Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-06-22

GptCldl 10 the htElStSI-
Washington, June 21.-The bitter
fight over the internal revenue cOllec-
torship which closed on Saturday,
when A. &. White was nominated by
the President, has left many wounds
which will not be quick TO heal. While
the friends of Mr.. White are naturally
in fOrgiving mood and not disposed
to feel resentful toward Mr.. Davis or
his personal friends for making the
best fight they knew how, they do feel
a good deal of resentment against
others who got into the row on the
Davis side, notably Governor Atkinson.
Some of Whites friends say that the
Governor has hurt himself permanent
ly by turning up on the Davis side when
he was not called on to take any part
in the contest at all.
They say that while Mr.. White had
good reason to feel that he deserved
the Governors friendship and support
in the contest for the COllectorship,
he would not have taken offense had
the Governor, because of the position
he holds, declined to take sides in the
matter at all. But Gov. Atkinson's ac-
ton in coming to Washington as
spokesman Of a Davis delegation,
Whites friends say, was rank ingrat-
itude which will not be forgotten.
More than this: it is said that while
the Governor and Congressman Day
ton were at Morgantown some days
ago. they united in sending a telegram
to Senator Elkins here in Washington,
in which they said that Whites nomi-
nation as Collector would prove in
furious to the Republican party Of the
State
When Mr.. White heard of this he
sent dispatch to the Governor saying
that for sixteen years he had been one
of the latters most ardent supporters,
and asking if the Governor would say
to him that his nomination as collector
would improve the party in the State.
To this telegram. il is said, the Gov
ernor did not reply. Mr.. White also
sent a telegram to Congressman Day
ton which contained but one word
Thanks"
These are but a few of many legacies
of i'll will and discord that have been
left by the collectorship contest, and
that are bound to cut a figure in the
future history of the Republican party
of the State. as far as the Governor is
concerned. Whites friends will GER
tainly take pains to do him up in one
way or another at the earliest oppor-
tunity.
This opportunity Is now preparing, for
the Governor Is understood to be can
didate for the Senatorial seat now occu-
pied by Senator Faulkner, and Whites
friends will see to it that his boom makes
no progress Wherever VlrS aIS III NV'''O'
of the party machinery.
Now that the fight has been settled in
Whites favor, it is plan that even with his
strong personal friendship for the Park
ersburg editor, 1t would have been very
difficult for the President to nominate him
had it not been for the circumstances that
from the first one member of the West
Virginia delegation in Congress Dorr OF
the Third district, was strong in his sup
port of Whites candidacy. Undoubtedly
to this circumstance as much as 10 the
Presidents personal friendship White has
his nomination. for Major Mckinley would
hardly have asked Senator Elk;ns to ac-
cept for The important post of collector a
man who hadn't a single hacker in the
de1aps tiOn