Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-06
rTHA wHAT-IS-lT.

,,L cf the Clarksburg Republican
..,,;on was characterized generally,
VII ..,,,.v ss queer" Some Prohibition
- ~',bo.s that are bali in the Republican
nd the other half in the Prohibition
Ike GEORGE W. ATKINSON him
we're inclined to regard it IS p
...,,o,,narion." The straight ont
n,,,,5,,iopists widely differed in their
aim. some were mad, regarding At
rvs,>,s nomination IS a political
,-,s ,n capture the Prohibition vote in this
r.,,,r,. and some were glad, openly de-
,l,,in, tt.. the nomination meant another
p,o,i., ,rioa vote ia Congress 10 the event
.,ublican succsss. The straight-Out,
.r.,,ool.a1d.a-yard-wide Republicans were
rp5ep;ahly sck At heart There was not
o,a r-pnhlirap smile We mean the facial
.,n,i-. oh.e,ged in the city Of Wheeling
Ia, night Some Of them thought the
,ori,s,ion OF ATKINSON good politics" |"
.o5 Sould capture large slice OF the
p,obib,uop vote. Bat the majority were
.;Ieo, and d.iected-eNeepting, Of course,
C,,,.in DoSeuer's friends, who, though,
Doss,bly objected, were not Inclined to be
silent about it, and, By the way, If the
p,li,ci.ns who manOevred this deal with
The Prohlhi'iOnlsts, think that Captain
DovExER'S friends are few in number,
tbsy are the most ignorant set Of men IN
the First West Virginia district. The
Csp,sin's friends are mad rs hornets
and ro'i,jcs aside we think they have
esuse to he mad, for Capt DOvENER, who has
never .weryed IN his fealty TO his party, has
beeo, 10 put 1t mildly, treated most
Surylv. TIE Captain has been Repub-
Eca1 w hgeihnIse srd a most influential
one. Ia l~-i he stood aside TO let GOFF
IN unEe- promise that hs would be given
fair bow Tor The nomiJ alton IN lSS6
We. l~-5 came aroaud snd we all re-
me1b-r ylyidly what happened. Captain
DoysNER vent into the convention with
lseyeu;y votes Gn1 WIS generally looked
upol a. winner. Bat the same
clique that bad put him by
with p.cmjsss n 1884 thrust him
asid, IN I'D wi;h moe promises for 1888,
sad Corr wss once more the nominee
To ra>s long story short, here is lSSS,
BAT Nbt-e is DOvEsEE? He went into
TIE C.arks5urg Convention the favorite
with the Ohio county delegation and with
the nomination almpst in his grasp. He
hal Nurked bard aid had fairly earned The
lOng tsirrgst honOr-but again this same
ciqar that baacoed him out of the nom
inatlsu in l~14 and in 1856 slaughtered
AMI tunilmtsG him again in 1853, and
tiis tine made no pretenses or prom
ises. They openly fought him and
scrsly EnIfsi him in ths
dark TIE methods they em-
Plo7ed At Clarksburg yester-
day and the dsy before were dirty, to say
the lyss, They slsndered him behind his
back and iOrght him in open convention
and sGcceeded in nominating the man
who vas conceded by all Republicans to
be the Seskest before the convention and
whose nomination arOuses distrust and
ange- in th- Republican psrty-the rank
and die OF which don't know where he
stands on the Prohibition issue. He is a.
s7Owsd PrOhlbitiouist and at the same
time Processes to be a Republican, his
methods being those Of a bitter partisan.
DE Is Deitber one thing nor the other and
bis domination is the greatest of surprises.
As the Democratic organ, the REGIS TER
naturally feels a delcAcy in expressing an
opinion 10 Republicans, but that opinion
Is, and It il backed up by the best author.
liyl that the short-sighted politicians who
engineered the Clarksburg convention
never intended that DOyENER should have
show hut had, some time before the Con-
SenuOn, made deal with the Prohibition
politicians OF this District TO nominate
ATKINSON provided the ProhibitiOnists
would not put a ticket in the field.
Whether these sehemers can keep Prohi-
o''lOn ticket out of the field and deliver
'Ae goods remains to be seen.
From what We have been able to gather
IRON all sides, we do not believe the
harrisburg Convention could have made
Digger bluDdsr than it did in i,s Prohibi-
metropolitan nomination of GEORGE
". ATKINSON.