The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-04-21
HON. E. w. WILSON.

HON. e. w. WILSON.
No matier wb3t may be our
private preferences md feelings
il can be said that no man within
The State hss served the party
more faithfully than Governor
Wilson. From youth . manhood
wherever the principles Of Dem
orracy has needed champion, it
has found one in him. Whether
as leader or follower lhe has
ever been found in. the thickest
of tho fight. Hisslife so far has
been eonsecrated to- Democracy
and in every campaign the party
~ had The adv ,ntage OF his I'M
iriag zeal and labor. When in
he city of Wheelingin 1887 the
doughty Foraker influenced many
d the Grand Army Of the Repu :
.c,to insult the Nation by. refus-
ing to pass nnder the portrait Of
President Cleveland, to the graf
i.ic.tion Of thousands of old sol
d.crs and citizens, lie laid bare
and vi Il unsparing hand the cum
Ming hvperriey of the bloody shirt
apostle.
In lhe joint discussion between
Gov. Wilson and Gen. Golf, at
Ph.l'ipi and Beverly, in 1883, the
General was so badly beaten and
wrecked that he refused further
discussion. In The campaign Of
1890 both Golf and Elkins refus-
Cd to meet him in joint debate.
Defeated for the nomination
for. Congress in 1880 he never
sulked III his tent, bat beginning
at Hinton, there his rin,,,;i.e and
eloquent appeal was heard 4, ia
vor Of party harmony, he urged
until IT,, close Of the campaign
the election of his successful com
petiter. The leaders of the rarty
believing that he Legislature was
in doubt, he left his OWE Congress
sional District. i'll which ne was
so4anxious to be heard, ard al the
bidding of the party. made "a
school}horse campaign in yCabell
county III ORDER 10 secure The cleo
tion OF a gentleman who had new
-, been his personal friend, and
acn speaking in almost every
eoattIy along the line from @ :
le,septo Wheeling. Under The
Ill tic wand OF lis persuasive
powers the legislature was saved
and with Judge Fcfsus Gil aad
Cen. Waits he helped 10 bring
K.nswhs comfy beck 10 its ole
moo.in.s. In 1852 Utmost sing le-
handed he met and defeated The
ir.rds vi ich were attempted to
Je perpeh led ~ he Repub.ica n
,,,niy. and wilia n ould lave
been successful had it no
been for his legal abilities and
Democratic backbone.
Gov. Wilson's political labors
for more than twenty years have
been incessant and his hand is
l,lainly seen III our wisest and
most important legislation. yet it
cannot BE said That he has ever
he'd lucrative office. he lls
ses'ved several years as a member
OF lie ie@isla ,me, not because he
wanted the position, but in order
10 benefitthis erd of the State,
and IN 1854 he " us elected Gov
erncr C! The otaig, position OF
horeT, it is lrue, but a;ith a salary
entirely inadequate for the sup
port of is f-mi!v, and therefore
the ONCE was held ut a personal
sacridce,and no one III justice can
URGE The fact of his having been
Governor against him in this cam
p,,;gf. The party should be proud
of Che brilliant record which he
has made and of the manner in
which he has at all times dis
charged his d,ty.
Gov. Wilson's speech here on
Monday was just such a speech as
the people would have their Rep
resentative deliver in the halls of
CONGRESS- iron the g,eat tsrif
question which is only jlst Des n.
We. e solry That George Wes-
ley Atkinson has declined the
Republican nomination FOR Gov
A n. r