The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-15
.snowed Under Again. BY Thunder.

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"Who did they nominateY' asked
Leve.
Dayton" was the reply.
Dayton? Who's Daytonf7 said
Leve with a blank expression of
countenance.
ooh, he's young lawyer up at
Philippi," said the prominent Re
publican, soto COCO.
Leve was silent and contempla-
tive for moment and then, with
his most expressive and confidential
manner, exclaimed:
SHOWED under again. by thun-
derr'
Leve had snuffed the political at
mosphere, in that few moments of
reverie. HE had, metaphorically
speaking, examined the character
of the husks on the Republican corn
crop; he had looked into the store
house of squirrels to see what pro-
visions they had made for the win
ter; he had glanced at the many
weather signs of the political horo-
scope with which he is familiar, and
with his unerring scent he sized up
the Republican situation in the Sec
ond district in that one expressive
phrase:
"Snowed under again, by thun-
derr'
1t needs no application to estab-
lish the fact that Levels weather
signs furnish very fair prognosis
of the situation in which the Elklns
convention has left the Republicans
of the Second district.
Already cold wave has struck
the party, and prospects for bleak
fall, eliminating in a destructive
blizzard about the second Tuesday
in November, is the forecast from the
political weather bureau.
1t was forgone conclusion among
the more astute politicians at the
Elkins convention that Wilson
could only be beaten by some posi-.
BILE mishap, the chances of which
were not worth the candle to a man
who had anything to lose.
There was hope that the seduc-
tive influences of Mr.. Elkins' "barr'l"
might figure as factor in the cam
paign, and was sure to do SO, if his
own reputation were put at stake.
Stephen is too sly an old fox to take
such chances, however, as were pre-
presented in the Second district. 1t
was silently whispered about that
the convention could not do better
than nominate him and adjourn
giving him no chance to decline
and had he not been on sick bed,
that result might have followed.
With Stephen B. out of the way,
Sturgiss and Masor were appealed
to. Mason could not be BETRAYED
into any kind of concession or com.
promise. He had sized up the stu
alton and he was not the lamb to be
passively led to such slaughter.
The mistake which Sturgiss made
was in not being equally emphatic.
His party loyalty led him to listen
to the appeals of his friends. To
hesitate in such an emergency was
to be lost We blame the Monon-
gala delegation for suffering him to
be sacrificed in such a laundering
fashion. Sturgiss as man Of brains
and business, was head and shout
ders above any other man named
for candidate-not excepting foxy
Stephen B. He would have made q
more intelligent, forcible and ener-
getic canvass than any of them, and
would have given Wilson more trou-
BILE. Nevertheless be wss inconsid-
erately set up by his friends against
the weakest candidate, who had al
ready organized the convention in
his favor, and allowed to be ruth
lessly slaughtered.
To say that the cold wave has al
ready struck Monongalis as result
of the treatment of Sturgiss, is put
ting it mildly.
But what is in store for Dayton?
Who is Dayton, anyhow
He is clever, ambitious young
Barbarian" of Barbour. He has
sense enough to know that he can
not be elected, but is DESTROYS of
basking in the lustre that will be
reflected from his brilliant antago-
mist during the short campaign.
He can afford to do this for he has
no political prestige to lose. and ev-
erything to gain.
He has fair ability, clear char
acter, a talent for talk, and will not
make bad stagger on the stump.
He will do as well as could be expect
ed of young man under such ad-
verse conditions. He has no career
behind him upon which to base any
claim for precedence over the most
distinguished man in the Congress
of the United States. He cant talk
tariff because only the most oppres-
sive features of the Mckinley bill
have been eliminated by the Wilson
bill-and it's right popular bill with
the Republicans. He cant talk sill
yer, because the people of West Vir-
ginia are virtually a unit for the
Democratic platform on the money
ques ton.
He will be like poor boy at a
huskin'.
The fact is, in the language of
Leve Dorton, Dayton is already
showed under.