The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-04-20
col. TAYLORs CONGRESSIONAL TERMS,

A Constituent Corrscts Some Roprescnta
lions MadO by u Late Correspondent.
To he Editor Of the IntelIiOener:
SrR:-In contest between Republi'
cans it is better always to be fair and
truthful. In communication pub
lished, in your paper April 0, signed
Republican" from Belmont county,
Ohio, there are several statements which
are not true. In the first place it is not
true that Capt. Danford declined, on
principle or otherwise, to be u candidate
for third term. He never refused Ia
be a candidate nor did he refuse the
nomination, but, on the contrary, nc.
cepted third term very cordially and
very willingly. T.
In the next place it is not true that
Col. Taylor opposed Hon. John A. Bing-
hams repeated nominations on the
ground that Congressional service should
be limited to two terms. No person in
the district did more to keep Mr.. Bing-
ham in Congress, until n promise was
made by Mr.. Bingham or his friends
that he would not be candidate again,
than Col. Taylor. When Capt. Danford
was nominated third time there were
no special reasons why he should be
given third term which would not ap-
ply to any other candidate who has al
ready served two terms.
The statement that DR.. UpdegraF was
opposed by Col. Taylor, HOllingsworth
and others, on tho two term argument
is equally n mistake. Col. Taylor was
not in the Congressional district that
gave DR.. Updcgraf his first nomination,
and consequently had nothing to do
with it, and never advocated the two
term idea, but oil the contrary con-
demned it, and refused always when a
candidate TO make, or permit his friends
to make, any promise OF this kind. DR.,
Updegraif's opposition originated among
those who had participated in his nom
ination, and who claimed that he had
promised only to be candidate for two
terms. This, and the fact that the
district was changed were urged in
1889, but Ovcrrlled by the people.
The statement that It was under.
stood, when Col. Taylor was first
nominated, that he had received the
two nominations which his friends
claimed for him, is known to be false
by every man who attended that con-
yention, On the contrary, II was known
ut that convention that Col. Taylor did
not care whether he got the short term
or not. He did not ask it, but the con.
vention decided in the first place, be-
fore anybody was nominated, that they
would give the short term OF o few
weeks to the person who got the full
term, and hence no separate ballot was
taken. The district in which General
Warner and Colonel Taylor were candi-
dates, in 1854, had given Judge l!oadly
tho ye0r before q Democratic majority oil
,55S, instead OF having gone Republic.
can ut the two preceding elections, as
claimed by this writer.
Besides, tho idea OF n correspondent
stating that Col. Taylor is now n candi-
date for fifth term" is ridiculous to
any man who knows what the facts are,
His first nomination and election sim
ply embraced DR.. updegratf's uncx.
pircd term, which was two years and
about six weeks. Then he made tho
race against Warner in Democratic
district, made Democratic by Demo-
cratic Legislature, and was beaten, or
counted out, by 2t6 votes. Two years
after no was reelected, and is now serv'
ing his second term, and not having
been in the last Congress, he entered
Congress agaip this time under the dis
advantages OF now member, While
mono OF his predecessors were given less
than three consecutive terms, he has
thus far been given substantially only
two terms, and they were not con-
seCutive,
Col. Taylors nomination and election
are beyond all question. No Represent
alive in the district over gave more
universal satisfaction,
A l7rM DISTRICT REPUBLICAN.
ApHl17, 1888.