The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-09-12
CapeI,art,s Enemies.

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Capehart to accept the nomination
of his party and make the fight for
election came like shock to his
host of friends throughout the dis
trict, who had all along considered
him the strongest man the party
could put up. In district which
had previously been SO close that a
change of dozen votes would alter
the result, Mr.. Capehart has twice
been overwhelmingly elected, hav-
ing at his last election the largest
majority of any Congressman in the
State. He is in full accord with the
political ideas of large majority of
his constituents, and is in touch
with all the people of his district,
no matter what their class or sta
ton in life. He is particularly
strong among the country people
and his is a country district. He
has made a faithful representative
of his people for the four years he
has represented them and has never
missed an opportunity to be of ser
vice to his district or to any of his
constituents. He has been diligent
in placing in offices at his com
mand as many Democrats as it was
possible to do and only the fact that
there were not sufficient offices pre-
vented him from giving one to
every applicant. Wood and Cabell
counties are especially indebted to
him for his efforts to secure appro-
priations for the Guyandotte and
Little Kanawha rivers, and not
withstanding the contemptuous
manner in which he has been re-
ferred to by the Republican press,
the Fourth District has never had a
more watchful or more faithful re-
preventative. Mr.. Capehart is an
earnest advocate of tariff reform
and stands with large and grow
ing element of his party on the
money question. Not one word
could be said against his course in
Congress, except that he could not
provide as many offices as there
were applicants. And now these
disappointed office hunters have set
up howl, which, but for Mr.. Cape
harris patriotic action threatened to
defeat him and the Democratic par
ty. They have accomplished their
purpose, but at the expense of their
party and by the sacrifice of man
who deserved much better things of
them. They have beaten a man
who has twice demonstrated his
strength in the district, and has
twice acceptably represented it.
They have forced him to withdraw
from public life at time above all
others when he was needed and in
such a way that party harmony may
be destroyed and Democratic suc=
cess endangered. If the Fourth
District is represented for the next
two years by Warren Miller it will
be chargeable to the avaricious seek
ers of spoils who have turned down
one of tho party's best representa-
tatives and threatened to wreck the
Democratic party.
Mr.. Capehart has done what few
men would do under similar cir
cumstances. He has demonstrated
that majority of the party in his
district have faith in him and then
has yielded to his adversaries. He
has accepted their declarations that
he could never be elected, aud rath-
er than risk dragging his party to
defeat he has withdrawn. 1t is
now incumbent on these enemies of
his to show their strength and help
with all their energy to elect the
candidate who will be named as his
successor. They can do it if they
will Wheeling Regieter.