The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-14

The Parkersburg Sentinel is known
within its limited field of circulation
ana influence as parhaps the most rab!d
Democratic sheet in the state of West
Virginia. 1t resembles in many re-
spects the interruptions Wheeling Reg
lstar-only more 50 in each point Of re-
sembiance. II every other newspaper
In the south were to pronounce section-
alIsm dead, the Sentinel would continue
in the uureconstructed class. To this
Wood county bovine RepublIcanlsm Is
the red rag that excites 1t to insane rage
with or without provocatlon, generally
without it. 1t will stoop to any mis-
representation calculated to injure the
Republican party or its candidates.
A case in point is the attempt OF the
Sentinel in It's issue Of Friday to stir UP
a muss over the ballot in the Fa.rmont
convention last Tuesday, in which Ms
j, E. Dana, Of Ranawha, defeated ex-
Congressman C. p. Dorr, for delegate
at-large to the Philadelphia convention.
Says the Sentinel:
When the roll OF the counties had been
called, and the secretary was adding up
the vote, member Of the ring VINO was
Quick at figures discovered that DOrr was
elected by n small majority. He knew
this would never do, so the mnchlne'
which was under perfect control, was puI
in motion, and the announcement OF the
vote was held back, on the ground that
the secretary had not completed US ian-
MI. M. NRNn "a
hnsty conference with James Is. Han, OF
Wheeling, the rinS candidate Tor audi-
tor, md deal was arranged, by when
Ohio county was to change us vote 70
Dana, and start stampede for MN, IN
return for which Duna was to guarantee
TO Hall the vote OF Knnawha county In
tho Republican state convention.
II Is u matter of record that ono
county changed its vote and started
stampede which ended in Dnnn'S election
by q large majority, although II the vote
had been announced at the time II was
completed Dorr would have been the dele
gate-0t-large.
The SantineHs allegations are untrue
from beginning to end. The secretary
of the convention, Mr.. W. E. Glasscock,
of Mouougatta county. will bear out the
Intelligencer, in the following true
statement Of the facts, as will also Mr..
Perclval Phillips, OF the Pittsburgh Dis
patch, whose aid was enlisted by the
secretary in compiling the figures Of the
ballot:
To begin with, Ohio county did not
change her vote after the ballot was
completed, as the Sentinel alleges. On
the contrary, ohlo's change to sixty
seven for Dana was announced by Char
ley Hennlng, long before It's completion.
as will be seen In the account Of The
convention proceedings in the Intelll'
gencer of last Wednesday. 1t Will be
remembered there was objection to Mr..
Wiley casting the vote OF Summers
county; the change of Ohio county S
vote, was made before Summers coun-
ty had voted, as will be seen by the fol-
owing excerpt from the Intelligencer's
account last Wednesday:
No other nominations being made. the
ballot was taken. Ohio voted mar ana
half but before the completion OF the
ballot, Charley Hehnlng arose ana an
nounced 0hio's change TO 81 votes ior
Dana.
A delegate moved to strike out the vote
NOuANN VII NllN sANNhNA s'''tN
no delegate from Summers was present.
Mr.. Wiley. who had voted for Summers
| county, arose and presented kilograms
showing he was an authorized proxy.
At least ten counties voted after
ohlo's change OF vote was announced
by Mr. HennIng. So the sentIners claim
that "a member of the ring discovered
that Dorr was elected by small ma
jorIty" without ohio's vote, is Incorrect.
As u matter OF fact the Intelligencef
printed in detail the vote as 1t was COM
pleted, before any county had changed
with the exception of Ohio, which
changed during the ballot as related
above). and 1t showed Dana's election
over Mr.. Dorr by majority of seventy
one votes, as follows: