Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-12-17
WHO Will IT Be !?
THE REPUBLICANS HAVE FIVE CANDIDATES
FOR MAYOR,
To Make Selection From TO-Day-Ths Primaries
to Open at One O'Clock This Afternoon and
10 Close at Eight Tonight.

To-day, between the hours OF one
O'Clock in the afternoon and eight
O'Clock in the evening, the Republicans
will hold their primary election to de-
eide who shall be their leaders In the
forlorD hope attack upon the city Off
ces, and also to select Council ticket
in the several wards of the town. The
election will be held under the new cleo
ton law applying to primary elections
and will, therefore, like the late Demo-
cratic primary, be confined entirely 70
the members Of the party named. Inc
voting will be done in the several wards
at the places named in this paper day
or two ago, except In the Second ward,
where the polls will be open at the Sec
ond ward market house instead OF at the
Chemical house, as was enormously
printed. In the evening the returns
will be received by the City Executive
Committee at the Office of 5. o. Boyce.
Little interest attaches to the selec-
ton Of any of the candidates for city
offices, except the Mayoralty. For that
position there are five candidates, name
ly, Messrs. B. F. Caldwell, Harry Hous-
er, A. J. McGarrell, c. ID. Thompson
and A. L. Campbell. Each of these
candidates and their friends have been
working like beavers, and the result
will probably be shown in fair vote OF
IL. nf
will hardly exceed two thousand. how
ever, in the entire city. As indicating
the drift OF opinion, little pool was
opened at the City Hall, yesterday,
each man indicating his preference and
depositing the small sum Of ten cents,
the winners to divide the sum total. In
an hour and a half forty-two gentle
men had put down their names, and the
vote thus recorded stood: Caldwell Is,
Thompson 10, Campbell 6, Houser 4,
and McGarrell 4. This may not be an
index, however, as many OF those Vot-
ing were Democrats.
While this Mayoralty contest will
tend to bring out the Republican vote,
the dissatisfaction in Intelttgencer cir
Giles at the candidacy Of Capt. Thomas
G. Bennett, for City Sergeant, will not
add anything to it, The I1ltetLigencer
people, WHO, two years ago, were going
about preaching the availability OF
Capt. Bennett upon the corners OF the
streets, have suddenly concluded that
he is not worthy OF a place on
the ticket, and while he has not been
openly denounced, numerous hints have
been thrown out that he was not the
man for the place, and there Is some
thing more than suspicion that the
meeting at l. o. 0. T. hall, several days
ago, called ostensibly to select candi-
date for Mayor, was really an Intelligent
Ger movement through which 1t was
hoped to bring some other Republican
to the front for Sergeant. In discuss
ing this matter yesterday Republican
said il would not surprise him II the
InteLligencer openly advocated the can
didacy OF Chief McNichol after to-day.
While matters may not take this precise
form it seems to be the opinion of the
Bennett men that the most they can
hope for is a repetition OF the death
like silence which reigned about the
Fourteenth street newspaper Office
while Capt. Doverner was making his
campaign for Congress.
Charles Schultze will be the candi-
date for Clerk. No nomin alton for
Wharfmaster will be made.
In the matter Of Councilman the Re-
publicans are a good deal at sea. In
one or two of the wards the complaint
has been made among Republicans that
the Council nominations were OF nom
descript character, while in one other
ward-the Seventh-there is as pretty
a fight going on as one would wish to
see, and a good many split tickets on
election day will be the inevitable re-
suit There are two factions Of Repub-
licans over there, one headed by ex-
Councilman James p. Maxwell, and the
other made up OF the friends OF Coun-
Gilman Cecil A. Robinson. and they are
hammering away at each other for dear
life. This little political feud is not
recent matter, by any means, and no
matter which side wins the war will
go on.
Last evening the Republican election
officers called at the Office Of the City
Clerk and secured the ballot boxes for
to-days voting, and this afternoon the
ball will open.