Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-26
WARM BATTLE AHEAD
DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL
PLUMs IN WEST VIRGINIA.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
WHEELING, w. Va, November 25.-TC
the surprise of the asprants for the federal
plums in West Virginia, it Is announced
that the distribution will not take place on
schedule time. The date set was December
10, but there will be nothing doing that
day, according to reports, nor for this year
of our Lord 1905. In fact, the appointments
promise to be delayed for several moons.
The secret of the matter is that Senator
Elkins. who has command of the situation,
is not ready yet to pick the favoriteS. There
is to be warm battle for the cotnrol Of
the legislature next year within the repub-
lcan ranks, and the senator does not want
his chances of reelection dhught between
the millstones of factionalism.
While it is accepted generally. and with
solid foundations for the belief. that Reese
Blizzard will be renamed as district attor-
ney, the senator does not want to reward
Blizzard in advance of certain contingent
cies. Blizzard is of the leaders of the
anti-Dawson faction, which will make a
desperate effort to control the party selec-
lions for the legislature, and to name him
next month would give him a prestige not
palatable to the state administration fol-
lowers.
Elliott in Same Boat
For similar reasons 1t would not be good
politics to now rename Marshal Elliott, who
is backed by the state administration. 1t
is understood Senator Elikns has decided TO
let the fever of the opposing candidates
cool down. He would like to postpone the
selections until after the legislature, a year
hence, has reelected him, and it is barely
possible that the choice could be deferred
until then. There is a precedent for this
action in the way the internal revenue col
-lectorshtp was held up. beginning last sum-
mer and continuing until after the legisla-
ture had elected Senator Scott for another
term
Senator Scott could not consistently op-
pose the Fabian tactics of his colleague,
since Senator Elkins had done him SINH
repeated The public service did not suffer
in the relationship case, and it will not
suffer now with the officials who are slated
for reappointment still hanging on An
other ParkerSburger must have caught a
glimmer of hope from the delay In pro-
ceedings. for he came out this week as a
candidate for Billiards. office The new
Richmond is j. Friend Hutchinson, a son
of an fllustrious son of West Virginia, This
confines the race for the attorneyship TO
Blizzard. w. N. Miller and Hutchinson. all
Parkersburgers.
knowledge that the entry list is open may
induce Frank w. Nesbitt of Wheeling to
bee in his bonnet and was in mind when the
state administration began looking around
for man to pit against Blizzard but the
fact that Wheeling has q representative in
Congress and United States senator
proves bar sinister to a Wheeling mans
getting big plum from the federal tree
When Miller was selected to make the race
Nesbitt was wiped out of active considera-
ton. but since the Hutchinson candidacy
bears an apparent Blizzard earmark Mes
bitt may be pushed out as Miller second
choice.