Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-10
WEST VIRGINIA POLITICS.
The situation MISREPRESENTATION Parties
and Candidates.

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The situation Rsviewed-About Parties
and Candidates.
A place on the Republican State ticket 10
an hoaor not much sought after In these
Democratic days. OF course, the Rspubli-
cans have brilliant prospects" OF carrying
the State, as usual, bat then it is notice.
able that the faithful are not working
themselves into white heat over the op-
portunity to lead in that victory. They
would prefer to see some one else put mp 10
make the trial and encounter defeat Less
than two weeks from to-day the convention
will meet ut Charleston. The candidates
of q winning party should have been In tne
field long before this, yet even the nead Oh
the ticket excites hardly more than muir
muir of interest in the Republican camp,
while the minor places are scarcely men
toned, except to wonder idly who VIII De
fool enough 10 accept nomination for one
of them, The contrast with the position
on the Democratic side is pretty sure IN
dication of the political situation. Men
don't fight over an uncertainty, and Dem
ocratic sspirants wouldn't be thicker than
leaves in VsllsmbrOsia if the party did mol
feel at it was going to Win. Inis Is
Democratic year in West Virginia, and the
Little Mountain State will signslize It by
rolling MP a msjority for Cleveland that
will bury Republican pretensions forever.
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Menager vs. MCLEAN will be the ngnt
before the Republican State convention, II
there is any fight at all. The Point Pleas
ant statesman will probably recognize that
his opponent has the call on the nominal |
ton aud will gracefully retire. Money |
Bags is suprsme in the Republican party |
in West Virginia. Hence MCLEAN will re- |
ceiys the Questionable honor of q Guoer- |
material nomination, and experience
crushing defeat at the hands Of some good, |
clean upright Democrat.
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The convention that is to be held at Goal
Valley August IA, will be the center OF
great interest among the Democrats OF the
Third Congressional district. A successor
TO Phil Snyder will be nominated, but
who that successor will be is still matter
of uncertainty. Whoever he is, his M
umpt should leave no ill feeling or
hsart-burnings behind. The nominee
should poll every Democratic vote IN the
district. The Democrats have brilliant
opportunity in the Kanawha Valley. The
independent seton Of the Greenback
Labor party will draw heavily from vote
which the Republican leaders had begun
10 think their special property. 1t would
be almost criminal folly to blast such pros
poets by dissension and discord.
A correspondent writes from Browns
Eoll hau q
chance to carry Kanawha county. The
colored people as general thing Will not
vote the Republican ticket, and many OF
the Labor party will vote with the Demo
Gratis. Some OF them have told me that
they have now found out that they have
been voting for years against their own
interests. They say that they now know
that protection protects the rich and not
the poor man. There are also great many
Repu blicans who always voted that ticket,
told me they are going to vote for Cleve-
land and Thurman. There is a great
change in this valley in favor OF the
Democracy.
In conclusion, dear REGISTER, let me
say that after the election you will find
that the Third district has been true to
her eolors."
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p. w. Morris, the editor OF the RItehIe
Gazette, was defeated for the Republican
Judicial nomination in the Fourth district,
mainly through the opposition OF Judge
Thomas E Davis, who WAS likewise
candidate. This is the way Presley har-
monies over the event:
MARX the words of the Gazette-the
only bolter from the Republican Judicial
Convention will be- q man who imagined
be was candidate, when no one else con-
sidered him one, and went over four coun-
ties of the circuit, detailing fancied grley-
ances and trying to convince respectable
people that the only candidate from
Richie county VINO had any chance, is a
very dangerous disOrganizer, and charging
the solid Republicans Oh this county with
fraud. conspiracy and political debauchery.
He was conspicuously absent and singular
Iy silent at the close of the West Union |
convention. Probably q few persons who |
believed some of his foul charges, got their |
eyes open then. They will comprehend |
the situation fully by November"
After the above highly complimentary |
send-cff, Judge Davis will no doubt pull
off his coat and work hard for the ticket.
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The following item from the JebersOnidn |
Plaindealcr il a sample of many that APP |
pear III our Democratic exchanges. The |
PhiIippi Democratic club held its month |
ly meeting at tina court house on Monday |
| night and was addressed by j E. Hall on |
the tariff question. Mr.. Hall is we'll |
posted on the tariff and his address was
edifying and we'll received by the large
audience. The club will meet two weeks
from Monday last, when il will be ad- |
dressed by speaker selected by the Presi- |
dent"
West Virginia is aroused from centre to
circumference over the tariff question
Intelligent discussion has opened the eyes
of the people to the enormity OF the
burdens of an unjust tax system. They
will register their condemnation Of 1t IN
thunder tones next November.
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The Intelligeneer doesn't have monop-
oily of the business of imposing bogus
Republican hoppers on the public A few
weeks ago the Tyler County Star Rep }
published with a great flourish of trum-
pets Ihe announcement that Barnett w
Fox, "a prominent Democrat" had frp-
ped to the Republicans. The Tyler Demo
crat, after investigating the alleged Hopper,
says:
Barnett w. Fox, who is reported in
the Star as having left the Democrats and
Joined the Republicans, is mistake. We
are reliably informed that the aforesaid
gentleman has been Greenbacker for
some years, but not a Democrat"
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The Democratic party in West Virginia
is the party of the young men. 1t has
elected the two youngest members of the
United States Senate, the most distin-
guished Legislative body of the world
The House delegation ia the youngest sent
from any State The Democratic Cover
nor aud other State officials are Young
men, and this year more than any other
the young and progressive element of the
party is to the fore. The Chairman of the
Democratic State Committee is q young
man. Two Congressional conventions
have already been held, and the presiding