The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-04-20

The Democrats win have a little post
primaries scrap in their camp.
Major Walton has decided 20 contest
the nomination of John A. White, for
the circuit court clerkshlp.
Last night an Intelllgencer man CALI
ed ON Major John Walton, who was
defeated In Saturdays Democratic pri-
maries for clerk OF the circuit court,
and asked whether he had decided to
go into contest.
Eyes, sir" remarked Major walton,
'I was defeated by too small a plural
ity not to make every EFFORT possible to
secure the nomination. shall await
the oHiclal count by the Democratic
county committee, and Il that shows
that Mr.. White 10 still In the lead ]
shall enter notice OF contest with the
committee and demand recount OF all
the votes cast for clerk Of the circuit
court. feel confident that there Is
something Irregular nothing dishonest
though-in Clay district which car
ried by thirty-flve plurality. am sure
that a recount will show that carried
that district by about one hundred plu-
ralIty. II the official count should give
me a slight lead, should not be sur
prised TO see Mr. White ask for re-
count.
Chairman r. 8. KIncheloe, Of the
county committee, when seen at his
home on the Island last night, said that
he had as yet received no notices OF
contests on the part of candidates who
s,YR ff,t00
close contests outside OF the circuit
court clerkship, were the race for coun-
ty commissioner In Triadelphia, and
for the same office in Centre. In the
latter district, Mr.. Charles Menkemell-
er, was defeated by plurality Of four
votes. BE said last niEAt that he would
not contest VOellinger's plurality.
Nothing was known Of the intentions OF
commissioner James Baird, VINO
was defeated by D. NJ. Thornburg, In
Triadelphia, by twelve plurality.
Mr.. Kincheloe said the county COM
mlttee would meet Tonight at the sher-
iff's office and make the official count.
This, he anticipated. would not be COM
pleted before midnight, possibly later.
The chairman thought that the COM
mIttee would tonight take up the mat
ter OF the date Of the county conver-
tfon, which Is to nominate the legtS-
latiye ticket and elect delegates to the
state nominating and district delegate
conventions Of the party.
The bicycle courier service, organized
by the Intelllgencer for the purpose Of
assisting the Democratic committee In
receiving returns from the outlying
country districts that are not conve-
nlent to telephone communication, was
very successful and was appreciated by
the committee. The first man who re-
ported at the sherld's office was walter
Cochran. who arrived from the BricK
school house, in Richland district, at
10 y. m. lie was closely followed by
Abe Herzberg. who got In from Glenn's
run school house, also In Rlchland dis
trIct,. at 1906 p m. This made Richland
district complete, and was the hrst
time in the history Of elections or prl-
maries of Ohio county that RtchlAnd
had been IN complete before midnight.
The official returns from these two pre-
clncts arrived three hours later. Had It
not been for the fact that the election
officials took couple VI hours on to
get supper, the wheelmen would have
reported that much earlier
The star performance was that OF
Jesse McCausland, winner Of last years
Intelllgencer road race. who went out to
Cool Breeze school house In Triadel-
phia district. He left Cool Breeze with
the returns at a. M, stopped at Tria-
delphia town for the returns there, and
arrived at the county building at 10;25
p. M, making the seventeen miles In one
hour and twenty-five minutes, or at the
rate OF nearly thirteen miles an hour,
which is a remarkable performance In
the dark.
The wheelmen win be asked to repeat
their success Of last Saturday at the
coming Republican primaries.