Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-13
PYROTECHNICS
In the aoisting of Favorite Sons, and
Arguments Used.

In the Hoisting of Favorite Sons, and
Arguments Used.
The nominating speeches of the con-
yention may be said to have been up TO
the average but they were made more
in the spirit of a lawyer presenting q
case to a Jury than in the old time sky
rocket style of convention, oratory. IN
fact both Major Petty and Major Cum
ninghem each brought down the con-
yention once by inadvertently address,
ing the delegates as gentlemen OF the
Jury" Rhetorical excellence was not
a notable factor in the efforts, which
more nearly correspondent to the state
ments of business men IN trying TO
drive a bargain or of an attorney en-
deavoring to be logical in his argu-
ment.
Major Petty, in pressing the claims
of Hon. C. l.. Weems, urged that Bel
mont county should have the privilege
of filing the unexpired term to which
one of her favorite sons had been duly
elected. He said Mr. Weems would, If
sent to Congress, support the flag, no
difference where President Mckinley
should plant it"
The remarks of Judge Eckley in pre-
senting Hon. J. F. Fimple, of Carroll,
were uttered with that unimpassioned,
judicial calmness that is more per-
suasive than stirring. He said Carroll
had not had a Congressman for twenty
six years, and he felt that it was now
of right her turn. He remarked She
would not be put off with mere nib
ble," but should have full bite OF
mt
According to l. n Blythe, who named
w. F. Butler, CAROLS second candi-
date with two votes, Mr.. Butler is like
the immortal Jim Fisk in so much as he
never went back on friend" al
though Mr.. Buffers friends evidently
do not pSartake of the same characters
tic, since he only succeeded in pulling
two delegates out of twenty-one in
the recent primaries.
Major Cunningham told the dele
gates that they are always talking
about doingNsomething for the soldiers,
and now he would put their solicitude
to the test He would ask them to
nominate a soldier in the person of
Gen. d. A. Holaingsworth. The Major
thought the time opportune to pay his
compliments to the Democrats. which
he did in terms that awakened the
echoes of go He said the GAINESVILLE
platform embodied the anarchistic fea-
lures of the famous Chicago declara-
ton of principles, with an admixture of
the treason of 81. The Major hit John
r. Mclean a poke. as he went along,
and wound up by saying his protege is
a fighting Quaker from good old Bel
mont county stock.
Ex-Governor R. G. Richards made
the strongest speech of the day in nam
ing the Hon. Joseph J. Gill. He boosted
Mr.. Gill as a man of large interests,
and although an employer of labor, has
never reduced wages or had strike.
At this stage the glassworkers who
came down to root for Gill let loose, and
there was the heaviest applause of the
day.
1t was hardly expected that the
name of Judge John A. Mansfield
would go before the convention as he
only captured one delegate in Jefferson,
but it was the unexpected which hap
pened. Mansfield was presented in a
very neat speech by Isaac Worries,
whose effort from literary standpoint
might be termed the gem of the &C.
casion.
The only seconding speech was made
by Judge Trip. of Carroll, in behalf of
John H. Fimple.