Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-12-23
4. B. WHITES CANDIDACY.

The auburn haired and hopeful ring
candidate for Governor has seriously
pre1udiced what standing he had with
the independent or anti-ring element OF
his party by ostentatiously selecting
as his organ for the official announce
ment of his candidacy the chief organ
of the ring, the Wheeling Intelligencer,
instead Of his own home paper, with
which he himself had so long been con-
rlected, and which naturally has been
so friendly to his candidacy, the Park
ersburg Journal No wonder Brer Nor
ris can't exactly understand why he
has been thrown down in this ruthless
fashion by the man to assist whose po-
litical ambition he has strained so many
points that the Journal hitherto has
been regarded as Whites personal or
gan and some doubts have been ex-
pressed whether he ever really relin-
cuished ownership of it.
1t is evident that Collector White is
determined that there shall be no doubt
cast on the regularity" of his cardi-
dacy. He knows how powerful the ring
is, being one of the ringsters himself;
hence, he even turns down his home
paper in order to announce his candl-
dacy through the recognized chief Or
gan of the ring, whose utterances all
bear the ring stamp and trade mark.
No one knows better than Mr. White
that independence in politics doesn't
pay" For, 10, by standing in" with
the ring has he not been a chronic
ofiiceholder ever since the ring came
into power? Hence not even the an
nouncement of his candidacy-a SEEM
ingly small matter-must be open to
the suspicion of independent faint.
Commenting on Collector Whites
action, Editor Morris, of the State Jour-
nal, says:
This seems queerer for the reason that
those connected with the management of
the State Journal have known for some
time about Mr.. Whites determination and
( only failed to give it as a matter of news
because placed under obligations not to
do so''
And Brother Morris proceeds to let
a little more light in on the matter in
this language:
There are still more peculiar reasons
why it would have been better for Mr..
White to have sought the columns of this
newspaper, or even those of some country
sheet, for his first utterance. The State
Journal is recognized as am independent
Republican newspaper, not being the Or
gan of any wing, Clique or combination of
its own party. 1t does not say that the
Intelligencer is the organ Of any one
branch of the party, but many people do
not hesitate to SO claim. Perhaps Mr..
White does not have knowledge of what is
being said in various places in West Vir-
ginla about him and those with whom 1t
is said he is intimately associated, per-
sonally and politically. These are not the
utterances of Democrats, but of Republi-
cans. The Freer movement has a much
deeper significance than appears on the
surface 1t is not wise to ignore these
things. 1t may as well be said one time
as another, that some moves a~e contsm
plated in West Virginia that will at least
cause animated time in the next State
convention. The State Journal will not go
further in this line at present, but thinks
all this pertinent to the fact that it would
have been better for Mr.. White to have
avoided the very appearance of being in
a combination TO control West Virginia
Republican politics.
All of which seems to presage that
the ring slate will not have the smooth
est time in the world getting through