Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-02-05
THE CAPITAL.
TIE Lay of the Land in the Third
Congressional District.
Senator StoIlings, of Roane County, Looked
Upon as the Most Probable Sue
cessor Of Kenna-A Repub-
Iican Scheme.
GENERAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
SDecial Dispatch 10 the Register.

Special Dispatch 10 the Register.
WASHINGTON, February An conver-
satisn prominent Third district politician
here to day he gave me what purported to
be his inside views on the Congressional
situation in that district. You doubtless
know" said he, that not the least potent
of the influences which resulted in Con-
gresham Kenna's election to the Senate
was the fact that his promotion would leave
an opening 10 the lower house which was
likely to be indefinitely barred to others
as long as kenna was Congressman can
didate. In addition TO being good repre-
sentative at Washington, the latter had the
faculty of aCcOmu odating hlmself 10 every
class of his constituents at home. lie coulu
talk theology, agriculture, metaphysics,
law, science, politics or general literature
with a man or run foxes with him just as
his mind inclined, and he got the Old te-
lows up the creeks and hollows to belev-
ing that no other citizen of the district
could
Represent Them Properly
except the Juvenile statesman from Kama
wha. Now that he is removed from their
grasp by higher providence, in the shape
OF the Legislature, they are compelled to
contemplate the necessity OF using some
other agency to secure their seed corn and
beans from the Agricultural Department,
and there is a chance foI some other strug-
Cling statesman. While the void is not
exactly an aching one there are good
many aspirants aching to fill II, and the
term 10 be ii led being full one there IS
lust as much incentive to all OF them to
work for it es though the choice was to be
made at q regular instead OF
Special Election.
=. Under the act proposed by the Legisla'
ture no vacancy will exist in the repre-
sertation OF the State in the lower house
of Congress, Kenna having agreed to hold
his membership there until his successor
is elected, and to file his credentials as
Senator later.
As to such successor the geographical
question is likely to enter largely in the
question, and other considerations beside
the real merit OF the candidates are likely
to affect the result. The Ksnawha end o.
the district has bad the Congressman for
nearly q decade, and, il all other things
were equal, this would be a good reason
for honOring some other section olit. As
it is, it
Puts Upon Kanawha
the burden OF showing that her candidate
is not only as good as the balance OF those
presented, but that he sizes up enough
bigger than the balance to warrant the
the convention in disregarding the geo.
graphical argument altogether. 1t IS this
feeling that is going to make Phil Snyder's
road hard road TO travel. While he is q
sprightly active industrious fellow who
cd vpa
credit himself for everything he has SaccOm
plished, be has never shown himself to be
enough better fitted than the average poll
tician of the district, to fill the place OF a
public representative TO take him out OF
the reach of an appeal made on the ground
of appOrtiOning hOnors, as nearly as can be
done without injury to
Public Interests
over the territory to be represented.
This is the position taken by the advo-
Gates of Ex-Governor Mathews and ex.Sena-
tor Dennis in the Greenbrier end OF the
district and they will push it for all it is
worth. Beside this Mathews has made an
excellent impression by his conduct when
unsuccessful in his political ventures, as
well as when his efforts have been crowned
with success, and there is an extended feel
ing Of sympathy as we'll as admiration for
him growing out OF his recent unsuccessful
struggle for Senator Davis successor.
Some OF Kenna's Friends
think the Ex-Governor might have man.
sged better and Discerning more clearly at
the first that he had no show to win, might
have attached the Kenna men more closely
to subsequent adventures of his OWN if he
had dropped out of the Senatorial fight
earlier, but it is pretty difficult for a man
who stands second on the list to see that
he is beaten until the end comes, and
Mathews behavior at all times was good
deal better than Quarters, who WAS dis
posed to talk even after the wEole thing
was over.
Dennis a good healthy candidate, and
having been getting ready to run for Con-
gresS for the past eight years ought to
have a good rudimentary pre- eparitiOn now
that he has started in but he will be met
by the same ohjections that
VIM Be Urged
sgainSt Mathews, and will be without some
of the aids which might have enabled the
latter to have met them successfully if he
bad been allowed an open fed from his
end of the District.
These objections in brief, are that Green.
brier has been hUnored in the choice OF
Senator Carpenter to the United States Sen
ate; of Ex-Governor Mathews to the At
torney Genera ship, and subsequently rs
our Chief State Executive; and in the
selection of Judges Patton and SNYDER 10
seats on the bench of the Suprsme Court. ,
IF you want
MY Best Judgment
as to the coming man, give il as my
opinion, based on the best information
can get, that Senator Joel Stollings, OF
Roane, has the best show for the nOmina-
tion. do not look on the candidates. OF
Floyd or Adams or Lowry asamOunting TO
much at this time. The two first probably
intend merely 10 put themselves in the
line of succession at this time, and the
last named gentleman when he runs for
Congress generally goes in as he goes into
a tournament with cuspadors-for his own
diversion and the amusement of the pub
lie"
Then you think Stolling will head the
field?"
do. He is correctly selected geographic
cally. He has
Good Record
as a member of the Legislature aud in
every public capacity in which he has
been tried. He Is fair lawyer and an &C.
ceptable public speaker, has been men,
Der of most Democratic conventions in the
district since the war and has an extended
acquaintance throughout its limits and
while be is not brilliant man by any
means, he has the social courteous man
ners and the hard sense which make a
man popular with the masses. You mark
my words and see if he does not show up
in the front at the convention.
PENSIONS.
Some Things That Need Explaining.