Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-08
AFTERMATH



Special to the Register.
WESTON, w. Va, June Tit was
the refusal of the Wheeling Intelli-
gencer to publish a report of the con-
vention held in Clay district, Ohio
county, to select delegates to yestsr-
DAYS convention that caused the up
roar and disorder yesterday. Jasper
P. Bradley, of New Cumberland. who
acted as Judge Campbells personal
representative throughout the contest,
says a report of that convention. such
as was printed in the Register, was
offered the Intelligencer, but is refused
to accept it, and left Mr.. Bradley no
means of getting that matter before the
convention, except to read it from the
Register. But the Demonstration that
it created for Mr.. Bradley to offer evil
dence, even though it were true, from
Democratic paper, was one of the most
remarkable that has been seen in a
West Virginia convention for long
tipe.
Chairman Perry A. Shanor, of Sis
tersville, is the only man who came out
of it all a hero, and it is due to his
very good Judgment and wonderful ex-
ecutive ability that there were no per-
sonal encounters. He was from first
to last absolutely fair and impartial,
and no amount of bullying and noise
could move him an iota.
The only real contest, and the only
thing of interest was the fight over the
adoption of the report of the commit
tee on credentials. That report was
made by Chairman j. C. Brady, of Ohio
county, from the stage. He had hard
ly commenced till there were signs of
a conflict, and it is now the wonder of
everyone how Judge Campbell's sixty
delegates made such a fight. They
certainly were fighters, everyone of
them, and when they voted on the
/ adoption of the committees report,
Chairman Shanor even was unable to
determine which side had it, so volur,-
inous was the outpouring of voice.
Jasper p Bradley's presentation of
the alleged wrongs which Judge Camp
bell had suffered at the hands of the
Dovener crowd in Clay district was an
inspiring sight. He began to speak
from his place in the Hancock county
| delegation at the front of the center of
the house, but the uproar raised by
| the Dovener delegates soon made it
| impossible for him to proceed. When
| it was seen that he was reading from
| the Register, there We're cries of "PAt
! him out, F" Throw him through win
dow" ETC., till the hall was a mass of
bowling, shouting, screeching, coatless
| men with fists clenched and shaking
| in each others faces. Fully a dozen
times did Bradley attempt to go on
| with the reading, Chairman Shanor
with the steady precision of clock,
| hammered the table with a mallet,
| but he created no impression on the
| crowds noise. He simply hammered
| away till the convention and gallery
wore out its lungs. Then Bradley had
another chance to speak. He had not
uttered a dozen sentences, till the con-
vention was again in an uproar. Fully
| twenty men from the back of the
house started down the aisles toward
| him, but he saw what was coming,
and quickly leaped 30 the stage. There
he stood defying them to do their
worst, and shouted with lungs that
| must have been lined with leather that
he would stand his ground the remain
| der of the week but that he would fin
ish what he had to say. Dozens of del
egates STROBE to the front of the hall,
| and tried to get the chairman's eye,
shouting and waving their hats, but
he refused to see anyone, or to do any
| thing but splinter the table before him
until the convention came to order.
| For an hour, there were not a dozen
| distinguishable words spoken. Charley
| Henning, of the Ohio county delega-
| ton, tried from chair to induce his
| delegation, which was leading in the
| row, to allow Bradley to finish his re-
cital, but he was howled down. At
| last Chairman Shanor succeeded in
| getting the convention to listen a mo-
| ment to him. He warned them that
Bradley had the floor and in so far as
he could, he would protect him in his
right to it. At last the Dovener dele
| gates became so fatigued with their
shouting that they desisted to a de-
gree and Bradley was allowed to finish
reading the Registers account of the
Clay district meeting. He announced
that it was not through choice he wens
to Democratic paper for evidence.
He said he had been forced to it be-
cause the Republican papers had re-
fused Judge Campbell fair play. The
Registers report, he said, he had veri-
| fed completely, and it was correct.
] Unfortunately Clay district had not
been brought before the committee on
credentials, and there was no contest,