Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-08-04


ss.-al 70 10 Rszsfe-.
TUNyELToN, w. VA, August 5.-Ihe
Republican managers took special pains
u publish TO the world that the Hon,
w. /. Wilson would be an easy candi-
date 70 defeat at the coming November
election, aud that men who are blessed
with more money than brains would
contribute the necessary fat" to make
his defeat an established fact. The re-
suit is tuat the aforesaid managers are
resuiug the whiriwind of discontinue
and perplexity at the sight OF the army
OF hobo Republican candidates who are
bobbipr no all over the Second district.
Accounting the managers ultimatum
that Wilson can and must De deIeat-
ed. the hobo candidates imagine that
they 'have a Cock-Sure thing OF H. 70
ADOPT the phraseology OF Bill Dawson,
Chairman OF the Republican state EX-
ecutive Committee, when ne wants 10 &c
facetious aud express a certainty In pol
ttics Bur Boss" Bill Dawson, 10
whom the political title can no longer
be applied ia Preston without iudlc-
rous misuse of the word, is not so face
tious" as be was when he used 10 play
the .O,e of the boss
.Whouovcr did q foolish thing,
Nor ever did "a wise one.
TIE MERRY WAR
OF capturing the thirty Congressional
delegates of Preston has been .naugu-
rated by tbs followers OF Dayton. Holt
and Sturglss. The war is waxing warm.
Zach faction has the war paint on and
the scalpiug kniie unSheathed. Tue
fight was not noticeable until tRe week
before last, when Dawson announced in
the columns OF the journal that Mr..
Neil j. F0rtney had consented 10 be
candidate for Congress. Fortney Is
beyond any question of doubt the most
popular Republican 10 the county, and
q more thorough and honorable gentle
man is nowhere 10 be found. Thus
DawsOns hopes 20 secure a delega-
tion on tue popularity Of Fort
ney which he could transfer
10 Geo. c. Sturgiss az the oDpOrtUne
time. But the friends Of Dayton and
Holt are 'OntO" bis Tiiy scheme, and as
consequence there Is q three-cOrnered
fight raging ia old Preston. The Fort
ney (SturgjSs) forces ara led by Chair
man Dawson, Dr. Powell and John p.
Jones; the Dayton men by Sheriff
Shaw, Hon. w. IL. Glover aud Editors
White and WOtring, and the Holt
crowd by DR.. Lanhan, U. 5. Davis and
T.. b. Stone. OF course Dawson is
Col q
cats paw OF him 70 pull the Sturgiss
chestnUtS out OF the fire. Charges and
c0Untercharges are being made against
the candidates. The Holt aud Stur-
giss men say that fraternal society, Of
"a Mr.. Dayton is a prominent mem
w. is working asslduousIv FOR him 10
Preston. where the society is numer-
ically very strong. Members OF the
society. however, deny the allegation
agd assert there is no foundation for IL.
This Republican Second district tight
Is most interesting one. The
zig -Four, :. B. Elkins, John w. Mason,
~. Z. Davis and w. NJ. o. Dawson
resolved that inaSmuch as VIM. l..
Wilson must not return 10 Congress,
Geo. c. Sturgiss must succeed him.
Dawson was entrusted with the
MANAGEMENT OF THE CAMPAIGN.
1t takes los votes 10 nominate. Mon
cngalia, Marion and Preston will furnish
IS. Hampshire, Jefferson and Hardy,
which are Democratic counties, and
whose delegates TO Republican conven-
lions are controlled by "GOvernment
pap" will furnish % votes, one more
than necessary 10 nominate. or course
old MonOngalia will stand Loyalty by her
"iavorite son, and the adjoining county
of Marion, which has been honored by
the citizenship Of Hon. John w. Ma
SON. since the removal by ballot
Of Benjamin Harrison from
Washington 10 indianapolis, will sup
port her neigh boris choice. To swing
Preston into line would complete the
circuit which would land for George G.
the candidacy. But 10 be known as "a
Dawson man" In Preston county means
certain defeat. Hence the trick OF
Dawson bringing out the popular Neil
Fortney. But the trick IS too transpar-
eDt and {. can be safely set down that
SturgiSs will not get delegate from
Preston. Holt may get few, but it is
douotfuL Preston will be practically
solid for ~ q. Dayton.
10 will eventually dawn on the high
muck-a-muc6s of the Republican party
that there are other Republicans besides
YIN. NJ. O. Dawson who control the
destiny OF the Republican party In the
banner county"