Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-12-23
BUCKEYE POLITICS.
Jocksying for the Next 6ubsrna-
t0rial Race.
The Question Of Who Shall Be the Next
Governor and Who Shall Sue
ceed Pendletoa Badly
Mixed Up.
SEVENTEENTH DISTRICT REPUBLICANS

CLEVELAND, December 22.-It is generally
agreed that the next Governor OF Ohio
atands better chance of succeeding Sena
tor Pendleton in his present position than
any other man in the State. In that view
of the case, the Governorship means more
than the signing of national commissions
and patroning men out of the penitentiary,
OF late years, or at least since Foster came
into power, the chief man OF the State
house has come 20 be looked
on as the leader of the party to which he
belongs, and not, as in. olden days, a -staid
and venerable figure head to conceal the
wires that other men were handling. These
facts are working together, therefore to pro-
duce the small agitation that has already
commenced touching next years nomina-
ton. 1t is generally easy at this date to
check off list of men who are certain not
to be nominated, but in the present chaos
of chagrinned disappointment it is hard to
venture even a remote opinion, except that
the Republicans have as bad an outlook
ahead of them as they have confronted for
many years in the past.
The three men apparently nearest the
nomination on the Republican side are
we'll distributed geographically, and geo.
graphy may have no little to do with the
eventual result. Congressman
Hen Butterworth
is put forward carefully as the most avail.
able man in the southern part of the State.
Attorney General George X. Nash has long
been named as a strong candidate for Co.
lumbus and the central part, while Con-
gresham Amos Townsend, OF Cleveland,
is recognized as a strong and available can
didate in the northern section of the State.
Other men have been named in profuse
abundance, but at the present date the
most tangible opportunities seem cluster
ing around these three. Nashs candidacy
seems to be generally understoodas involv-
ing Gov Fosters election to the Senate,
and while it will be an aid to him in sever
al directions, it cannot but be against him
in others, especially in Cincinnati, where
several able gentlemen, ranging from Judge
Taft or Gen. Noyes to Gen. Tom Young,
stand ready to accept the Senatorship if it
should be offered them. These gentlemen
would find their best candidate in Town
send, or some one besides Nash or But
terworth, as the latter means
or some one out
side of Cincinnati, for Senator,
while the former means Foster. There is
no guarantee, however, that were Townsend
elected be might not take it into his head
to be Senator himself, and in that case there
would be coldness and chagrin for all the
resEYyIhe problem is to choose some man
strong enough to secure an election as Gov
etnor and carry a Republican Legislature
into power, and yet not quite strong
enough to persuade that same Legislature
10 send him to Washington. 1t is
AVexing Question
and some very able gentlemen both here at
home and temporarily at Washington are
there minds in this solution.
Among the other possibilities in cOnnec.
ion with the nomination aye Judge Law
'enCe, Major Mckinley, General Noyes,
State Treasurer T7rney,. Lieutenant Gov
,rnor Richards, Gen. Robert Kennedy and
Speaker Keifer
The situation on the Democratic side
resembles that of the Republi.
ans. The man nominated will be put !
Inder pledges before he is secure in a
,laCe on the ticket not to be candidate !
or Senator. If he refuses the pledge, il |
will be hard for him to make a eombina- |
ion in any direction. The latest story in |
with Judge "Hoadly is that he
5 not in q combination with Payne, hut an |
pen candidate for both Governorship and |
senate; while still others believe
hat this is only a cover TO prevent J
'ayne's opponents from working
gainst HOadley. The truth OF
he matter probably is that Payne, Hoad-
py, PendleSon, Thompson, and all the
est are feeling around in the dark to see
That lines of strength are accessible to
heir hands, and that none of them have
8 yet laid hold OF anything in dead earn
st. 1t is too early, and rope that may
eem strong to-day would possibly be rot
IN and unsafe by convention time. There
no reason in haste now, and the worst
eakneSs about Messrs Pendieton and
thompson is that they made their bargain
mutual help too early and too open and,
; a result, have concentrated upon them
bat would otherwise have lain s6rmant.