The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-28
LEWIS COUNTY DENIoCnAcY.
It is Badly Torn up-The Camden Mon
Ahead.

1t Is BADLY Torn up-The Camden Men
Ahead.
Correspondence Of Le IaitiIiOrtcer,
WESTON, W. Va, August 2G.-It Is a
cold day, indeed, when politics in Lewis
county is not at boiling point. The
Democratic district conventions were held
in this county today. Attackers Greek,
twenty delegates were appointed to the
County Convention and instructed to vote
for Hon. George |. DAVIDSON, the present
member, for a denomination for House Of
Delegates. Meetings were held at Church.
vile, Walkersville and Austin, but aB
they are far distant from town reports OF
their proceedings are not yet in, but 1t Ia
universally conceded that DAVIDSON has
received the bulk OF the delegates and
will be the nominee. He Is regarded as a
Camden man.
The reports from Collins school house,
on Sandy Fork, where the meeting for
Court House district was held, are both
amusing aud interesting. 1t Is the centre
Of thriving and sturdy Irish settlement,
and 1t was generally believed that the
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but 1t turned out quito different, and
Davlsson received fifteen or sixteen out ol
the twenty delegates.
The preliminary skirmish occurred in
the selection Of temporary chairman, In
which Prosecuting Attorney Louis Bon.
nett, who was considered the representa-.
tive OF the Jackson following, was defeat.
ed about three 10 one by Peter Flesher,
the County Surveyor, after a worIy and
bitter fight. Every step OF the ground was
hotly contested, the Jackson men charging
that the meeting was being packed In the
interest Of Camden. The Camden men
retaliated by charging that every spare
man that could DO raked up was there
from the Asylum, driven there by the
State bus, and In the interest Of jackson.
II was charged that Camden then had
100000 Of tho County's money secured
through the narrow gauge railroad where.
upon one delegate declared that II the
people were fools enough 10 give him the
money he shouldn't be blamed for taking
1t, and another shouted ont give us more
railroads. When comparison was made
between jackson and Camden again a
delegate shouted out jackson taxed my
hay, taxed my chickens, and my pigs. 10
the devil with Jackson" and SO on. The
meeting was altogether too lively for de-
sCription.
AZ a result Of the fight, which was bit.
ter and earnest, Davisson has fifteen or
sixteen Of tho delegates and the Others
were only allowed the Jackson crowd In
the interest OF harmony, with capital III"
The State Hospital sent full hack or
bus load Of attendants to the scene, and
massed all its fSrCeS for the fray, but was
badly knocked out Of time, as usual. Com.
Ing back the bus was broken down AMI
tho tax payers oi the State will, Of course,
be compelled 10 foot the bill.
The situation 10 now such that the Gam.
den men will make the nominations, but
the feeling has grown 90 bitter that the
Jackson men will proceed 10 lay for the
nominees with something stronger than q
stuffed club.
The nominating convention will be held
here on Saturday week, September 4
Their Commissioner has not yGt bsen an.
nounCed, but John Collins, Of Sand Forks,
seems to be- In the lead. The party In
Lewis county was never In such desperate
straits.