Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-10

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, Dec. g.
There is a busy time among the Re-
publican politicians OF West Virginia
these days, and there will be lot of
heart-aches when the final round up is
made and the full list of the Ieft-outs
is written A few weeks ago it was
given out, cold turkey, that Reese
Blizzard was to be the successor of
A B. White as collector of internal
revenue for West Virginia. That was
in the days before election. when
Blizzard was supposed to be a great
big man in Calhoun county, and when
he had pledged several hun
dred majority to the Repub-
lican ticket in that county.
He was so confident of his ability to
deliver the goods that he gave up the
circuit judgeship on what he consider
ed certainty dependant upon his
ability to take his promise out of
pawn. But of all the counties in the
State, Calhoun was the one which, from
Democratic standpoint, came near
doing what ought to have been done
Calhoun gave the Democratic ticket a
good round majority, and now the
word of Blizzard, which might former
" have stood against the world, is not
worth two bits on the dollar, in any
political stock market in the coun-
ny.
So, as matters now stand. Judge Biz
Yard is out of the running, and the
latest announcement is that the collec-
lorship is to go elsewhere. This may
be taken as authentic, as it comes with
The odor of official sanctity upon it.
When Commissioner of Internal
Revenue Wilson died, the friends of
George Wesley Atkinson thought they
saw place in which that very emf
nent salary-drawer could be placed TO
the everlasting satisfaction of himself,
and the relief of the people generally
Filled with the pride OF hope and the
vanity of desire, Atkinson hot-footed
to Washington, and the wires bore
thence the announcement that the
West Virginia contingent was engaged
in boosting him for all that he and it
was with. But they were met with
the very chilly announcement that the
commissionership would be given TO
Joseph H. Manley, of Maine, and Yves
came packing back to Charleston, d.
claring that the administration
couldn't run fast enough to overtake
and give him the office. He said the
work had killed Wilson, and was
enough to kill anybody who tackled it.
That leaves mis- excellency to fall back
on the new Federal judgeship. which
West Virginia is expected to have.
But there are those who are unkind
enough to say that even this will not
fall to Wesley's share; that Malcolm
jackson is to have it when it becomes
a reality. Well, that is something like
IL Jackson is a lawyer.
The successor of Joseph Holt Gaines
in the district attorneys office will be
Elliott Northeott, the Huntlngtonian OF
the classic face He is one of the lus>
test of the tribe OF younger Republi-
cans of the State. and must not be
left out of the reckoning by any of
them when they 60 to pushing the
goody plate around. His assistants will
be Emmett Showalter and John 4.
Thayer. and one other yet to be de-
cided upon.
Charley Elliott has been hoping and
hopping for the marshalship. and for
a time il seemed that he might be al
lowed to hop of with il. But his name
is not on the revised proof That juic!
plum will go TO a Third district man.
whose name, if it has been decided
upon. has not yet been made known.
even TO the inner circle from which
the information herein contained
comes.
This leaves Charley still in the run
ming for clerk of the Supreme Court,
In which race. at the end. he will be
named among the also rams. The real
things in that are Charley Henning. o.
Wheeling, and Edward NJ. Keauey. OF
this place. And both OF them can't
get it