The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer

ALL ARE SATISFIED
And Many Republicans Delighted
With the Ticket.

DEMOCRATS TRY TO BELITTLE IT.
It Will Stand Comparison With the
Opposition, However, from Head to
Foot--Why
the Pan-Handle Got
Nothing Explained by a Politician.

A Good Ticket in all Respects.

When the full Republican State
Ticket was known in Wheeling there
was the usual general expression of
opinion about its merits, by members
of both parties. Every Republican
seen was entirely satisfied with its
makeup, and those who know the candi-
dates best were delighted. The nomin-
ation of Mr. Davis for governor and
Mr. Hyer for auditor, known the night
before, were heartily approved by Re-
publicans, even by those who wanted
somebody else to fill those positions on
the ticket, and every new nomination
announced on the INTELLIGENCER'S
bulletins seemed to cause greater and
greater satisfaction.

The only demur heard from a Repub-
lican was a complaint or two that Ohio
county and the Pan Handle had not re-
ceived any of the big plums. Several
responses were heard to this. One
prominent Republican
remarked:

Ohio county has the Congressional
nomination, and it was only fair that
any other good thing for the First dis-
trict should go to the south and. Be-
sides. Mr. Campbell's nomination for
elector will wonderfully strengthen the
ticket.

Another Republican said: "I would
have been surprised if Ohio county or
any of her neighbors had got anything
that any other section wanted." Here
was Ohio county had a candidate for
governor, one for auditor, one for su-
perintendent of schools and one for at-
torney general, while Brooke county
had a candidate for auditor and Mar-
shall county one for attorney general.
Nobody could do really effective work
for one of these without antagonizing
all the others. If the Pan Handle had
pushed her man for it, she could have
united on any one of these offices and
got it easily.

Mr. T. S. Riley, Democratic candidate
for attorney general, on whose nomina-
tion there was such kicking among
Ohio county Democrats, was quoted
yesterday as saying the Republican
ticket was the weakest that could have
been chosen. An equally prominent
Democrat stopped a young lady on the
street, showed her a list of names of the
candidates and proceeded to descant on
the weakness of each to an auditor who
probably cared as little who were the
Republican nominees as she did who
was king of Dahomey.

Another Democrat, and probably a
wiser one, said to one of those who were
gleefully belittling the Huntington
ticket: "Don't you imagine we are go-
ing to have any dress parade campaign.
I know all those nominees but two,
and they are as hard men to beat as
they could have chosen."

Most Republicans had their favorites
among the nominees. Some thought
Mr. Davis the strongest, some Mr.
Hyer, others Mr. Miller. But no Re-
publican was heard to express an
opinion that a man on the ticket was
weak. It is recognized as a good, even,
deserving ticket, and every Wheeling
Republican is for it enthusiastically.

At fifteen minutes past twelve o'clock
last night a special train full of dele-
gates arrived on the Ohio River road,
having made the run from Huntington
in exactly eight hours, but this includ-
ed an hour's stop at Parkersburg for
supper.

Eight cars started from Huntington
and came to Parkersburg, but two
coaches brought the delegates from
there to Wheeling and way points. On
the front car was an immense streamer
bearing the words, "Harrison and
Reid." From Parkersburg to Wheel-
ing the train made the run from five
minutes of ten to a quarter past twelve
which was certainly a good run.

The first thing the delegates said when
they disembarked from the train was.
"Hurrah for Davis." There was not a
kicker in the crowd, and the delegates
said there was not one in the conven-
tion. They spoke highly of the make-
up of the convention, which Mr. Elkins
said was the best he ever saw.