The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-23
A GREAT FACTION FIGHT.
Which Nay Cause the Democrats to
Lose Congressman.

Wilson and Camden Battling for the
Senatorship- They Are Dividing the
Party, Which Makes an Opening for
the Republicans.
Parkersburg, W. Va, Aug. pa
desperate political campaign is being
waged in the wilds of West Virginia,
not only in the wilds, but on the borders
and in the cities, the towns and the viii
lagos. On the mountains and in the val
leys, the clash of the contending parties
can be heard, and the rivers bear toithe
sea the sound of conflict, the fierceness
of which has not been equaled even in
Presidential years for many campaigns.
The MORNING News will probably be
the first paper to tell the nation that, I'M
less some heroic remedies are applied
soon the solid south will be broken in No
vember next. The Democratic party is
divided in this state, and unless the fac
tious soon come together, the state will
be lost. The margin is not large enough
to take many risks, and it will not be
much of surprise should three, if not
four, republican congressman, be elected
in West Virginia this fall.
The Wilson and the Camden factions
are splitting the party wide open, and the
tage of these things and put in their best
licks to win. EX-GOv E W. Wilson, in
his ambition to get into the United
States Senate, is resorting to all sorts of
tricks and schemes to defeat Senator
Camden, who desires to go back TO
the Senate. Senator Camden has done
great deal for West Virginia, and de-
serves good treatment at the hands of its
citizens. He has built hundreds of miles
of railroad, developed the lumber inter
ests and is pushing his enterprising con
quests into the wild interior further and
| further. But Gov. Wilson Is brilliant
orator, fine campaigner, and can gener-
ally capture the county delegations when
he goes after them. And heis after them
day and night.
This fierce factional fight is being felt
in the congressional campaign as well as
the legislature, and will endanger the
success of the democratic candidates. In
the First district Congressman Pendle-
ton, whom the people want, will not stand
for a denomination, and says he cannot
afford to run III a district split up by
Camden and anti-Camden contingents.
This gives the republicans a fighting
chance to elect Capt. B. B. Doveuer.
In the Second district, of course, the
nominee will be Prof. w. l.. Wilson, the
gallant tariff reform leader, but he is in
| poor health, and unless great aid is rem
! utJ6u nun ny bl6 ntAlOlldl uGlIlOCIdCg lll0
money of Steve Elkins and the chicauery
of ex-Commissioner Mason may defeat
| him.
In the Third district, where the Cam
den-Wilson battle wages tiercest, Alder
son may not be able to pull through
with a divided democracy. The
Fourth is so solidly democratic
that nothing short of an earthquake can
shake it, but earthquakes sometimes oc-
cur in the mountains.
These notes of warning are given in the
| hope that some steps may be taken to as
| suage the ill-feelngs in the party in this
4 state, for there is no going back on the
| fact that it is in bad shape.
The action of the democrats in CON
gress has not tended to help the cause in
this state, and, take ii all in all, some
hard work will have to be done to save
! the state.