New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-30
ODDS AND ENDS
WEST VIRGINIAS WORK FOR FREEDOM.
HER FINAL DEFEAT or DEMOCRACY DESCRIBED
BY WILLIAM s. EDwARDs-HE NoMINATEs
NATHAN GOFF FOR lcE-PRESIDENT.

NATHAN GoFr FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
Among the groups of younger men who have been
brought into prominence In politics as result or
the late election. are perhaps more deserving
OF serious attention than those who have success
fully broken the hitherto steel-knit power of the
Sold Sou;h They are fu.. of fight and victory. and
have a certain dash abou, them that is most al
trac,,yo \ reporter met one Of these young NEIL
the Hon William :. Edwards, OF West Virginia
the other night. ami gathered nom MIN some lnter-
estlns political views
we have been pounding away in Yves, Virginia
for the las; ten years. he said and although We
have steadily gained. year by year yet the Democ-
racy were seemingly so firmly ntrenched i'm power
between a grip on the State machine and most
moas;rous gevrymander Of Legislative districts. that
our case seemed almost hopeless In 1885 we really
elected Judge Nathan Gof to the Governorship of
the State. bat the Democratic machine deliberately
voted him out. no, even daring to submit the re-
count 10 the judicial llind Of the Legislature. liz
1899 they saw the handwriting on the wall, ana
then res0Ytng 20 that always last resort or the
Southern Democrat when In a panic, they raised
the cry. Negro Supremacy. And this In S;Iie
the majority OF whose counties have never seen any
but a white face. They claimed TO have discovered
a Conspiracy they called it. on the part OF the
Republicans TO 'co.onize the State with thousands
Of negroes in order to swamp the white vote and
make TIE State permanently Republican We had
never had this issue sprung on us before. and It
worked IN 1871 linen Il was iOuiiu O"N 'ha' INV
whole fake was concoc;si by the notorious Phi.
Thompson and Charles james Faulkner, one of our
Democratic United States Senators. When they
TIED the same game in 1892 the thing fell flat and
they wen, back into power with but a narrow mar
This year. the people still smar;ing over the
counting on, Of GOff from the Governorsnp in lSSA
s sepa s'S f Es whc s Of his @
he did in lSS2 have lust wiped the Democratic party
he If
STATE by ma iority Of 1885. We have both
hsve Of the Si Joint assem6y by maOry Of s.
We are Ne first southern state 70 break loose from
ae car ' Republican, an victory all along the line
rennszsec hopes to have Evans for Governor If the
si GoTf Ken,ucy has S some 1905 RePs5
enia has moved GU; o: he Democratic lines for
good. With wise and conservative manasemen' she
RSpDr and 'or 9e@% Cement Of the South and
bring it and hold ii; to Repub:icantsm, ,.,,
And II j. right here that we want the RepuD.i-
cans Of the ri, NOh 10 s g an1 hand sn Md Ha pe 90 90
ana then We want. the Northern Republican States
in 1896 to give us Nathan Golf as NicePresidential
candidate or the National ticket
This is good politics from National STANDPOINT.
the Union sentiment Of the South. and ne asked
Andrew johnson 10 come alons with him. 1t Is true
, ,ba 0nS Seoaa 20 was as IN the pasonse war
times. when II would have been difficult for any
publican party has now taken Southern candl-
date FOR more than thirty years 1t Is time they did.
ana Golf is the man. We can carry hve southern
States lie is of an cid Southern family He fought
IN war when only lad: ne - one Of the mos 80
ouent s;ump-speakers and p,eaders In the whole
country, and is now proving himself to be great
judge. He is the logical candidate OF the South in
1896 and The South is surely going to demand him
NJ, Edwards is himself reelected TO the State
Assembly by the largest majoritysin the State. and
is a prominent candidate for Speaker. He Is
graduate of Cornell and Of Columbia Law School,
and has already taken a distinguished position In
tire politics Of this State. He is by-theway OF the
old Jonathan Edwards stock and grandson OF The
late Arthur Tappan. of this city. His family for
half a century have lived in the Vrgnias. and he Is
a par: of the country in which he has been raised"