Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-05

Special to the Register.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, October 4.
Senator Elkins seems to have abandon
ed the fight in Kanawha county ami
conceded it to the Democrats. He has
lost faith In his trusted leaders here
Grant P. Hall, o. A. Petty and K. w.
Staunton-and thrown them overheard.
He has commissioned Consul Poll
Snyder to look after his interests I'M
til after the election and placed in his
hands all the inducements he expects
to offer in this part of the State. He
is said to have come to the conclu-
sion that Hall, Petty and others were
playing him false; and instead of try
ing to elect legislators from this coun-
ty, two members from Fayet.e. and
so on, were devoting efforts to elect the
candidates for the county offices, while
they seem to have put aside he work
of electing members of the Legislature
as a secondary matter. 1t is said that
Mr.. Elkins is lukewarm on the ques-
ton of electing the Republican candi-
date for Congress, Mr.. Gaines. He ax-
poets to secure only a few members
o. the Legislature from this Congses-
sional district, at best, and he IS not
inclined to waste much energy nere.
He GAS not the ghost Of a chance CT
electlng members from any of these
counties except Kanawha, Fayette,
Raleigh and Upshur and the delegate
district Of Mcdowell and Wyoming.
Upshur, Wyoming and Mcdowell are
so largely Republican that it is use
less to waste much exertion or care
on them. He has abandoned hope OF
Kanawna. and he seems TO think that
Fayette and Raleigh are the only coun-
ties where work can be done with any
hope of its doing any good.
The ring Republicans of Kanawha
have begun to sour on the New Next
can because he seems to have lunked
on the State ticket. the several county
tickets and even some of the Congress
sional tickets, and giving his exclusive
attention to those counties in which he
hopes to elect members of the Legisla-
ture. He distrustS his former lieu
tenants and they very cordially dis
like him for it. Sc altogether there is
not the best OF feeling existing between
ElkinsN and some OF the Republican
leaders in this part of the State.
The leaders Of the Kanawna county
ring are discouraged over the out
look. They hautano hopes of carrying
the county and they see nothing
ahead for them in any other direction,
since Elkins has given them the cold
shoulder.
In the meantime the leaders of the
antI-ring faction of the Republican
party in Kanawha are very much elat-
ed over the favorable turn of affairs.
Having succeeded in getting favorable
election commissioners appointed and
satisfactorily arranged all the details
of their organization, they feel that
they have nothing TO do now but to
hold their forces in line till election
day.
S. C. Burdette and John B. Floyd
will start out next week to hold a
series of meetings in the county in or
der to jolly the antis and prevent any
possible assertions from the ranks.
The ring Republicans labor under the
difficulty of not having any one among
them who can make an effective speech
on the stump. All the able speakers
among the Republicans are fighting the
Republican ticket.
The members of the County Court
Woodall and Keeney-who refused to
be used as tools to control the county,
are coming in for unstinted praise. 1t
lis reliably stated that they were given
to understand that they could get ten
thousand dollars OF their services in
this matter, but they declined the Of