Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-10-01
POORMAN NOMINATED
BY the Sev, nteent Ohio District Repub
licans to Lea a Forlorn Hope.

Special Telegram 70 NJ Register
CALDWELL, o., September 30.-The
Republicans of -hc Seventeenth Con-
gresSioual District OF Ohio held their
convention here to-day. But a small
crowd was present. and little or no en-
thusiaSm was manifest, yet there was a
bitter though brief contest for the emp
ty honor Col. c l.. Poorman. Of Be-
iair,.. was nominated on the nfSt Oauot,
his only rival being Col. Theodore f..
Davis, Of Washington county. The
convention was called to order at / /
a. m. and State Senator Nichols. of Bel
mont, was introduced As temporary
chairman. Mr.. Nichols made g. fair
speech. returning thanks for the honor
and lauding To the skies the good deeds
the z. O. p. should have performed. His
speech was not argumentativc. simply
eulogiStic. Each of the little
gods now at the helm of the z. o. p.
came i'm for share of the speakers
tatfy and the crowd applaudcd save
and except one, by name j. Il. Foraker.
He came i'm later in the day and the
foolish fellow who mentioned his name
now regrets it. After the speech the
secretaries and usual committees were
appointed and the convention recessed
until p. M. Upon rcaSsembling AT
1880 10 was evident 90 all that the recess
bad i'm no way cooled the hot blood that
was mp. The temporary organization
was made permanent. Other Stereo-
typed reports were made. The reSolu-
tionS indorSe the Chicago platform of
lSSS and the one made at Cleveland in
1890 The present administration re-
ccivcd a send-0f and the committee at
tempted to pledge everybody to the can
didatc they had not yet named. Lib
eral pensions were of course demanded.
Cpon the call of counties Hon. c. /.
WcemS. o, st. Clairsvillc, ina very credit
able speech, placed in nomination Col.
G. l.. P0orman. The nomination was see
ondcd by Monroe county. Noble county
presented no candidate, and Washing
ton. through ]. X. Rose, named Col.
Thco. +. Davis. aS her favOritc son.
His nomination was seconded by Noble
county. through Prosecutor Leland. i'm
a nondcscript speech. The friends OF
each candidate had been urging that the
other was a boltcr Poorman voted for
Greeley i'm lS12, but thought that should
not be- charged up to him by the stall
warts, as il was So long ago. In 1857
while a member of the State Senate.
Davis bOlted the decree of King Caucus.
and voted with the Democrats. These
sins of both candidates, viewed by others
than friends were unforgivatlc, and Le-
land let the milk out of the cocoanut
out and gave away the gist of the whole
Convention when be said: we cannot
afford to make fine diStinctionSa as To- Re
publicaniSm: we want votes. it's not
brains were after, we want votes His
speech was a splendid word picture of
the desperate condition of seventeenth
district Republicans. This is one Of
the districts of the State that the Re
publicans proposed to buy. but old sores
that money even cannot heal were
opened here to-day. The ballot was
not sensational. Poorman got - from
Belmont. l3 from Monroe and from
Noble. Total 73. Davis got 4G from
Washington. 10 from Noble and l from
Monroe. Total, 66.
Poorman was declared the nominee
and was presented to the Convention.
and launched into a lot Of
weary statistics, some of which
would probably bear contradiction.
had any one heard them. 1t was "a
sorry day for Republicans, and most
especially so To the Noble county breed, g.,
who had banked their whole hopes of
success on Davis nomination. Their
county ticket is In bad shape here
Davis is rich and the ring needs money
to elect their ticket. Why should not
the ring be for Davis?