Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-08-02
sEYENrEENrH ONO DISTRICT.

Hon. LORENZO DANFoRD paid the
REGISTER office visit yesterday. Mr..
DANFORD, as is known, represented
what is now the Seventeenth District,
over in Ohio, in Congress for six years,
and, for Republican, did a right fair
Job of it. He is now devoting himself
to the pretty vigorous practice Of the
law, and regards himself as altogether a
private citizen. Notwithstanding this
assumption of his part, there are people,
Republican in politics, over in bis dis
trict, who now and then insist on it that
he is, or will be, or at least ought to be,
a candidate for his old seat at Washing
ton. These people, We need hardly say,
are admirers Of Mr.. DANFoRD; but they
are more than that, they are generally
disbelievers in the methOds-to draw 1t
mildly-of DIR. J. L. UPDEGRAFF and
Col. J. d. TAYLOR, between whom the
race for the Republican nomination now
seems TO lie. Some of these gentlemen,
being honest men themselves, would
like to support a man for Congress whom
they believe would not stoop to the use
of dishonorable methods even to win q
nomination. Some ofthem have been
heard to remark that DR.. UPDEGRAFF
is q politician, a preacher, anda horse
Jockey" and that such a compound
could not fifty represent highly hon
orable constituency, such as compose
the Seventeenth district, while others
speak in equally irreverent terms OF
Col. TAYLOR. No less eminent person.
age than PRIVATE DALzELL, who was
himself one of the candidates before the
St. Clairsville Convention, does not hes
itate to charge openly and through the
public prints, that corrupt use was made
of money by both Col. TAYLOR and the
Rev. UPDEGRAFF in procuring votes in
that convention. And the worst of it
is: there are many honest, well-mean-
ing, but unsophisticated people, who
fully believe the PRIVATE is right this
time-if he never was before.
1t Is, therefore, not singular that,
since Mr.. HoLLINGwORTH' withdraw
al from the race, many well-meaning
people should be casting about for a
man whom they believed to be pos
sessed of a clean character to become
their representative-fOr, why should
not the honest people demand to be
represented by a man no less honest
than themselves? The world naturally
says-'like representative, likepeOple."
And this is why Mr.. DANFORD, an
able and experienced legislator, is fire.
quently mentioned As a candidate.
All this is preliminary to saying that
Mr.. DANFORD is infleXible in his deter
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not be before the GAINESVILLE Conven-
ton for that position; that he has re-
tired from politics. He has purchased
a farm-a sensible thing to do-and
will move on it this fall, which is also a
most sensible thing; and he will devote
his attention and energies to his chosen
profession-that of the law.
Mr.. DANFORD says the delegates
throughout the district will be chosen to
the next Convention by the popular
vote system, and he presumes the NOM
nation will be virtually decided upon
before that body meets. As it now
looks, either TAYLOR or UPDEGRAFF
will be nominated. The race is "NiI
and Tuck between the twain, and Mr.
DANFoRD was unable to say which was
NIP" and which Tuck"