Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-07

RESULT IS IN MUCH DOUBT.
THE FIGHT STARTED ON ONE
OFFICE, BUT WILL PROBABLY
EXTEND ALL ALONG THE LINE.
AS A RESULT, THERE is MUCH
UNEASINESS.
The Republican members of the
Board of County Commissioners have
fallen out over the division of the
spells of victory, and as result there
is decided uneasiness, not to say ex-
element, in certain county circles.
A publication made yesterday of the
alleged situation was denounced as I'M
true and misleading by both factions,
and the Register will endeavor to give
the facts in the case.
The trouble originated in the second
Republican caucus, which was held last
Thursday. Mr.. McGregor acted as chair
man, and Messrs. Tyson and Moore were
tellers. Matters were pretty harmo-
NOUS until it came to the voting for
the superintendent of division No. of
the National Road. There were origi-
nally>fiye candidates, but they narrow
ed down to Theodore Crummie, and
Messrs Ryan and Keiger. Several bal
lots were taken, sometimes one or an
other of the three having four votes,
and the others two each. After eight
or ten ballots had been taken, and
while Mr.. Tyson was calling off the
ballots, he being the only one of the
eight present who saw them as a whole,
he called five for Mr.. Crummie. Elk
ception was at once taken to this, as
nf hn
have not voted for Crummie at any
stage of the proceedings, and fourth,
or being asked, also declared he had
never voted for the gentleman named.
The chair therefore declined to declare
the result, and the friction was on.
Friday and Saturday the trouble was
brewing all along the line, petitions be-
ing circulated and conferences held,
and this eliminated Sunday afternoon
in a meeting of five members of the
Commissioners, opposed 40 grummie
and the County Republican Executive
Committee, at the Office of the Board
of Public Works. The situation was
stated, ex parte, to the Committee, with
the accompanying assurance that four
members Of the caucus never voted for
Mr.. Crummie, and that, therefore. he
reported, and it was decided by the
Committee that Mr.. Crunmie was not
the choice of the caucus, and that Mr.
Tyson had made an error" in report
ing the vote. The members of the
Board present at this meeting were
Messrs McGregor, Hare, Moore, Nc
fCurdy and Bowman. MeSSrS. Gutman,
Fritz and Tyson were absent.
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the last three named members, friends
of Mr. Crummie, and when it came to
a show down, yesterday, after the reg
ular meeting Of the Board, Messrs. Gut
man, Tyson and Fritz declined to play
ball. With the two Democrats, they
made up majority of the Board, and
as the result would have been dead
lock- no progress was made towards
ratifying the selections of the caucus.
Later in the day the three Republican
discerning members, who claim they
are right on the caucus vote as to Mr..
Crummie, held meeting, at which
there was Democratic representation,
and the result is a deadlock. 1t is
claimed by the dissenters that there is
conspiracy among a majority of the
Republican members to throw every
luluS lulO Tic udniS VI CCl ldiu 1bCpuD-
licans living in or near Elm Grove, and
decided limitations are given out that
if the affair is not Strengthened out and
Mr.. Crummie selected by the Board,
the war will be carried into Africa, and
that the entire list of selections by
the caucus will be imperiled, particu-
larly as to superintendent of the Coun-
ty Intirmary and some other good
places. Mr. Joseph Burkett is the cau2
Gus selection for superintendent, but he
may be either held up or his selection
upset, in the interest of Mr.. Frazier,
and other like complications are threat
ened.
The minority of the Board appears to
be very determined to enforce the cleo
tion of Mr. Crummie, or know the rea-
son why, and the fight is on to finish.
That it will be an interesting encounter
is apparent from the present situation
and the determination of the warning
factions.
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