The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-08-07
NO ANNoUcEMENT HAS COVE
FROM THAT OFFICIAL As YET
BUT IT IS a SURETY.
No Word Received From Hon. }. y.
Mann on Senstorship-wash
ter Political Gossip.


WASHINGTON. u. c.. August a.
That Attorney General Abe A. Lilly
intends TO enter the primary as a can.
tidate FOR governor. the Republican
politicians here haven't the faintest
doubt Fact H. they regard Cousin
Abe as being a. much OF a candidate
for that high honor this very day as
he will be on the day that be afflXes
his signature 70 the customary stif
and formal announcement and lets
9 the state press declare u from Brooke
/ TO Wyoming.
Information brought here by ponti-
clans who are close TO General Lilly.
this week. Justify the belief that be
has definitely settled upon what he
b proposes 20 do and there isn't going
3 TO be any changing face on the prop
osition. Lilly u Boing SUPERNATURAL
ing and ne has rosy hopes OF getting
what be goes after Ills entrance adds
interest and uncertainty to a race that
Is going to be about a. difficult TO
guess out In advance as any political
sprint that has taken place In the
state for many year,. according 10 the
statements % experienced veterans.
His presence and activity on the
stump in the primary campaign. - Is
/ predicted. will give a breeze and a
tang 10 the contest that Il would not
I possess were be not engaged There
r. a supercargo OF individualitic live
matter IN Abraham 4. when he goes
| into battle and unlimbers his forensic
/ field pieces.
A prominent pussy-footer made port
today from Charleston harbor with a
map OF the West Virginia war zone
that IL an ingeniously thought-out ar
I rangement which shows the trench
lines OF the conten6lng forces II i'm
presstvely discloses the location geo
graphically OF the avowed and pre-
sumed candidates for senator and gov
ernor-White. Hatfield. Darst. Robin.
son and Lilly Mann is omitted on
the map. and shows from whence the
bigger end OF the Republican vote.
II comes from away down south in the
l land OF coal mines which Is where
3 the Lilly governorship talk Is said TO
boom like German AZ centimeter.
The map argument contains little
II any. sunshine for any gubernatorial
aspirant except the adroit and re-
sourceful attorney general II was
not intended that Il should. IL was
10 doubt. expected to strike terror IN
opposing quarters. and. what Is more
important. to Impress upstate Repub
llcanE with the fact that a man who
could command the vote that the mar
argument shows so convincingly thal
a
seriously about before taking up ir
revocably with anybody else.
The Washington lookouts for tha
ship OF the Grand Old Squadron oi
the Grand Old Party which 80 trium
phantly sails the West Virginia Do
liucal seas expect TO get a better view
OF the Lilly candidacy when Genera
Lilly stops OF here in the next few
days on his way home from hearinl
" he NnHff
have had to say about II.
One hears a great deal. and hears
II often. about the Yost law. but very
little IL heard OF the Yost candidacy
The latter gave chirp here today
when a visitor from Tucker county
displayed a letter which. proves be
yond a shadow OF a doubt. that the
/ celebrated xerophilous statesman oi
J Morgantown is still plugging away al
q his ambition 20 handle the states
money now that there Is absolutely no
chance OF a single dollar OF Il comm 2
in with the breath OF the Goddess OF
, Liberty thereon smelling highballish.
I Not a chance. II Is sure TO be as frag.
4 rant as the perfume Of new -moWn nav
So Brother Ellis Yost runs no risk OF
that horrifying kind in striving TO be
come custodian OF the Golfers OF the
commonwealth.
Mr.. Yost Is still a candidate and
trends who have been in town within
0 the last few days say that he IL sun.
ming well. So far a. II is now known
! here. he Il the only candidate for
I that nomination. Il is the under.
standing In Washington that long Ed
+ Long. who has twice achieved that
office with easy grace and smashing
plurahties Is grooming himself 10 sue.
coed Auditor Darst
No word from Canada" That was
I the answer that went along the line
| every day this week whenever a
| West Nirginian met brother and
| touched on the usual subject. This
. referred particularly 90 the senatorshlp
situation and what Isaac T. Mann
thinks about 10 and Is liable 10 Say
about 10 when he gets ready. n ne
does. 20 say anything about g. Ac.
COrding TO reports here Mr. Mann Is
motoring In Canada and doubtless en-
jOying himself lie knows about ex-
Governor Whites candidacy That
was sprung before the Mercer county
senatorial possibility started on hs
trp.
a definite word from Col Mann is
not the only conclusive utterance ex-
n