The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-08-10
NUMBER II.
ONLY A PITTANCE,
But II Does for Republican Capitalize
Cost Of the Gubernatorial Commits.
sion So Far Less Than ~, 500.

Under date of Terra Alta the Bal.
timore Sun publishes the following
in regard to the gubernatorial con-
test in West Virginia;
HOW THE WORK is BEING DONE.
The committee organized by Sc.
Letting w. l.. Key as chairman, and
Alfred Rheinstrom as clerk and stem
ographer. The work of the commit
tee is of a judicial character, and
consists in reading the dispositions
sent up by the contestants and decid-
ing what votes must be allowed to
stand and which must be thrown
out. After the committee finishes
its work and makes up its report
special session of the Legislature
will be called to receive the report
and decide the contest The read
ing of dispositions was commenced
by the committee at Charleston on
the sth of May last. and the work
has been continued without Interrupt
ton ever since that time with the
exception of three or four days.
The committee held Il session of one
month at Charleston and another of
a month at Grafton, and then to
avoid the excessively hot weather at
that place, came here on top of the
Alleghanies, where they will con
clude their labors, unless the wealth
err gets too cold for them before they
are through.
Mr.. st. Clair, of Fayettc county, is
attorney before the commission, as it
is called here, for Judge Fleming,
and w. p. Hubbard, of Wheeling, rep
resents Gen Golf. When The Sun
correspondent looked in upon the
commission the other day there were
present of the committee Messrs.
Maxwell, Sprigg and Lively, the 9th
err two members being temporarily
absent. Neither the contestants
nor their counsel were present. 1t is
the plan of the committee to read
the dispositions and have their stem
ographer carefully digest and make
a brief of the testimony applying to
each contested vote. When this is
done in given county or counties,
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counsel and decide upon the vote in
volved. On the occasion referred TO
the committee was engaged in diges-
ting testimony and preparing for the
hearing of Preston county.
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE GAINING
OF fifty-four counties in the State
the vote is contested in forty four
The committee has considered and
passed upon the vote in twenty five
counties, leaving nineteen to be con
sidered. In the counties passed up.
on by the committee, Judge Fleming
the democratic candidate, has made
Il net gain of seventy eight votes.
Upon the face of the alleged returns,
Gen. Golf had a majority Of one hun
dred and ten. With a net gain OF
seventy eight by the contest thus
far, Judge Fleming as the matter
now stands, is only thirty two behind
his opponent. The highest number
lost by Fleming in any county thus
for occurred in Randolph county,
4, /,
est gain made by either candidate
was made by Fleming in Brooke coun-
ty, where he made a net gain Of six
tynine.
CoLoNIzING OF VOTERS.
Thus far the committee has had
pretty plain sailing. The real work
before it will be reached when Mer-
Ger, Mcdowell and Kanawha coun-
ties are taken up. The contestants
and their respective attorneys will
be present all the time while these
counties are being investigated.
Mercer county is one of the so-called
back counties which is sparsely set
tied Judge Fleming challenges
some three hundred votes in this
county. The evidence which will be
before the committee indicates that
large number of the people, almost all
negroes, were brought over from Ken
lucky and Tennessee and put to work
in the various coal mines few days
before the election, and others were
to open prospective mines
where there was in fact no coal 9TH
ers still were put to work preparing
to build railroads, etc. 1t is asserted
that all these people voted. and in a
very days after the election left the
State.
In Mcdowell county a state of af-
fairs similar to that in Mercer exists
as shown by the dispositions sent up
for the committees examination.
The committee expects to conclude
its examination and report in about
six weeks from this time.
COST OF THE CONTEST.
There has been an attempt upon
the part of some Republican parti-
sans to make capital by charging up
to the Democratic party enormous
expenses which they have alleged
would be incurred by the commits
sion. Some have placed these expen-
SEES as high as seventy thousand dol
lars, others at forty thousand. These
estimates include the entire expenses
of the special session of the Legisla-
ture which will be called to receive
the report and decide the contest.
Not only so, but the estimate is based
upon session of sixty days, when,
in fact the time occupied in this mat
ter would not occupy ten days. The
committee is not allowed any timer
ant or incidental expenses, and its
per diem and legal charges to this
date is so. $50.