Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-10-08


full Of brains In politics :. - -
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Dpesksr KeiSsf 1fIf be fs-,aSct6 bgyeid
question, though hs q . more ciphSrk ~
OhiO campaign. 5 * so 81 q 8,
,,,.T -. HlntA D1s1FasG, tsrt 55s
tAheSR Robinseu sne ef Governor Fbs-
Chairman Of the Republican Ststo Eeseu-
tive Committee for two q thrss ysaks, end
held the Office OF Railroad comminioner
- q reward for party ssvices, 10 Tho Re-
publican candidate for reelection. His
district was unchanged by the gsrryman-
dering act, and he has !, 800 najofity 70 90
on. His chances are OF course bettee than
those of Thomas E Powell. the eloquent
young Delaware lawyer who w. ncmii
mated By the Democrats, Though Powell
and his friends are really making strohk
reatA Distrset. IG e
Nobody seems 10 have any other eptuiou
than that Frank II. Hund, Democrat Of
Toledo, will win., He Is making his cana.
paign ON the tariff question, but 10 not %
radically free-trade rs the Republicans rep
resent. Frank Is somewhat elastic on this
u xlsv,sn .pissrael. ~
3ii416 she q \ ! = - ileIh eIher.ase1Is1
q Rev. John w. McCbfnick
Twelfh DastRlel
This includes the "Ancient Mstropols,n y
CAillicothe. In this district G1held hAd .
majerity Of about 1,600, but nevorthsle0
look for the election of kawvnce T. Neal.
Dsmoe1at over ex.LioutsnaNt G0vVrnof
Hart. The Republicans threw ovetboard .
strcng temperance candidAte, Gen. Hunt
and the Republican politics cf the district
are much demosalized. Neal has bean Ia
Congress- and is strong man befors the
people. (
George 4. Converse is surs.of reelection.
and If the House should be DetDocratic he
will probssly "go In" for the SpeAkership.
Hsurtesath DistStSG
Th5is the smallest district in the State,
made TO At 3 very small man, 6tate Senator
Rollin A. Horr, who Is the Republican
candidate. A strong fight ~ made for
Congressman Geddes, who is npresenta-
tive Methodist, thoogh Democrat He
comes nearer TO being q ''real sood' man
Than any other Democrat In thsHtate. He
- certainly ''goeder' than Dick Smith. He
doesn't drink whisky. Still, Geddes has
Oberlin 10 fight, and don't think be will
do better than get Q good boom for the
Democratic nomination for Governor next
year.
including Marietta and Charley Grosvenor
unchanged by the gerrymandering act
Warner and. Dawes are the candidates.
Dawes had less than Eve hundred majority
oyeP Warner two Yeas ago, aud had inhu.
ences which will not be at work this year.
Put Warner down in the column OF victory.
st1teentlk District.
Sure thing for Beriah wilkins, Demo
orat. @
FosP other DistPiets. -
There are too many Republicans. In the
Seventeenth. Eighteenth, Nineteenth and
Twentieth districts to allow the Dumocras
substantial hope in either.
The Twsaty-iivss District
Cleveland Is 90 mixed up that Ii would
take column OF space 70 do IL justice.
Briefly, there Is some disaffection In the
Democratic ranks, and great deal moro
among the Republicans, General Ed. B.
Meyers, United States District Attorney for
the Northern District OF Ohio, and for .
long time one of the most active. as well ~
most eloquent Republicans In Cleveland, is
stumping for an Independent Prohibition
candidate for Congress, William II. Doan,
and there are many people who wenldn't
be surprised to see Doan elected. The out
come OF the muddle, however, ~ - likely
TO be the election Of the Democratic candi.
date as anything else.
Recspitalstioa.
This Is the way the foregoing observations
on the Congressional situation sum up: