Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-26
A BIG BLUNDER
Made By the Republicans Managers
in Kanawha County 1.-The Fact
Realized When 1t is zoo Late.
Special to the Register.

Special to the Register.
Charleston, w. Va, October 25.-The
decision of The Supreme Court in the
Kanawha county mandamus case closes
the controversy in regard to the quest <pn
of putting the names of the Republican
candidates for Stat eCffices upon the in
dependent Republican ticket in Kan
awha. There were no grounds to JUS
tify the Court in interfering to place
the names of men upon ticket con-
lrary to their wishes Since these Re-
publican candidates have said, in effect,
10 the snti-hOg combine Republicans in
Kanawha that they do not want their
votes, they viii not be likely TO get them.
The Republican managers in Kanawha
county now recognize the fact that they
have made an egregious blunder, but
it is too late to repair il. The candi-
dates on the Republican State ticket
now see that it was biunder to send
kilograms to the ballot commissioners
requesting that their names be left on
of the independent Republican ticket in
Kanawha county, but they were led
into il by Misrepresentation made 10
bine" Republicans would refuse 10 vote
for them if they permitted their names
to go on the independent Republican
ticket. OF course, the hog combine Re-
publicans knew better; they knew that
the straight Republicans, as they call
themselves, would not fail to vote for the
candidates on The State ticket, even
though they saw their names on the
ticket of the Independents, but they
knew that if the Republican State tickeV
went on the ticket of the Independents
the hog combine would lose votes on
their county ticket. The hog combine
have sacrificed the Republican State
ticket in this county 10 save themselves
and the candidates on the State ticket
have simply been buncoed The indie
pendens will vote for the Democratic
candidates for State offices, since the
Republicans have IN effect notified them
that they don't want their votes. One
thousand of the independent Republi-
cans of Kanawha county signed the
petition to have the names of the can
didates on the Republican State ticket
placed on their ticket, and it is an absO-
lutte certainty that at least that num-
Der will refuse 10 vote for single candi-
date on the Republican State ticket, and
ii will give KanaWha county to Watts
and his associates on the State ticke1
by a majority Of at least twelve or fiji
teen hundred, if not more. 1t is incon-
how the Republican candidates
on the State ticket could have made |
such a blunder, but they have made it,
and that settles 1t. 1t is worth more to
the Democratic State ticket than any
thing that has happened in the cam
paign.
General Watts has made several !
strong speeches in Kanawha county, !
and has spoken to tremendous crowds |
everywhere. He met in joint debate
and demolished a Republican speaker
named Beebe, at Maiden, Wednesday
night. Yesterday he and Col. Fitzger-
aid, who declined to run as a Popuiist !
candidate for Governor, spoke to a
large meeting at Clendennin, and they |
made a fine impression on the voters. |
The same gentlemen spoke at General |
Watts home (West Charleston, last |
night, and they had a splendid crowd |
Va fOtCAS' WIZ 44ebNnIF ~ TIC al
for free silver General Watts left for !
Saturday, where he spoke, and !
went to Point Pleasant 10 fill an engage
ment last night.
The Republicans made an effort to |
get a large crowd of railroad men here |
last night TO hear speech by Judge |
Stevenson Burke, of Cleveland, presi-
dent Of the Toledo and Ohio Central |
system. They brought in a consider
able number of railroad men from |
along the lines Of the T. & o. C. road,
but it was ascertained that a large per-
centage, if not a majority, of the men
brought here are for free silver and will
vote for Bryan. One Of the men thus
brought here to hear Judge Burke states
that in the coach in which he came a
vote was taken to ascertain how the
men stood, and he said the vote showed
that out of the sixty-three men in the
coach, only eighteen declared they
would vote for Mckinley.
One of the officials of the K & NJ. rail-
road stated to the Register that the
fight the railroads were making against
the Democratic party was not because
they feared any bad effects of free sill
yer coinage, but they were fighting the
planks in the Democratic platform de-
an income lax and the settle
ment of labor troubles by arbitration.