Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-21


preparation. Quarter might be induced to
throw himself in the breach in the event
Of an unrecOncilable conflict among other
candidates for the Senate, il nobody else
offered, but that victim will probably be
on hand from another district. HOgeman
has u large acquaintance with members Of
both Houses, and Willis Wilson could
make Rome howl on an anti-monoply issue;
but think these things are not to be.
There's Dennis and Attorney General
Watt, Gov. Sam Price and DIR, Summer
and the two Snyders, Napoleon St. Clair
and Harvey Samples and Nelse Campbell
and Cam Thompson and George Moffett
and Count Stafer and the two Farnsworths,
and John Anderson and Marshall Triplett
and DR.. Bee and Bill France and Hugh
Tonley and Joel Stollings and Booker
short and Capt. Lowry and the man-who
winks-at-the-sky and
Hold on Colonel. 1t is not the society OF
militia for the suppression OF Red Men
that am enquiring about. Ionly wanted
to know something about Third District
senatorial llluDSE-
YES. but you exhausted the probabilities
and | thought you wanted the possibilities.
| only meant. however to show you the
extent OF our resources. You see the
woods are full.
YES, sir. and So are some OF the candi-
dates YOU mention. only want the boH"-
| f,is, sober dead earnest aspirantS.'
We'll, in the Second District there is
| Faulkner-Col. Charles James He is not
| very dead but he is very much in earnest.
He proposes, | understand, TO visit every
/ county in the State between this and the
election, and says he will make this canvass
the greatest effort of his life. When you
| consider how many tremendous efforts Col.
| Faulkner has made you can form some
idea of the gigantic dimensions Of the one
that is to come. lie has mOdled nearly all
the Virginia and West Virginia COnstitu-
tions since the time OF John Smith and
| GoyOrnor Pierrepont and has thus left his
| impress rs 4 lawyer upon two Common
wealths. He compelled the admiration OF
both Continents when acting as our Minis
|
| dignity and grace aS a courier. and his tact
and address as 4 politician. While strug-
| Cling for his rights in the COnfederacy as q
warrior and proclamation writer, he swept
! the field of carnage with an opera glass and
laid laid waste the field Of literature with
his pen-a total of two fields devastated by
his genius. Nothing but the unhallowed
| combination of votes on another candidate
! and the absence of 4 sufficient number OF
votes for himself has kept him from COM
ing to the United States Senate before this,
and now that the causes of his failure have
been detected, he proposes to render their
recurrence in the future impossible. Then
| there is Judge Hoge of the same county,
who is a mighty showy horse, and whose
good points would probably be recognized
| Quicker by the membrs of the Legislature
than the people at large Judge Morrow
and Judge Raymond, OF Marion, two Of the
best lawyers in the State; ex-Congressman
| Ben Martin. who is bound to come back to
| Washington in some shape; Sam Woods,
| Martins old partner in the convention OF
-. and pretty nearly the entire bar of JEFF
| ferson county have Senatorial aspirations,
beginning with Travers and ending with
W. l.. Wilson. who, by the way, is one of
the brightest politicians in the Eastern
| Panhandle section.
In the Fourth District there
is Governor Jackson, who has
| commended himself to the regulars by a
| Stalwart Democratic administration;
| Judge John and Judge Nun who are al
ways around when there is anything good.
| These are blocked out. so to speak, by the
fact that Senator Camden is from their end
Of the vineyard, and by other circumstan-
ces too numerous to mention. In the low
or end there is Eustace Gibson and Judge
Samuels, Colonel Harvey and Henry
Simms John Hassler and Judge Brown,
| Albert Fulkerson and John Horse Russell,
and Vaughn, OF Lincoln. But find l am
straying OIL into mere possibilities again"
Il should say you were. Couldn't you do
better in the First District
The First district is rich in intellectual
brilliancy, but it runs to waste through
mismanagement. Col. Alex Campbell
missed golden opportunity. When his
claims were being pushed at Charleston in
! 1872, by allowing his friends in Mississippi
| TO run him for a similar position there,
| Good electioneered on the Ohio side Of the
| river when he ought to have been in West
! Virginia Woods has secured reputation
| for reckless expenditure, which would
| probably damage him in a canvass, and
Bridge Cracraft and Bob Delaplain would
meet with opposition on account OF their
pronounced temperance views. George
Tingle is going to Montana to grow up with
the country; Joe Gallagher has too many
fights on hand to be popular with anybody
but himself; Newman has gone off on q
workingmans ticket, and il Gen. Bush
Price put in a claim, some bigot would
probably get up and charge him with fur
| niShing watermelons to the Moundsville
| camp-meeting on Sunday. You see how it
is Daniel Deronda Dido Johnson has the
Congressional itch, and thinks he would
! get a large Israelitish vote on account Of
| his name (which is a mistake.) McEl-
dOwney is another contestant for Congress
siOnal honors Ben Wilson wants a renom-
inatiOn and is largely interested in the
| county of Braxton just now. Judge Cam
den has never entirely recovered from the
e7eCts OF his fall through the hat at Charles
| ton, and John J. Davis is too mad to be
turned loose yet. There are some able men
in Lewis, and Judge John Brannon always
has few select and devoted friends in
every Legislature. but you will find his
candidacy only contributing to the dead
lock that will be opened in the way first
indicated. LAM.