Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-22
kASAwHA COUNTY SsUBBgD.

The Vote of the Laboring Man Not
wanted in the Republican Convention
and = Most Inaccessible spot selected
to Keep Them Out.
/ sDsctoi COTrSSpondsRes OF me REGISTER
CHARLESTON, w. VA, March 90
The Republican bosses have begun their
| campaign work in the Third district,
and their first act was to give a most
pointed snub to Kanawha county, which
in the last election gave one-fourth OF
the Republican vote of the entire dis
trict.
A meeting OF the executive commit
tee was held here last Saturday to de-
eide upon a place for holding the next
Congressional convention, aud John w.
Jarrett, who recently purchased the
Charleston Nail from his brother-in-
law, Moses w. Donnally, and changed
| il TO Republican paper,
proposed Charleston as suit
able place fer holding the conven-
| tion but Buchanan was chosen. Not
| only is Charleston in the county which
! gives large part OF the Republican
| vote Of the district, but IL is'on the
| Chesapeake and Ohio railway, the coun-
ties bordering on which will supply PAS
of the delegates out Of the Ala entitled
to seats ia the convention. Eighty-one
others will come from counties south of
the Chesapeake and Ohio railway, so
that for 326 out Of the Ala delegates
| Charleston would be the most accessible
point for the convention. And that
is why IL Will not be held here.
The bosses know that large conven-
tion is unwieldly, and that the smaller
the number of delegates present the
easier it is to manipulate q con-
vention. They also know that
of the 1O2 delegates to the
convention from Kanawha county, and
of the 326 from the southern part Of
the district a great many will be poor
/ laborlng men who cannot afford TO
travel as far as Buckhannon to attend a
convention, and whose presence in the
convention is not desired. The bosses
want 10 run the convention and
to run ii in their own in
terests, and the fewer delegates
there are present the easier it will be to
do this. The 5000 Republican votes In
Kanawha county will be very desirable
about election time, but when the nomi-
nations are being made by the bosses
1.-The people be id" Gall they are
good for is to vote the Republican
ticket We want nothing else TO do
with them" is the sentiment expressed
by the committee, and the la6Oring men
in the party have not bsen slow to
catch on.
The Republicans Of this county in
particular feel keenly the 'snnb they
have received. The editor of the Mail,
knowing that it would be suicidal to
oppose the bosses, tries to look pleasant
and enters the following mild protest
against the committees action:
at has not been our good fortune 10
visit BuchannOn, but we are told it is
quite nice town. However, we are
not prepared TO say that the people Of
the district will hail with delight the
action OF the committee. Buchannon
is about the most inaccessible point
that could have been Sc
lected when the convenience of
the whole district is taken into account.
1t will not be hard on Kanawha TO go
LUcTes UtCEuSes WIN Tue tACGpIlOI VI d
few counties like Nicholas and Poca-
hontaS, Kanawha will be less incon-
venienced in getting to the Convention
than any Of our neighbors. All OF us
will have TO travel through two other
Congressional districts before we can
get to the place for holding our own
Convention. Or those who are not will =
ing to do this may, by way Of comprO-
mise, 90 through the State Of Virginia
and one of Congressional districts in
order to reach the point OF holding our
Convention"
The counties Of the district and the
votes to which they will be entitled in
the convention are as follows: Boone,
II; Clay, 10; Fayette, SO; Greenbrier,
%; Kanawha, 1902; Logan, 10; Mercer,
80; Monroe, %; Mcdowell, %; Nicho.
las, 13; Pocahontas, II; Raleigh, II;
summers, IS; Upshur, 81; Webster, z;
Wyoming, -. Total, Ala.