Evening star., 1896-10-29
w E ST h' R G IN A
A Conservative Forecast Gives the State to
hoKinldSyby $1,000.
Claims Of Both Parties M to the He-
suits In the Congressional
Contests,
Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


WHEELING. w. Va, October q. 1894
A review Of the past few weeks does not
show material changes in the political stu.
alton. There can be no question that in
distinctively democratic farming communt-
ties like those Of Wetzel. Braxton. Nicholas
Randolph and Hardy counties the silver
cause has made gains, and that these coun-
ties will come up with old-time democratic
majorfties for Bryan. The mining and rail-
road elements in Cabell. Fayette, Kanawha
Mcdowell, Marion, Mineral and Taylor
counties will insure an increased vote
against free coinage. The gold democratic
movement will be most felt in Wheeling.
but will cut quite figure in Parkersburg,
Huntington. Charleston, Martinsburg and
the eastern Panhandle counties, There has
been no appreciable detection In such re-
publican strongholds as Grant, Harrison.
Marshall.> Monongalia. Preston, Richie.
Upshur and Tyler. The populist vote for
Bryan will be more than Offset by the sound
money democratic vote against him. The
contest as to amount Of literature dis
tributed. number OF speeches made and
practical organization of the state has been
unequally in favor of the republicans The
democratic organization has been crippled
from the start. A conservative forecast
gives the six electoral votes to Mckinley
by 1900 plurality.
ASAo SOnte8t0s
AS to Congressman the republican man
ayers claim the safe election of the full
delegation Of four by an aggregate plurality
as large as that of 1891, which was 1929
The democratic managers concede the cleo
ton Of Dovener in the first, or Wheeling
district. but claim that three democrats will
represent the rest of the state.
Colonel Arnett, the democratic nominee
in the first district. is at the disadvantage
OF having to overcome plurality Of 4, ,40S
for Dovener in 1894. and although DR..
and attempted to throw the populist vote to
Arnett. the effort to win is regarded as al
most hopeless. The democracy in Ohio
county Is badly demoralized this year,
cratic vote. and his friends predict Ohio
county alone will give him 1000 majority.
In the second district the story is dit
ferent. The republican nominee, A. e..
good majority back of him 2.O51 in 1890.
but in district where II free silver hos
made tnroads anywhere In the state he
will feel the resultSi most strongly. His
opponent. w. G. Brown. a banker of King
wood. has the Endorsement Of tho popu-
lists and has made han active campaign.
Dayton's record tnfchampioning the I'M
provement of the Monongahela liver will
help him considerably in the river coun-
ties. n,Il
In the third dtstsct the fight is warm
between ex-Gov. q. oN. Wilson, democrat,
and c. P. Dcrr, republican. Dorr was a
former democrat ana his election depends
on the attitude Qf .1be labor vote In the
him. II
In the fourth district Warren Miller, who
had 1852 plurality tin 1894, has a hard
fight for reelection -agalnsl Walter Pen
dleton, who will capture the stay-a,-nome
democratic vote of 1894, as well as the
greater part Of theaf popuNst vote. Fendle-
ton stands the best ~show CT election of
any OF the democratic nominees, but the
republican managers claim, that this Is too
much of a Mckinley year for him to touch
bottom.
The GubernntOrial Fight.
In the gubernatorial fight very pretty
contest has been waged between George
Wesley Atkinson. republican, and Cor
nelius G. Watts, free silver democrat
Both are well-known IN every school dis
trict of the state and both are shrewd
politicians. The democratic managers have
made extra efforts on behalf Of Watts
In order to continue possession of the state
patronage and are charged with willing
ness to trade two, three or four county
office votes for one for Watts, and as not
being beneath sacrificing Bryan for him.
The populists, too, have withdrawn their
state ticket In his interest and the gold
democrats will remain true to him. Not
withstanding this, Atkinson is confident that
he will be elected and Is backed up in that t
belief by his state committee and many
shrewd observers.