The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-11-03
JUST OVER THE RIVER
Good News from Captain Dam
ford's Campaign.
THE OLD SIXTEENTH is ALL RIGHT
And will Surprise Even the ROpublI.
cans by the Big Plurality She win
Roll up-some OF the Causes which
will Produce the Coming Danford
Tidal Wave.

Republican prospects were never
brighter in the Sixteenth congressional
district than they are to-day. The dis
trict is made up Of Belmont. Jefferson,
Harrison, Carroll aud Monroe, has 4
normal Republican plurality Of 1900
and It will give Hon. Lorenzo Danford
from $500 to 5000 plurality, and posi-
bly, more. Captain DsnfOrd, who is one
Of the brainIest and best lawyers in
Eastern Ohio, is very popular through.
out the district among business men,
manufacturers, workingmen, farmers
and the people generally. He always
runs well and will get larger vote this
year than ever. He never was beaten.
&c has many admirers among the DEM
ocrats and will get q respectable vote
IRON that party, also the Prohibition
lists. His meetings throughout the dis
tTict have been record breakers, not
only in the manufacturing towns but in
the agricultural districts, and even In
Democratic strongholds. He estimates
his plurality at $500 and some conser-
yatiye Democrats coucede this, while
others place 1t at 1000. No Democrats
viii bet on 1000. Most Of them want
5000. Monroe county, which often
gives 2,400 Democratic, will hardly go
above 1000 this year, aud the other
counties will surprise tho natives. Bel.
mont aud Jefferson have dozen manu-
featuring towns aud these will all give
greatly increased Republican naiorities.
In both OF these counties these is q
large farming vote aud the Republicans
will make gains here for several rea-
sons. The coal miners, like the iron,
steel, glass and pottery workers are dis
Satisfied aud Republican gains are ex-
pected among them. There are several
thousand coal miners in Belmont and
Jefferson and they know what free coal
means to the miner whose wages are
entirely too low. Some miners are not
making over three days week. The
workingmen of Belmont and Jefferson
counties were never more dissatisfied
than they are now and great portion
Of them attribute the condition OF affairs
to tariff tinkering. Nine out Of ten get
less work Some glass workers have
had only few weeks work this year
aud many iron workers have Jared very
little better.
Loss than one-third OF the employees
at the Etna.Standard iron aud steel
works, the largest manufacturing estab-
lishment in the Sixteenth district, are
working. Many skilled mechanics
wonld gladly take laboring jobs II they
could be found. These are some Of the
reasons why workingmen want change
and farmers and wool growers object to
10 cent wool, so cent wheat and sheep
selling as low as IS cents each. Sheep
recentlp sold at Is, II. 40 and so cents
in Harrison and Carroll counties and IS
cents near Adena, in Jefferson county.
Mr.. Barnes, the Democratic sacrifice,
has created very little enthusiasm in
the district, particularly on the river
front.
The Prohibitionists will poll their
usual vote. The Populi,t movement is
dying young.
Captain Danford has just returned
from Darlington, GAINESVILLE and Sardis,
and reports that his meetings were
large and enthusiastic, and the Repub-
licans there are confident of large in
crease in their vote at the coming cleo
ton.