The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-08-29
State and NGighbOThOOd Matters.
The Second Congressional Dis
trict Reviewed.
Communications from the People.
County Conventions and Local
Meetings.
What the Soldiers Say in Tyler
County
Communications from the People
Tho late T. c. McKeever.
THE SECOND CONGRESSIONAL DIS.
TRI(Sr

The Names of the CandIdRteA---TheIr
AnteCcIenIs....The Vote ia IS6I....
The names OF the Counties cOmpOs-
ing the DIHIrIcI--.-Mr. linn defines
his POSItiOn.--.SOmethIn about DIR.
Dorsey.
AS our readers generally know, the
Hon. Geo. r. Latham ut present repre-
senting the I'd Congressional district,
does not propose to be candidate for
reelection. The Office, however, is not
likely to go begging for an incumbent.
Several gentlemen are named in con-
nection with it. Among them we may
mention the names of James G. Nc
Grew, ESD, of Kingwood, Preston
county; of VIM. B. Hinn, Esq, of the
same county; of DR.. ID. B. Dorsey, of
Marion county; of ]. Marshall Ha-
gans, of Monongalia county; of DR.. ID.
S. Pinnell, of Upshur county; and of
Hon. B. NJ. Kitchen, of Berkeley
county.
All these candidates have their
friends, more or less numerous. The
Berkeley Union supports Mr.. Kitchen; !;
the KingwoOd Journal Mr.. McGrew !;
the Fairmont Tedcttc DIR. Dorsey the
Buckhannon Journal favOrs DIR. Pin
nell, we believe, while the MorgantOwn
Post seems to have no special prefer
ence, but naturally inclines, we pre-
sumo, to a MOnOngalia county man.
The second district includes the fol-
lowing extensively scattered counties,
viz:
Monongalia, Marion, Taylor, Pres
ton, Tucker, Barbour, Upshur, Webster,
Pocahontas, Randolph, Pendleton,
Hardy, Hampshire, Mineral, Grant,
Morgan, Berkeley and Jefferson.
At the election in the fall of 1864,
Hon. Geo. X. Latham, VIM. b. Zinn,
and Fontain Smith were candidates,
Smith being the Copperhead man, and
linn running as an Independent Union
candidate. Latham received 1868 votes,
Zinn III, and Smith 294. The vote was
very light, of course, and will be much
heavier this time.
| With the antecedents of the present
aspirants the readers of the INTELLI-
GESCER are more or less familiar. Mr..
McGrew has been n leading member of
the House ofDelegates, one OF its hard
working members, since the organiZA-
tiOn of the State up to the last session,
when he declined to be n candidate.
Mr.. Zinn has also served as member
of the same body, both under the Re-
stored Government and the New State.
| DIR. Dorsey was II member of the con-
ventiOn of June and August 1861, that
| lnnu6uTaIeu All JQ0 necessary pIellull-
naries for tho formation of the State of
West Virginia, and took nm active and
influential part in the proceedings of
the two bodies. He was afterwards II
Surgeon in one of our regiments, and
| for several months did duty in the
camp and on the field. Mr.. Hagans is
n promising young lawyer of Morgan
| town, at present reporter for the Court
of Appeals, and author of the Sketch OF
West Virginia, recently published at
length in our columns. DIR. d. S. Pin
nell, like DR.. Dorsey, formerly did SER
| vice in the army as Surgeon, but
more recently he has been better
known as member of the House OF
Delegates from Upshur county, OF
which body he was the Speaker last
session. The Hon. b. NJ. Kitchen was
Il candidnte tor Congress under the
Restored Government about the time oi
the formation of the New State, and is
generally supposed to have been elect.
ed, although Mckenzie, of Alexandria
contested his seat, and although be-
fOro he could take his seat, Berkeley
county, wherein he resided, had become
n part of West Virginia. He was after
wards member of the State Senate
and served very acceptably as such.
Mr.. Xinn, one OF the candidate!
above mentioned, sends us an outline o
his principles, especially in reference Z