The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-11-07
LREMA!N AT HOME.
List of Members Who Were
Not Candidates.
TURNED DoWN ST CONVENTIONS.

TURNED DOWN at CONVENTIONS.
Nearly Every state Has a Quota OF Repre-
scntatives ut Present More or Less Prom
insnt. Who Either Did Not oner or Were
refused denominations = Even Terri
tories Change.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Git is already
certain that a very large number of the
faces which arc familiar on the floor of
the house Will not be visible when the
Fifty fourth congress is convened.
Some idea of the slaughter which has
been occasioned may be gathered from
the fact that no less than I03 of the
members of the present house failed,
through one cause or another, of re-
nomination.
The work of framing the committees,
| which will fail to Speaker Crisp or
Speaker Reed, will be comparatively
easy one, for there will be minimum
of older and experienced members to
| provide with chairmanships.
] In Alabama, to begin at the begin
ming, Mr.. Oates goes to the guberna-
/ tor1al chair and Mr.. Turpin Is left at
home. In Arkansas Mr.. Breckenridge
has gone TO Russia, but otherwise the
| delegation were fortunate enough to Sc
cure denominations. In California Mr..
Cannon will not return. Delaware will
send some one in place of Mr.. Causey,
| who has an eye on the senatorship, and
Mr.. Mallory failed to run the gauntlet
in Florida.
Georgia's delegation stands intact.
with the exception of Mr.. Cabaniss, but
IN Idaho, Judge Sweet. who would also
like to come to the senate, was not again
placed ON the congressional ticket Re-
| districting in Illinois and other causes
| made quite change in that delegation,
retiring General Black and Messrs.
Hunter, Durborrow and Foreman of the
Democrats, and Henderson, Childs,
| Wheeler and Funk of the Republicans.
-Four members failed of denomination
IN Indiana-Brown, Hammond, Conn
and Waugh, the latter a Republican;
while in iowa, the only change is oc-.
casioned by the elevation of Governor
Gear to the senatorship.
The Democrats in Kentucky made
nearly an entire sweep. OF the nine
congressman of that party who are at
present i'll the house, not including the
vacancy in the Ninth district, only
three, Messrs. Montgomery, Berry and
McCreary are on the ticket this fall
Mr.. Paynter has secured a judgesnip
and the remaiging five, Messrs. Stone.
Ellis, Goodnig.ss, Caruth, Breckenridge,
were not renominated.
In Louisiana Mr.. Dayey was not
placed on the ticket. In Maryland MIR.
Compton accepted the position of naval
officer at Baltimore. Mr.. Rayner re-
tired to run for the governorship, and
Mr.. McKaig was succeeded by another
Democrat as the party nominee Mas
sachusetts loses five of its present men,
bers, MesSrs. Stevens, O'Neil, McEt-
trick (who is running, however, on an
independent ticket) and Randall. liichi-
gan's list is depleted by the names of
German, Richardson, Whiting, Moon
and Weadock, four Democrats aud one
| Republican, while Kansas and Mime
sofa present the unique spectacle of
having renominated their entire con-
gressional delegations.
In Mississippi Stockdale aud Hooker
were late at the pole; in Missouri
Burnes, O'Neill and Fyan, the last in
capacitated by severe accident, will
not trouble themselves about the result.
In Nebraska Mr.. Bryan is making a
fight to come to the senate instead to
the lower house. Ex-senator Blair has
gone by the board in New Hampshire,
while IN News Jersey MeSsrs. Cadmus
and Fielder will find their terms end ON
the 4th of next March.
Exactly one-half of the New York
membership failed to gain renoniina
ton, the fated 16 being Covert, Clancy,
Il
Campbell, Cochran, Warner, Straus,
Schermerhorn and Lockwood, Demo-
Gratis, and Marvin, Weaver, Belden and
Van VOORHEES,, Republicans. Mr.. Ora
ham, owing to illness, did not serve in
the last session of congress-, while Mr..
Schermerhorn, although not an invalid,
was absent to an almost equal extent.
Mr.. Lockwood, as is well known, is on
the state ticket as lieutenant governor.
| North Carolina turned down three
members, Grady, Bum and Alexander.
The Ohio delegates will be practically
reconstructed. Messrs. Storer, Dono-
van, Bundy, Hare, Harter (who has
moved to Philadelphia), Pearson, Ikirt
and White, five Democrats and three
Republicans, are scratched. Pennsyl-
Yania put cross mark against the
names of Mcdowell, McAleer, Mutchler,
Hopkins, Wolverton (yvho is serving his
first term) Beltzhoover, Heiner aud
Kribbs.
In Rhode Island Mr.. Page stepped
down, and IN South Carolina Dr. Shell
will not return. South Dakota Repub-
icans dispensed with Mr.. Lucas. The
Tennessee delegation remains intact,
except in the First district, where Mr..
Taylor is not a candidate. Texas re-
tires Mr.. Gilgore and Messrs. Gresham
and Paschal- Virginia Democrats failed
to renominate MesSrs. Wise, Epas, Ed
munds and Marshall, while Wilson will
be among the missing from Washing
ton, although he may be heard from in
the senate.
John o. Pendleton and Farmer
Capehart fsll by the wayside in West
Virginia, and IN Wisconsin Messrs.
SOmcrs, Brickner and Haugen Were not
chosen for another term.
Even the territories took a hand in
the general demolition, for Marcus
Aurelius Smiths familiar face is to be
seen no more after March 4.
Cleveland Wrote No Letter.
| WASHINGTON, Nov. ct was learned
at the White House Tuesday that the
letter published through the United
Press said to have been written by
President Cleveland to r. L. Thatcher
of Albion, n. Y, in which the impress
sion is conveyed that the remarks refer
to the present election, was III fact writ
ten ON the Sd of August, 1892, and re-
lated to the presidential campaign of
that year.