The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-29
SENATOR.HUNTING.
Looking Ov'rihe Race Track from "A
Netghbering State-The Belmont
Delegation comes Up Smiling.

Looking Ov' the Race Track from
Neighbering State-The ReImOnt
Delegation Comes Up SmiiIng.
WHEELING, w. VA, Oct. 25
Special correspondence OF the Enquirer.
l thought 1t would be good idea tC
step over into An adjoining Stste and br g
my field glass to bear upon the Senatorial
race track from an outside point of view
! So climbed the beeting cliff Rhicn
! forms the background Of Wheeling, and
proceeded to contemplate the landscape
1t is no particular wonder that the
native West Virginlsns become tired OF
Wheeling as their State capita, it being
so near aGd yet so far. Nominally the
terminus of the old line OF the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad and the commence
| ment o, the old line OF the Central Ohio
road, now united under one corporate
1t is really well nigh an hours ride to
reach it from either. On one eide of the
river you get off at B Hare, change cars
and 90 to Bridgeport, where YOU
cross the suspension bridge to resch
it; or golug TO the other side, BY the
railroad bridge, you go on to Beuwood
and then back down, making huge
figure 8, reach the top a. las. in be-
wldered state OF mlnd, puzzled 10 know
how you ever got there. Its no won
der that the West Vrginiuns became
discouraged, AID declared finally that l.
they couldn't have State Capita they
could locate on n map and put their tin
gers on, knowing 1t was there, they
would have none ut all and relapse IN
to bsrUarism.
Wheeliag Island, which lies between
the two places, forms one ward OF the
city whose Lame it bears. and has a p D.
ulation o. 5000. When old man Z ne
the present century, be Oougn, tins is.
land of the Indians, paying therefor
keg OF rum You can buy rum punch
here, which the bar keeper will sOIemnlv
aver Is made Of that same rum, and very
likely it is No man was ever known
" buy second one. l. is more than
likely the Indians were deceived some
what in the quality OF their beverage
They soon reaizeu, though, that it was
long range and sudden death.
Belmont county, which is the only
Ohio territory visible from this point, DID
uncommonly well, politically speak,ng,
hi, year From being Rspubhcau
county with safe majority OF three or
four hundred, it has char ged over t. the
Democratic side, e.ectlhg two Represeu.
Latives to the Legislature and n Senator
In this district, composed Cf Belmont and
Harrison county. The Representative
are Messrs. Ross Alexander and Harvey
Dantord, while the Senator Is Mr. David
Wsgner. The fight made aga!Ls. Alex
Arder before the election was most bIt-
Ter Oae, and WAS carried on To n great tx
tent by clique of dIsgrunt.ei DemU-
craLs, headed, am told, by Judge Cham
be's Thi- put Alexander on bis met:ie,
and he AID his friends went in TO win
He is a lawyer OF ability and prominence
in Belmont county, has always been a
Democrat but never before asked 81
office or even nomination for II. He
viii be one of the leaders OF the Hous'
and mis- name has been mentioned in coz
nectlon with the Speskershlp. TINS,
however, he does not covet. He would
prefer position on the floor.
1t is altogether likely that next year
Mr.. Alexander will be called 10 warm
the jacket OF Hon. Lorenzo Dantord, the
Republican Congressman who has repre-
sentei that district .or three or four years
Mr.. Alexander is the man who can d.
that thing.
Mr.. Harvey DaDford, the o.her Repre-
sentative elect from Belmont, IS well
to do farmer who ives near BarnesviIIc.
he is Al uncle OF the Congressman,
lhou n his politics are OF M entirely
different stripe. He Is careful, quiet
elderly gentIemsu, and will doubtless
vote with his colleague on most ques
lions.
Mr.. Wagner, the Senator elect, is
citizen OF West Wheeling, little man
uDac;uriug town lying Just south o.
Bridgeport he ia n bluff, hearty, OUT
spoken man, VINO has grown rich IN the
manufacture OF paper, weals rufile1
shirts and fancy Freuch-toed boots. lie
did about the biggest individual job
that was done TINS iall in beating
Sammy Knox, the old Republican
Senator from Harrison, who had held
he place SO long tn4t he thought be had
n lite interest IN it. Knox had begun
to lay bis ground wires to get the Re-
publican nomination tor Stale Aud Tor
The next time, but this will upset them
al.
These three gentlemen will pro5soIy
vote alike on the Senatorial question.
They are all OF them friendly to both
Pendleton and Ewing, ard consider the
contest as lying between those two cardi
dates. Without commit NJ themselves
to the support of either, tney doubtless
hsve their choice, aud think it vii. bC
Pendl.ton