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

Hfom q 5taI COrTSspUuuSuIs
PARKERsBURG. March S.-Parkers-
burg's a good town; Parklnson's q
good mar. The fifteen hundred Repub-
iIcans of West Virginia in attendance
at the meeting of the State League Of
Republican Clubs to-day endorse both
propositions. They are pleased with
their entertainment by the good people
Of the Wood county metropolis, and de-
cIdedly they are pleased with the selec-
tIon Of Parkinson, Of Moundsville. as
president of the league. The Marshall
county mans boom was launched We'd
nesday night; did not become generally
known until morning. and this evening
success has crowned the efforts Of his
many good friends, prominent among
whom were the Ohio county delegation,
Warden Hawk, DR.. Steele. Andy Sea-
mon, AL Hooter, and his .old man, and
all the other fellows from old Marshall.
Marshall has on some occasions COM
plalned that she has not received the
consideration at the hands Of the West
Virginia Republican organization that
the size OF her Republican majorities
entitled her to, but on this occasion at
least she has no room for complaint.
Tonight the boys from Moundsyille are
1olllfying all they know how" while
there is gloom and disappointment
among the Wood county folks.
While the delay in the announcement
Of the Wood county vote caused the lull
in the proceedings during which the
slump to Parkinson occurred and made
his nomination assured on the first bal
lot, yet the Marshall county man would
likely have won on the second ballot
without the opportune family scrap In
Wood.
The visitors are unanimous in the be-
lief that They have elevated first class
man to the presidency Of their organi-
cation. and on all sides the belief finds
expression that Parkinson win make
the league power of great import in
the approaching campaign.
The feature of the day. aside from the
election OF officers. was the address this
afternoon by United States Senator
John NJ. Thurston. Of Nebraska, whose
defcnes of the Mckinley administration
made his utterances on this occasion
authoritative. As he made point after
point, and boldly and fearlessly and un-
e0uivocally stated the party position on
the questions at issue this year, the
audience was swayed by his eloquence,
and kept busy expressing its satlsfac-
ton with the good gospel Of Republic
canlsm 1t was SO happily privileged to
hear.
OF course the governorship is being
generally discussed tonight, and the
Freer and White people are bending
every energy and all their powers Of
persuasion to attract converts to their
respective standards. In Parkersburg,
the home candidate has the call appar-
entity, but among the visiting politicians
sentiment seems to be evenly divided.
This was shown in the afternoon at the
league meeting, when bith White and
Freer were given magnificent ovations.
To-day, Colonel F'reer assented to the
arrangement in Ohio county by which
the delegation to the state convention
is to be made up equally of Freer and
White people, thus evadlng a fight at
the primaries that might engender Bit
terness to such an extent that party
success in November would be threat
ened. Mr.. White, on the other hand, il
not satisfied with the compromise, but
It is not believed he will insist upon a
contest in Ohio in the face of the fact
that his friends Thereon most Of them
--have favored the compromise.
Superintendent Of Schools W. H. AM
derson, Of Wheeling, is here to-day. and
said to the Intelllgencer that under GER
tain contingencies he would enter the
contest for the nomination for state su-
perintendent. 1t is understood he is not
DESTROYS of injuring the chances Of Mr..
Hall, for auditor. and that that is the
contingency he has In mind.
Mr.. Halls headquarters in Parlor A,
at the jackson, were thronged with
friends and Supporters from ali parts Of
the state to-day, and the Indications
are that the Ohio county man will lead
the audltorlal bunch when the conven-
ton show down" is ut hand. Mr..
scherr is making q great fight, and d
undoubtedly strong In the eastern part
Of the state. Auditor Lafollette, too, Is
very much in the swim in the auditor
ial duck-pond. and the prestige of being
in office Is not to be sneezed at. The
other candidates for auditor are strong
in their respective localities.
Parkersburg has entertained the vlsI-
tors royalty, and everybody feels that
It has been good to be here. Nothing
has been too good for the visiting Re-
publicans; from Mayor Turner down to
the humblest bootblaclG, cordlallty and
the effort to make one ut home have
prevailed. OF course the wheeling
crowd feel that their city could have
done n trihe better-but then that's
natural, and they wouldn't DO good
Wheelingites II they felt otherwise.
Among the Republicans from Wheel
ing who came down this morning were
ex-Mayor Butts. Robert Anderson, Les
ter Smith, Nathanial MountfOrd, Sam
Humphreys, Adolph Fritz, George Bell,
u. M. Maxwell, John ArbOnz. W, H,
gill. r. L. schatcr, DIT. stillynrd, DR..
Otto, Councilman William Baird, omCer