Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-08-09

Democrats over the river are con-
templating with no small amount of
interest movements upon the party
chess beard this week. The reason for
this is found in the fact that twenty
counties in Ohio within the next four
days choose delegates to the State con-
vention to be held at GAINESVILLE on
August 1880, and as the representa-
ton from these counties aggregates 152
votes, it will have much to do in de-
termining the fate of candidates.
Both the Kilbourne and Mclean
workers through the State are in con-
sequence on the hustle and the fights
in every county will be warmly con-
tested. Instructions are going ont
daily from the local kilbcurne head
quarters and presumably as we'll from
the Cincinnati Mclean bureau under
the guidance of Lewie Bernard. Both
arrangements expect TO get the best
Of the arguments as well. Union coun-
ty selects her delegates this afternoon,
Lucas county will make selections on
"Wednesday and Saturday the following
will make choice: Ashtabula. 5; De-
fiance, 6; Erie, s: Fayette, 4; Green,
5; Huron, G.; jefferson, 8; Logan, 8;
Lucas, %; Madison, 5; Marion, Z, OF
tawa, 4: Pickaway. s; Seneca, Il; Tus-
caravans, IL; Union, 5; Van Vert, u,
WyandCtte, 5. The case of Jenerson
is not altogether selection, though
virtually so. Primaries are held Sat
urday and the convention the following
Monday, and victory in one means sue
cess in the other.
The Kilbourne managers are making
no claims Of what they expect to do in
any of these counties, and in this are
playing on the defensive. they argue
that if they We're to make any definite
statements now it would be simply an
exposure of their hands which at this
particular time is not what they are
DESTROYS of allowing. They are adopt
ing McLean's policy OF working in the
dark and letting the ether fellow get
line upon their operations If he can.
| They are sufficiently confident, how
ever. to offer assurance that they viii
be very substantially in the running
when the finish comes.
The following from Cadiz, o., is per-
tinent to Sixteenth Ohio district poll
tics:
special to the REGISTER.
| CADIZ, O., August S.-The political
situation has not changed in Harrison
county in the past week. Scott has
gone to hunt grizzlies, and left the
field here to Hollingsworth and Pep
pard, who is not an experienced hum
! ter, so that it is most probable that
| General Hollingsworth will bag all the
coons in Harrison The Democrats
are looking on smilingly at the Repub-
/ lican congressional shindig. An ar
ticle in the Enquirer of Saturday, dat
ed at Bridgeport, August 4th, says,
among other statements:
Democrats in the Sixteenth Congress
sional district are not without mater
| ial from which 10 select a candidate.
! but there Is probably only one man
seeking the nomination. and that Us
| Hon. Albert O. Barnes, of Cadiz, who
ran against Captain Danford in 1895.
| He has been circulating through the
district, and has given the hint that he
might accept the nomination. Hon.
! D. II. Milligan, of st. Clairsville, 10
mentioned as a probable candidate.
| Those who know Judge Barnes best
know he is not a candidate, and when
he was inquired of this morning about
the above, laughed, and said the only
time he had been absent for two weeks
was on two day trip to Wheeling on
business, when he took occasion to
spend a few hours at Bridgeport and
Steubenville with old friends and re-
latives. Mr. Barnes not only denies
that he is seeking the nomination, but
says he is in no sense a candidate for
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