Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-09-03
MORE INSIDE HISTORY.
The Combinations, Bargains and
Trades That brought About UPde.
gratis Nomination. County
Heard From.
Special TO the Sunday Register.

CAMBRIDGE, O.. September 1.-The great
struggle for the Republican nomination in
the Seventeenth Ohio district has ended
the Quaker statesman has won the prize,
and his friends and foes now med t,te and
moralize, and determine each for himself
to support or oppose the nominee accord
ing to the dictates OF his own political con-
science. While there is no inconsiderable
number of Republicans in this and other
counties of this district, who declare they
will not vote for Updegraff, yet when they
come TO understand that the political CON-
plexion OF the next Congress depends
largely upon the result in this State, neither
their dislike for the nominee nor the
promised independent candidate Of that
laundering and erratic political adventurer,
Private Dalzell, will be sufficient to restrain
them from returning to the fold in October
in such numbers as will insure Updegraffs
election.
On Thursday evening Colonel Taylor ad.
dressed large and enthusiastic Republican
meeting at the City Hall, upon the issues
of the campaign. His speech was good
one, and added greatly to his steadily
widening circle OF political friends. His
appeal to the Republicans of Guernsey
county to stand by the action OF the Barns
vile convention and work for the election
ing opposition in this part of the district to
the nominee.
To Updegraff the honor of the nomina-
ton is one OF mixed JOY and sadness.
While it marks victory for him this year
it as certainly foreshaGUws his retirement
two years hence. The doctor is ambitious,
and would have it otherwise, but the peo-
pie have declared it, and the politicians
have declared. Scores of those who stood by
him during the late heated contests, de.
clared at the close of the GAINESVILLE con-
vention that two years hence
Their Quaker Friend Must Stand Aside.
Col Tay lors speech before the Barnes
vile Convention has brought him promi-
nently to the front as the heir apparent TO
the nomination in 1884. By his prudent
and well timed course throughout the can
vass, refusing to enter into any allegiance
or to employ questionable methods 10 Sc
cure the nomination, he has outdistauced
all competitors. Dalzell has so complete
" cooked his goose" that he will no longer
be factor in the fight. Poorman is with
out the requisite support from his own
county, besides the Republicans OF Bel
mont are generous enough TO feel that they
have but Slight claim to the honor. Hol-
lingsworth might have stood fair chance
for the future we're it not that he with.
drew from the canvass in consideration OF
UpdegrafTs promises to deliver Jefferson
county to him two years hence. While
the Senator may be recognized as a shrewd
political wiTe-puller in his own county, he
has not escaped the gaze Of the Republicans
outside of Harrison and they interpret his
relations TO the late canvass thus: That in
order to cover his retreat and the terms Of
surrender he cast about him for a man
whom he could use as an apparently bona
fde candidate so as TO deter outside candi-
dates from canvassing Harrison, until such
time as his man of straw could be safely
withdrawn. He found such a man in the
person of Jamison, who, according to pro-
gramme, was duly announced, and then
publicly withdrawn in the interest OF Doc
Tor Updegraff. There can be no question
that the people have "got the hang of the
barn." and that the willy Senator will wit
ness an unpleasant miscarriage when the
Doctor comes to deliver the goods two years
hence.
Updegrafrs nomination was the result of
A Peculiar Combination or Causes.
Although the farmers were beguiled into
the belief that the Doctor had made truly
great and good tariff speech, which in some
mysterious and unknown way was TO re-
suit to their benefit, yet the most potent
influence in his favor was the generally
accepted third term rule adopted in Capt
Danfords favor Mr.. Updegraf would say
II only ask the place for the same number
of terms il was held by Mr.. Danford," and
the people recognizing the equity of the
claim simply said, $50 let it be-" Besides
this Updeeraf, Immediately after the close
of the st. Clairsville convention, began q
most thorough and vigorous canvass Of the
entire District. In this county he used
Ross ". Anderson as 6gurehead;
although that gentleman and his hackers
denied it vehemently; but when Anderson
turned over his delegates, body and
breecbes" TO Updegraf. and decIin d to
have his name presented at GAINESVILLE that
was confirmation strong as proof of holy
writ" ! heard a prominent Republican
of this place say the other day that the
course pursued by this gentleman and his
immediate hackers here, was so universally
condemned, that il any Of them were to
drop suddenly off, il would be necessary to
hire pail bearers for the funeral" They
put in circulation the most silly stories 10
iniure Taylor, and even went so far as TO
procure a confidential letter written by T.
H. Anderson 10 DR.. C. n. Price, in relation
to their candidate, and denying the truth
of the facts il contained, proposed TO use it
10 defeat its writer as q candidate as dele
gate from Ross ARdsrson's ward; but when
be declared its truth and said that mas
much as K. w. Anderson's friends have
teen fit to give publicity to his onfidential
letter be was now ready to produce the
proof of the facts stated, (which we are in
formed he now has in black and white,)
they gave up the fight and
He was Elected without n Scratch,
receiving the same majority as Colonel
Bushfieid, viz: Thirty-efght votes. Despite
all they SAID and did, these blowers and
strikers for Upoegraff, who worked under
the Anderson banner only succeeded in Sc
curing six delegates out Of the thirty from
Taylor, who, by the way, made no canvass
Of hi. county at all. In Noble county Up.
degraff made the entire fight in his own
nsme. and had a score Of men employed
whose business it uss To 20 into the high
ways and hedges OF Noble and compel them
to come in and vote for their chief. In
Belmont and jefferson, and especially the
litter the same tactics were adoDied while