Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-23
WEST YIRGrNIA POLITICS.

Notes Cleaned from Various
Sources.
Morvantown wants the Congressional
Convention for the Second District held
there.
Judge Flick is spoken of as q Republican
nominee for Congress from the Second
District.
Congressman Gibson spoke at Richie G.
Il. on June 81, and was greeted BY q large
and appreciativs crowd Of listeners.
Hon. D. Fl. Leonard is being vigorously
doomed in the several counties OF the
Fourth District asa compromise eundidate
for Congress.
Mason. Dawson, Sturgiss and others are
mentioned in connection with the kepno'
ican nomination for Congress from the
Second Districs.
Col J. W. DAVIS, Of Grssnbrier county,
Is spoken Of for Congress from the Third
District, and has been urged to run on an
independent ticket.
The Republicans of the First Congress,
sional District are row mentioning Hub,
bard, Dovener, Bssll, Laughlin, Logan and
others for Congress.
The Democratic County Executive Com
mittSe of Preston county meets at Terra
Alta on June 20 { arrange for the cam
paign in that county.
ADamocratic mass convention will bt
held at Fayetteville on Tuesday, July D. tC
select delegates to represent Fsyette coun'
ty in the Congressional convention CT thu
Third district.
The Republican Executive Committee o
the Fourth Congressional district will NEE
at Point Pleasant Wednesday, July 80, TO
the purpose OF fixing a date for holding tn
Congressional convention.
Major Harris is making q very actiyt
canvass and pressing Nh. Snyder c'osel,
for the nomination for Congress. Hi
views on the tariff question have won to
him strong friends all over the district.
The Parkersburg Sentinel says that it j
generally understood that Mr.. job
Sweeney, Of Tyler county, is to DO tn
nominee for State Senator On the Deme
cratic ticket in the Fourth Senatorial Dis
trict.
There will be q Democratic mass meet
ing held at the Court House of Putnam
county July 10, 1886. to appoint delegate
to the Congressional convention, and ais
to appoint delegates to the Sixth Senator's
convention.
There is a good deal of surminng as (
what effect the determination Of the miner
of the Third Congressional District to
candidate for Congress and 6 legislativ
ticket in the field will have upon the tT
existing parties.
A resolution vas passed BY the San
mers Comfy Democratic convention this
met on June 10, i%nstructing one halt tn
delegates to cast their votes for Snyder sn
thu other half for Harris, in the comm
Congressional convention.
The Putnam Democrat says OF MI
s Leonard: He would make a frst-clss
! representative and would ably represer
the interests Of this district. Besides h
would carry thu district by large majority
Why not the Hon. D. II. Leonardo
The p. Pleasant Register says this {
! Colonel s f. HcCosan's candidacy for III
Democratic nomination for Congress: 81
he SHES his castor into the ring and form
ally himself as q candidate, b
will go into the Convention with o stron
backing"
Tho friends Of Col. A. F. McCown ar
/ the people who have had the sudacity Il
, mention another man from Mason count
|, as a Democratic candidate for nomination
for Congress. Mason county only want
the whole earth, fenced in-and the full
ness thereof, that's slll-Putnam Demt
crst.
The Democratic voters of Barbour meC
on the sixth day of July, in mass meetin
for the purpose Of selecting delegates t
the Congressional and Senatorial Conver
tons and considering a plan for nomina
ing a candidate for the House OF Del
gates and Commissioner Of the Count
Court.
A mass convention of the Democrat
partY OF Koaue county is called to meet a
Spencer on the 10th day of July, 1886, fC
; the purpose of appointing delegates I
Congressional Convention of the Fourt
District, Senatorial Convention Of tn
Fifth District, and the Sixth Delegate DI
} triet Convention, and also to nominate
/ candidate for Commissioner OF the Count
Court.