The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-07-01
THE JuDGEsHIP.
KANAWHA RING COMMITTEE RE.
YERSED AND THE NEW COMMIT.
TEE CALLS DISTRICT CONVEN.
TIONS TO SEND DELEGATES TO
THE JUDICIAL CONVENTION.
Captain McWhorter Refuses to Acquiesce
and Guthrie viii Get Solid
DelegntiOn.

Captain McWhorter Refuses to Acquiesce
and Guthrie viii Get Solid
Delegation.
Kanawha Gazette, Goth.
The Kenawha County Repubi-
can Executive Committee met in
the city yesterday, seven out OF ten
members being present.
In the absence of b. e. Hood,
Secretary, w. FL. Ramsey, of Cab
in Creek district, was chosen Sec
rotary pro tenn Among the bust
ness transacted was the issuing of
a call for magisterial conventions
to be held July 9th, for the pur-
pose of selecting the number of
delegates to which each district is
entitled to represent Kanawha
county in the judicial Convention
to be held at Winfield, on July 9th
to nominate Republican candi-
date for Judge of this judicial cir
cult. The committee thus entirely
ignored the action of the ring com
mittee in providing for the selec-
ton of delegates by Captain lei. @.
McWhorter under the vote had at
the recent county primary election
and held that the delegates to be
selected at the district conventions
to be held on July 9th, will be the
truly accredited delegates to the
judicial convention. The com
mittee claims that under the agree
ment had between the members of
the judicial executive committee,
the judicial question should not
enter into the Kanawha county
primary election, but should be de-
termined by district conventions
to be held after the primary was
over. 1t will be. remembered that
the name of Judge Guthrie was
not submitted to the primary cleo
ton, and under the ruling of the
ring committee, Capt. McWhorter
was authorized to select the dele
gates to the judicial convention,
which he has already done and
the names of the delegates have
been certified.
1t is understood that Mr.. Nc
Whorter will not acquiesce in the
action of the new committee, and
therefore, he will not allow his name
to 90 before the district conventions
on July 9th, so it is inferred that
all the delegates to be selected on
that day will be Guthrie delegates.
When the judicial convention
meets at Winfield, there will
necessarily be two sets of dele
gates contesting for seats in the
convention, and unless matters
take another turn, Putnam and
Mason counties will pass upon the
rights of the respective delega-
lions to participate i'll the proceed
ings. If the convention seats the
Guthrie delegation from this coun-
ty, then the McWhorter delegates
will, no doubt, proceed to nomin-
ate him for Judge. Then we shall
have two Republican candidates.
each claiming to be the regular
nominee of the party.
Kanawha county has more dele
gates than both Mason and Put
nam, but no doubt the Guthrie
delegates will claim that they con-
stitute the regular convention, es-
pecially if Mason and Putnam sus-
tain the action of the committee
yesterday.
AT the meeting yesterday, w. FL.
Howard, chairman of the Mason
county executive committee, and
Geo. Poffenbarger, member of the
judicial executive committee from
Mason county, urged the commit
tee to take the action it did, and
l.. e. McWhorter and l.. A. Mar
tin on behalf of Captain McWhor
ter, opposed the motion.
Among all the political sensa-
tions which have recently occurred
in Republican politics in Kanawha
county, nothing has equalled that
caused by the action of the COM
mittee yesterday.
The odherents of the combine
are bitter in their denunciations of
the new committee, while the OPP
ponents, and they are numerous,
are loud in their praise of what
was done, claiming that the com
mittee has carried out the plan and
unqualified agreement concerning
the judicial question. AS seven of
the ten members of the new com
mittee have called the district
conventions to select delegates,