The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-08-13
At last came the expected shower.
And It ralned the next day.
HOPELESS RACE
Being Made Against Dayton-His-
tory Of the stAlso Rans.n

Being Made Against Dayton-His.
tory Of the "Also Ransn
Mountain Echo: AS VIII be seen from
our news columns, COL T. B. Davis, OF
this place, was nominated for Congress
by reclamation at the Democratic con-
vention in Martinsburg The meaning
of this Is easily discerned. The Demo-
Gratis know that the fight against the
| gallant Dayton In the Second congress
sional district Is hopeless: One after
another Of those who were prominently
mentioned for the nomination on the
Democratic ticket loudly and poclfer-
ously' declined the questionable honor
Of being slaughtered.
Junior" Brown knew that he had
spent his hard-earned (?) dollars treat
ing the boys to the tune OF about
$4,000. and all In vain.
"Jacky" McGraw, the versatile tight
roplst and knight OF the Purple Pen
Gill;" OF Taylor. had enough. He did
not think that two good lickings de-
served any more. ~
Stuart w. Walker, the handsome. of
Berkeley, said: Thanks, awfully,
boys, you are too kind; not this time;
some other time"
Forrest Brown, of Jefferson. remem-
!bered 's4. He thought OF his friend,
William, L. Wilson and declined to be-
come one Of the ALSO Rams" Of the
Democratic party.
Silver Dan" Lucas, the great origI-
nal Sixteen to- One-er,"7 OF the Second
district, shrewdly winked the other
eye and said: Boys, I pass"
"Samirel' Woods Of Barbour, who
has longed these many years for the
plum. found when 1t was about TO fall
into his open mouth, that It was too
ripe. His DEAR delicate stomach turn
ed and wlping his specs" he moved
sadly on to. walt some more for another
crop. ~ 'ss.
The man from Taylor, whose tear-be-
dimmed eyes saw. N. B.. Scott take the
oath OF office In the senate chamber ut
Washington-"Jo hnny''-who is Just
shrewd enough. selfish enough and vim
dictive enough to take advantage of the
predicamcnt:o of his party, was again on
deck. He knew his man. lie remem-
bered the "bar'l." The memory of that
night In Mineral, In 1898, stirred up his
Die again. For the moment he was too
sick and mad to do anything. "Billy"
Cornwell. ever ready to open his mouth,
reminded his great chief OF that ma
jority in Mineral OF $50 for Dayton, and
1SG for the colonel. John, John" he
said, STEADY old man; remember how
the colonel told the boys how he had
voted and worked for Dayton In 1894;
that Dayton was good MANA very
good man. Vote for me. Let Mr.. Nc
Graw take care OF himself John, don't
you remember 'Eloquence on Wheels
and how Colonel Davis wrecked that
car In 1884," Johnny's eyes snapped;
the color came back to- his face. He
was himself and for himself again.
Money, legislature United States SEN
ate. the colonel defeated. Henry G. ef-
fcctually retired. didn't he think fast?
We said he knew his man. 1t did not
matter that Mr.. Davis had said re-
peatedly and cmphatically that he
could not and would not accept the
nomination. He remembered that the
colonel made some such remark about
taking the nomination for state sena-
tor, and yet wnded In and tried to get
Il and failed. bat succeeded in beating
Bernard Baker. II
Colonel Davis Is nominated. The
McGrawizcd Demo-Pops will awake
from their trance. We Will tell our
readers from time to time what they
Will see when they awake.