The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-03-09

Piles WI. and be i further
Resolved. That me pte.lqeiit on tai
Taylor 9 mesNnge extending 70 him our
heiTty Hympathy and assuring him Of our
'uppo'' The Credentials
The report Of the committee on Gre
dentiaIs, Of which 8. v, Mathews, OF
Wood, was chairman. and c. h. Hen
ming, OF Ohio, secretary, was as fol-
lows:
Your committee on Credentials ana b,isia
OF representation beg 10 submit tle toi-
Firsf-Thnt the basis Of Representa- tlon
be as follows: Each COUNTY 20 cas. nlle
MCKINLEY IN 1885. total vote being LOS
apDoFtioned a. follows: HARBOUR 4es
iBerfeiey 8: Boone. q: BrnStgn' les
Brooke, 2; Cabell. ~ CALHOUN, 3; cay n
Crant is: Greenbritr, Il; Bnmpahire. q
Hancock. 8: Hardy. q Harrison, S9s JACK
son, IS: JefferRona -: kauawha. y; LsHit'
~: Lincoln, Is: Logan Z; Marion, y; A .ar-
Is; Mingo, 6; Monogalia, q; Monroe. ~:
MorFnn II: Mcdowell, ~ NicholaA, y
Ohio, 81; Pendlgton, s; EleaSnnts, % Foea-
h0ntas, @: Preston, S5i Putnam "
Raleigh. y; Randolph, ~: Rtchie, y;
Rome. is: Summer. is; Taylor. IS; Tuck
a., iS; Tyler. ~. upghuE, - Wayne, ~
Webster, I; WetEel. u; Writ, II: Wood, 4O;
Wyoming, Z; total, LOIS; necessary Tor
N' siSeseoad-That the delegates Of the West
virginia Republican Society. Of Washing-
ton, D. C., be invited to participate in this
convention. -.
each county make their own organization
and Determine who Is entitled to vote.
General Van Bukey, Of the West
Virgihla Republican Association, OF
Washington City. objected to the re-
port because It deprived his organiEa-
tion Of representation. MT. Gregory,
Of Tyler, moved that the Washington
boys be given five votes in the eonven-
ton, and to this the meeting agreed
without opposition.
The Nominations.
The election of officers being next in
order, nominations for president were
called for, speeches being limited to Ave
minutes. on the roll OF counties, w.
w. Wentz, Of Barbour, yielded 10 Wood.
Mr.. Lindsey, OF Berkeley county, named
Thomas F. Barrett, Of Wood county.
A delegate from Taylor present.
ed the name OF Ira E. Robinson, OF
Grafton. His speech was a winner. a
few years ago West Virginia was only
known by her ginseng. skunk skins and
her Democracy" he said and drew
giaring word picture Of the change that
has been brought about.
AFR. ]. 2. Prohtt, Of Petersburg,
placed in nomination iis;fellow towns
man, ]. W. VAndervort, in speech
that was really eloquent, Elect him
your president and you will flourish like
the green bay tree" said the speaker.
Grant Pitzer, OF Berkeley, seconded
the nomination OF Barrett.
C. B. Scott, OF Bethany made plea
for fairness, and hoped the convention
would look with favor upon Mayor ].
C. Parkinson, Of Moundsvllle.
Election Of officers.
There were numerous seconds to all
these nominations. and the voting be-
gan by alphabetical order Of the coun-
ties. By either design or inadvertence.
Wood county, which Is nearly the last
on the list, caused the election of Mayor
]. c, Parkinson, OF Moundsville, with
out a second ballot having to be taken.
When Wood was called the totals OF
votes showed the following: Robinson,
22g; VanderVoort, 215; Parkinson, 1865.
and Barrett, 1856, but Wood announced
that she was not ready to vote. Ohio
county's vote was eleven for Barrett,
eleven for Vandervort, eleven for Rob-
lnson, and thlrty-four for Parkinson.
Still there was a wait for Wood.
which insisted she was not ready, and
then there was stampede. Morgan
county was the first to make a change
going with her eleven to Parkinson.
Then they came quicker than the sec
Rotary could keep count OF them, all
changing to Parkinson. There were
cries for the vote OF Wood, which could
have stopped the stampede, made the
lowest man drop from the race, and
then proceeded with anotherballot And
vet the Wood vote was held back, and
the slump to Parkinson continued. Then
Wood announced she was ready and
gave twenty-seven to Barrett and thir-
teen to Vandervort. 1t was too late
then to avert the current Of the change
and Mr.. Vandervort came upoE the
stage and asked all his friends to
change 10 Parkinson, and Mr.. Barrett
moved that the election OF Parkinson
be made by acclamation, which was
| carried with q vengeance. The vote out
previous to Woods voting showed a to-
tai OF 745, while there were nearly 1000
votes In the convention.
The other oficers.
The election of the vice presidents
and all the other officers was accom-
plIshed without ballot, there being no
| two nominees for the same place. There
is a vice president from each OF the four
congressional districts and those Sc
lected are ]. g. Carter, or Doddrldge;
Kinsey Qulque. OF Berkeley; Dr. Gam
| bic. OF Kanawha. and Prof Il. A.
Rags, OF Mason county. Each of these
ts from the congressional district In the
order given.
Douglas Hughes, OF cabell. was re-
elected secretary, and Frank s. Smith,
OF this city, made treasurer.
Delegates to the national league meet
Ing az 81. Paul are Thomas F. Burnett
and ]. W. Vandervort, of this city; Ira
Il. Robinson, OF Grafton; W. B. Math
ews, OF Moundsville; J. c. Campbell. OF
Brooke, and Phil Waters, OF Kanawha.
This concluded the business session.
Tonight, with music and the pres
ence Of many ladies on the stage, the
love feast took place. There were
speeches by H. II. Fitch, pf Cabell:
'CongressTnen Dovcner and Freer: Hon.
A. b. White. OF this city; r. w. White,
OF Point Pleasant, ana Treasurer Ken
dali.
It WINS shortly after ten when Mr.
Mathews brought the Eavel down and
declared the meeting adjourned after
the most pleasant and profitable meet
Ing In the history OF the State leaElie.
r. NJ. A.
A QUESTION OF vERAcITY,