Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-19
CAMPAIGN OPENING.
Democratic Congressional Committee
Called 10 Meet Here.

Chairman f. @. Cox Notified Mem
bars Of the Executive Committee
Of the District to Meet in Wheel
ing On May 7th.-The Time and
Place for the Convention to Be
Then Decided On-Will Likely Be
Held at Weston Democrats in
the District Confident OF Victory
This Fall-Capt. Dovener Has
Aroused Bitter Resentment in
His Own Party.
Frank c. Cox. chairman Of Demo-
cratic Congressional Executive Com
mittee Of the First district.
has issued call to the
members OF the Committee to meet in
This city at tie McLure House. on
May !, al clock p. m. to decide up
on The time and place TO hold the next
democratic Congressional convention Of
mis- district. The members of the COM
nitiee are as follows: S. ". Moore;
Brax;on county; Henry Zilliken(
Brooke; j. V Blair, Doddridge; ]. n.
Cra8dock, Gilmer; c. w Johnson. Har-
rison: ". B. Stewart, Hancock: w. B.
NcGary, Lewis; J. ". Gallagher, Mar
shall; F. c. Cox Ohio; F. b. Mccoy
TYLER: b. N. WEIGH, Wetzel.
Tae indications are that the conven-
tion Will be held at Weston, probably
in August. There will be quite list of
candidates for the nomination, judging
by the number Of names that have been
mentioned for the honor. Among these
are Col. W. w. Arnett and ex-Congress-
man John 0. Pendleton, Of Wheel
ing; Lewis Bennett and W.
". Brannon, OF Weston; Scott
Withers, of Chenille; j. B. Fow-
Ter and Dr. W. P. Newton, of SUIT
ION. and ". G. Sperry. of Clarksburg.
Some of these are said to be avowed
Candidates and others. as was Governor
Bushnell when the fight was made
against Mark Hanna, are candidates in a
receptive sense" These will not be
the only names presented to the con-
vention. for there are plenty of ambiti-
GUS Democrats in the district who would
be glad to secure the nomination. and
Who are we'll qualified to receive it.
From present indications there will
be no lack Of candidates, for the pro-
misses of a Democratic victory in the
Congressional elections this fall, and il
this district as well, are very bright,
and naturally, of course, there will be
plenty of good material offered from
which to choose the next Democratic
candidate for Congress.
The confidence among Democrats is
not attributed alone 10 the
failure of the Republican ad-
ministration to restore prosperity, but
this feeling has been greatly aug
mented by the dissatisfaction of all vot-
ers on account of the yielding and va
cilating policy of the ruling
party in the Cuban matter.
1t is true that Mckinley and the Repub-
lcan representatives are daily losing
thousands of votes for their party, and
that the people irrespective of party,
are enthusiastically for the freedom OF
Cuba. The policy of the President and
the servile obedience of Representative
D0vener has found no more open and
bitter condemnation in this district
than among the adherents of their own
party
Captain Dovener is more particularly
condemned because of his apparent
change of conviction or position in re-
gard to Cuba. Two weeks ago he de-
clared himself emphatically in favor of
Cuban independence. and said that if the
President did not send in his message
in a few days he and the other West
Virginia Congressman would vote with
the Democrats to recognize Cuba. Yet
when the time came he forgot that he
was representing the First Congression-
al district and became an abject foliw-
er in the Hanna and Elkins crowd. Only
one West Virginia Congressman, that
being c. P Dorr, kept his word and
cast his vote for free Cuba, and since
then Captain Dovener has on every
vote taken voted against the recognition
Of the Cuban republic. He is strongly
denounced in Wheeling and throughout
the entire district by his own party, and
if vote was taken to-day he would be
overwhelmingly defeated.