Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-04
MONKEY AND PARROT.
The Third District Republican Con.
YebtiOn.


!SpecidI TO the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, April Now that
the Republican convention is over, though
your readers have been advised by tele-
gram of its action, more full and com.
plete account of the true inwardness OF
the affair may with propriety be given.
The Republican party is all split up
down here, and the feeling of antipathy
that each side experiences-and expresses
for the other side is delight to the De.
mocracy. Geo. Wesley Atkinson is the
rocK on which they split, and to blast him
to pieces and scatter HIM TO the four winds
is the chief end and aim OF the oppos'
ing ring of his party. At least
half of the counties were represented in
the Convention by alternates only, and it
so happened that these alternates were all
members of the Atkinson faction. The re-
port of the Committee on Credentials pre-
yided that counties should not be repre-
sented except by actual delegates, and that,
therefore, the alternates should not sit IN
the Convention.
A Fire Brand.
The contents OF Pandora's box were love
and unity in comparison to the elements OF
disCord contained in that report. Capt. He.
McWhorter, deputy clerk OF the [. 5. Court,
and brother to the Atkinsonian, seeker OF the
nomi mated, and also the alternate firm,
three or four counties, lmped up and
committee declaring that there was
something behind the report. J. w.
Malcolm, member of the august re-
piled. He made
A Terrific Onslaught
upon those who sought admission as alter r
nate, and declared that every one OF them
was an officer in the employ OF the Gov
ernment, a brother or son Of candi-
date. Judge McWhorter in whose inter
est he had been appointed. He
dwelt at length upon the
motives that influence the "au-
gust committee" and sought earnestly to
vindiCste their action. The term august
seemed 10 rankle in Mr.. Malcolm's mind
with all the stinging venom Of dads in
the recollection Ol the Hon. Bordwell
State. Other speakers followed Malcolm
for and against the report, and the scene
was at stimes almost riOtouS. One old
delegate Jumped up and excitedly called
ont: Preserve order, Mr.. Chairman, for
God Almighty 5 sake, call them to order
The Previous Question
was called time and again, but the
Chairman did not understand the
working of that great mueller OF elo-
quenCe, and the demands passed unheeded.
Alter FULL three hours wrangling aud
seuabbling, the alternates were all ad-
mitted, and the combstsnts returned to
their corners, the Atkinson gang winners
Of the first round.
Nominations then being in order John
s. Cunningham, of Kanswha, nominated
J. NJ. McWhorter, of Greenbrier; T. B.
Swami, OF Kanawha, nominated J. w.
Davis. OF Greenbrier.
The call Of the roll of counties was then
begun, each county casting one vote for
every one hundred cast for Gar6eldi in
lSs0-total 80.
When all the counties except Kanawha
had voted. the Davis men saw that Nc
Whorter mad 81 votes and Davis 81, and
that as kanawha would notgo
solid for Davis
they were gone up. 50 they INDUCED in a
little sharp practice. Will S. Edwards, of
Kanawba. nominated Judge James
II. Brown, OF kanawha, and
moved that he be deClaSed the nominee by
aeclamatSon. The vosewas taken by divid-
ing, and as Kanawha had majority in the
convention, on "C0ant OF noses, and as
kanswha always sticks TO her candidate
majority voted in the affirmative and Jndge
Brown was declared the nominee. So the
second round ended with Atkinson
knocked out. After Judge Brown. and
others had addressed the convention it ad-
iourned.
James n. Brown,
was born in Cabell county, Va, now West
Nirginia) in Deoeusber 1918, and is, there
fore in his G5:h year. lie Eds a Circuit
Judge in Virginia before tie war, mem.
ber of the Conveation that framed the
constitution of 1865, and OF the Legislature
that was in session at the sane time.
After the war he was elected to the Su-
preIne be ach, and in 1892 10 the House OF
Delegates.
In all the puIslic affai,s he has been call
ed upon TO ill, as we'll rs. in ais private
life. Judge Brown hssever been disun-
guished for the bold aod fearless manner
in which he discnaged whatever duty de-
volved upon him He is.a clear reaSoner
end logical and focibls speaker, ripe
scnolar, AMI an honorable. upright and
kinShesrtsi gentleman. He is the strong
est man they could have nominated, and
will make good race, but he will not be
elsctsd. Judge Brown IS for tariff for
Nnly srurrx