Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-07
ARNOLD C. sCHERR
Is Very Well Satisfied With the Out
look For His Nomination
For Auditor.
His Estimate of the Situation Gives
Him Confidence as to the Ultimate
Result - What Halls Nomination
Would Mean.


CHARLESTON, w. Va, May g.
Col. Arnold c. Scherr, of Mineral
county, has been here for several days
promoting his boom for the Republic
can nomination for State Auditor, and
he seems to be very well satisfied with
the outlook for his nomination. He
figures it in this way:
The Second district has no candidate
for any place on the State ticket ex-
cept for Auditor, while there are
numerous candidates for the several
places on the State ticket from ali
the other districts. For instance, there
is the First district with three candi-
dates for Attorney General, three can
didates for State Treasurer and two
candidates for State Superintendent of
Schools. The nomination of Mr.. J. K.
Hall, of Wheeling, for Auditor would
mean the defeat of every one of these
other candidates from the First district
The Third district has a candidate for
State Treasurer and one fer Judge of
the Supreme Court, one for Superin-
tendent of Free Schools and one for
Attorney General. The Fourth district
has candidate for Governor, who will
be nominated, candidate for State
Treasurer and three candidates for Su-
preme Judge. There are no candidates
for Auditor in any of the districts ex-
cept the First and Second. The candi-
date for Auditor will of course come
from one or the other of these two.
Since Halls nomination would destroy
the chances of any of the other eight
candidates in the First district, it will
be to the interest of the other eight
candidates to see that Hall is not
nominated. Moreover, Ohio county,
and especially Wheeling, has enough
already. 1t has the Governor, the jun
ior United States Senator, the Con-
gresham of the First district, the
United States minister to Columbia, in
South America Mr. Hall himself has
been pretty well taken care of in the
lucrative office of city collector of
Wheeling for six years.
These are some of the reasons why
Col. Scherr thinks the Authorship
cannot possibly go to the First district,
and if not to the First district then it
must go to the Second.
AS to his contest with Mr.. La Fol-
lette, Col. Scherr says there is no
doubt about his getting majority of
the delegates. In fact, he claims 24o of
the 254 delegates that will go to the
convention from the Second district
There are great array of candidates
for the several places on the Republic
can State ticket below those of Gov
ernor and Auditor. For Attorney Gen
eral there are Edgar P. Rucker, of Mer-
GER, the present incumbent; James E.
Hooten, of Moundsville; George E.
Cole, of Weston; Alex. Dulin, of SUIT
ton; Warren Miller, of Jackson; and
George Peffenbarger, of Point Pleasant
For State Treasurer there are Samuel
W. Atkinson, of Brooke; Samuel K.
Hanen, of Marshall; E. Wyatt, of
Writ; Holmes, of Doddridge; Riley, of
Jackson, and Peter Silman, of Kan
awha. For State Superintendent Of
Schools there are J. R. Trotter, of
Buekhannon, the present incumbent;
w. H. Anderson and Arthur Bell, of
Ohio county.
Thus it appears that there will be a
| sufficient number of candidates to
make the Republican State convention,
which will meet in this city in July
next, pretty lively one.