Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-06-21
HOW Will IT GO?
THE BIG FIGHT BETWEEN DOVEEER AND
ATKINSON,
For the Votes Of Ohio County in the Congress
ional OonvsniiOn-Ths Primaries Saturday
Eysning-LOts of Bad Blood Bstwssn
the Factions.

| on for weeks and months between Cap
tain B. B. Dovener and his friends upor
the one hand, and Hon. G. W. Atkin
son and his admirers upon'the other, fol
the control of the votes of Ohio count!
in the Republican Congressional Con
vention, has about reached its climax
and Saturday evening the Republican
voters will settle the matter at the pri
maries to be held throughout the
county. There is full com
plement of delegates for each candidate
in the field in every district in the
county, and the intense rivalry engen
dered between the two candidates /:
expected to bring out very large Dri
mary vote-possibly exceeding any sim
liar poll ever made by the Republicans
In Ohio county.
To say the campaign has been warm
is 10 put it mildly. IL has been hot
red not, in fact-and the harmony
which should have existed within the
local precincts OF the &. o. p. has been
violently disturbed in more than one dis
| trict, and upon more than one occasion.
Charges and counter-charges OF fou
blows struck and uuderhand work done
have been banded back and forth among
the partizans OF the two contestants,
and so bitter has the feeling become in
some quarters that disintereSted leaders
among the Republicans have confessed,
In moments of confidence, to a dawning
| fear that no matter which candidate
wins, the best interests OF the organiza-
ton may suffer.
The struggle has presented some In
teresting aspects to the unbiased spec
tator. On the one hand there is the
undoubted great personal popularity OF
Capt. Dovener; and upon the other the
great political ability and wide exper-
fence of Mr.. Atkinson. The one has
the strength which comes mainly from
a host of friends; the other the equal
hold upon the Republican vote Of the
county which an easy familiarity
with every political ex2edient gives.
And this does not mean
that Mr.. Atkinson is without friends,
or that Capt. Dovener is not master OF
the devious ways OF practical politics,
! but that the main strength OF each lies
in the one particular direction indl-
Gated. Each is surrounded by strong
staff of experienced hustlers, and the
way they have been beating the Repub-
lican bushes for votes has been the adj
miration of other am bilious politicians.
In fact, the town has been resouniing
with the noise of the combat, and
through the internal din one catches
shouts from the Atkinson men that
DoVener is making saloon canvass
and putting up big money for beer, while
retorts of hYpocricy in this direction.
and reminders of "how you stole Dove
ner delegates the other time" have
been hurled back. Dark hints OF men
named as Atkinson delegates who are
really for Dovener, and DICE UerSG, are
also to be caught by the attentive
listener, and mysterious mods and
winks and remarks like you'll see,
and ''just wait till Saturday,
are flying about, while Repub-
licans with Dovener buttons In
their coats and Atkinson promises on
their lips, and with Atkinson pledges
pockets are as plentiful as backberries
along a harvest field fence in July.
It's a merry war, and bitter one, TOO;
and the worst thing about IL is the fear
that no matter which one gets the ma
jority Of the delegates at tie primary,
the "other fellow" may have them
when the Convention is called to order.
1t is one thing to elect delegate SO
long in advance, and another thing 70
hold on to him.
The polls will open in Liberty and
Richland at . o. m. and close at 6; they
will open in Triadelphia at 2 and close
at s, and in the city they will open at
and close at z. The voting places will
be as follows:
Observation-Disclosures Engine House;
School House at Fulton. Madison
Island Hose House; Second Ward Mar
ket Hall; Corner MeColloch and Tenth
streets. Clay-No. 1914 Chaplins street;
No. 1121 McColloch street. Union
Police Court Room. Centre-Republi'
can Club Room, No. 2100 Main street.
Webster-Sixth Ward Republican Club
Room, No. 2624 Chapline street Richie
Squire Joseph Ankles Office, No. 3517
Jacob street; David Hahn's Cigar Store,
No. 43O1 Jacob street; Adams School
House. Triadelphia - lie atherwood
School house; Town Hall. Elm Grove;
Vance's Hotel. Triadelphia; Glen Dale
School House. Richland-B Brick School
House; Gleun's Run School House.
Llberty-West Liberty, at School
House; Valley Grove at School House;
Potomac, at McCammon's Hotel. The
returns will be received at the lntetlt-
genCer Office.
At these same primaries delegates to
the County Convention, at the Park
Casino, June 80, will also be chosen, as
well as candidates for district officers;
but these cut but small figure beside
the Congressional fight. Some Of the
statesmen who think they would add
tone and ability to the Home of Dele
gates have attempted to get up diver
sion here and there, but fear Of getting
hurt by side blows from the big guns
has always tended to quiet down their
prediction to activity and 6elliger-
ancy, and they will reserve most of their
energy for work among the delegates to
the County Convention, after they are
selected.
DoN'r fail to attend the GlassUorkers'
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