Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-04
Special to the Register.

IaAthEIlOD OIl0, w. Fd", june o.
The advance guard of the big Demo-
craic State Convention to be held on
Wednesday has begun to arrive, and
the prospect is that this will be the
largest convention ever held in the
State. Already hotel accommodations
are taxed, and in some of them every
room has been engaged in advance. All
the hotels will secure rooms in private
houses for those who are unable to
find rooms in the hotels, and while
some visitors may find themselves in
rather close quarters they will all be
taken care of and can find place to
sleep and plenty to eat.
The First of the Candidates
to arrive is John H. Holt, G Hunting
ton, who came in at noon today, ac-
companied by Geo. I. Neal, of Hunting
ton, and W. e. R. Byrne, of Charles
ton. Mr.. Holt has engaged the entire
parlor floor Of the Jackson Hotel and
part Of the floor above for his head
quarters, and will take possession to-
morrow night. Hon. John T. McGraw,
Gen. ]. w. St. Clair, ]. B. Menager and
others have engaged rooms at the
Jackson and Senator Beavers, who is a
candidate for auditor from Mcdowell
county, and H. B. Mckinley, of Richie
county, a candidate for treasurer, have
also engaged headquarters there.
Judge Tavener has secured one en-
tire floor OF half a dozen rooms in a
building just opposite the Blennerhas-
sett Hotel and will open up his head
quarters there tomorrow.
Virgil A. Lewis has secured a suite
of rooms on Market street. a short dis
lance above the hotels, for his head
quarters.
]. H. Miller, Of Hinton, one of the
candidates for auditor, has secuerd a
suite of half dozen rooms on the par
Ior floor Of the Blennerhassett Hotel
and will have his headquarters there.
The Fairmont Crowd
will also be at the Blennerhassett.
They will have delegation of nearly
seventy-five persons, headed by w. A.
Ohley, c. L. Smith and o. S. McKin-
ney.
This evenings trains brought in a
few more early birds, but tomorrow az
ternoon and evening the crowds will
begin to arrive, and before Tuesday
night it is believed there will be at
least three thousand strangers here.
The news brought here by the Reg
lister this morning that Judge Lucas
had withdrawn from the race was a
great surprise and will necessarily
cause some change in the figures.
While he requests his friends to throw
their support to Senator Flournoy, it
is not believed here that he can control
all the delegates who would have
voted for him, but it is thought his
strength will be divided between Tav-
ener and Holt. The general impression
seems to be that Tavener and Holt are
the leading candidates and that it will
be close race between them.
Judge Tavener said to the Register
correspondent that he now
Has a Majority
OF the delegates. His efforts from now
on will be to hold them in line and to
prevent them from being coaxed over,
by any of the various methods of per-
suasion, to the other side. Judge Tav-
,rer has carefully avoided making any
combinations and wants the nomina-
ton, II he gets it at all, as the verdict
o. the people, unaided by any machine,
combination, corruption or trickery. He
is running simply on his own merits
and will stand or fall on them alone.
At the Holt headquarters this after
noon 1t was confidently predicted by
close friends of Judge Holt that he
would be nominated upon the first bal
lot No statemnt was made as to the
number of delegates pledged or the sec
lions from which the vote would come.
but they assert positively that only
one ballot will be required and that
Holt will be the nominee.
The most absurd political story that
has been started yet is one of
A Great Political Combine
of the two parties to parcel out the
Offices to both sides, to accomplish the
overthrow of Senator Elkins, to make
A. B. White the leader of the Repub-
licans in his stead and to send John
+. McGraw to the Senate. The story,
which was started from Republican
sources, is that Holt will be nominated
Tor Governor by the combined efforts
Of Democrats and Republicans and will
then be traded of at the polls for the
legislature, so that White will be al
lowed to secure tn Governorship and
McGraw win be sent to the Senate.