Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-17
THE TYLER COUNTY SITUATION
Special Correspondence of the Register.

SISTERSVILLE. w Va, September 10
A resume of the political situation in Ty
Ter county from a Democratic standpoint
must be very gratifying to the followers
of that party. Tyler county has been
Republican for so many years 1t takes
very old man to remember when there was
a Democrat in enc of the county offices.
but unless all indications fail this year
there will be more than one 'unterrified"
occupying an office after the election in
November To start with, the members
of the party in the county are well organ
lied, and. realizing that they have a good
fighting chance 10 win out this fall. are
going to put forth every effort to make
the ticket they have put in the field sue
cessful one.
The Republicans claim the Democrats
have a weak ticket in the field and yet
they DO not follow the old Biblical injunc
ton of ''plucking the moat from their
own eye" If the Democrats have nomi-
mated q weak candidate for any of the
county offices the Republicans have GER
tainly gone one better and nominated even
weaker ones at their primaries short
time ago. Then there is another thing the
Republicans have not taken into consid-
Grafton, and that is the fact that there
are a lot of very sore people in the ranks
of that party who are going to cut not
only the county nominees. but in many in
stances they will vote the Democratic
ticket straight out.
These people can be blamed very little
for the course they will take during the
present campaign. 1t is a notorious fact
that the workers in the Republican party
in this county who come up for offices
are the very ones to get the knife, and
they get it good and hard, too. Some of
the men who were turned down at the re-
cent primaries of the Republican party
We're the strongest men they could have
put up for the places they were running
for. This is positively fact in more than
one case which could be mentioned.
That the Democrats are Going to make
a hard fight this year there can be little
doubt, from the evidences which already
crop out. In Sistersville as well as all
over the county, thorough organization
has been effected and this organization
will be maintained. The members of the
party in the county realize that they have
all to gain this year, and they are going
to make the fight OF their lives to gain
the desired goal. If they do not do so
they will come perilously near it, and the
other fellows Will have the hardest race
they have ever had since they have been
carrying the county.
One Of the men who is going to make it
warm for the Republicans this year is
the Hon. George M. Mccoy, nominee for
Attorney General on the State ticket. Mr.
Mccoy has lived in this county all his life
and there is not more popular man in
its confines than he is. That he will run
ahead of his ticket in a wonderful manner
is conceded by Republicans as we'll as
Democrats. He will make thorough can
vass of the county and his lieutenants are
perfecting arrangements for some big
meetings for him that will be of great
benefit, as it is a fact that wherever ne
appears he is a vote maker.
The Democrats are not letting the grass
grow under their feet in any way. All tho
nominees are hustling, and they have
many friends who are doing the same
thing. In fact, one would be led to believe
that every Democrat in the county was a
nominee for office, judging from the way
they are whooping things up. The Repub-
lcans are getting scared, too, ard while
they are planning some great work, it
seems to be very hard for them to get to-
gether The young fellows are domineeced
by the older ones and in many instances
they have been pointedly told that they
must keep under cover and take their
orders from the other fellows. In some
cases this method has been successful
but in many it has not. Any number OF
young fellows who have a right 70 be re-
ogniZed, and who have been thrown in tbs
discard, flguratively speaking will not
stand for the way they have been treat
ed, and there are many mutterings now
heard which will grow into a mighty roll
of thunder before the campaign has end
ed.
Mention has been made Of Hon George
NJ. Mccoy as one of the candidates who
will very materially assist the Democratic
ticket in the county. Another man who
will do equally as much is the candidate
for the Legislature from this county in
the person of Hon. Charles Y Benedum
Mr. Benedum has been in the oil business
here and is known very we'll and favor
ably all over the county. The candidate
on the Republican side is a very weak one
and Mr.. Benedum will have little trouble
in winning out p. B. Lowery, the Repub-
lican candidate for the office, is nor pop
ular in the party of his adoption for a
number OF reasons, particularly for one
and that is that he is a renegade Demo-
crat, who left that party because he could
not control 1t in the county. A large num-
Der of Republicans have openely avowed
their intention of voting for his opponent
Mr. Benedum, and many who have not
said word are saving considerable wood
so to speak, and when November arrives
they will vote to suit themselves and it
Will not be for Lowery, either.
Taking everything into considera ton
the Democrats here and all over the coun-
ty should feel highly elated over the way
matters stand at present, and if they stick
together, as there is every reason to be-
lieve they will they will come out on top
when the votes have been counted on
election night. H. j.
Modern Young Men Too Finicky