The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-05-27
REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION.
The Slate Ticket as Prepared by the
Bosses Went Through Without
the Loss of Man.
A Determined Fight Was Made Against
the Ring, but the Opponents We're
SoOn VnnuuIshed.

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the Ring, but the Opponents We're
Soon VnnquIshed.
The Republicans met in County
Convention, Saturday, and to not
say they had big convention
would be telling an untruth. b.
III. Blagg, ESD, of Union district,
was made chairman, and Mr.. w.
I'll. III. Gardner, of this city, was
selected as Secretary.
When the Convention was called
to order, it was seen there was
"blood on the moon" and the anti
Ringites began to marshal their
forces for the battle. The Bosses
began to realize that they would be
whipped if something desperate
was not done, and motion was
made to adjourn after certain com
mittees had been appointed, until
one o'clock in the afternoon.
During the recess hour, the
Ringsters and slate makers got in
their work, by openly purchasing
delegates at price, as was publicly
charged, by those opposed to the
Ring. At the afternoon session
when nominations were in order,
a gallant fight was made, by the
anti Ringites, but all went down
in battle, one after another, until
all were put to death, by the Ring
sters. Not one anti escaped the
awful slaughter. Every candidate
on the Ring Slate went through,
by majorities that amazed the OPP
ponents of the Ring. Nearly every
slate candidate received about the
same average majority of eight
votes. And, if the denunciation
of the Ring by delegates to the
Convention means anything, there
is trouble ahead in this county,
for the Republican party.
1t is an outrage on any party,
when three or four men can ma
nipulate things, as to dictate whom
the candidates of the party shall
be. Machine politics may do for
awhile, but the people soon tire of
it, and the Ringsters are sent to
defeat, as it will be in November,
with the Mason County Ringsters.
The nominations, as dictated by
the Machine, are as follows:
Sheriff John Porter.
Prosecuting Attorney John L..
Wilton.
Circuit Clerk Robert e. Mitch
ell.
County Clerk-B j. Redmond.
House of Delegates VIM. w.
jackson and Byrd Hill.
County Commissioner-Henry
Meek.
Assessors-1st District John
Borgess. I'd District Frank p.
Miller.
Surveyor-Geo. Childs.
The desperate scheme of the
Republican Ring of Kanawha
county, to defeat the re-nomina-
ton of Judge Guthrie, by fraud
and trickery, brought forth the
following protest, which was unan-
imously adopted:
WHEREAS, The Republicans of Ma
son county have elected their dele
gates to the Judicial Convention by
districts, and Capt. ii. @. McWhorter
has a part of our delegates elected
from this county for his nomination,
and,
WHEREAS, We have learned with
deep regret that the Republican
County Executive Committee of
Knnawha county has put the candi-
dates for the Judgeship into their
primary, to he held on the 9Th of June
next, and provided that the candidate
receiving the highest vote is to take
all the delegates, leaving Judge Guth-
rie no representation whateverfor the
votes cast for him, unless he shall re-
ceive n majority of the votes cast.
Resolved, That the Republicans of
Mason county cannot with selfrespect
participate in the Judicial Convention
made up by such manifest unequal
and unjust representation.
Resolved, That werecommend that
our delegates do not participate in
the judicial Convention of this Cir
cult, until Kanawha County adopts a
system of representation in said Con-
vention, where all candidates can have
the same chance, and that our Coun-
| ty Executive Committee confer with
the Judicial Committee and the Coun-
ty Executive Committee of Putnam
county, and the County Executive
Committee of Kanawha to attain this
end.
Resolved, That the Republican Jul
dicial Committee be requested to
postpone the Judicial Convention un-
til this equitable representation is ar