Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-07
DEMOCRACY OFTHE FOURTH SEN
ATORIAL DISTRICT.
Perfectly Harmonious and Preparing for a
Vigorous Campaign and Victory.

Perfectly Harmonious and Preparing for a
Vigorous Campaign and Victory.
Sysrfa Correspondence Of The Register.
S~IsTERsvILLE, w. VA, September o
The Fourth district Democracy are a
healthy, vigorous set of the unterrified,
with honesty, integrity and a determine
ton not only to win, but to down what
there is left of the g. o. p. lgone out parity
in a final political round 80 thoroughly
and completely hat instead of being one
of the two great parties, - they imagine
themselves to be, they will cry peccdri.
and fall back to their true pOsitiOn-that
OF being the fourth party, and on Il rapid
decline ut that.
OF late the stock in trade, issues and the
chief end, aim and Ill their ideas seem to
lead in one direction, the defeat of Senator
Camden, by TRADE, abuse, yilliticatiOn and
all the contumely that thick skinned, OBJ
fuse office-Seeking vultureS can coin. Out
side OF the place-hunting, demOralized
leaders OF the left wing OF the Columbus
eataloftical conference advocates the OppO-
sitiOn to Senator Camden amounts to moth
ing. Er RihH, Mill tt, well applies to these
diSgruntled demaSOgueS aS they can do
very little toward changing the opinion OF
the people, based upon material facts, ma
terial benefits, and material interests.
The cry of monopoly in this case Is to the
people but an amusing farce, rs it would
be difficult to find 4 sensible, reasonable
man, be he Democrat, Republican, Green
hacker, OF PrOhibitiOnist who will not
fully admit that the senator has been both
rs representative and rs a citizen and bust
Ness man OF more real and intrinsic value
TO the State than any other man III 1t.
In conversation to day with a Republi-
can of the Old Guard, who is IN lntelil-
GENT, cultivated gentleman and business
man, the subject being politics and the
prospective senatorial election, he said to
me:
II am a thorough Republican, hut sir, l
am also a business man and look to my
" and to the interests of the Staten these
matters. Why in the world the RepuDll-
can papers make no other issue than at
tacks and utilization OF Mr.. Camden l
must confess l am ut n loss to know. lie
certainly has been the best Senator we ever
nll. Is lDllltulLll Win AZ
IF both parties; has n clear, analytical bus
mess brain, and Is looked upon rs oil
the leading minds in all abstruSe queS-
tions relating to Our commercial rela-
tons. Nowhere in u State could we
have found a man who could or would
have been able to take so prominent n
vitality important u position rs he o IN
the Cullom Interstate Commerce bill
before the L. ). Senate. But so outside
of tie Senate and Onecan see the ndiceS oil
mis- ability Us business man. o at the
Ohio River railroad from Wheeling to II.
Pleasant, and most probably to Cincinnati,
Ohio before il stops. Whata blessing anu
beneft this road alone is to us. But there
IRE other railroads, coal mines, timber IN
terests. and the great Camden consolidated
refneries mt ParkeTsburg, when employ
hundreds of ~wOrkingmen, and whlch VIII,
when completed, l suppose, employ not
IeSs than 500 to GOO people. These are
among the benefits West Virginia has de-
rived from Mr.. Camden rs a business man.
He certainly spends his money In his own
State to the benefit of his State, anu 1
don't believe he has a dollar in street rali-
roads in Washington, or IN mines III Ne
vada or New Mexico. | am avowedly u
Camden a myself, and for the best rea,
sons i'm the wOrld-that of Selt-lntereSt anu
for the interest and benefit OF the State anu
peonIe Where could we do half so Well:
You are putting it pretty strong D"' l
believe you are right?'
II am not putting it halt strong enough.
[ do not see why or where we could De
benefited in any way by sending another
man TO the Senate, and l do see how we
could lose materially by it. l am not
foolish enough to attack such a man simp-
" because he differs with me in religion
or politics ,,,rr
opiniOn?" l. rrs;-
'''Oh, yes; a great majority OF the pISl,
ness men of the party are ~clear-headeG
enough to see all l have mentioned ana
more and they will, l am satisfied, quiet
" drop in their ballot inaccordanee there
to-"