The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-04
NO LONGER A CANDIDATE,

In Withdrawing from the contest for tn.
Congressional nomination desire to MAKE
to my friends the following explanation
and statement;
Before announced my intention to bl
a candidate ] consulted o number OF promi
nent Republicans ot Belmont county who
were Of the opinion that such candidacy
would be entirely proper and ought Il
have the united support OF the party o.
the county,
Many earnest Republicans from Other
counties held, as Mr.. Bingham, OF Harrl
son county, did, that there was no great
overwhelming claim held by any indi
yidual that should exclude the fair con.
Alteration oi the claims OF others.
swift upon the announcement OF my
purpose, Belmont county was oyerrun
with the agents Of Mr.. Taylor and her
culean efforts made to distract and divide
the Republicans Of the county, Money
was sent to various points to be used III
secret methods to obtain voters to "cap-
ture" townships, and Rtlidavils are not
wanting that men were "hired" to vote
against me.
Letters were written by Mr.. Taylor over
his own algnature and circulated in the
county charging me with carrying on a
campaign Of Misrepresentation and In
trigue," and OF forming ''secret organiza.
tions to capture the delegates" when in
fact l did not visit a single point in Bel
mont county except ST, Clarsville and
Bridgeport, and refused to 60 elsewhere
when requested.
All the disappointed aspirauts Tor Office
who failed to secure nominations com
blned against me.
The publisher Of the party organ at the
county seat that drawS its support from
officials elected by my friends used money
and other dlsreputable methods in the in.
terest Of the claimant. .... b.
Prominent citizens Of Barnesville falsely
charged that / antagonized their local
pike bill as member Of the Legislature,
and others denounced me as opposed
TO the interest CT the farmers, and at the
same time letters from the candidate they
worked for were in possession OF citizens
there making infamous proposals for help
to carry the delegates.
Over in Noble county, q so.called Re-
publican paPer denounced me as In league
with secret labor organizations and called
upon the farmers to oppose me, while in
Jefferson county a guard from the Ohio
penitentiary circulated boycott circulars
asking all wofkingmen TO oppose me be.
cause was against labor organization,
and he had tools at the polls who de.
nounCed my ticket as blacEsheep ticket.
These are q few Of the instrumentalitiea
by which l have been cut down, and l
have right to give them to tho public,
for In nearly forty years OF active political
lie l have never seen nor passed through
such contest, and l hope, for the honor
oil the Republican party, never to see an.
other like Il.
To those who have felt constrained to
support another through no personal un-
kindness, but because Of what they re-
garded as special claims, and were manly
In their methods. have no complaints to
make they did but exercise their right of
choice.
For the mercenary and unaCupulous l
have nothing but contempt.
To the large number Of faithful friends
who stood by me am very grateful and
assure them that l will ever be ready TO
acknowledge my Indebtedness and return
In kind the services rendered. I'
Having made an earnest fight last win.
ter against fraud and Doodle In politics,
cannot submit without complaint 10 the
use OF dishonest methods in my own
party. And with my own county divided
by these methods my sense Of seli.respect
makes my withdrawal from the contest q
necessity. O. L. PooRMAN.
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