Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-03-15
SHoESTRlNe POLITICS.
Some Candidates Who viii Run n Tilt
With Gibson.

fAkkERsBURG, W. VA, Marcn l4.-San'
didates in the Shoestring district are al.
ready more numerous than the hairs in
the broad plaza of Jerry Hills head. Mr..
Gibson, Notwithstanding his friction with
the State house crowd grows more numer'
ous in his assertions Of political strength.
BE asserts and reiters,es that the divine
atilatus Of West Virginia politics centres in
him solus. To not q few base skeptics the
nimbus about him seems rather disphsn.
Gus. He's ambitious st ell events, and in
tensely antagonistic; thinks little Of attack.
ing the State Executive and section Of
the Supreme Court. By the way Judge
Okey johnson is just beginning to get mad
at Gibson, and says some rather severe
things. Among them the Judge asserts
with his usual impetuosity that Eustace
makes too many statsmentsst st right angles
with the facts. If the Judge continues to
get mad in the same ratio for few days
longer he'll fracture one Of the command.
uents-the one that says thou shall not
cay d--n it, Some people are very warm
tempered Then Gibson says C. Z. Hogg,
Hon. d. a. Leonard and Judge j. N.
jackson are not going to run against
him; in fact, oil are for him.
Now here's another feature o! the truth.
met the Hon. C. E. Hogg to day ard
in an interview on the condition OF
political affairs he stated to your cores
pondent that Mr.. Gibsons assertion that
be would not run was made without au-
thority. Mr.. Hogg said he would carry
Jackson, Mason, Roam and Lincoln .olid;
and at least two thirds of Putnam. In
reference to Cabell county he claims that If
Thompson and Gibson both remain in the
field be Mr.. Hogg) will will get large
share of that county. He says that about
month since Gibson wrote him that
Judge Monroe Jackson had withdrawn, but
that be had sscertaiued that the assertion
Was without foundation. When asked
what he thought Of the Judges strength
be replied that the Judge would get the
vote Of Wood, Writ, Calhoun and Pleas
ants.
well. Mr.. Hogg. who will get the nomi,
nationH
81 fully believe / will receive the nomi.
nation at the hands Of the Convention
How will the vote stand this time in
the Fourth district2'
The Democratic ticket will be elected
by at least 1900 majority. The proxy
scheme has gone where the woodbine
tWineth, and the Greenback party will re-
solve itself into its original elem ents, which
will strengthen the Democratic party in
this district, at least 200 votes.
Who do you think will be the Republi-
can nominee"
81 believe X. j. Redmond, of Clifton,
will get the Republican nomination. He
is gentleman Of culture ability and
wealth
Mr.. Hogg seems sanguine OF the nomi.
nation, and no doubt with good cause, as
he is popular, an able lawyer, a frst-rate
politician. and an hoL orsble gentleman.
TbenStdge jackson is still in the field.
The Judge is the Bru,us of the conspiracy
which is whetting its knife 10 strip the
epidermis from the unlucky Gibson. They
are all Of them, perhaps with the excep-
ton Of lsve Leonard, marshalling and
drilling their forces Tor the fray. Dave is
hardly candidatSin the proper sepse oi
the word for congressional preferment.
He wants to fill Flicks position, and will
most probably do it, except in bulk, and
he ought TO have it-not the sizeness, but
the Office OF District Attorney. Dave has
a host of friends who would be glad to
hear him declaimipg against the msnufac.
ture Of moonstine whisky and the horrid
crime Of using second hand postage
stamps.
Besides those above enumerated are
Judge r. 8. Brown, Of jackson, and W.
T. Thompson, State Treasurer. Both Of
these gentlemen rate their chances higher
than the price OF Psrkersburg gas There
il no lack of candidates. They are
crowded in 60 thick that some OF them are
falling of into general space.
This makes room for others. One oi the
most prominent prospective candidates Is
Hon. John G. McCIuer, the Blucher Of
Wood county. Mac is probably the strong
est dark horse thought o. He carried
Wood county for Prosecuting Attorney
OF .he ssme election when Gibson last run
for Congress, and when the latter lost the
county by over 500 votes, McCluer de-
feated the strongest Republican on It over
200 votes, making q showing Of strength
over Gibson OF over 900 votes in this
county. BeGides this, be is a strong man
in Writ, Calhoun and Peasants.
Mr.. Gibson, almost everybody agrees,
has made good representative. he has
secured number Of large appropriations
for i'm mprovements; answers bis correspond
ents with promptness and dispatch; hes
secured more pensions than almost any
other Congressman, and has done many
things 10 secure appreciation and favor.
Bat be mustn't attack Judge Johnson.
whose valuable time is taken up IN inter.
preting the law and dissgreeing With the
United States Court
In fact Gibson has committed medley
of ndiscretions, and when be undertakes
10 explain the muchuess oi the which he'll
find il more difficult than the solution Of
problem in Euclid would be to the porter
Of the Howell House.
There is another gentleman Of nc mean
political talent, whose friends are strongly
inclined to run mean the presen. Mayor
of the city, Col W. n. Chancellor. The
Colonel is ssuve, polite gentleman, one
Of the best fnsaciers IN tho State. .
shrewd politician and the builder OF the
magnificent is 10 Le hotel corner Of Fourth
ard Msrke; streets,
For Congressional honors the Repubh.
can party has plenty Of material There
10 Hon Jno. A. Hutchinson, Judge Loom.
is and ex Sheriff G. B. Smith. Wood. Mr..
Hutchinson's ability is well known end
needs no com nent. he is fu!l OF the wiles
Of the practical politician, and would adopt
the Mulhooly plan count the other fellows
out" il there was half chance. Judge
Loomis is also very prominent Repubh-
can politician; be ia, boweyes, ebout 90
successful in poliiicz a. Senator Jones. oi
Florida, lie IN b:s iove affairs. Ex-SheriH
Smith is one OF the mos, popular politicians
in the Republican party locally, and, per-
haps, the strongest probability they have