Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-07
WEST VIRGINIA POLITICS.
Notes Cleaned From Here and There o
the Political Current.


Notes Cleaned From Here and There on
the Political Current.
The Democrats of Peasants county will
hold their county convention on the l4th
day of August.
The Democratic Executive Committee
of Gilmer county meet in Glenville on
Saturday, July 10th.
Hon. B. F. Martin, of Grafton, is being
strongly urged as candidate for nomina-
ton to Congress from the Second Congress
sional District
John c. Montgomery, of Coal Valley,
Fayette county, is Democratic candidate
for the State SenatOrship, in the Eighth
Senatorial District.
Hon. J. Z. Sommerville and Emery
Jacobs have been chosen rs Chairman and
Secretary of the Democratic Executive Com.
mittee of Brook county.
The Democrats of Portland District,
Preston county, present and urge the name
of William G. Brown rs the next nominee
for Congress from the Second District.
By all means try and bolster the e. o. p.
up until after the next Presidential elec-
ton, when if it must 60, we shall feel more
resigned to its loss.-St. aary's Oracle.
The Democratic mass meeting recently
held at Wellsburg appointed delegates to
represent Brooke county in the coming
Senatorial and Congressional conventions.
Messrs. Stapleton, Hutchinson, Caldwell
and White OF the Journal, are being talked
OF in connection with the Republican nom.
ination for the Legislature from this city.
-PTksrSJury Sentinel.
The Democrats of Taylor county meet in
mass convention at Grafton, July 26, tC
choose delegates to the Congressional Con
vention at Keyser and the Senatorial Con-
ventiOn at BuchannOn.
The Democrats of the county of Kama.
wha meet on Saturday, August II, lSSG,
at = o'clock p. H., toe select delegates
to represent them in the County, Congress
sional and State Senatorial Conventions.
In Pocahontas county the delegation
stands five for Snyder and three for Harris,
and in this division we understand Major
Harris has the benefit of the fraction. In
Summers the delegation is equally divided.
The Democrats of Nicholas county will
hold mass convention in SummcrSvillt
on Wednesday, the llth of August, for the
purpose of selecting delegates to the Con
greSsional and Senatorial conventions and
for other purposes.
The Greenbrier County Democratic Con
vention have selected delegations 10 the
Senatorial and Congressional Conventions
The meeting was harmonious one and 4
resolution WIS adopted instructing the
Congressional delegation 10 cast the vote O
the county solid for Hon. John W. Harris
One paper of the Fourth District iayOr
the nomination of Charles Edgar Hogg fol
| Congress. This is the Lincoln CHi.Ca
| The Parkersburg Sentinel Writ Transcript
st. Mary's Observer and Richie RPrieir lcar
towards Judge j. NJ. Jackson. The Hunt
ington .1drertiser, Ritchic Democrat, Jack
son BagIe, Pt. Pleasant Register and Put
nam Democrat seem to prefer Eustace Glib
son.
The Braxton Democrat, in urging thC
nomination of NJ. r. Frame, E'I. of Wheel
| ing. for the Congressional nomination, says
with Marshall 7. Frame aS the nominee
Braxton county will promise the district
greater Democratic majority than sh'
could give any other man, and we feel aS
surcd that in other portions of the dlstrlc
| he will be rs strong aS any one that coult
be chosen. The First is without donbt ;
Democratic district, and with Frame ~
standard bearer she will assert her Dem
ocracy."
Considering that the only Republican
who ever ran for Congress in tn
/ Fourth district WAS defeated by
a large majority, and remember
ing that on fusion, Wilson re
ceiyed eighteen thousand and twenty
seven votes to Maxwells sixteen thousand
eight hundred and ten, in the clever
counties of the district, the Republican
nomination may be far from Il prize "Mr
Morris, of Ritchie county," believes tina
there are circumstances under which h
could be elected to Congress in this dis
trict, but until those circumstances ar
developed, he does not want the nomlna
ton. and more than that, if only few
Republicans are determined to make fool
of themselves about the matter, he no
only does not want it, but he won't hav
it. This is certainly explicit enough +
convince even the transparent blundcrer
of the State Journal, lovely old pro tcmpor
of day, puff ball for an occasion, tina
"Mr Morris, of Ritchic county" is no
dying for q nomination for Congress, il
this pleasant lelfy month of June, and tlll
he will not disl0Cate his laohrymal glands
if he does not get It this year.-Ritchi
Gazette.