The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-10-10
INVOLVED IN DOUBT.
Some Points Conserving the Campaign
OF Our Ohio NeighhOFa.


Tomorrow the citizens Of our sister State
across the river vote for Governor and other
important State officers and for a majority
Of their county officials The campaign just
now drawing to close is IN unique one.
In the State at large there are unusual fac
tors which promise to affect the result 10
some exteH4 but in Belmont county the r.
suit Is involved in the deepest doubt No
one seems willing to risk conjecture upon
the outcome. This state Of affairs Is owing
to the presence in the local field Of an issue
which robs the contest to large extent Of is
ordinary party significance. We refer to the
county seat question.
a reporter OF this paper took run over
the river Saturday with view to seeing what
the state Of affairs political was supposed To
be. He encountered several politicians,
among them Col. &, l., POOTman, editor Of the
daily Tribune Col. POOrman is u prominent
aud active Republican. In response to our
first inquiry, he said that Foster would I'M
doubleday be elected. He did not think the
temperance detection was going to seriously
affect the result, In some localities It would
probably cause trouble, perhaps In Jefferson
county, us Dr. Grimes heretofore Republic
can and u prominent Presbyterian Clergyman,
has taken up the cause, aud is earnestly
champiOnng the Prohibition cause, But
any effect Of that movement will be more
than cOunteracted by peculiar sentiment
among the Republicans to the effect that a
solid vote on their part Is fitting tribute Ia
the memory OF Garfield.
Locally, the Colonel, who Is generally very
sanguinC, had to admit that there was d
great deal Of doubt Us To the result OF 10.
mOrrOw's ballot He Is enlisted In the
county seat removal proposition, and Is
almost Us anxious that the county seat re-
mOval ticket may triumph In the county as
that the Republican State ticket shall bG
elected lie considers the election OF the r.
mOval candidate for the Legislature Us u
moral certainty, aud this view is shared by
most Of those to whom we talked. ThU CaIl'
lidatc is EX.State Senator Wagner, who Is
also on the Democratic ticket, He also con
coded the election Of Colonel David Rankin
Democratic candidate for State Senator III
the decentralization district. Colonel
Rankin liYGs. at Dellaire, md is presumably
an ardent friend Of removal, while Senator
llollingsw0rth, WHO Is the Republican can
| lidAC for reelection, has avoided making
any statement which could be construed u
an Endorsement Of the movement. The
Colonel thought Colonel Rankin would gel
500 majority in PVtnCy township.
Col, POOrnian was UspeG4llY ApEirRuS that
st. Clair Kelly, Esq, the Republican Candi
date for Common Pleas Judge, should bl
elected, aud though the district Is hOpeleSly
Democratic, the present peculiar state of a.
fairs makes II pVQh4hIp, In thg COlONep'
opinion, that such will 10 tho result AR
Kelly would he an ornament to the bCncl
and credit to the county.
Jarnes y. Anderson, Esq, y well known At
torney Of l'ellA'Fg y PggaItutnt Republican
and proprietor OF thg'daily LmtspNdtsHi, wa
also interviewed. He was not no confident
about the election OF the county seat ticket
lie thought that the Republican State tiGket
would be elected without much doubt, bu
local politics were so mixed that he WopIG
not risk o guess VI thg result,
Over ut bridgeport the reporter hailed DR.
Todd and Ind conversation Of two seconds
by the watch.
."i9ctor whit are you going to DO Tues
"i}eat the county seat ticket all hollow
sir all hollow, and don't you forget 1t. "
"Will Foster be GlCCtedg'
lie will. There Is 10 danger Of Ills lie
feat
In incidental CHIT with various others a.
both places the sGriRl found quito q llyerSl
~ Of opinion Several intel lgdnt RGllalFeAn
were 0f tho opinion that Mr., Wagner wnlt
BE- defeated, though tho prevailing opinion
there was that he would DO elected. A
bridgeport all the Republicans prophCSy hi
defeat