Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-09

Special to the Register.
Charleston, w. Va, December Ill
is not known to but very lew OF the
intimate friends of ex-Cdngressman
James H. Huling, but it is fact, never
theless, that gentleman is quietly lay
ing his plans to capture the Repuba-
can nomination for Congress in this
district next year. 1t is true that Col.
Huling did not prove bowling success
while serving in the national House or
Representatives, Che can't howl ike
Dorr,) but he made good man at the
National Capital and succeeded IN
nleasjng his constituents in the way
of securing patronage, and that is what
the Republicans of this district want
a man who can knock the persimmons.
A. prominent Republican leader of this
city took the Register in his confl-
dence to-day and indicated few things
that would happen in the Republican
party shortly. Huling's nomination
Tor Congress by the next Third district
Republican convention was set down
as a foregone conclusion.
will Dorr be candidate! why
sure" said he. 'Dorr is always a can
didate for everything. He contracted
the habit while he was training with
the Democratic party. He was can
didate for Congress even before he tried
to betray that party. Dorr has made
TOO MANY PROMISES.
He has promised every prominent Re
publican in the district something, ard
each particular place has been promised
by Dorr to anywhere from ten to nifty
different individuals. DORIS hackers
have been putting their heads together
and comparing notes, and the more
notes they compare which reveals
DORIS perfidy the more Indignant they
get"
The Register reporter ventured to
remark that Mr.. Dorr was candidate
for the United States Senate.
"Of course. He has sufficient nerve
to be a candidate for anything and
everything, but his pretensions in that
direction are absurd. He proposes to
be elected to Congress on the strength
of his opposition to the civil service
law. Having been reelected a member
OF the lower house of Congress, he will
then make break for the Senate, COM
peting for the place with such men as
Governor Atkinson and other leaders of
the Republican party
what success will Mr.. Dorr have
in his fight against civil service?"
None whatever. He has not got suf-
fcient weight at Washington to accom-
plish anything"
How do Republicans Of West Vir-
ginia regard the civil service law"
II am frank to admi. that we do not
like it. Cleveland, by his rulings be-
fore going out of Office, made the law
obnoxious, but Cleveland was playing
a losing game, to say the least Of it.
He was aware Of the fact long before
the election that his friends would get
nothing from the new administration,
whether it was Republican or Demo-
cratic.
THEY COULD GET NOTHING
from Mckinley and nothing from Bryan
In the event Of his election. Bryan, if
successful, would have filled the Offices
with men who had worked and schemed
and yelled for free silver. Consequent
ly Cleveland, finding that his friends
would have no influence with the in
coming administration, whether it
should be Republican or Democratic,
threw around those in office the shield
of civil service by making rules which
protected them, but which are regard
ed as odious by every Republican in
West Virginia"
Cant Mckinley revoke the rules
promulgated by Cleveland?" was asked.
Eyes, but he won't. OF course we
Republicans professed loyalty to the
civil service laws during the campaign
last year-McKinley and all the rest of
us. But we were not in earnest about
it, and we did not think Mckinley was.
We were working it only as a political
racket. and were assured BY the Ma
tional Committee and the national lead
ers that the civil service nonsense was
not to last longer than the election in
November of last year. Everybody
seems to have understood this except