Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-02-06
rLnrGHMAN,s VIEWS.
He Thinks Hon. VIM. L. Wilson WOuld
suit All Glasses of Democrats For Gov

suit All Glasses of Democrats For Gov
evnOr.
( IL ltsEdi'or Of tie REGISTER:
SR:-This is grounding day, and
while waiting for the appearance
of the animal 10 get his views
upon the wether for the next six
weeks, 1 concluded to put in the spare
moments in giving yOn the political stu
alton IN these parts as it appears to a
plain countryman.
The National Convention has been
called aud our State Committee has
named the time and place for holding
the State Convention, and now the ques-
ton of candidates for the various posi-
tionS 70 be filed az the election next
November is enjoying the serious at
JeutiOn Of the people.
Thus far everything is more or less
nebulouS and shadow; in the formative
state, so TO speak. The professional
politicians, the bosses or managers, who
are always "on deck" and ready for
business, have been FOR some time en-
gagged in the delicate task Of deciding
who shall be nominated for this Office
and for that, who shall be Governor,
Auditor, etc, and who shall be
sent TO the Senate, and who
to the House Of Delegates. Reports,
more or less authentic, say the slate Is
partially made up: but the list Is not
only incomplete, but subject to change
and revision. The managers themselves
have not in every case and 10 reference
to every office come to q definite con-
cuSiOn, but they are at work, and will
doubtless in due time issue their orders.
While all this monkey business" Is
going on with the slate makers, the peo-
pie themselves, the parties most con-
Cerned and least consulted, are doing a
sight OF thinking and watching the play
with great interest. The school teacher
has been doing some most excellent
WORK in these mountain coun-
ties in the last ten years,
and the people are not so
ignorant of their power or rights as
some of the bosses imagine. The time
has gone by when little coterie Of po-
lltical trickSterS can get together az
Petersburg or Charleston and parcel
out officers 70 suit themselves. Whole
counties and districts are no longer
under the control Of one or two sharp
political traders who hold them
as stock in trade. The people
have come 10 recognize that theirs is
the right of nomination equally with
the power Of election, and if the Demo-
cratic party is 10 succeed in carrying
the State the desires of the people must
be consulted and their wishes and
preferences Obeyed in the nominating
convention or the states OF the schemes
and the plans Of the managers will go
for nothing.
Therank and file OF the Democracy
10 this part Of the Sate look forward
10 the struggle ahead Of them for politi-
cal supremacy I'm the State with grave
apprehension, aud they wish the ticket,
TO 5c named az ParkerSburg next July,
20 be composed of strong men, men Of
known ability and high character, NOR
ally and socially, who will not only have
the support Of their own party, but at
tract votes from the opposition.
10 is all a mistake TO suppose that we
can catch the farmer vote by nominal
ing a farmer merely because he Is a
farmer. The farmers are generally men
of good, strong common sense, and
while 10 is true that they would, all
things being even, prefer 4 man from
their own ranks for Governor, yet they
are not to be caught with chat.
They do not want a figure head in the
Governors office at Charleston even if
he is a tiler VI the soil. The farmers
want a man for Governor who has the
learning the ability, and the courage
20 stand up and see that they have eX-
actly the same rights, privileges
and immuaities that other Citi-
zens have. They ask no more nor
no less. The great mass
Of them are Democrats aud believe in
the old JefferSonian doctrine Of equal
and exact Justice to all with special
privileges to none. This being so they
recognize 10 Hon. VIM. L. Wilson, of
Jefferson county, man who would
make the party a splendid candidate
and the people an ideal Governor.
II the Democrats wish TO be perfectly
certain Of carrying West Virginia, let
them nominate VIM. i. Wilson for Gov
ernOr ana be can sweep the State
against ElkinS and all the money he can
gather from the corporations to buy
votes with. am aware that Mr.. Will