The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-05-14

Various other amendments were
offered but were rejected, aud after con.
sidering l3 Of tho l5G pages Of the bill
the committee rose and the house ad-
journed. E
ELKlNS' CANDIDACY
In tho Second District-Somo Democratic
'Nr Sluudcrs Rtfutcd.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 13.-The
Posi-, Of this city, publishes the follow.
ing interesting interview: West Vir-
gluia is to be a State Of lively politics in
tbs future. From section almost des.
titute OF manufacturing industries
twenty years ago, 1t is becoming a new
Pennsylvania. From the eastern to the
western Pau Handle, and south through
the greatest coking.coal region in Amer.
lea, new life is ssprinIing into activity in
scores OF enterprises employing vast cap.
ital and energies. The figures OF recent
elections show steady diminution -of
Democratic majorities in the State and
corresponding increase in Republican
sentiment in the manufacturing ceuters.
Hon. James b. Butt, Of uarper's Ferry,
is one Of the leading Republicans OF the
eastern section OF the State. lie was
asked the other evening, at the Nation.
al, about Stephen b. Etkins Congress.
eional candidacy.
'The statement made in the Po4 some
days ago." said he, relative to Mr.. e.
kins' candidacy for Congress in the Sec.
ond district is not new to us who live
there. The Republicans OF that district
have discussed the matter ever since
1856. At the convention OF that year or
OF 1883 he could have been nominated
by reclamation. 1t was simply ques-
ton of his acceptance. Hc declined to
permit his name to 80 before tho con-
vention. In neither OF these years did
We have the Federal officials to work up
n sentiment for him, nor Is it true that
Internal Revenue Commissioner Mason
is using his subordinates to work up an
Elkins sentiment. 1t would be futile,
for tho Elkins sentiment has been al.
ready there for the past four years."
NOT THAT KIND OF A MAN.
ut has been said that Representative
W. L. Wilson, the present Democratic
member from the Second District, has
intimated that the Republicans want to
get their fingers in Mr.. Elkins' Barrel,
aud that they expect assistance in elect
ing Mr.. E!kins from the machinery OF
the proposed Federal election laws"
II don't believe Mr.. Wilson made
such q remark. 1t is the first time I
ever Heard OF his making an ugly state.
ment about the Republicans Of his dis.
trict. All OF them have tho highest
personal regard for him, and he has twice
owed his election to Republican votes.
The Republicans Of the district appreci-
ate MIR. Elkins rs a man Of true worth,
one who has been OF immense benefit
to the district and State, and who
will in the future be OF greater
service. He is citizen Of Randolph
county, where he has built magnificent
residence. The fact that he spends most
of his timc in New York, making money
and spending it in West Virginia in
opening mines, building railroads, and
enriching the State generally, is not 60
ing to lose him votes should he be the
candidate, but will gain him n great
many. No Doodle against brains cry
will frighten anyone. That has been set
up by the Democrats, and it sounde like
a boy whistling up a dark alley. No one
can charge Mr.. Elkins with lacking
brains. No one who ever heard hin,
make speech can question the quality
Of his intellect"
"In case Of Mr.. Ekins' nomination,
what are his chances OF election ?'
WILL he A FAIR ELECTION.
"There has never been any COM
plant against tho fairness Of elections in
the Second district. None OF the furry
Of 1856 applied to it. The district is un-
comfortably close. In 1856 Mr.. Wilson
pulled through by majority Of ninety
one votes, and that, too, with m organ
lied bolt among the colored Republi.
cans. In 1SSS he was elected by 3l6
votes over a candidate who was so terri
bly, afflicted he couldn't leave his'home
during the campaign"
HAS Mr.. Elkins over taken active
part In West Virginia politics7" ,s5
1 "Mr. Elkins has never sought To direct
~ e ~ :o0 "stn'"'
~ AeseI Asteaas oaE PoAtlca! coapen'
- maae
Of the man and the cause he represents,
But when we hold industrial conyen.
tons to devise means for bringing capital
INTO @ tue 70, state a to pulld up the waste
places, NJ. E,Slns y, always taxes proml-
nent part. These are the reasons, CON.
bined with his personal popularitv and
democratic ways, which make the Re.
publican masses anxious for him to be
/ the Republican candidate in tho Second
district ys&F.
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