Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-18
PLAIN GEOGRAPHY
Ii Playing Havoc With Republican
Candidates for state
. Glance at the Situation From a
Charleston Standpoint Reveals
Some Interesting Facts-The Fight
Against La FolIette.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, June IT,
Geographical location is playing havoc
with the ambitions of the State adj
ministration who are candidates for
reelection. First Treasurer Kendall
was laid out by the candidacy of A. B.
White for Governor from Kendall's
W county. AS soon as it became
evident that White would be nominal
ed, Mr.. Kendall threw up the sponge
and announced his candidacy for Con-
gress in the fourth district. His de-
feat for the Congressional nomination
at Point Pleasant the other day eff
f~ectually laid him on the shelf.
Attorney General E. P. Rucker and
Superintendent of Schools ]. r. Trot-
ter are both candidates for reelection,
but n of them and probably both
will have to be laid aside for the rea-
son that they both hail from the same
Congressional district (the Third,
and the further reason that Mr.. Sill
man from Kanawha and the Third dis
trict has the call, it is believed, for
the nomination for Treasurer.
If ]. X. Hall should be nominated
for Auditor it would interfere with
the candidacy of Judge Henry Bran
non for the nomination for the posi-
ton he now holds on the Supreme
bench.
Ordinarily the State officers are all
re-nominated for 1T least the second
term, except the Governor, who is not
eligible for reelection, but it so hap
pens now that o a single Republi-
can State officer has anything like an
assurance of being re-nominated. On
ly three are candidates-the Auditor,
Attorney General and Superintendent
Of Schools-and the probability is that
only one will be nominated.
The administration is fighting La
Toilette, and will try to defeat him
with either Hall OF Scherr. La Fol-
lette has occupied the position OF
watch dog of the treasury since he
has been in office, and he naturally
incurred the displeasure of the other
State officers, who were inclined to be
very loose or liberal with the public
funds. La Toilette would sign no
warrants on the treasury unless au-
thorized by law, as he interpreted the
law, and the consequence is that there
is a great deal more money in the
treasury now than there would have
been had Mr.. La Toilette not been the
Auditor, and for this reason the other
State officers will undertake to defeat
him for denomination.
Governor Atkinson and other State
officers are inclined to support Schers
as against Hall, and will throw their
full strength to the Mineral county
man.
If Scherr should be nominated for
Auditor, S. w. Atkinson, of Brooke,
and S. r. Hanen, of Marshall, would
be strong candidates for the nomina-
ton for treasurer. IL either OF them
were to beat Silman, of Kanawha, Ii
would make the nomination of Ruck-
er for Attorney General or Trotter for
Superintendent of Schools probable
and both of them possible.
Thus the nomination of most of the
candidates for State Offices on the Re-
publican ticket is contingent upon
geographical location.
II it be found impossible to re-nom-
mate Trotter the honor would likely
fall upon Prof. Thos. C. Miller of the
West Virginia University, and a citi-
zen of Marion county. provided Hall
were nominated for Auditor. or upon
Prof. W. H. Anderson and Prof. F. II.
Crago, of Wheeling, If the nomination
for Auditor should go either TO La
Toilette or Scherr.
Judge Henry Brannon, who was
nominated and elected by the Demo
cratic party twelve years ago, wants
to be reelected and is a candidate for
the Republican nomination, HAVING
gone over to the Republican party foul
years ago and advocated the policies
Of that party - tar a. 4 Wa consist