The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-09-29
Who Successfully Addresses Two
Meetings in One Night.
Leaving Col. Johnson to Worry the
RAIDS at Benwood.
Which he did Successfully for One
Hour and Forty Minutes.
Complete ROut Of the "Sick"les)
Man, Who COndOnes the Sins ana
FOIIies Of Frail Humanity on
His Side OF the House.

Democratic enthusiasm has become
pretty we'll established fact in our midst;
but we defy the oldest Democrat living
in Ohio county to say that he ever saw
anything to equal the parade of last
night. There was made the slightest
announcement that Col. BENZ. WILSON
WAS to address the voters of the First
ward on the night of Thursday, the 2Sth
inst. 1t was whispered from mouth to
mouth that it would be a good thing TO
give our present and future representa-
tive in Congress- something like hearty
greeting, and torches were suggested.
1t took like wild fire. AS General
BoURKE said the other night, such out
gatherings reminded him of the days of
old Scottish history, when all that was
necessary TO awaken the clans, was fire.
brand, sent from hill to hill and hamle'
to hamlet. But even that is not re-
quired to call out Democratic gatherings
IN this city. All you want
is a whisper
Reform and Better Times
and people yearnlng for Reform and
better times; yearning for relief from
taxation, misery and starvatieni yearn-
ing for honesty in administering our
public affairs; sick and tired to death of
robbery, corruption and frauds in high
places,--will turn out, and be they with
torches, or be they not, will swell crowd
into perfect sea OF men, honest voters
ready to battle at the polls against dis
franchisement, and in favor of freedom
of speech, freedom of conscience, free
dom of the press-in a word, Constitu'
tional liberty.
And so it turned out last
night. 1t might have been
feared at one time that the
procession would be failure on account
of the shortness of time that it was
determined on. All such fears were soon
dissipated, however. A string OF torches
which seemed endless, whose van might
rest on the bridge, and whose rear
would stretch away of in the distance to
the limit of vision, appeared in line.
No band; no fires; nothing was needed
to call them out. They came forward
spontaneously. October the tenth will
tell what the effect on the people was
and Ohio county will send greeting to
the other counties OF West Virginia such
q majority for TILDEN, HENDRICKS,
BEN. WILSON, Democracy and Reform
as will astonish them, and be recorded to
our lasting credit.
About seven o'clock, the wards COM
menced forming in front of the T1LDEN
and HENDRICKS Central Club Room.
Torches after tsrches gathered in line.
Transpsrencies innumerable took their
places IN the procession, and in every
case notices, appropriate to the occasion
were presented. OF these, the following
were prominently displayed:
The Ballot BoI-Not the Cartridge Box.
Wsnted-A List o; COTS Battles.
Ben. Wilson Shall be His Own Success
He'll Gate Bursted Open to Let the
Radicals IN Essy.
The Democrats Punished Boss Tweed.
The Radicals EIonersted Boss
Sheppard.
Our whole country, North, South, East
and West.
Money makes the mare go, and it makes
Schurz tumble Summerssults.
Let no guilty man escape. How about
Belknsp.
Ralph Arkle will do bis duty though
the heavens fall.
Why don't Hayes pay bis taxes.
Blooded stock for sale cheap, apply 10
r. b. Hayes.