Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-05-26
THE PRIMARIES.
EVERY INDICATION THAT THE VOTE WILL BE
THE LARGEST EVER KNOWN.
Intense Interest Aroused in All Parts Of the County,
and Some Of the Hardest Kind Of Work
Being Done by the Various
AspirantS.

At noon on Saturday polls will be
opened in all the districts OF Ohio coun-
" for the Democratic primary election
which will decide WHO'S to make up the
party ticket OF Ohio county at the COM
ing general election. All during the
present. week the great efforts which
the various candidates for nomination
have been making have been redoubled,
and the aspirants-all of them "hust-
lers" in every sense of that very ex-
pressive word-have been on the go day
and night, in all parts OF the county.
They have each been aided by host OF
friends, and the result will be the cast
ing of the largest vote ever put in the
ballot boxes at any primary election In
Ohio county by any party or under any
circumstances. Estimates or this vote
differ, but all agree that 1t will be in ex-
cess of four thousand, and 1t may run up
as high as four thousand eight hundred,
while some sanguine observers think 1t
will come close to five thousand.
Interest will, Of course, be conferred
in the Office of Sheriff, for which a four
cornered fight between Messrs. Cor
coran, McCabe, Franzheim and Robrecht
has been going on for many months,
and which has bean remarkable for its
intensity and earnestnesS. The friends
and supporters of each OF these gentle
men are sanguine, and are showing
their faith by their work
Only less interesting Is the contest
for assessor in each Of the two districts.
In the city MeSsrs. Blanchard, Hughes
and English are the contestants, and
in the county Messrs. Zane, Blayney
and Patterson. All are at it hammer
and tongs, and the heat they are trot'
ting is a very interesting one.
For Prosecuting Attorney Mr.. John
A. Howard has no opposition and will
get every vote cast. AS he would get
most of them anyhow, even il there
was q competitor in this field, the result
can be predicted with considerable GER
tainty.
The next center OF activity is for the
district tickets, and, as glance is
given along the line, the eye naturally
rests upon Webster district, where
Messrs. w. w. Irwin and C. w. Kreiter
are making a friendly fight for County
Commissioner, which rather eclipses
anything of the sort going on in any
other portion of the county. Both are
clever gentlemen, largely made up OF the
material office-holders should be consti-
tuted Of, and each is surrounded by a
body OF tried and true friends who are
going to see that their respective
champions get there or know the reason
why.
In Centre Messrs. Vollinger and
Bailey are making warm fight for
Commissioner, and in Union Messrs.
Mckinley and w. II. Handlan are the
contestants. These cover about all the
more exciting contests in the county.
In two or three districts there is some
interest in the result for Constable,
Justice or School Commissioners, but
these are but the ordinary rivalries,
and fall into insigniflcance when COM
pared with the big races for Sheriff and
Assessor. All the contests will COM
bine, however, to make the vote cast a
very large one, and it is probable there
will be as much excitement over the re-
turns, Saturday night, as there usually
is over the election itself.