Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-12-21
STABS IN THE DARK.
That Anonymous Circular Against
Congressman kenna.

congressman henna.
Special Dispatch to the Register.
WASHINGTON, December 2O-I telegraph
ed you yesterday that an anonymous cir.
cular intended to damage Congressman
kenna's Senatorial prospects, and which is
alleged to have been sent out to members
of the Legislature and pretty generally cir
culated through the Third district, had
reached this city, and was causing consid-
cradle comment. The circular sets out
that the Third district Congressman, in
making his Congressional race sought a re-
election simply that he might have some
thing left to fall back upon in case he was
disappointed in more ambitious aspira-
tiOns, and intimating that he is either run
ming with the expectation that he will be
elected or is allowing himself to be used
for their own purposes by the self-consti-
tuted ring bosses of the Democratic party,
Davis, Camden, Baker and Others" charges
him in either event with
Acting i'm Bad Faith
toward the people who elected him to his
present position. The other point urged
by the writer is, that in the event of
Kenna's transfer to the Senate the State
will be put TO the expense of an extra elec-
tion for a Congressional representative in
midwinter, with all the trouble and yeSa-
tion incident to an election held at that in
clement season.
Kenna. whose views on the circular I re-
QueSted, declined to be interviewed, but !
found no difficulty in getting his friends
here to talk on the subject. Skipping some of
their uneyangeliCal remarks Of the annOny-
nous circulars in general, and this one in
yorfinfr1ar fhnN- claim that nathan in
Kenna's nomination or election as Con-
gresham was the Senatorial matter con-
sidered that
The Contingencies
which now seem to make his promotion
desirable occurred subsequent to those
events: that the exigencies of the situation
require man Of the force and calibre OF
the present Third District represen tative as
Senator Camden'S colleague, and that the
people have as much right to secure his
services in the upper House as in the lower
ii they so desire. Concerning the insinua-
tiOn that kenna is permitting himself to
be used TO serve the purposes of any COM
bination, they are especially emphatic,
citing his entire political career in refsta-
ton of such inSinuatiOu, and the mldwin-
ter objection they seem 10 be inclined to
treat with ridiCule. There IS nothing IN
that midwinter business" said one Ot them.
If elected Senator, kenna would not cease
to be a representative until the 18th OF next
March, and an ordinary
Election Notice
if issued at once after his retirement from
the House would carry the choice Oi his
successor into the spring or early summer.
II il were necessary to delay such election
F,1 ha ,rrh1ip irofa VgnnIh
not suffer. There is no chance OF any eN-
ira session and Congress will not convene
until December. When Congressman
Allen, of Missouri, died last winter, the
Governor o. that State delayed his Procla-
nation to fill the vacancy until last talls
elections. The adoption Of rule that
Senator should not be chosen from the
House, would have kept good many use
full men from deserved promotion. Do you
know Young man, that upwards of thirty
members of the present Senate have oeen
elected from the HOuse-a larger, proper
ton than from any other busineSs-and
Webster himself was first elected 10. the
senate from the House when his term IN
the House had scarcely begun, and Henry
CLAW was first CHOSEN to- the Senate, then
10 the House and again promoted to his
old place in the other wing oil the CaPl-
What does Kenna think of the circular?
oueried the REGISTER representative.
He doesn't think anything VI It. He Is
not bothering his head about that kind OF
stacks. He is making his canvass on the
basis that the Democrat whom majority
nj the Democracy Of the State prefer VIII
be nominated and elected BY Democrats,
and he does not bsieve that they are going
10 be influenced by anonymous circulars
either" "Kenns's strength is the ont
growth of public sentiment based on ms
Services to the State" said another Oh ms
friends, and anonymous circulars cannot
q afFect him.