The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-10-22
Mr.. viIso.'s record

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Congress in this district, through
bis own paper. has recently insinuat-
ed that Mr.. Wilson "has done moth
ing in Congress.
This statement Is as vicious and
malignant as it is absurd. Few
men have ever done harder or better
work in Congress-; the best proof of
which is the fact that he has since
his second term served continuously
on one or the other of the two high
est and most influential committees.
These services coupled with his en-
inent abilities as a statesman and
an orator have placed him in the
rank of such men as Carlisle, and
Mills, Reed and Mckinley, and his
fame is coextensive with the limits
of our common country. There is
no constituency in the United States
but what would feel it an honor to
have him for a representative.
Republicans admit all this; but,
effecting to believe that the chief
duty of Congressman is to act as a
claim agent, retort that he has ne
elected our local interest whatever
that may mean. This is an old,
threadbare campaign cry. 1t has
been made against every public man
of prominence for century and al
ways by the same person, either by
those who want to be nominated, or
by those who want to be elected
over faithful representative.
Even here however, Mr.. Wilson,
record is unassailable. Mr.. Will
sons modesty in declining as far as
possible to transfer his personal SER
vices, may have the people to over
look what he has done but we assert
that during his term of service be
has gotten through the lower House
more local bills and appropriations
than all the other West Va. Con.
gressmen put together. This asser-
ton, bold as it is, can be proved
Compare COTS record, or Atkinson's
or Smiths our republican friends
before you question the truth of it.
Lest some of our Republican
friends may be as ignorant as they
profess as to what Mr.. Wilson has
done in this respect we will call at
tention to few measures. The bill
for the ont and out sale of the Gov
eminent property at Harper's Ferry;
the two bills, one for establishing a
term of the U. S. court at Martins
burg and the other for a public
building; the completion of slack
water navigation on the Mononga-
hela; the opening of that river free
of tolls to West Va. trade; the sur
vey and improvement of Cheat river;
the purchase of the private dams on
the Monongahela and for completing
the slack water as far as Fairmont.
occupying altogether many years of
continuous labor, numerous bills and
many thousand dollars. Besides
these which are general in their ma
ture he has gotten through quite a
number of private pension bills,
among them one increasing the pen
sion of Mrs. Stribing, of Martins
burg. AS to war claims wherever
parties, having good claims have al
lowed him to refer them by bill or
petition in the court of claims, they
have in large number of cases been
successful; among whom, we can il
our friends insist upon it, name more
than a few in Berkeley and Jefferson
countess In no single instance can
it be truthfully urged that he had
not done all that an able and faith
full representative could or ought to
do.
The people of this district are not
to be caught by chat. 1t is very
easy for people without records to
assail those who have. 1t is also
very easy to think of impossible
things which people want done but
which could not be done; but the
people of this district, when in
search of information concerning
their public servants, will not take
it from such selfish and biased
sources. Mr.. Wilson will be re- elect
by large Observation-Disclosures
Statesman.