Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-23
MARION COUNTY POLITICS.

VINO Are Temporarily IN tOntrOi--A ser
ious Split Among the Republican Rank
and File.
Special to the Register.
Fairmont, w. Va, November 22.-
The postoffce is still subject of COM
ment among Republicans, and instead
of decreasing the dissatisfaction seems
to be extending in all directions. Heff-
ner's stand against El1ins and Dayton,
instead of causing the Republican
leaders to throw up their hands in hor-
TOR, is pleasing them and they say so
openly. "Just what I've wanted" said
one of them to the Register yesterday,
sbut, you know, Il couldn't do or say
anything. I'm tied up. Now, Heffner's
lose, and if he does what he says he
will, and let certain matters be known
to the public, Mckinley may appoint
Reed"
But the leader above was fooled in
Heffner, who is the slickest one of the
lot. While the postoffice is lost to him,
the laboring people are still his
friends and will see that he is nomi-
mated for the Legislature next time
"If we fail in this SO miner from
Palatine puts it, 1--WE can knock out the
man the Republican ring names, even
if we have to vote for a Democrat"
Heffner is indignant about the edi-
toral that recently appeared in the
Intelligencer and when seen yester-
day after his return from Baltimore,
said: "The Intelligencer's reference
to me personally / consider an Elkins-
n-Atkinson-Intelli political
move. Because l am free born
American citizen, and because I will
not submit to dirty treatment, he
takes me as target for his ungentle
manly references. Now all the other
defeated candidates are as sore as |
dare be, or as he claims me to be,
through a misstatement, but I can't
say they will carry their malice as far
as a close relative Of g. A. d. did in
The case few years ago. Because he
was not nominated he cut his success
ful opponent in the election, so it is
claimed, and even scratched Charlton
Really. I don't know whether he
knows how to vote the Republican
ticket now or not.
| was working for the party when
&c. A. D." conducted a Democratic
paper. Probably he has forgotten
that like he did when he shot himself
at Grafton. l always was Republi-
can, and had to go down in my jeans,
as poor as I was, for $50, to pull
Republican paper out Of a hole, when
the man who represents forty Flem-
ings' in the United States Senate was
in New Mexico accommodating prop
erty. AS for the wisdom &c. A. D."
speaks of, we never asked Elkins for
anything. He promised to keep out of
1t and let Dayton attend to his own
affairs. Did he do this?
81 made one fair statement" Heff-
ner continued. 1--WE asked all candi-
dates to agree to an election. A petit
ton bearing $50 names of the best peo-
pie of the town made this same re-
quest. Will the Elkins-Dayton organ
say that the merchants, the carpen
tiers, the bricklayers, the railroad
boys in the Fairmont yards, the min
ers at New England and West Fair
mont, the painters, and SO on, are not
patrons Of the office? They are not in
Observation-Disclosures K. Halls eyes.
!. From the attention paid to such peo-
pie by the men l have just named,
one would think they were not pa
irons but slaves. Not free, liberty
loving people, but tied with cords of
iron to changeable Senators and coun-
try lawyers now in Congress. I only
speak Of this in justice to the poor,
Woodworking laboring boys.
The Brotherhood of Firemen and
Trainmen unquestionab!y aided greatly
to McKinleys majority. When it
comes to the next election we will see
if the boys will be disfranchised This
seems to be case Of downing labor.
To conclude, dare Dayton and Elkins
to withdraw their recommendations
and leave the office to a vote. This
will show whether l am backed up by
patrons or not"
DR.. w. Reed Crane is another as
pirant for honors in this county. but
wants them in a journalistic way 1t
is said he will write another article
soon in which Col. Howard Fleming
wants to get back at Heffner. The
doctor is quoted as saying that ''Heff-
ner must be shut off by some means
and brave face is the first one to try.
Those papers in which moral societies
are interested and charges are made
must never see the president"
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