Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-06-17
SOME STATE POLITICS.
WHAT TEE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE OF CLUBS
PROPOSES TO Do

The Races for Nominations in the Third Con
gressional District-BOth Sides Have Plenty
of Candidaes-Maior Moore Shows Bis Hand
in Harrison COunty-Gilmsr Endorses Psndls-
tu-Gleanings Of Interest TO Politicians.
The Republican hosts of West Vir-
gipis will gather at Fairmont Tuesday
next to celebrate the victory they hope
to win next fall. II will be great
meeting. They will elect four Congress-
men and a Republican Legislature, will
defeat the author of the Wilson bill,
send Steve Elkins to the Senate and the
Democratic party TO the Internal re-
gions. They will forever and eternaIly
damn the Democrats and everything
thew ever did, and will foist another
Mckinley tariff fraud upon the people.
They will hang jeff Davis on
sour apple tree and duck Grover CleVe-
land in the first convenient hsh pono.
They will shoot down more rebels than
ever fell at Gettysburg or Appomattox,
will place dozen ballots in every ne
gro's hand and put bayonet behind his
! back to make him vote them right.
They will protect American labor with
the broad shield Of American law, starve
out the pauper laborers OF Europe and
raise the wages of American workmen.
They will build fires In the furnaces un-
iii they belch forth clouds OF smoke,
put millions in the pockets OF the man
ufacturers and grub in the poor mans
bucket, made OF American tin. They
will flood the country with cheap
money to the extent Of forty or fifty
dollars head. They will build another
Chinese wall around the country, give
the farmer a home market for his
wheat and the planter bounty on his
sugar. And then they will all come
home and ask for Office, and when the
first of next November comes around
thew will raise the same old cry OF
fraud, and say that they were counted
out by Democrats.
But then it will be great meeting.
Steve Elkins will be there with his bari
and his speech. The latter has lately
been revised and reprinted and will
boom Steve for the Senate. George
Sturgiss will be. there, and Aston Day
ton and Johr@W. Mason, and half a
dozen others who would be glad Of the
honor of running against VIM. l.. VIII
son for Congress Atkinson and Dow
ener will be there and lock horns. The
crowd which went to Columbus last fall
to tender their support to Gov. Mcktn-
lev will nearly all be there and will
stand afar off and gaze with envy upon
Steve Elkins, who hopes to carry West
Virginia for Harrison. There will be
talk OF harmony, but there will be war.
Charles D. Elliott, Of Sutton, Is can
didate for the presidency OF the league
and will make fight for that position.
The fghtamong the Democrats In the
Third Congressional district Is getting
warm and John ID. Anderson will ind
before the convention meets that he
will have con siderable opposition. AL
derson will undoubtedly be stronger be-
fore the convention than any other one
of his opponents, but should they all
combine against him he would be de-
feated. The only county which mas
acted yet is Mcdowell, which instructed
her delegates for Anderson. Besides
Mcdowell, he will doubtless have the
vote Of Nicholas, Webster, Clay, Up
shur and Pocahontas, part OF Summe-s
and a part OF Kanawha. Hon. John A.
Preston has announced his candidacy
auG will get the solid vote OF Green
brier and al least two thirds OF Monroe,
while Anderson and McClaugherty will
divide the other third. Judge Nc
Claugherty, OF Mercer county, has been
announced and will be Formidable
candidate Had he come out sooner
he would have carried Mcdowell AID
probably Logan, which it is under
stood will be instructed for IL.
Clay Ragland, Of the Logon
Banner. The demand for a reo-
resertative from south OF the Kill
nawha is strong, and all the counties
there may yet unite upon one man from
south of the Kanawha. McClaugherty
will go into the convention with MGR
Ger. Raleigh, Wyoming and Boone, and
possiblv ether strength. j. w. ST. Clatr
| is said, upon authority that can not
well be questioned, TO want to 90 TO Cob
qress, and an effort will be made to have
Fayette instruct for him.
The Republicans in the Third district
! have even more candidates than the
Democrats. They keep springing no
every time the moon changes. "a
Rucker OF Mercer will try TO get this
nomination. Monroe has instructed Tor
Lewis Bland, and Greenbrier will pre- :
sent the name OF Col. James Davis. The
convention will be an interesting ono
Among the delegates to the Fairmo1l
mesting the name of c. P. Don 81
noted.
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