The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-07-21
THE HUNTINGTON CONVENTION

Capt. John X. Thompson, OF Putnam
county, Suggested 10 Head tho Ticket
Representative Farmsr.
WheslfNO Special to PittsbuTyh cOmmaetcl Gas'ttt
The Republican state convention
which meets at Huntington, August 8
is being looked forward to with unusua
interest, because It is felt by West vir-
ginia Republicans that II wise
selections are made, the action ofthe
convention will be prophecy of vic
tory. It's understood that Secretary Of
War Elkins and a number OF political
friends have Just held q meeting al
Deer Park, at which the whole situa-
ton was discussed. 1t can be said pos
itiyely that Mr.. Elkins was urged to
permit himself to be nominated for
governor, and that he continues to be
adverse to the use OF his name in this
connection. The report Ia in circula-
ton that the conference at Deer Park
resulted in a determination tonominate
Hon. John W. Mason, United States
commissioner OF internal revenue.
Your correspondent dropped into the
INrELL1eEScER office to-day to see the
editor, Charles Burdett Hart, who was
present at the conference, and asked
him whether it was true that the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Mason is to be'urged.
ga great manypeople," answered Mr..
Hart, think that II Mr.. Elkins will not
allow himself to be. nominated Mr..
Mr.. Mason will be a winning nominee
and ought TO be nominated. Mr.. Mason
does not agree with this view. He says
he could not afford to hold the Office and
could not be induced to accept the
nomination. Moreover, the INTEILt-
aEScRR tomorrow morning will print
an interview with Mr.. Mason to this
effect.
"Who, in your judgment, will be the
nomineeH
itThat is difficult question for any
body to answer. II Mr.. Elkins will not
allow himself to be nominated, as l fear
he will not, the party may get back to
the original idea that its nominee Tor
governor should come from the lower
end Of the state. That is the region Of
our largest Republican growth, and ]
am frank to say that it has not had due
consideration heretofore. In 1888 q
great many Of us felt that the head OF
the ticket should have been taken from
thar end OF the State and l think Col.
James L. McLain would have been the
nominee had not tho Golf tide swept
the convention against the protest Of
General Golf himself and of his close
friends. For my own part | am in
favor OF looking in that direction this
time. We might take Colonel McLain.
If he would accept, or his neighbor and
friend, Captain John K, Thomp-
son. Captain Thompson is an
ex-confederate soldier, who is as
earnest and square-toed Republican
as there is in the. United States. BE
has hatfull OF brains and hosts Of
friends. This year he was unanimously
chosen president of the State Repub-
lican league. The only man in the CON
vention who was against him was John
<. Thompson himself. know that he
desires the nomination OF Mr.. Elkins
and declines to allow the use OF his
name in this convention, but ] know
also that his nomination would be 9
strong movement and Iwould like to see
the convention take him up without
consulting him. From letters l have
received from all parts OF the state
know there is a strong feeling on this
line, but I cannot, Of course, say
what the convention will do. Captain
Thompson is q representative farmer
and q farmer at the head of the ticket
this year wouldn't be bad thing
would it?'