The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-06-11

wise,t0 thus defy public npinion and APP
point MIN who could not be elected ii
the polls? Unless we mistake the signs
Of tile times the masses will, presently
rise in their might and sweep away the
politicians who surrender our party 10
railroad rule.P
The Jackson Herald rises TO remark,
for the benefit Of candidates. that "the
West Virginia Legislature at its last SEES
sion so amended the law as TO make the
office OF Road Surveyor under the alter
nate system elective. On the strength
Of this statute candidates for the posi-
ton have within the past few months
became very numerous in the counties
keeping up roads under the alternate
system. In this county alone no less
than thirty candidates sprang up, and
the contests were growing very spirited.
We said the office was made elective.
This was q slip OF the types, and We
should have said the Legislature thought
it had conferred upon the people the
right to elect, but in this il seems to
have been mistaken, a fact that was dis.
covered last week by one OF our home
attorneys, Hon. V. S. Armstrong, who,
in looking up another matter, ran across
the second section OF article o Of the
State Constitution, which says: Cor.
oneTs, overseers OF the poor, and sur.
veyors OF roads, shall be appointed by
the County Court This is regarded as
settling the matter, and the candidates
in this part Of the county have accepted
the situation gracefully, hastily vacating
the field and turning attention to other
pursuits. Those OF other localities will
probably do likewise"
The factional fight over the Demo,
cratic nomination for Congress in the
Third district is increasing in bitterness.
Captain Snyder seems at this time Ia
have the inside track, some OF Major
Alderson's warmest supporters having
left him on account Of certain methods
he is alleged to have pursued. The
Greenbrier Independent Democratic)
says: 1t is charged that Mr.. Anderson
has deliberately set himself and his
friends to work to buy the nomination
that men have been hired for SO much
money, paid in cash, to do the work
necessary in certain districts; that votes
have been bought at wholesale and re.
tail, and at such prices as were demand
ed the bar rooms have been leased and
thrown open to "the boys" newspapers
subsidized; county conventions held on
short and insufficient notice; instruc.
tons improperly obtained, and other
means employed, which must inevitably
weaken his candidacy before the people
ut large, and drive from him large
number OF consistent Democrats who
have heretofore uniformly supported
the party's candidates. One OF the most
lamentable features about this whole
business is that when these charges were
publicly made, in the presence OF the
Committee and OF Mr.. Alderson's friends
at Kanawha Falls, they, or at any rate
the most serious OF them, we're not, Us
we are informed, even denied, but the
friends Of Mr.. Anderson, on that occasion
contented themselves with saying that
others had done the same thing hereto
fore. Such an excuse, even if be true
will hardly pass muster. We think
it time for the people OF this district tc
rise up and say to all men, who wish to
be the candidates Of the party for any
office, that an end must and shall b
put to the use OF all such methods. We
have no majority to boast OF, and We
cannot afford to put our candidate be
fore the people with such load upor
| him,