The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-07-31
FROM PARKERsRURG.

The Lager Qaestfsn-Trib.Ia O.
the Times-R egistratiou viii lainy-
A Sharp Trick 10 Get Control of tho
City-"Loyaiiy' Still "LoyaE, and
Diriy-An Interesting Letter
PARKKKRsBURG, July %, 1869.
Editors Of the Register: $ - - --
The political wire-pullers, who move
and have their being in this latitude
are just new and have been for some
weeks in a state of effervescence. The
municipal caucuses are as follows
Some weeks ago our Radical Supervisors
in their wisdom saw fit to refuse liquor
license by tie vote. The consequence
was that venders oflager and whisky, a
majority of whom are Germans and Re-
publicans of the Radical stripe, found
their business broken up without warn
ing, and with stocks of liquor on hand
that could not be disposed of except by
wholesale, and at great sacrifice. The
action of the Supervisors, however, did
not prevent the drinking of beer and ar
dent spirits. A club was formed and
upwards of hundredJnames enrolled.
A tax was levied on the members; beer
purchased by wholesale and guzzled
after the same fashion. Then ball was
got up for the benefit of the poor, which
was largely attended, and after defray-
ing the expenses and everybody drink
ing as much beer as he or she wanted,
it realized something over one hundred
dollars, which fund was placed in the
hands of committee for distribution.
There was. also during the drought, (I
am not speaking Of the water,) an as
semblsge composed principally of Ger
man citizens at the brewery, on the
lower side of the Little Kanawhs, where
an incident occurred which has some
political significance. Among the toasIs
drank was the following:
1.-The Democratic Party:-The party
which never interfered with the rights
Of American citizens, native or adopted,
to eat and drink what they please"
This toast I am told was heartily and
yociferously applauded. The result
was that heavy pressure was brought
to bear, insonuch that the Supervisors
at their next meeting rescinded their
former resolution by one of them declin-
ing to vote.
There is also trouble in the Office of
the Radical organ, the Times, of this
city. For a time IT was edited by QUE
Murphy, PHILADELPHIA oarpet-bagger,
who was afflicted with sort of politi-
cal Niger Nymphomania, the prevailing
epidemic of the Radical party, disease
which let US hope will yet prove fatal
to that organization. His forte con-
sisted in writing personally abusive
articles against those who would not
join in the howl of "nigger and pro.
This latter he carried a
little too far, even for Radical, and
when libel suits were threatned, the
managers of the Times, with base in
gratitude, threw him overheard. Their
next step was to confer all the power
on the present editor and his associate,
thus getting rid, as they thought, of Dra-
hOsh, the former owner of the paper.
What his otfense was does not appear,
further than that he imagined he had
some rights about the management Of
the paper; that these rights were ignored
aud trampled on, and when he
attempted to resist, he was, to
use his own expression, kicked
out" Thus we're three chiefs of the
Radical party, who were so eminently
fitted to be leaders therein, and
and who had for years cut out and made
up the dirty work Of the party, slangh-
tered in the house of their friends.
has gone to receive his reward
and is now in the enjoyment of some
trihng clerkship in Washington procur-
ed through Senator Boreman. Ora
hosh, however is, think, equal to the
and will yet be thorn in
the side of his false friends. He has in
tluence among the Germans aud is turn
ing it to account. Some twenty OF
them are large advertisers in the Times
and they, seeing that they have been un-
Justly dealt with, have withdrawn their
patronage, which will ruin the paper.
Drahosh, disgusted with the party and
persons for whom he has been the slave
in doing dirty work, is, l am told and
believe, becoming moderate in his po-
Iitical views, and will yet come out
first best in the fight. He now Owls
more than one third of the stock in the
paper, aud all he has to do is to buy a
few more shares, which can easily be
done, aud be can then vote himself into
any position he pleases. Now mark the
prophecy; he will do this, get control of
the paper and the Radicals will be
without an organ in Parkersburg, for
without his influence they cannot sus-
tain paper.
Well, these things in connection with
the fact that last fall this city gave a
Democratic majority, which she had not
done since the war, have alarmed the
Radical powers that be, and so they have
to have another registration.
The object of this is. to get rid OF a
couple of hundreds of Democratic vo-
tiers. This they cannot deny; or denying
1t they cannot assign any other reason
or motive for such course. This was
distinctly charged upon them at meet
ing held at the Court House on last
Tuesday evening, and although their
side of the case was represented by one
OF their prominent men, Jno. A. Hutch
luson, Jr., who made long, rambling
speech aud was most mercilessly hauled
over the Goals by Colonel J. NJ. jackson
and Jas. Z. Wharton, Esq, yet this
charge was not denied. This shows to
what straits the Radicals are reduced.
lle party is making its last spasmodic
effort in this place, which may be
lkened unto the convulsive kick of a
dying mule. Unless this last piece of
outrage and rascality is successful, its
days ale numbered and the stencil of it's
rank breath while it lived and fiourished
VIII alone remain in its dead and rotten
carcass' SCRIBBLER.