The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-08
BELMONT coUNTYs DELEGATION
Old Fritsd and Camrad<, OF bridgeport
BElDGEpoxr. O.. June :.

beea made ia references 70 the oon.
g'es,!oaL contest in Belnoa. county,
IhI! deem it my dutT TO pIlinly &C.
lae the position o! the six Bridgeport
delegates and the manner IN which
iheT were chosen.
When 4 committee Of your iriend.
trora Bsllairc came 10 Bridgeport OF or
about Nay Is, ihey Eere NET by seTeral
Republican. and after some talk IN the
sitcA;ioa q proposition was made 10
your Be!lzire !riencs ~ iollovs: That
no con:es. be made il Bridgeport, bat
that her delegates be cent 20 the Goa
Tent!on who would 30: bs preiudice1
for or against Col Poornan or Nr.
DGn;otd, but would stand by the Bel
noat county candidate hzv!n; I Dsior-
ity 0: the delegate. outside Of oar PEE
cincts-
Your friends said. "Tha: would be
fair and honorable" The following
day they returned to BricgsPor: and
sald Tou fully approved this aSreaGent
There va. more 10 this compact,
colonel, a. you aad your Bellaire friends
well know. We all though; and openly
ssid tina: i: would be a wise policy for
Bellclt coCniy 10 present 10 tina. con-
yea:Ioa only ons candidate. You en-
d0rEed ihis idea in ny presence, and
ynOr BAllsire friend. did the sans il at
least seven different interview. With
Republicans here, and l heard them;
and in iurtheranes o: this same idea
you: friends assured us again and again
that none but good, sensible, ooaIe.va-
tive Republicans would be chosen az
Poornan delegates IN Be!lai'e, men
who would chser;Cl!r 80 10 Nr. Dan
lord II ne mad : majority o! delegate; in
this county. This was the whole germ
and the sole purpose OF this compact
The Bridgeport Republicans though.
delegates could zeTTc iheir party aud
their county best by going TO the con-
TenI!ou un~ins:r1cted, and thereby
WELD a better influence in making Bel
mon. coIaty's siIey-six votes solid 10.
either o: her worthy and distinguished
candidates.
Ii this be not good politics, it is at
leas: good connon seIEe, and yo1 ap-
proved il, your friends approved il,
and Capt Daniord approved it. Tbs
latter gentleman fully scqu!ssoed il il,
and said 10 the writer:
u will no: 20 into that convention
the tail end OF anything. l will have
forty-oue delegates from the county"
and again he said: Il will not head 4
minority delegation IRON ny " u
- in that convention"
This language is not misleading and
bear. no dual meaning. You. friends
here understand you to occupy the
same position.
The delegates here we're named at a
meeting called BIZ the central commit.
teemen and attended By them and
such Republicans a. usually do tina:
Kind OF work. and il was no "secre:
meeting" as has been stated by your
pretended friends. The four precincts
were carefully cauvassed and persons
we're selected such as we're known 10 be
tor a Belmont count: candidate, and
who accepted in good faith the plan
proposed
Your Bellaire friends said the dele
gates we're all acceptable to them, and
you also, in a personal interview with
th!es OF them, assured them OF your
Implicit faith in them, and asked az Il
further bond TO the compac; above
stated that it be put in black and
white and published in Friday norm
inG's ISTELLIGEMcER, June /. which was
done. not only at you- solicitation, but
By your dictation, and you were go well
pleased tna: you there said there would
be no opposition tickle: put in the field,
just rs your Bellaire friends had also
promised frequently before. But To- on
Saturday last q Poorman ticket ap-
peared and IA Tough: for very bitterly,
il not 4 little meanly, until the polls
closed. and the leading m!schiei.maEer,
in violating the compact, Gays you aud
you. friends advised il Two to one
was the verdict against your ticket.
When you advised tina: second ticket
You forfeited all claims under the COM
pact, and you know that's good law and
some more common sense.
Nov, come these same would ba
friends when your for:y-.eren Belmont
county delegates as were claimed Ger.
tain for you and b. you fade into a
minority, and they dive down into tho
dead past OF twenty years ago and COM.
pare Dauford's vote with Grants vote,
n they say again you were ITO be con-
trolled By the votes OF the people a. the
primarie. and not By 4 majority OF dele
gates chosen Is this no; splitting very
line hairs ior . refuge for your iricnds,
coionei?'
II these, your whilom irionds, have
compromised you, and los. the battle
for you. don't visit your wrath upon the
county and party that have honored
you and have been honored BY you 50
much.
The Republican party needs you,
wise counsel and eloquent voice in the
coming great conflicts against the com
mon enemy OF our country's prosper.
isy, and we, your lie long Dridgepor.
friends, trust it vii! be your pleasure TO
help by every honorable means to keep
solidly in line the sixty-six delegates
in Belmont county for Mr.. Dauior6.
Give him a clear field and fair fight.
and il he goes down in the storm, no
Belmont counsy Republican should
bear the blame.
Ne believe you are too noble and too
manly TO stand by and SEQ the sulkv
scenes o! the Steubcnville convention
OF two years ago re-enac;ed.
Ncurf:iend and courada