Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-07-01

denoa in Kanawha county, where the
Republicans are actually unable to get
q candidate to run for Congress on the
sl-gle gold standard platform of St.
Louis, which is now all they have to run
en-. jim Hulns, the present represen-
tatiye from that district in Congress,
early read the handwriting on the wall
and sent ir his little letter declining
q denomination q week or so ago. Since
then one after another of the leaders
have declined the Republican nomina-
ton. At one time not so very long ago,
our handsome, blua-eyed friend, the
Hen. John b. Floyd, was hot after the
Congress.OI al nomination on the Repub-
lican ticket, but he doesn't want it now.
The Hon. William Seymour Edwards,
who was at one time under certain con-
rngencles thought to be close to the
vice presidential chair, was also very
much in The field net 50 very long ago,
but he now firmly declines to run.
Every Republican leader in the Third
district. in fact, has been solicited to
run for Congress. and every one has re-
Fused. They know a bad thing when
they see fl. and they know that it is
par5cularly bad thing to run n the State
Of West Virginia this year on the Re
publican ticket with the Mckinley and
single gold standard attachments.
Hence the Republicans of\the Third
district have had to turn TO the renegade
Democrats within their ranks for a can
did7;e. and the Hon. Charley P. Dorr,
Elkins's man. has been solicited to stand
For the Republican nomination for Con-
gress. but the Republican combine
down IN that neck Of the woods have
nc love for Boss Elkins and consequent
/ ~ have zone for Mr.. Dorr
There are at least half a dozen Repub-
rcan factions I'm Kanawha county alone
ha, are knitting each other right and
/ left and thrse-four,hs of all the rank
and file o. all Of them are for free silver.
They have no use whatever for the St
louis platform. To such sJraights are
our Republicans friends reduced in that
district that they caaRoJ find white men
% run on their legislative tickets in
some instances. In FayetJe county
,hay have nominated a negro for the
/ legislature and the Republican party
never was known TO give a cOlOred man
chance at an Office which it was pos
sibls fer white man to get.
This situation prevails throughout
| KauaTd5. Fayette and Mcdowell. In
| 1892 these counties gave an aggregate
Republican majority OF 1 .44S and in 1894
/ eLe Republican TIDAL wave year, a Re
publican majority OF 1892 This year
/ The Republicans concede that the Demo-
Gratis viii carry these three banner Re
publican counties OF this d-stric,. Con-
seouently it is impossible to get we'll
posted Republican to run for office.
And this situation is by no means pc
cuHar to the Third Congressional dis
ericl 1, is almost equally true o the
First. Second and Fourth districts. The
people will never endorse the demOne-
citation Of silver and they will never
/ -dcrse the single gold standard, which
/ has made money dear and commodities
! propordonately cheap.
Even those leading lights of West Vir-
g.nia Republicsnism, the Hons. G. Yves
| ley Atkinson and Presley W. Norris, are
thinking seriously Of quitting, so it is
said. Editor Norris, being an .ntelli-
CERT and capable journalist, has a pref
/ ~ good idea as to the drift of public SEN
tment and while he wanted the Repub-
Iican nomination for Attorney General
some time ago, we have it pretty
straight that he will decline to run
against free silver. It is also said that
the truly good, but shrewd, George Wes-
! ley will find that his health will stand
IN the way Of his gubernatorial candida
cy should the Democrats make the is
sue clean cut between bimetalism and
the single gold standard.
And what is true in West Virginia is
approximately true the country over,