Democratic party and will vote with
them at the coming election. If so Mason
county ought to give clean majority for
the Democratic State and county tickets.