Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-15
WEST VIRGINIA POLITICS.
News Cleaned From Here and There o
the Political Current.

News Cleaned From Here and There ON
the Political Current.
Mr.. W. F. Chiffon announces himself as
acandidate to represent the Kanswha SEN
atorial District in the Legislature.
Hon. Joseph Van Meter, of Hardy, IS
urged rs a Democratic candidate for State
Senator from the Twelfth district.
A mass meeting Of the Democrats OF
Grant county is called to meet at Peters
burg on Saturday, the 18th day OF August.
The name of DR.. A. f. Summers has
been suggested for the Democratic nomi-
nation to the State Senate from the Ninth
district.
Outside of Dir. Flick, this end has but
n man who has any prospect for the Re
publican Congressional nomination, and
that is Hon. John ]. Hetzen, OF Paw-Pa~.
-KatiRs6arg Herald.
Hon. ". W. Brannon has been appoint
ed Mayor of Weston by the Council OF
that town, in place of Hon. Andrew Ed
mission, resigned.
The Democratic Convention held in Lo-
gan county to appoint delegates to the
Congressional nominating Convention at
Coal Valley instructed in favor OF hon.
John B. Floyd, for Congress.
Ii Jim Menager stands all the ridicule
and temperate abuse his Republican con-
freres are giving him, because his little
scheme acquired premature publicity, M
hasn't as much back bone a we gave him
credit fol. -Pdrkersburg Sentinel.
A correspondent of the Hardy Express
suggests this ticket TO the voters OF Hardy:
W. /. Wilson for Congress; ID. G.. Nc
Chung for State Senator; George II. Car
penter for the House Of Delegates, and A.
VI. Inskeep for County Commissioners
1t is amazing to observe the amount OF
space the I~nteligeRecr and other Repubii-
can papers are consuming in their efforts
to explain the perfect innocence OF their
abortiye conference. 1t is like a wolf try
ing to prove its harmlessneSs to n sheep
fold.-PdrkersbUrg Sentinel.
The Democracy of Writ county will
convene at Writ Court House, Saturday,
August IA, 1886, at IL o'clock a. H., fol
the purpose of nominating candidates re-
spectively for the House of Delegates, and
a County Commissioner; also for the pur'
pose of electing delegates to the Demo
cratic Congressional and Senatorial Con
ventiOnS.
The Democrats of Fayette county have
held their Convention and appointed dele
gates to the Congressional and Senatorial
Conventions. The Congressional delega
| ton stands Is for Snyder and two tol
| Harris. The delegates to the Senatorial
| Convention were instructed to cast thu
vote of the county sOlidly for Mr.. Val
Pelt for State Senator.
Here is the substance of what the PIT
Pleasant Register says Of "Stateman' Men
ayers confidential circular" flames b
Menager-Our own Jimmy-wcnt to BET
Sunday night q ''strictly confidential" cit
izen, known only to the few who received
a copy of the secret circular, and awOke OIL
Monday morning to find himself %entirel!
done for. so far as his usefulness as a can
didate for the State Senate as GOtl' par
ticular friend, in this district, is concerned
How or why this came about, leaves TIN
author of the circular i'll a dazed, wonder
ing condition, but so ii is. and anothe
statesman is trotted to the rear. No man
nor any set OF men, in either party in thi
| State, can hope to be successful when thei
acts are to be of such a character a
require their meeting to be in anothe
State in order to fix up a programme TO
the yeomanry and masses of their party
without the knowledge or consent of thos'
who do the voting, and all those wh'
attempt such bosSism and trickcry would
do well to remember the words emblazonet
on the coat of arms of this State-'Moun
t~aineers are ALWAYS free"