The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-02
THE THIRD DISTRICT.
Mr.. sNyosRs OPPONENT NAMED.
Proe.,dlDss Of the Republican Congregational Con.
ysatIOn-FIEht Between the Factions Over
ProxIts-rhs Breach Healed By the
Nomination OF JadSo Brown.

Special Dispatch TO the lntGllIgGnccr.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, April 1.-The
Third District Republican Congressional
Convention met in the Opera House yes.
terday morning. The house was fairly
filled when the convention got down to
work and delayed delegates came in. Later
the good people OF the city, without regard
to party, came in, and everybody felt that
it wasn't bad convention under the cir.
cumstances. The representation was not
so large us in the Democratic Convention,
which is one reason for the smaller attend
ance. Another reason will pass away
when our friends get in the way Of carrying
this District.
Abraham Burlew, Chairman ofthe Con-
gressional Committee, called the Conven-
ton to order. D. IL. Willard, Of Kanawha,
was made temporary and permanent Chair
man. Ash N. Prince, OF Raleigh, and A.
F. Gibbons and a. Z. Irwin, OF Kanawha,
three newspaper men, were made Secre-
tAries.
WARMING UP.
A long, heated and Improbable discus
sion arose over representation by proxy
from Boone, Nicholas, Mercer, Pocahontas
and Webster counties, in which it was
claimed, and SO declared bs-the Committee
on Credentials, that the meetings
had not been regular. At another
time | shall tell you more about
this. But it was charged ou the
floor by Col. Swami and Tibbits, OF Kama
wha, and Malcolm, Of Summers, that those
counties had been set up by federal Office
holders and the men chosen, who neither
lived in nor were known in the counties.
Boone county, whose alternates were j.
S. Atkinson, A. +. Gibbons and II. @. Nc
Whorter, all OF Kauawha, no other repre-
sentatiyes appearing, will give an idea Of
what Col. Swann and others were driving
at. In speeches which made stir, Capt.
Cracraft, OF Kanawha, alternate for Mich
olas, defended the right Of these counties
to be represented, and he did some hard
hitting.
A very bad feeling existed in the Con-
yention while this subject was under dis.
cussion, and to end the contention it was
agreed to admit all claimants.
When nominations were called for Col.
] S. Cunningham nominated Judge Joseph
McWhorter without speech. Colonel
Swami nominated Colonel ]. W. Davis, in
a ringing address, which took wide range
and was well received. Malcolm, Of Sum-
mers, an earnest and good talket, seconded
the nomination with the promise ot splen-
did results in his section.
TIE RALLyTING.
A ballot was then ordered and proceed
ed until the Kanawha county was reached
the call.
From the platform 1t looked as though
McWhorter must be nominated il Kama.
wha could be Strengthened out, but the re-
suit was uncertain. Observers who had
taken no factional part saw that neither
McWhorter nor Davis could win and DR..
Myer, OF Kanawha, nominated Judge
Brown in the interest ofharmony, ndasked
the nomination to be made by acclamation.
In the confusion that prevailed the vote
was not announced, but W. S. Edwards,
OF Kanawha, determined to give the party
another chance, named Brown in a
stirring appeal that shot through the
Convention and put an end TO balloting,
and carried Brown through by Al to 27 for
Mcwhorter. The nomination was at once
made unanimous.
The resolutions adopted are in line with
the National organization.
Addresses were made by Messrs. Brown,
Davis and McWhorter, and the Conven-
ton adjourned with better result than
had been believed possible.