The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-22
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turn to Republican Rule.
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Rid SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va, Jan. 10
I see in your weekly issue that Mr.
johnson, OF the Monroe county Bordel
RatcbmGn, has been interviewed at Wash.
tngton, and he says there is much feeling
against Congressman Snyder and that 1t il
growing and, also, a very strong feeling
againat Senator Camden. Mr.. johnson Il
correct, There is and has been a strong
feeling against Snyder among the Bourbon
portion oil the Democrats ever since the
Morrison horizontal tariff bill was disposed
OF. The Bourbon Democrats of this cor.
ner oil the State have not forgotten any.
thing, and 1t does appear that they will
never learn anything, They adhere t.
he time'honored principles Of the Demo
cratic party, State sovereignty, free trade,
Anti'lnteTnai improvement, free whisky
and Doodle, The faults they find in shy.
der aud Camden seem to me TO be thelI
only redeeming principles, II they have
any politically. The BourbonR here look
upon them as being in favor, to some ex-
tent at least, to a protective tariff which il
contrary to sound Bourbon Democracy.
This is part of the grievance, but the
principal mi Is that the claims OF the
Bourbons Of the Third Congressional
District have been overlooked. Few
ii the fat places have been awarded
TO the great unwaehsd oil the strongest
Democratic District In the State. This il
where the shoe pinches. My notion iE
chat the Democracy are making more iuss
shout who shall be tho Senator than neCey.
sary. II there 10 anything in the signs Of
the times they will not be called upon to
select the next United States Senator.
Honest Democrats are having their eyel
opened, and 1t Is not Jim Mason's Charles.
!own free trade Bourbon sheet that Il
giving sight to the blind, but experience,
sad experience, hard times, scarcity O.
money, low prices for beef, no price fol
sheep and q general atagnationin business
And then q few have learned the folly Of
iaking gold and buying silver with 1t, and
think that 1t 10 costing them too much,
and many Of them swear they will moi
vote the Democratic ticket again. 1hsya are
nQuiring what has become OF the school
money, and how come this State 10 bs hal
4million dollars In debt with the burthen
II taxes we pay?
In fact, there seems 10 be some dlsposi.
tion among a few honest Democrats to In.
quire into the causes OF all the ills we are
suffering. With q few such papers as the
New York Tribune and the Wheeling In.
T%ELLldENCRR circulated among those Of
the Democratic party who are looking
alter the cause Of all our trouble, the
Democratic party would not be called
upon to select the next United States Sen.
Alor. Snyder is paving his way for the
domination to succeed himself. lie had
Lewis Galloway removed " PeterstoMn tO
give place to Henry Clark for postmaster.
This made him solid with the saltpeter
brigade, but not so solid with Thomai
Applingand his kinsiolk, the Watts family.
But he soon had that trouble settled. A
working Democrat Of the Watts family
had been twice nominated by the DemoC.
raCy for clerk, and although this Is a
Democratic county, or has been, "UnCle"
Dick Watts was showed under to the
tune OF one thousand and sixteen votes,
which wa hard on "UnCle" Dick, who,
by the way, deserved better treatment,
Snyder came to tho rescue aud removed
an old gentleman, who had made an ex.
cellent postmaster, and put "Uncle Dick
in. This was q ten strike, for Snyder ap.
pessud the Watts family and silenced all
the nephews and COUSINS. How such
manipulation suits thevoters Of the county
you will learn later. What Snyder Is
alter Is the nomination, which in this dis.
trict has been equivalent 10 election, and
and with the saltpeter brigade Of this
county, and Col. ]. NJ. Rowan, who has
another son or two he wants educated at
the expense OF the Government be tried
to destroy, and the influence Of the Watts
family, l think Snyder Is solid in this
As for the United States senatorship,
that matter Is to be settled later, and
II West Virginia has to have a Demo.
Crat let tn sec to II that he belongs to the
Randall wing Of the party. DoKG.