Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-09-24
CHARLESTON.
The Congressional Campaign-Inside
Pointers On Kanawha Politics.

with all the vigor Of an old time canvass.
Judge Brown, the Radical nominee has
made two or three speeches thus far and
Phil Snyder fully as many. Snyder is now
at Nichols Court House while hisopponent
is at home issuing circnlars and
attacking our Phil's record.
The circular business is good thing for
the printer, but further than that its ben
eficial results will not avail anything. 1t
is predicted by the knowing ones that
Brown will not meet with as much favor
ag he did in his race against Snyder to fill
Kenna's uneSpired term.
Chas. Edgar Hogg was here the other
day, together with Perry Simpson; of
Point Pleasant, on his way TO Lincoln
county. Hogg is stirring things up in
the Fourth district, and will make the
race very interesting to Hutchinson, of
Wood. The radical press outside of
Hogg's home is waging a personal war
against the Mason county man. The
Democratic press in the district will be
justified in making the same kind of a
campaign against Hutchinson, and since
| it is well known that Hutchinson is very
vulnerable, the aggressive step taken by
newspaper men of the other side will have
boomerang. The poker" stories told
about HOgg will be a side show compared
with the Pleasant county reports about
! Hutchinson. On with the district war, and
my prediction is, the Democratic candidate
will carry off the prize.
Capt. Bob Carr is the Republican-Fu-
-Greenback-LabOrn nominee for State
Senator, and will oppose Chiffon. Carr
will he remembered rs candidate for
some position in the House of Delegates in
Wheeling in 1877, when such celebrities rs
Dick Stratton, of Logan, and several other
! similar characters were members
of the House. Bob, in those days, was
good Democrat. Like many others, disap-
pOintmcnt soured him. Some onc-legged
fellow was selected for the place Bob
wanted, because, as Carr said, he was an
eN-reb. Carr says his wooden legged OPP
ponent used to get in some conspicuous
place on the floor of the House and prop
his old ncc-rail-tCarr alleges that the
wooden substitute was hewed out of a
! fence-nil up above his head so that
his misfortune might be apparent to all,
and in this way he elected SYM
pathy. Bob tells, however, that it
afterwards turned out that his sue
cessful opponent was fortunate
enough to 90 too near big saw in one of
the many mills in the lumber regions of
| PENNSYLVANIA, andthat he never smelt gun
powder during the war. Still Carr luXur-
lated in Wheeling smoke all that winter,
and entertained many members till roll
call of the next day with bril-
| liant stories, etc, and returned
home happier than when he left, he
great Kanahwa, with as many schekels,
and world of experience. Bob then re-
turned to his attention to Greenbackism.
Now he is a GreenbackRcpublican Labor
man and on this ground he
wants to 90 the State Senate, ssand for the
purpose has invoked the aid of Gen.
Goff. Carr is supported by Bill Dave
GOshOrn, another Grccnbackcr, and for
merly a Democrat. Their Democratic
friends regret to find them in snch bad
campany, but their continued alliances
with the enemy has hardened their old
Friends, and only first-claSs drubbing
will bring them back to their old places,
and that's what the boys propose TO
give the young men this trip.
! Bill Chiffon will do this job up
nicely. Capt Carr says lie can tell the
truth rs well as Chiffon, and so far rs ly-
ing is concerned he thinks he can distance
! Chiffon "a half mile. Carr is now Pres
ident Ofthe county court and he thinks the
patronage of the court will give him q lift.
! As a member of the court he voted for 10
! license and the Prohibition vote is eXpec-
ted on this account. Though the Prohi-
bitionists have their own candidate he will
get the radical Prohibition votes of
course, but no Democrats. He occupies
.hS present position by the aid of
the Democracy. lie will ''ROt occupy a
seat in the Senate by their aid. Chiffon is
not only well and favOrably known in his
own county, Knawaha, where hen was born
but is well known in all the counties
ton will be elected.
Some of the Radical papers in your end
of the State are trying to make capital
against Van Pelt, the Democratic nominee
for Senator in the Grecnbrier district, as
serting that he is opposed TO labor. 1t is
true rs charged he is brother-in-law Of
Col. st. Clair, but not true that
he even aided or abatted
scheme to defeat any
proprietor before the Legislature, looking
TO the defeat of any measure in favor of
labor. The trouble between Isbell and
Van Pclt, grows out of the Isbell's broth
| !. 4. l..
ton The friends of Isbell, whom Van
Pelt beat, claim that he was the champion
of the Miners bill. Capt. Rock, Of the
Kanahwa, claims this honor. The truth
of the matter is, the bill introduced was
prepared by old Judge Ferguson, and was
by him first introduced in the Legislature
Van Pet is well and favorably known in
the mining district, and will receive the
support of the Democratic miners, and
will be elected Isbell is not the nominee
of the miners as tepOrted.
Henry S. Walker and Judge Brown
met in Joint discussion at Fayetteville
Monday last. Walker talked all around
the Judge and between his attempted ex-
PLANTATION and humiliating apology for his
registration record aud the bad box he
got himself into on the tariff question, his
Radical constituency were heartily digust-
ed. In his talk he claimed TO be the friend
of the Confederates, and appealed To his
hearers not TO vote against
him on that ground. But
the records were drawn upon HIM and
there WAS no going behind such indispu
table proof In the discussion of the tariff
on wool, the Judge put his foot in it and
in attempting to get out made matters
worse. The Judge will hardly consent to
meet Walker again in joint discussion.
What Henry S. Walker don't know about
the records of public men of this State
would only make primer, but what he
docs know and can tell effectively would
make Webster unabridged.
The Democratic County Convention Of
Kanawha county is called for October I'd
and the primaries for September 18th.
The Democratic candidates for the House
Of Delegates are 0'Brien, Callahan, Little
page and Mintz, theer to be selected. A
candidate for Commissioner Is to be Sc
lected.