Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-24
BENNETT GETS THERE.
THE REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES BRINGO OUT A
FAIR VOTE
The Contest for the Ssrgeaney Reasonably Lively
Ons-Dslsgstss Elected to the
Convention.

The Republicans had the very worst
kind Of day yesterday in which to select
their candidates for City Sergeant, City
Clerk, and Wharf Master, and choose dele
gates to the Mayors Convention, but not
withstanding this fact the partisans OF
Messrs. Bennett and Mccormick tramped
around in the mud and rain with q persist
eney which demonstrated in the most con-
yincing manner their devotion to the can
didate whose interests lay nearest their
hearts, and the resulting aggregate vote
was a very respectable one, 2,267 ballots
being deposited.
The contest between Captain Bennett
and Mccormick was good deal more IN
teresting than most people thought posi-
BILE before the voting began, and the large
vote polled by the last named gentleman
shows that he is prime favorlte with a
large element in the Republican party, anu
that he used the brief period OF time clap
sing between his entering the canvas and
the primaries to the very best advantage.
Frank Bowers had no opposition for CLERK,
as has been heretofore announced, and
polled nearly the entire strength OF the
vote thrown. There was no candidate for
Wharf Master, but Henry Seamon's name
was put on the ticket despite his determln-
alton not to be a candidate, and he was
very generally voted for all over the city.
The polls did not close until y clock,
and as there were in some wards large
number of suggestions for delegates to the
Convention, the process of counting was
tedious one, none of the precincts being
reported until ten o'clock. There twas
a fair sized crowd at the City Hall during
the early part of the evening, and In the
absence of reliable figures the air was full
of rumors of decidedly Mccormick cast OF
countenance, it being loudly asserted that
that gentleman had carried the lhlrd,
Fourth, Fifth and Eighth wards, and that
Bennett was surely defeated. This sort OF
thing proved very nauseating to the Ben
nett crowd, and there was good deal OF
wailing and crashing of teeth among the
adherents oil the ex-Sergeant, it being al
leged that ballots for Mccormick had been
put in by boys, Democrats, and Others not
entitced to a vote There was also decl-
ded disposition TO attribute Mccormick s al
leged success to the influence of Senator
\. b. Scott, and that gentleman was
blessed accordingly.
The Seventh ward was the first to report,
telephone message from the hose
house announced that Mccormick had
carried the ward by eight. This had been
regarded as a sure Bennett ward, and the
laws of McCOrmick's opponents fell very
decidedly, and the crowd rapidly thlned
out. The Fifth ward showed up next with
90 majority for Bennett, and then the
Third came in with 129 majority for Nc
Cormick. The First came in next with
1913 majority for Bennett, and was follow
by the Fourth with "A majority for Nc
Cormick. The race so far was very even
one. and the excitement was considerable
among the small cOterie which still held
the floor in Clerk Bowers Office. At 1890
o'clock the Eighth came in with 65 major
ity for Bennett, and the friends of that
gentleman claimed that his majority
would be 25O.to 300 in the city. Between
1890 and II o'clock the remaining three
wards reported, and the result is tabulated
below: