Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-05-20

Judge Campbell'S friends in Ohio
county dispute the truth of the Dow
ener claim that delegation will go
from the county to the District con-
vention to solidly support Capt. Dow
ener for denomination for Congress.
| There appears to be good ground for
, dispute, inasmuch as two delegates
elect have told a Register reporter that
they are unpledged and have declined
to commit themselves as favorable to
Dovener. A Campbell supporter stated
that there will be at least ten anti
Dovener delegates from Ohio county,
two each from Union and Clay, and six
from Liberty.
1t is known that the Dovener man.
ayers have been at work upon several
delegates-elect with indifferent sue
| cess. Judge Campbell's friends are
| making the best possible use of the
disgraceful manner in which the mass
meeting at the Eleventh street Chem
ical was conducted, and they insist that
the Campbell delegates in Liberty are
| not bound by the instructions for Dow
ener. The colored voters of the Sec
ond ward are in earnest apparently,
but the Republican leaders laugh at
| this disaffection.
| Did you ever hear of a colored man
being sore on election day." said a
prominent Republican to Register re-
| porter. "The Second ward will be in
| line. All We'll have to do will be to
show them a picture of Abraham Lin
coin and they'll fall all over themselves
getting to the polls"
/ Nevertheless, the Dovener managers
are not tickled to death with the stu
alton in Ohio county and when Capt.
/ Dovener talks of his defeat OF Camp
bell as AN easy thing" his remarks
may be taken with grain of salt.
That West Union Affair.
| Judge John A. Campbell was in the
city yesterday and was INTERCEPTED by
a Register reporter relative to his lit
tie tiff with Capt. Dovener at the coun-
ty convention at West Union, bod
bridge county. Judge Campbell depre-
ical enemies to construe his speech as
i an attack upon Dovener. He stated
that he would not have abused the
courtesy given him by the convention,
and that if he had to reach Congress
by making personal attacks upon his
opponent he would not aspire to a seat
Each speaker was given fifteen min
utes. Judge Campbell simply spoke in
general terms about the justice of Sc
curing the freest and fullest expression
of choice by the party whose nomina-
ton for Congress was equivalent to
election, as he put it. He thanked the
convention for the privilege of adj
dressing it, and remarked that it was
a privilege which had been denied him
elsewhere.
Something he said appears to have
stirred up Capt. Dovener, who went in
to detail in his reply about snapper
| conventions" the activity of postmas-
tiers appointed through his influence,
etc. He also made a statement about
the appropriations which he secured
for Chic valley Improvements.
This was a point upon which Judge
| Campbell had taken issue with the
Captain, and challenged him to joint
| discussion. When Dovener concluded,
Judge Campbell made a short state
ment in which he disputed the asser-
ton that Congressman Dovener had
secured the appropriations and offered
to meet him in joint discussion
throughout the district. Then a ques-
ton arose about the challenge prev
iously sent by Judge Campbell and
about which he complained that he had
not been shown the courtesy of either
acceptance or refusal.
1t appears that the letter was pub
lished in the Clarksburg Mail, and
Judge Campbell, being pressed for
time, cut it out of the paper and mail,
ed it to Capt. Dovener. Capt. Dovener
did not know who it came from, ac-
cording to his statement.
Judge Campbells friends allege that
Republican newspapers are closed to
him and that in several instances he
has been obliged to go to Democratic
newspapers to secure publication of
articles. They allege, also, that con-
ventions have been manipulated by
Dovener's workers, in the interest of
his candidacy, and that generally the
rank and file of the party throughout
the district has been prevented from
expressing its choice as between the
two men.
GubernatoriaI Preferences.