Year: 1879

a Clarksburg Correspondent.
Correspondence of the Register.


CLARKsBURG, W. Va, July %.


The late interviews published in the
REGISTER have been read with interest
by the people here, and they thank you
for a good deal of political information.
We have concluded here, judging by
what we have been able to gather from
the REGISTER interviews and other
sources, that the efforts made last win
ter while the Legislature was in session,
and lead by some of the very liberal
members of that body, who held them
selves out as personifying the people,
to break up the Democratic party in this
State, has proven failure, and we ex-
pect to see the Democracy under
good leadership land we will have
no other kind carry the State next
year by at least -, 900 majority.


The interview with II. :. Walker pub
lished in your issue of yesterday is
rather amusing, and we presume was
published in the REGISTER to show the
people what darned simpleton man
can make of himself. We have no idea
that things are as Walker represents
them to be in the Third district-in
fact, we know they are not. Walk
abuse of the Democratic party, how
ever, is the most amusing part OF the in
terview. In the first place 1t shows
what little regard demagogue has for
consistency. The Democratic party
never had a more enthusiastic member
i'm its ranks than Walker, and never
had a more faithful adherent than
he until the party concluded
that others were as worthy to hold Office
as Walker, and then it was that he
turned upon the party and sought to
rend it to pieces.


In the second place, if Walker had a
sense Of the grateful in his unfortunate
moral makeup, he would be the last
man in the world TO throw rocks at the
West Virginia Democracy. The De-
mocracv of this State found him hun
grv, and it fed him; naked, and 1t
clothed him. When it had hope OF
success in this Congressional District 1t
ran him for Congress, and when the
best paying Office in the State-Public
Prnter-was at its disposal it laid the
office, willing offering, at Walkers
feet. Out of that Office he made thou
sands of dollars. Many believed that
much OF the gains he
there accumulated were Illegal
gains, but Walker was given the bene-
fit of the doubt. In the face OF all
these facts it does not look well to see
Walker abusing the Democratic party.
No doubt the money he has been and is
still using to beat down the Democracy
and put himself in Congress is money
he made from the fat position given
him by the party.


There is another fact. When young
and enterprisng Democrats, who are
still true to the faith, who had mind
and aspiration and were Seeking ap-
pointmentsirOm the Democratic Nation
al Executive Committee to make stump
speeches and were refused them,
although willing to pay their own eX-
penses, Walker, then the favored pet
of the Democracy was being sent
all over the State speech
making, and not only did the
party pay his expenses, but 1t
paid him for his time. Such opportuni-
ties as those were given him, and he
used his own opportunities TO lay
foundation for his own political prefer
ment and to lay the ropes for the de-
struction of the party that had warned
him to life in its bosom and nurtured
and sustained him on the public teat.
THERE'S only one thing the matter with
the party to-day, it has too many Hen
ry Walkers left in its ranks.


There is n growing disposition on the
part of the people in this section to
throw political hacks overheard. The
people here do not propose reforms,
however, by growing off after the green
back bubble They do not expect to =.
find pure leaders by following after the
cart of politicians OF the two old parties.
They believe the Democratic party to
be the party OF reform, and II
there is necessity for reform
the only chance they see for bringing
il about in through the Democracy.
They expect TO see to it then that the
next Democratic Convention nOminates
its best men. There is disposition in
favor of new men too. There are hun
dreds who have been faithful to the
party, and faithful to the aspirations OF
some now holding office, yet many OF
these men feel as do the people that
they have been studiously kept in the
back ground. There is disposition to
bring them to the front.


While these things are true, the peo-
pie do not feel discouraged by the Dem
ocratiC administration in the State. On
the contrary, they feel that they have
cause to congratulate themselves, for
they know that our State government is
the most economical in the Union,
and notwithstanding the clamor about
the County Court, our county govern
ment is less costly than that OF any
other State. But enough for this time.


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