Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-31
FIGHT ON DAYTON
West Virginia Democrats
Concentrate Fire on Him.
McGRAW HIS OPPONENT
ELECTION OF DoVENER CoNCED-
ED IN FIRST DISTRICT.
Daniel S. Moody Creates a Stir in His
Candidacy for the Legis-
lature.
McGRAW HIS OPPONENT
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
WHEELING, Viva, October 80, 1902.
As election day draws nearer the polfti-
cal fight in West Virginia seems to be CEN
tering on the second district. where John
T. McGraw Is trying to succeed the incum-
bent, Aston Gordon Dayton. The demo-
Gratis during the last week are making more
of an effort there than in the other four
districts combined.
The fight between the two men has reach
ed the acrimonious stage. The leading poll
ticians of both parties are fiocking to the
district, and taking q hand in the scrlm-
mage Among them are several federal OF
ficeholders, and feeling has run so high that
the democratic congressional committee has
threatened to file charges of neglect OF duty
against Thomas E. Davis. collector OF In
ternal revenue. and Charles d. Elliott,
United States marshal for the northern
district. -,
The republicans are working the LABOR
vote hard in their efforts to save the dis
trict. They have flooded the district with
the information that the Injunction which
the Rosemont Coal Company secured
against the United Mine Workers during
the recent strike was procured at the In
stance of Mr.. McGraw. an officer OF the
company. and that Mr.. McGraw signed the
company's bond. AS miners are large
percentage of the voting population of the
district the effect of the Injunction agitation
may be disastrous to the democratic can
didate 1t is peculiar that In the third dis
trict Just south of the second, the demo-
Gratis are using the same argument against
the republican candidate
Claims in the Third District.
Chairman c. F. Teter of the republican
congressional committee claims majority
of at least 1900 for Dayton. The demo-
cratic claim is 1000 majority. 1t looks
however as If the tide is turning toward the
republican aspiraHt.
In the first district Congressman B. b.
Doyener. republican nominee for the fifth
time. closes his campaign at Wheeling Sat-
urday night. Mr.. o. 8. Mckinney, the
democratic candidate. closes at Fairmont
the same evening. OF the two Mckinney
has done the greater amount of work and
has drawn larger crowds, but today his
party leaders have practically abandoned
the fight and are conceding the election to
Dovener. The republican chairman, s. G.
Smith of Wheeling, made statement to-
day, claiming that .Dovener would carry
every county In the district and have at
least 5000 majority. He comedies loss of
1000 from his majority of last year.
In the fifth district the fight Between Col.
W. N Chancellor, democrat, and Harry c.
woodward, republican, has degenerated
into a campaign of vituperation. There
now seems to be little doubt Of Mr.. Wood
yards election.
There is little change in the. situation in
the third and fourth districts. The candi-
dates there are resting on their oars Most
of the work being done in their interests is
on the "gumshoe' order. aud little SPELL
binding has been done. OF course, both
sides are claiming victory at all points.
Mr.. Moody Causes Trouble.
CONSERVATION has been created in the
Ohio county republican camp by the start
ling speech Of one of their legislative candi-
dates. Daniel S. Moody. It has been the
custom in Ohio county-the Wheeling coun-
ty-for each party to select a representative
of organized labor one Of the legislative
candidates. Mr.. Moody was the republican
selection, and Sunday he made speech to
the central labor body advising them to not
only vote for him. but for the democratic
labor candidate as we'll. and swatch one