Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-22
THE LITTLE GOD.
Goff Gan Have 1t IL He Wants It, But
There are Lots of Kickers on the "Wor-
shiDplpg Act"

There are Lots of Kickers on the "Wor-
shipping Act"
Special Telegram 10 the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. VA, August 21.-
1--WE will stampede that Convention for
Goff," was the remark of Wayne county
delegate last night. Itembodies the whole
situation as far as the gubernatorial nomi-
nation is concerned. Menager has friends,
Mclean has friends, and Duval has a con-
siderable number of ardent supporters,
but the all moving power Of Doodle is too
much, and the majority of the Convention
is for Gof. If he can be forced into
the fight he will be the nominee. Among
the handful of delegates that assembled
here yesterday nothing was settled. The
heavens weeped cringiug tears upon their
gathering for an unholy purpose. Their
condition of war continued and intensified
until the morning train from the west
brought in one weary aud bedraggled
traveller, a sacred cargo. 1t was the great
and mighty Gof, who Immediately went
into solemn council with himself, and an
nounced that he
COULD NOT AFFORD TO ACCEPT
the nomination for Governor. Menager,
of Mason, and Mclean, of Putnam, en-
Enthusiastically endorsed this view of the
case. They had both arrived shortly after
tho First district statesman, and concurred
in his opinion with startling unanimity.
Again the spirits of the faithful few fell,
but they went into intercession with their
chosen one.
DR.. Holt, of Weston, said: "We will
force him to accept"
Myers, of Ksnawha, came from an earn
est consultation with the great decliner
and impaired the mighty fact that he must
be the leader in the coming fight. The
Second and Fourth district delegates pres
ent thought likewise, ond Steele Hawkins
expressed the general sentiment in tragic
whisper,
''IT IS GOFF."
This was all done before noon. The
question seemed settled, but, alas, the
hand of the destroyer came TO blast the fair
fabrics they had built so high. General
Goff persisted in asking his friends to keep
his name from before the convention. The
| friends of Mclean and Menager, with o
slight sprinkling of Duval men, agreed
with him and they were assisted in their
wish by that able trio of Ohio county poll
ticians, Messrs. Scott, Atkinson aud Cow.
den, It was stated that GGff had refused
to allow any one to use his name, and the
Goff howlers became depressed accordingly.
These were the fluctuations of the day.
Tonight the demand for Goff's caudi-
dacy is renewed. 1t is heard on almost
every hand and from every delegation.
The great Mogul is profuse in insisting
that another be chosen and has gone among
the delegates in the Rutfner lobby loudly
proclaiming that he does not desire the
nomination. 1t will be handed to him to-
morrow, however,
| ON A SILVER sALyKR,
amid the smoke of incense and the prayers
of humble suppliants, and then he will as
gracefully as possible submit to a result
which his party's dire necessity has forced
upon him. The Republican party in West
Virginia has some good men. Why these
should be showed to the rear in q disgrace
ful effort to force q nomination on o man
who spurns it from him almost con-
temptuously is hard to understand.
There are some remnants Of self respect
left in the breasts of even the cringing
political tricksters who are running the
whole matter. 1t is making itself heard
in quiet way, and it is evident that the
Goff yoke has become unbearably CALLING.
These men feel that to-day Golf is using
Menager and Mclean in the same way
ohat he has used Hubbard and lovener in
the First District.
TWO NEW VICTIMS
to his political vanity are to be sacrificed
and they are the marked ones. The repre-
sentative of the REGISTER met o Third
district delegate to-day. He was Nc
Lean man and thirsting for gore. His
Language was not elegant but expressive.
''I have just told General Goff. he said,
"that il he wants to be United States Sem
ator he ought to make the fight openly and
not BY swapping of the Governorship.
That's what he's trying TO do now. / am
for Mclean, and il he thinks he con side
track Mclean he is mistaken. Gof could
have had the nomination easily enough II
he had Just said the word month or a
week ago. OF course he can get il now
but it will be an injustice to Mclean and
Menager which their friends will resent
This man may run the First district" he
continued, ''but be can't rpn Us. We
have got
TIRED oy Doing THE woRsHrPING Ac1
to him.
The scribe suggested to him that Gof