The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-30
A nIdIcslous Break.

Previous 70 tho fouttp ulStflct Fopu'
list Convention at Rayeaswood last
Thursday IL was an open secret and had
BECOME notorious that Congressman
Canehar.'s agents were attempting to
arrange deal by which the convention
was TO nominate capohart for Congress
and thus effect fusion with the Demo-
Gratis. Coupled with this plan was q
scheme for d fusion in Senator Cam
denis interest in two senatorial! dis
tricts. The three conventions met
at Ravenswood, but the plan tailed.
Democratic federal oftice.holders were
present aud active on the floor, but
when, in the congressional convention,
Mr.. Capebart was placed in nomination
by ]. II. Reynolds, Of Cabell county,
tho entsro convention Missed his name
aud tho chairman said: "The delegate
from Cabell is out Of order. If no
wants to nominate q Democrat lot him
90 to a Democratic convention A
straight Populist was nominated for
Congress, and tho combine which elect
cd Capehart in 1892 was brokcn.
Then came tho senatorial conventions
aud tho attempt to nominate Camden
Democrats also failed, and Populists
pledged to form no combines were
nominated. All Of these results OF the
attempt to soil out the Populists were
in spite oil the presence OF Capehart's
and Camden's office holders. The
Hardmans were oil there; Alfred L.
Kcnna, u government employe, was
there, and postmastcrs galore were
there, while Capeharts speeches in
Congress wore distributed among tho
delegates.
These things being true, and OF com.
mon notoriety throughout tho Fourth
district, the people Of that district
must have read with feeling OF aston
ishment mixed with amusement u
lengthy editorial in the Wheeling Regis
ter on Saturday about "the failure OF
the Republican scheme to get the con-
vention to endorse Hon. Warren Miller
for Congress" Until that editorial ap-
peared there never was m intimation
OF such scheme, and 1t mover had any
existence except in the overheated i'm
aginatioa Of tho Register man, to be
brought out by him to divert attention
from tho Camden apehart fiasco.
Tho INrELLldENcEH and tho papers OF
the Fourth district of both parties gavc
full reports OF the convention, and in
none OF them appears so much as n
reference to the attempt OF any other
party than tho Democratic to make
fusion with the Populists. Even In the
Registers own very brief dispatch there
was no such charge made. There was,
however, in the Register tho following
significant statement:
PScrsn} wns nominated on the fourth ballot,
Congressman James cnpchArtS name was also
presented but II was declared out Of order
The Registers break about Repub-
licau attempt to have Warren Miller
nominated must have been tho result
either Of dense ignorance or desire to
perpotrate bold ialschood for parti-
san purpose. Such an attompt as the
Register speaks Of did not develop in tho
convention; there mover was any init.
nation OF it from any source, nor is
there such statement in any newspa.
per report, including the Registers own
report. Where, then, did our con-
temporary get the information on
which It's editorial is based? The ques.
ton is easily answcrcd-it never re-
ceived such information; the story was
made OF whole cloth.
Tho ISrELL,6EScER can afford, under
the circumstances, to be charitable.
Perhaps the Register was under the i'm
preston that the ". 9. Miller whose
namc was presented to tho convention
and the Judge Warren Miller. who Is go.
ing to DO tho next congressman from tho
Fourth district, are ono and the same
person. Well, they are not, and tho
Rejislsr's ignorance is inexcusable.