The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-12-18
OHAMPI0N''
ON DR.. vPpEaRAFF,s SUCCESSOR
lie "aass Jastirs Roae Though the Hssvtas Brop.
ACursory Glance At the CiaIniA OF the Csudl.
dates-TIme too Short 70 Fool With 4
New Nan Unknown to Fame.

'"N e'S 40 euS AuuA III lIht ulbtIlCtt uuu
being just then ut leisure he steered him
into NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for "a little
talk" Tor lie won't allow himself to be in.
terviewed.
well, how are things over in the Seven
teenth?"
"oh, the cauldron is bubbling at a lively
rate; The toll is going on Just now, and
the trouble will come In d little later"
who Is your candidate?"
IN the preliminary contest I haven't
any. AS J. N, says, Tm philosopher,
and can't ta8e Sides am for the Repub.
iican Nominee, whoever lie may be-"
WHO are the candidates likely TO be be.
fore the Convention?"
THE CANDIDATES.
Colonel j. D. Taylor, OF Guernsey, Hon.
D. A. flolGngsworth, Of Harrison, Judge
W. II. Frazier, Of Noble, and 7. b. Coulter,
Of Jefferson. The last two are new men
who have entered the race within the pas.
ten days. There may be Others, also"
"Do you know anything about the new
candidu.es?" /
~ am personally acquainted with both
OF them. Thomas Benton Coulter is the
indla.rubber.tongued orator of. Jefferson
county-a sort Of embryo Bob IngersolI.
lie hns served MS Clerk OF the Courts In his
county, and made the speech introducing
the name OF UpdegraiFt to the st. Clairsville
convention. lie is young, portly and ma
jestlc, and is bankin. OH his friendship for
updegrs,h. lie comes ont as a candidate
because his friends petitioned him to do so.
4 Trend OF mine in Steubeuvile says that
Coulter got mp the petitions himself and
nag them sent out and signed, but Of course
FRAzlER's CANDIDACY.
"Will F'razier be formidable candidate?'
II hardly know. There are some things
to be sa'din his favor, and, of course, some
things against him. Ills locality is in his
favor, and so is the fact that he has been a
good Judge for the past eleven years. lie
has been successful in business, und is now
wealtny;but he ought to be, for he has drawn
over thirty thousand dollars in salaries out
OF the public treasury. He will get his own
county solid, but then Dalzell had that, and
didn't get there. The only thing that will
make him formidable Is n combination
with Coulter. l have heard hints Of that,
and there may be something in it il the
goods can be delivered" .F{
"Does Frazier really want the place, or
IS 1t Just demand on the purt Of Noble
nWt'
Want It, my dear boy ? He has had the
nee IN his bonnet ever since the St. Clairs.
vie Convention. After about fifty ballots
had been taken in that Convention, some
fellow IN the hall shouted 'Giye US. Judge
Frazier, and then put his Int before lis
eyes SO people could not tell who he was
The demand was not complied with, The
next morning the Wheeling REGISTER came
out with n big boom for Frazier. but when
II leaked out that Lewis Baker md Frazier
were hTothers.in-law the thing wis tipped
IN ne bud. Then he got in us Chairman
o. me gainesville Convention, in hopes
me lightning might strike him, but it
DIDN'T y course judge cannot make
personal canvass--it would be beneath bis
there are Noble county men
IN every county in the district spading the
ground for him US they say. Ia fact he is
the only candidate who seems to pc
making anything like scramble for the
:, would not his nomination harmonize
Inc n'scordant elements OF the district ="
TAYLOR AND uolLISGswonrII.
.,. There are none to harmonize. There
was opposition to UpdeguG, but he over
came it, and who ever heard OF conciliatiny
the victors? Taylor and Ilollinsworth
made a hot fight against UplegraiI, but it
was q manly one, and when they were
whipped they took their places at the head
OF the procession and marched along. II
they had sulked ior kicked defeat would
been inevitable. The counties of Guernsey
ana Harrison give Updegrafr nearly a
Thousand majority; the other three coun-
ties gave majority against him. II there
is any such thing rs gratitude in politics
the Updegrai men will nominate one of
me men who stood by their dead friend
when ne needed help, and not take man
VINO did nothing for him, and who halls
from a county which gave him all the
trouble he had. Why. look at it; it was u
NopIe county man who said Updegraff had
offered to bribe him, and who caused the
miserable investigation, and it was Noble
county man who lied 30 persistently and
mallciously about him up to the very dny
OF election, and you didn't see any Noble
either. .;'';'> ''>'e ''S'
Il thought YOU said Won were noho,,v,s
champion" $50
no UNKNOWN MAN wASTED