Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1889-09-14
WHERE THE COMMITTEE GOT In
ITS WORK.

TERRA ALTA, w. VA, Sept. 81
The contest committee yesterday
passed on the counties of Taylor,
Wood, Webster, Preston, Summers
and Mason. Golf successfully as.
sailed nine votes In Taylor county,
two in Wood, three in Mason and
three in Preston. Two votes attack.
ed by Fleming in Taylor county,
were rejected, one in Preston, TWEEN
ty-one in Summers and eighty in
Mason county.
No votes were successfully attack
ed in Webster county.
Two votes for Fleming in Monon,
gala county were rejected.
The remaining seven counties will
be acted on Tuesday, no doubt.
AS was remarked in these dis
patches some time ago, the whole
situation in this matter is easily I'M.
derstood. By the decisions of the
majority Judge Fleming's net gain
is about 800. Curiously enough,
three lines of cases before the com.
mittee cover this entire gain. They
are seventy votes in Brooke county,
twenty-eight in Kanawha and 202 in
Mercer and McDowell-total, 300.
Drop the whole and what is left 7
The original ITO majority, by which
General Nathan Golf was elected
Governor of West Virginia. In 9th.
er words, outside of these votes, the
illegal votes rejected in the State has
been the same in number for Golf
and Fleming. This, however is from
the standpoint of the majority. Ac-
cording to the views of the minority
of the committee, Golf was elected
10y q majority of considerably more
than ITO.
THE TRUE SITUATION.
Probably 1000 men, in the Mercer
and Mcdowell region, most of whom
would have cast their ballots for
Golf, failed to vote. There is food
for thought here. The situation is to-
day is indicated by the foregoing
statement. Itneedsno gift of prophecy
to foretell what is in store for this
State. The building of railroads, the
opening of coal mines, the construc-
ton of coke ovens, the development
of all resources, mean material pros
perity and political progress. West
Virginia, situated,as it we're, between
the East and West, between the
North and the South, is entering
upon a new era. 1t is not to be re-
GREETED that the march of improve
ment will so diversity the population
of the State. To increase it, that
political changes will occur. No
deduction from the increase of PEG.
pie in the past, will apply to the
growth in the future. Development
once fully inaugurated, the arteries
OF commerce once fully open and
West Virginia's onward march will
be phenomenal. Twenty years
hence the population will be two
million.
IN THE FUTURE.
More than a quarter of million
new votes will have their lot here.
From where will they come? This
is no difficult question to answer.
The State has the natural wealth.
1t will not so much need capital to
develop all this as men with brawny
arms and broad chests. There is but
one political party in this country
which is the friend of the labofing
man, whether he be white or black.
So the people who come trooping
into this State will revivify and
change it politically until there will
be majorities too great to assail. No
matter whether they be from the
North or the South, the stream in
each case will be purifying one.
The prospect in regard to the col
ored man is one to cheer. He has
been a servile laborer too long; his
salvation is in honest, Independent
toll. The question as to whether or
not he will work, is not a doubtful
one. Men of experience all say that
the negro miners are among the very
best. They are almost invariably
industrious and obedient. Why
then shall not West Virginia vel.
come them to assist in throwing into
the markets of the world her magnifi.
cent natural products ?