Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-16

DANNER-T MANY DIS
GRACEFUL SENATORIAL con-
TESTS ON ALREADY TO WAR
| RANT IRREGULAR PROCEED
INGS IN WEST VIRGINIA-A
| NUMBER OF DECIDEDLY INTER
ESTING OPINIONS.
! Special to the Register.
| Washington, d. c., January 15.-In-
terest in the West Virginia Senatorial
| tional in character, and the probable
outcome of the struggle is being every
where discussed. AS the situation be-
| comes better understood, the Republi-
can leaders in Washington take more
| gloomy view of it, and it is considered
| a significant fact that, in spite of the
| strenuous efforts on the part of the
| prominent Republican candidates for
the West Virginia Senatorship to OBJ
tain an endorsement of their policy
| by the leading members of their party,
| in their intention to seat GetZendanner
and Pierson, not a single one has spok-
en- in favor of it or given them any en-
| enlargement whatever.
On the other hand the President has
held strictly aloof in this matter, while
| Speaker Reed and the better element
| of the party in the House and Senate
are known to be directly opposed to
| as the one intended to be established.
| Many of those who look at the ques-
| ton from the standpoint of expediency
| alone take the view of a prominent
| Republican Senator who expressed
| himself on the question as follows:
| I'VE don't need any additional Re-
publican member in the Senate to give
us a majority, in fact we will have a
| few to spare in the incoming Senate
Now, if we mix ourselves up in any
contest that might seem questionable
it will ruin the party in that State in
the Presidential election in 1900. There
| has been
TOO MUCH SCANDAL
1rconnected- with recent Senatorial
| fights in Ohio and Pennsylvania for us
| to add another In West Virginia for
| one would rather see the State go
Democratic this time than have any
questionable transaction laid at the
door of the party. have not investi-
gated the claims of Getzendanner and
| Pierson to their seats, but believe, as
| does every Senator with whom l have
| spoken, that no man has the right to
accept a military Office while holding
a legislative one
Colonel Dick. of Ohio, who has re-
Gently taken his seat in the House of
Representatives, was seen to-day and
| asked what he thought of the situation
in West Virginia.
"It looks pretty doubtful" said he,
"and 1 don't know enough about it to
speak with authority. OF course, you
know, we will elect Republican Sena-
| tor, but it may take long time to do
it," The ColoneTs tone and manner
| did not correspond with his reassuring
| words and he seemed to take different
view of the situation from the one he
expressed.
What do you think of the rumor
that Senator Elkins as a last resource
will throw his influence and enough
| Republican votes which he is said to
control absolutely, to his father-in-law,
ex-senator Davis?" was asked.
ooh, I don't believe that Senator Ell
kins would do anything of the sort, "
was the answer
Surprise has been expressed in some
quarters that Senator Elkins, who
DECLARES HIMSELF
of the belief that the Republicans have
the legal and moral right to elect the
next United States Senator from West
| Virginia, should be holding off from
| MS party when ne is so badly needed
at Charleston to carry through the
Republican programme; but those who
know the Senator well expressed little
| surprise at this. There are several rea-
| sons for his apathy. The first of these
is that there is nothing in it for Elkins
just now. If he should go in and dirty
his hands at present it would be in the
| interests of another man or perhaps of
| the party, and there would be no prece-
| dent for this action on his part, judg-
| ing from his past political history.
| Then again he fears the strong opposi-
| ton of the independent Republicans in
the party who have revolted from his
| rule. He is especially solicitous as re-
| CARDS the movements of the forces be-
| hind Representative Dorr and his
| friends. During DORIS Congressional