Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-08-18
WEST VIRGINIA POLITICS.
Notes Cleaned From Here and There
the Political Current.

Notes Cleaned From Here and There on
the Political Current.
Prndlttou county Democrats have in
structed for Hon. w. l.. Wilson for Con-
GEES.
The TYLER Democrat is warmly champion
ing Col. ID. ID. Johnson for the Congress
SiOual nomination.
Congressman Wilson has appointed Rob
crt Hamilton, Of HuttOnsyille, cadet to
the West Point Military Academy.
The DEMOCRATS Of Morgan county have
been instructed to vote for Hon. VIM. l..
Wilson for reelection to Congress.
The Parkersburg Sentinel says that bet
ting men are offering wagers that Judge
Jackson will be nominated for Congress
from the Fourth District.
Hon. J. J. HIetzel was unanimously
recommended by the Morgan Republican
County Executive Committee rs n sulta-
bile candidate for Congress.
The Republicans OF the Second Senate
rial District, composed of the counties OF
Marshall. Wetzel and Marion, meet in con-
yentiOn Mt Warrington on September L..
There are three candidates for the DEM
ocratir nomination for the State Senate
from the Seventh district, viz: DIR. Isaiah
Bee, of Mercer, Hon h. III. ONley, Of Lin
coin and Hon. W. Z. Payne, of Mcdowell
Candidates for the Legislature are loom
ING up all over Mineral county. 1t is said
that the Republicans, Democrats, Prohlbi-
tiunists and the WOrkingmen will each
have q ticket in the field, thus making four
clndidateS.-PieimOm Herald.
No matter what advanced ground
the Republican party Of this District may
take upon the temperance and labor ques-
tionS. they can deceive nobody thereby.
Il will be the same old party, and every
body will know it through the liimSy
garb of hypocrisy and ence.-ChdrieStoR
Star.
The political war which has been waged
among the Democrats of Monroe county
for the past few months, is now over and
the smoke of battle cleared away. The
ranks of the Democracy are closing up,
preparatory to the November contest, when
victory will certainly be Ours.-NOarOe
County Wdtchmdn.
1t is currently reported that the Repub-
lean and Greenback county executive
committees have agreed upon u candidate
for Congress and State Senate before they
consult their respective parties rs to
whether they are willing to fuse or not.
These cut-and-dried candidates, il is said,
are Judge J. II. Brown for Congress and
Hon. X. =. Carr for State Senate. 1t re-
mains to De seen if Judge Brown, who has
always been an honest and consistent Re
publican. will stOOp to this dO-anything-
fOr-an-OfliCe method, or whether those men
who have always been Greenbackcrs from
principle will endorse the action of either
party in case of Decentralization Star.
What an imbecile old fraud the Republi-
can party in West Virginia is! At their
ParEersburg conference they passed as IN
diridudl Republicans 4 prohibition resOlu-
ton which, as a party, they have been
kicking out of their conventions for ten
years. II the Republican party is in favor
of submitting prohibition amendment
why didn't its representatives ut Parkers-
burg say 50? When they resolved on tax
exemptions and labor" why they just
resolved without any hiding Of the party
behind It's lnulNiuual members, out WHICH,
it came to prohibition the dear hypOcrites
shifted from party toindiyiduals-cOmmit-
ting the party to nothing, pledging them
selves to nothing, and in their discussions
and their trucking with policy displaying
only their Willingness and desire to deceive
and cheat the temperance people. The
party wants the whiskey vote, and there
fore kicks prohibition resolutions out ofits
| conventions 1t wants the temperance
vote and so calls conference of its mem
bers to resolve as individuals in favor OF
prOhibitOry amendments. 1t is merely a
question with them of what will gain
votes If whiskey, then they are for whiS-
key. if prohibition, they are solid for the
amendment All the world knows
that the Parkersburg resolution was
passed rs q mere yote-catching eXpe-
dent, and that the whole Republic
can party is now winking at the saloon
man around the corner and saying, "All
bOsh, you know, to capture the votes Of
the pious fanatics" The Republican