Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-08-02
congreasIonaL conventIon.

The Second Congressional District
| Convention was called to order at
the Court House in Grafton at 10.
O'Clock Tuesday morning by j. Hop.
Woods, of Barbour county, acting as
chairman of the Executive Commit
tee, in the absence of the regular
chairman, G. Wood Daily, of Keyser.
w. G. Brown, of Kingwood, and
Editor Boyer, of Berkeley county,
were made Chairman and Secretary.
On motion of Delegate T. p. Rosy,
of MonongaIia county, the Chicago
platform was adopted "without
change in the crossing of a T or the
dottiDg of an l." An additional res
olution was afterward adopted COM
mending in strong terms all of Con-
gresham Wilson's record. Nomi-
nations being in order for District
Elector, S. v. Woods, of Barbour,
and Bernard L. Butcher, of Randolph
were named, but Mr.. Woods with
drew his name and Mr.. Butcher was
nominated by reclamation, and re-
turned feeling thanks to the conven-
tion for the honor.
j. Hop Woods, of Barbour coun-
ty, in an eloquent and felicitous
speech, nominated VIM. L. Wilson
for his sixth consecutive race for
Congress from the Second Congress
sionaI District. The rules were sus-
pended and the nomination made by
reclamation amid great applause.
"A pnmV0ittaa wac annoipFa1 70 no
tify Mr.. Wilson of his nomin alton,
and they returned to the hall in a
few minutes, Mr.. Wilson accompany
ing them.
In response to the calls for a
speech Mr. Wilson said:
""This is the sixth time you have
conferred upon me the highest honor
in your gift and called me to take up
the most laborious task you can ex-
act OF any citizen of this district
But 1 assure you it is not the honor,
great as it is, that I think of, or the
task, impossible as I know it is of
satisfactory fulfillment, but of the
unvarying and abundant personal
and political friendship with which
you have followed me from year to
year in my frightening career as
your Representative. As / look out
from this st6nd into the faces of
those who have thus welcomed me
from convention to convention. 1
cannot trust myself to say what /
feel in gratitude for their friendship.
1 have sometimes feared that 1 might
wear out my welcome with the Dem
ocrats of the Second distrsct, GCries
of moi but 1 call you to witness
that this is your own spontaneous
act, and l assure you if I had dis
covered anywhere in the district any
substantial opposition to my renomi-
nation, 1 should have promptly shown
my of the honors you have al
ready done me by declining to push
a contest for new honors.
eve all understand that a nomi-
nation in West Virginia now means
a stubborn contest and that we have
to fight earnestly for the victories we
achieve, but if the battle before us
in the State and district is to be a
hard n l know, in the words of our
great leader, that our party is strong
and that it has never failed to do its
full duty. 1 am sure we shall do
that duty in this campaign. and that
West Virginia will not depart from
the faith her people have cherished
for a hundred years whenever they
have been free TO express their opin-
IONS"
Mr.. Wilson then referred to the
great meeting he had recently attend
ed in New York, and to the union of
Democrats in hat and other northern
states. Eight years ago he had stood
on this same platform to accept a re-
nomination to Congress, when on the
party banner was Inscribed the
name of the almost unknown Gov
ernor of New York. Again that
name, now grown to be that of the
great Democrat and great leader,
was on the banner, and lie believed
that a second victory would rejoice
the hearts of all Democrats.
He declared that the issues of the
campaign were the tariff and free
elections in the States. In his trip
to the Pacific Coast and in %canvassing
in New England he had found the
party everywhere united and enthu-
siastic on these issues, than which
there could be non greater, and that
enthusiasm and union meant victory.
He had doubtless met the disappro-
val of some of his constituents in de-
clining to commit the party to another
issue, but he felt that he was not
called upon to drive a wedge into the
party that would split it hopclessly
and almost sectionalIy. After a few
more remarks, Mr.. Wilson again
thanked the members of tile conven-
ton, and pledged that in any calls
for campaign work made upon him
he would not neglect his own State
or his own district. Mr. Wilson re-
turned to Washington in the evening
and did not go on to Parkersburg,
as lie expected TO do.
Let Us Advise You, Ladies!
We again feel called upon to do the female