Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-26
POLITICS.
A Veil Of Uncertainty Over the
Congressional Contest.
One Who Seeks to Destroy the ProPhs
Of Buckhannon and Dig Down
His AItars-A New
Deal. .-e
SAMUEL ]. TILDEN TO THE FRONT
S,,eial Dispa,ch 10 the Register.

Special Dispatch 10 the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, March 25-To say
that politics is booming down here would
be to weakly express the rush with which
candidates for the Congressional nomina-
tions are carrying things, and to say the
result is doubtful would in no manner
describe the uncertainty with which the
action of the convention that meets here
next week is veiled. Fearing, therefore,
that should be looked upon as q political
Virgins, will not attempt to prognost-
cate the result, but will content myself,
and hope to content your readers by tell
ing a plain unvarnished tale, and allowing
them to draw their own conclusions there
from.
had read with some degree Of interest,
the communications from Buckhannon,
which disposes in so summarily way OF
this whole question, and l have been
struck with admiration fer the exceedingly
courageous
Prophetic Utterances
OF YOUR correspondent But there are two
things contained in that letter that your
correspondent has not that perfect &C.
ouaintance with the subject matter OF his
discourse, that alone warrants a man IN
making such predictions; for, though, he
NAV be entirely right as to the general re-
suli he is certainly wrong in some OF the
details. In the first place, the man VINO
gets the nomination will haye to beat Phll
SNYDER: and secondly, il the fight were 10
he between Mathews and Dennis, Dennis
| and not Mathews would gel two'thlrds OF
Kanawha Mathews has never been pop
uIar in Ksnawha, and Dennis would be
sure TO beat him. You can also reverse
your correspondents figures in Nicholas.
AS between
Dennis and Mathews,
| Dennis would get five TO Mathews one.
But there is no use figuring out contest
between Mathews and Dennis. 1t will never
come. On the first ballot Mathews will get
10 from Greenbrier, from Pocahontas, 6
from Upsher, from Summers-24 alto
gether. Dennis will get . from Pocahon-
tss. 5 from Greenbrier, from Monroe, 8
| from Summers and from Raleigh-2l in
all. Snyder will get % from Kanawha, 4
| from Webster, from Nicholas, 2 from
Clay-31 all told. French will get I from
Mercer, 8 from Raleigh, from Nicholas,
| from Mcdowell and 2 from Wyoming-16.
| Stollings will get from Clay and 5 from
Boone-7. Floyd will get Logan solids,
| Imboden will get Fayette-l3. When I'm.
boden withdraws Snyder will get at least
| four of Fayettes thirteen votes, and when
French goes under he will get his three
| from Raleigh. In short, the nominee will
have TO beat Snyder.
| Stollings, Floyd and snyder
were all in this village yesterday, and
neither is here today; so you see they are
all stirring around. When Stollings was
told that French had set the pins up on
him in Wyoming and Mcdowell, and that
be had gotten both counties to instruct for
him (French) you could have knocked him
down with a straw. Joel Stollings is good
! fellow, but he is rather too slow in his
movements to keep up with the politics Of
| the present day.
The fight between Dennis and Mathews
| is raging fiercely in the upper end OF the
| district and if their friends stick to them,
either can prevent the nomination of the
| other.
But let the convention name whom it
may, one thing you can rely upon the De-
mocracy of the o!d Third will come up
with the usual majority, and her seat in
the forty.eighth Congress will be filled by
| Democrat