The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-05
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Ohm e,ornwe Ell. for Governor. Is IS q;
backwoodsman--re sides in So The $50 $50
lated county of Hampshire. He was :i1 TOO
young TO be identified with the LOST
Cause but having been reared among
ex.Confederates mainly he partaKes
Of their mossback and unreconstrucs
ed ideas Situated as he is and Where
he is, he is away behind the times as
regards the country's development
and greatness, due to the republican
party's protective policies He IS the
editor of the weekly Hampshire Re-
view and also devotes some attention
to The practice of law. He is a
brother of w. B. Cornwel1, who recent
" came to this city from Hampshire.
We understand he is soon TO come
here to engage in the law business
with his brother. He will probably
defer his coming, now that he is
Democracy's leader, until after Daw-
sons election. Mr. C0rnwell is a
member of our State Senate He is
sprightly man and rather a good talk
er, though his voice is little against
him. being somwhat mushy.
William G.. Peterkin, for Secretary
of State, is the son of Bishop G. w.
PeterlSin, and resides in Wood county.
He is young man and said to be
promising lawyer. OF course, ne IS
not the hustling and magnetic man
his Republican competitor is, or We
would have heard something to that
effect.
William l. Mansfield is another
backwoodsman, as ne resides IN
Wayne county, and edits weekly
newspaper at Wayne c. H He IS
Democrat and is so because Democ-
racy and moonshine whiskey are
about the only questions that are or
ever were discussed in that wild
country. For Auditor he will never
touch Arnold Scherr.
Rev NJ B. Helmick. for Superin-
tendent OF Free Schools, has been
prea ching SO long that he must be
wholly out OF touch with educational
affairs He is now located at ST.
Mary's.
Lawrence 4. Reymann, for Attorney
General, is the son of the wealthy
Wheeling brewer, Anton Reymann.
The latter is a Republican, but the
Democrats thought, doubtless, that
in nominating the son the old man
might render them some financial as
sistance Young Reynann would be
a lightweight in the Attorney GeneT-
ais office. In discussing his legal
ability last night, a Denocratic law
yer remarked that ne did not sup
pose the young man had ever had a
case in or out of Court.
Robert S. Carr, for Treasurer, is a
back number who resides in Charles
ton. The only prominence he ever
had was given him by the Republi-
cans and greenbackers. They elect
ed him to the State Senate over a
Democrat.
NJ H. Dent and Henry w. Gilmer,
for Judges of Supreme Court, reside
in Taylor and Greenbrier counties,
respectively. The former is the pres
ent Democratic member of that Court.
Gilmer5 seems to be new discovery,
as we never heard of him till he was
nominated.
R. P. Chew, of Jefferson, and Lewis
Bennett, of Lewis, two has beens,' y
were the nominees for Presidential
electors.
The ticket may be perfectly salts
factory to the Democracy. There is
nothing about it that looks other than
easy for the Republicans. But with
our 10000 majority that we expect to
roll up in November, anything else
they might have put up would look
| just as easy.