Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-10
HUBBARD WINS POINT
THAT HE WILL DE-
FEAT MR.. DovENER.

| WHEELING w, Va, June 9-The de-
cisive Hubbard victory In Lewis county. the
| first of the counties to lead of In the race
| for the republican congressional nomina-
| ton in the first district, Is accepted as In
| dicating Hubbard's nomination at the
Wheeling convention June 10. Today the
Hubbard and Dovener forces are clashing
in Brooke and Marshall counties, and the
confidence held by the Hubbard people In
the outcome In Lewis Is duplicated relative
to Brooke and Marshall. The battle royal
viii be in Ohio county next Tuesday, the
home of Representative Dovener and his
rival.
The Ohio county issue has stimulated the
betting mania and large wagers have been
laid The result Is to go by districts, and
the question with those of sporting pro-
clivities Is as to which candidate will get
the majority of delegates. Some districts
are assuredly Hubbard in tendency while
others lean to Doyener, although every dis
trict is considered fighting ground Ohio
has seventy eight delegates and bets are as
to whether Hubbard viii get more than
forty-seven
II Brooke and Marshall today follow
LAWS footsteps, the fight may be said to
ba over, for with these counties and a ma
Jo:ity In Ohio, besides certainty of sup
port in the rest of the district, Hubbard
Will be as good as nominated before the
convention meets. The Dovener people
will die hard and they can't be counted out
until Ohio has had its say. If Dovener
manages to pull out goodly number of
delegates in this county, he will fight on,
but with only a minority his followers it
is believed, will not have the heart to wage
vigorous battle in the rest of the dis
trict
Resort to Ancient History.
The Dovener forces have been digging up
ancient history with which to confound
Hubbard. They go back to the Grant and
Hayes campaigns to show that Hubbard
in those days looked with favor upon
Greeley and Tilden. AS the same argu-
ments were used against Hubbard In 1890,
when both were candidates for the office
they now seek, and as Hubbard beat Dove
ner in their own county and beat him de-
cisively In the convention, the effect in this
generation, 1t Is declared, cannot be ex-
pected to be impressive.
The most notable feature of the year is
the reticence of legislative candidates. In
deed, the existence of many legislative
seekers Is questionable. Only In Marion
county has rush developed for the seats
in the house Of delegates. In other coun-
ties no names are mentioned no announce
ments have been made, Notwithstanding the
dates for selection are but a few weeks Off
Inc ONO county republican executive
committee was willing to put the names OF
all candidates for the house of delegates on
the primary ballots and let the voters vote
direct for them for the first time in local
history, but the committee was confronted
with a painful vacuum. They Will be Sc
lected at a county convention three weeks
distant and there are only three candidates
discovered for the four places. OF course,
the convention will be able to fill the ticket,
but the condition is one that Is entirely
new. 1t is not local, because 1t applies to
other counties and to both parties.
Trouble in One District.
There is due to be some trouble in the
second senatorial district, composed of
Marshall, Tyler and Wetzel counties The
nomination for the senate this year goes to
Wetzel according to the custom of rotation,
and Wetzel has three candidates: Andy
Clark. who served term; Mayor Frank
w. Clark of New Martinsvtlle and ]. w.
Santlee. All of them. however, failed to
avail themselves OF the space reserved for
senatorial candidates on the Marshall coun-
ty primary ballots. Charles e. Carrigan of
Marshall, whose term as senator has ex-
pired, was prompt to have his name in
serted under the senatorial caption. AS a
result, he will get Marshalls delegates in
the senatorial convention and will only lack
a vote or two to renominate himself
1t Is not known whether the three men
from WetZel knew of the requirement I'M
posed by the Marshall county committee.
The nomination will have to go to Wetzel
or Marshall because the other county, Ty-
ler already has a member of the senate.
Thomas z. Hill, and the state constitution
prohibits two members from the same
county.
Marshall republicans are inclined to be
somewhat radical this year in other re-
spects. They will vote today on the ques-
ton of electing United States senators d.
rectly by the people and their legislative
nominees will be expected to work toward
that end. Several members of the Ohio
county committee were in favor of putting
the candidates for the United States Senate
on the primary ballots had there been more
than one. Elsewhere in West Virginia there
lative caucuses OF the nomination of United
States senators and having the nominations
made al a state primary.
Effort at Harmony.
Realizing that It will take hard work and
united action to carry Kanawha, the
largest county in the state, the republicans
there are trying to get together. Gov. Daw-
son and Grant Hall. who led the rival fac
tons two years ago, spoke at an open
meeting of the county executive committee
this week and counseled harmony. There
was a disposition to put the factious past
upon the shelf. The majority of those in
attendance favored conventions this year to
get away from the troubles occasioned by
more or less malodorous primaries, and the
county committee acted accordingly. But,
after the open meeting adjourned the COM
mittee went into executive session and re-
versed the program by fixing a date for pr-
mares. How this subsequent action will
contribute to peace and harmony remains
to develope.