The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-14
Popullst ticket. hhs declared for Bryan
and sewell, He advises the Popullsts
10 endorse them ut st. Louis.
THROUGH THE STATE,

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a formidable candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for state supcrln.
tcndent OF free schools has sprung up
In tho person OF Hon. II. C. Lockney, Of
Calhoun county. or him the G!env!llc
Pathfinder says:
So far this paper has been silent rs 10
candidates for the state ticket, but we
do know a winner whom the convention
cannot AFFORD 10 overlook. In all our nO-
lltieal experience we have yet to find n
nan who is thu successful vOte-Ectter
that Senator II, G, LoCktiey Is, and who
al 20 before the people In the next
campaign with more friends than the
previous one We ask for the interior OF
the state that his name be placed on
the state ticket for superintendent OF
schools, and we do not ask this recognI-
ton solely on account OF Mr., LOckney's
rhenomennl success rs a C%ampaigner,
but he Will make one Of tho most efIl-
Client officers our state has ever had.
lie haS been an active educator for a
quarter OF n century and his experience
With the common schools and common
people OF this state makes him the
most available ma thnt can be named
for the office to which he aspIrcs.
Without question It is a Notifying
thing for such staunch Democratic or
gans rs the Times, Record, New York
World, Sun. Brooklyn Eagle and scores
OF Others to openly denOuncG the Chi
caSo platform. But with IN eye single
to the common good Of n common coun-
tFV# fhnIsM tFHfpuy. n puINGf 31,n. stlnNu Htnb
OF such men rs the pltchfork Senator
OF South Carolina, Tlllman, and the
Illinois Anarchist. Altgeld.-Martins-
burg World, Dem.)
Bryan is an extremist, nominated on
n radical platform and his canvass to
be made on sectional lines. He repre-
sents the extreme view OF those who
would array the west against the east.
the south against the north. There Is
nothing inspiring or hopeful in such L
candidacy. His election would be n ca
Notwithstanding State Journal,
lIscp.)
Brooke county seems to be set down
In the tables six for Watts for governor
and two for 1talphsnyder, on the Demo-
SAhhtN HIhS' Jul NleItlOTt one Is pre-
ferred to the ether no fellow IAN exactly
say. They both claim to be sllverltcs, but
It would be safe enough to bet n big
apple, October delivery, that there are
not eight men in Brooke county who
know anything about either beyond his
name.-Wcllsburs Herald. (Rcp.)
United States District Attorney C. C.
Watts. who Is making the rounds of the
Democratic county conventions with
the fell purpose OF taking the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor OF West
Virginia by storm, Is denying with
great vehemencc that he Is the admin
istration candidate. 1t seems to US 'he
doth protest too much" He Is holding
for the second term the most profitable
office the Federal administration could
bcstow in the district OF West.Virginia,
and the other Federal appointecs APP
pear To be supporting his candidacy.
Why should he seek to rcpudiate his
we'll known relationship? : Monroe
Waterman. CDem.)
The cry that some Republicans In
West Virginia would vote the Demo-
cratic ticket because they wanted free
silver Is now Il vanishing shadow. Many
Republicans who were reported TO be In
favor Of free silver have been inter-
viewed this week nrd In. almost every
instance, II Is learned, that they favor