Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-29

delegates to Martinsbure and to have tht
delegates instructed for Powell il met with
The following immense ~ attendance, ID
n. Jacobs, Martin Yost, aud q stranger
supposed 10 be from Pennsylvania. Yost
says he took no part In the affair whatever
and bad he known that he was being vic.
tlDized he would have done so, however
the scheme IN Lincoln succeeded admirably,
Now unless some one from Lincoln attends
the Msrtinsburg convention the honest Re.
pubiicsns who are all for Blaine,
viii be MisTepresenfed There.
Powell does not see TO be aware Of how the
tide is turning against him, as is eyincsd
oy the following: An agent of a promi'
nent Wheeling tailoring establishment was
heard to remark on the street a few days
ego, that he had Just taken an order for a
too dude suit from q gentleman who said
that be intended 10 wear them to chi
cago as delegate" Now, this naturally
suggests itself to the scqusintances Of Pow
ell: Which will be the representative, the
clothes or the wearer?
3. W. Hall Is q quiet, uuassuming gen.
tleman and is known Blaine man; he was
an slterr ate from this district in 1880, and
then cat bis vote for Blaine. The split
is the outgrowth OF the above spoken OF
county convention; in other words iii the
war bstv cen Blaine Pierpoint and the Ar.
thur-Atkinson clans, and when they meet
at MaItinsburg the fur will fly. The ex-
Govern or has been keeping himself in Sc
sWS do rot know, ufiess f be- shes lse'1tts
primiDg his big gun, which he intends to
explode with terrific force at the proper
time. Stageers, the "White Fox" told
your correspondent few days ago that he
would be - If they
Did Not Treat PIerpoint Right
he would raise HI with the whole Repub-
Iicsn party in this State and would do his
utmost to defeat the State ticket, for said
me-" Gov. Pierpoint is an honest man in
every particular, and moreover whole
,ouled Republican, and rather than see
him msligned and imposed upon by
woQld-be leaders, he would see the whole
party in perditiOn." StaSgers Is not the
only man who expresses themselves g.
being opposed to Atkinson ringsters, bur
it is public fact that many prominent Re-
pUblicans from this vicinity and cooked anu
pruned for war. They avow it everywhere
and from what your correspondent can
learn, Pierpoint will triumph over Atkin
son and an instructed delegation for Blaine
will be the result of the Martinsburg con.
vention.
A rumor is ahoat that the Arthur men
have whettsd their knives with the avowed
intention of taking the white FOX's
scalp, on account of his activity in the in
terest of Blaine. 1t is supposed by them
that Stsggers would like to have
Tbe Nomination for Attorney General
this fall, and in order to defeat any aspira-
tor he may have in this direction they are
indlstriously boosting a man by the
name Of Thos G Miller for the State super
intendency of schools. This man Miller, by
the way is to place Powell in nomination
At Msrtinsburg as a delegate, in flaming
speech.
Thos. Hough, Governor Pierpo1t, A. NJ
BOggess, Thos. H. B Stsggers, Capt. Harr
Pie erpont and Dick Whiteley leave for tn
seat of war" tonight so as to be early o
the ground. Staggers by virtue of his b
ing an alternate from many districts b IS
many votes at his disposal, and befo's
leaving he told your correspondent that
none but Blaine men need apply"
James W. Nightingale, a revenue officer
rom Washington, d c., is here inyt stIgat-
ing Marshal Atkinson's affairs.