Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-26
POLITICAL.

There is growing inquiry among in
terested parties to know when the Congress
sionAl campaign will commence in this
district. OF course it viii not begin in the
ordinary acceptatiou Of the term until af'
ter the conventions are held and the nomi-
nations made, although it cannot be
gainsaid that it is often the case within
the ranks Of the dominant party that
harder campaigning is done before than
after the conventions.
In the Third and Fourth districts the
calls for Congressional conventions by the
Democrats have been made, while the
several sspirants and their respective
friends have been and are still elawing
the sie quite lively and working the grape
vine route for all that's out for vantage
ground before the conventions assemble.
In the Second district little has been said
or done, because probably, no one has YET
made up his mind to cross swords with
the present sturdy and able incumbent.
In our own District there are several
Democratic lions mapping in their lsirs and
spelling for q chance to contest for the po
session Of the juicy congressional carcass
that has been looted by the other eide foI
/ the past two terms. The Democrats of the
First District do not propose again to let
the enemy carry off the prize that lfgiti
matsly belongs to them. They do not pro
pose, however, to make long wesrisome
csnvsss-short, sharp and decisive will be
their plan. To the dominant party it il
always the most satisfactory, and pro
duces the best results. 1t should be the
same way With the Legislative ticket in
this county. The Executive Committee
should hold off until the last moment for q
call for Convention. A four or ak week 4
vigorous campaign will be sufficient, The
Republicans being in the minority will very
likely want q long canvass to work up
their case and will probably
issue q call for an early convention. This
applies particularly to the First District
where they have elected Congressman
by the aid of the most interruptions meth
DDS. In the other districts OF the State
they may mske's feiut ola Congressional
canvass, but little more, as their hopes o.
success, since the loss OF federal patronage
sre next to nothing.
On the whole the outlook for the Yves,
Virginia Democracy this fall is very bright
and We would not be surprised if the Dem
ocrs,ic msjorities in many counties in the
State were much greater than in the
Presidential year. Everything tends that
way. The petty jealousies and disappoint
ments unavoidably resulting from the dis
pensation Of federol patronage has nearly
all vanished, and the main thought will be
upon the best way 10 give the enemy auch
dressing as they have not had for quite 8
while. There will be great unsnimity il
this thought. 1t is msterisEzinR
rapidly. Nor was there ever a better op
portunity. The bIunders of the politicians
of the Republican party the past fifteen
years in their system of legislation, which
has wrought such chaos in all our iudus
trial, agriculture! and commercial inter.
ests; which has given away nsarly all the
public lands to great corporations; which
has enabled to an unprecedented degree the
concentration of vast fortunes in the hands Of
the few to the impoverishmeut Of
the many; BY the continu
alton and perpetuatiou of war legis-
la,ion, thus keeping in force the high tariff
ana internal taxation, that saps The life
blood from the working classes and puts a
prodigious corruption fund in the United
States Treasury for the temptation of plum,
dsring and uuprincipled politicians ana
pension agents. all these we say are such,
in short, that the conditions are favorable
for wolloping the enemy so completely and
quickly, that they wont know what hurt
them.