The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-08-29
OBJECT TO MARCUM.
Putnam County Lends holt In tho Sixth
Senatorial District.

| IEuthhm Sounty Lenus q U0lt In tho Sixth
Senatorial District.
Special Correspondence OF Lhe Iatelirtncr.
Pr. PLEASANT, W. Va, August 90
The smoke OF the battle which occur.
red at Milton on the Goth has cleared
away, leaving tho past clear, but the
future in doubt. Tho work OF nominal.
ing Marcum by the Huntington bosses
Is heartily denounced by the rank and
file Of both the Wayne and Cabell Democ.
racy. The Democrats OF Putnam arc
more than mad. The County Executive
Committee OF Putnam met aud called q
mass meeting to select al Independent.
candidate, to be held on September 90
The boys in the trenches would not
brook such delay. They demanded n
convention aoouer, and tho committee
met at Winfield and after mature deliber.
alton called mass convention for next
Monday at Tho court house. Large half
sheet posters have been issued aud cir.
cufated denouncing tho nomination OF
Marcum in the strongest terms. Such
terms as theft, stealing, fraud, irsul.
and bossism are It's leading features. It
cal Is on the Democracy OF Wayne and
Cabell to stand by the action OF next
Mondays convention.
A LIVELY ROW IN PROSPECT.
An independent, or rather q regular
candidate, will be nominated, and unless
Marcum is withdrawn, n veritable Kill
kenny fight will occur in the Sixth Sen.
atoria! district. The Democrats OF Put.
nam are out in full war paint. They are
unanimous and MarcHm will never be
elected, whether he has tho grace or
sense to come down or not. This il ono
time that Democratic bosses made mis-.
take. They made Putnam II sure Re.
publican county, and endangered both
Senatorial aud Congressional districts.
II 1t loses the State the Democrats Of
Putnam will stand firm to their present
position.
This worlds full OF surprises. People
outside OF Putnam would never have
imagined that the gallant Colonel OF the
State House fraud, with bis corseted ap-
pearance and general good nalured but
insignificant looks, would have been the
secondary cau6e OF such IN uphcavai
But he was. Camden was the primal
cause. Oh, yes, Camden is eliminated
from West Virginia politics with ven-
geance. Prince Switzer, one OF the
eleven immortal followers OF King LII.
cas-, the kicker, was the motive power
in the last burst OF Democratic harmony.
When Switzer was kicking Camden
Bowyer was editing the Putnam Democrat
and kicking Swi,zsr.
CONSTITUTIONAL KICKER.
Switzer forgets but never ioreives.
He iorgets his friends but does not for.
give his enemies. For fifteen long
months the gallant Colonel has been |
planning his campaign for the Senate
Several months since Swi,zer was afraid |
he would not succeed, and going down |
among his friends, the Huntington |
bosses, sug ested the idea that they help |
him scare Bowyer off the track. lie was
approached and requested TO state lis |
preference for United States Senator.
He was for the CAUCUS nominee. Tho
plans were then laid to down him. After
Wayne held her convention she in
structed for Putnam man. This was
an obstacle to the Huntington ring, rs
Wayne and Putnam could elect. What
What did the bosses do2 They went to
old man Sem Vinsor, OF Wayne, and |
asked his advice. Said he: "Boys I |
hold half OF Wayne, and will break the
instructions, il you will nominate my
nephew J. II. MarcIne."
Henry Clay Simms, the chief attorney
for the Chesapeake & Ohio railway, who
was engineering the move, wanting q
man in the Senate to help pass n law e1-
empting the railroads oil this State from
taxation, took up Vinaor's proposition,
and the work was done. Switzer who
first suggested the idea inc order to get
personal revenge was the means OF caus.
ing the second greatest kick on record in
the politics Of this State.
l truly believe that il there was no
kicking going on in this world Switzar
would die OF disgust, he ia go peculiarly
constructed.
When | can write calmly OF the re.
suits OF the Fourth District Copgression.
al convention, will try to entertain the
ISTELLlGEScER's readers.
ARTHUR MIDDLETON,