The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-09

IHE hEPU BLlCAHs- having cANoA
sively advertised and thoroughly can
yassed the Ohio valley from Pittsbur -
TO Parkersburg, and dispatched courts
TO The interior for aid IN making sho
the RAIDS let themselves loose in all tH-lr
glory Saturday night. With all their
great ado about nothing, a. The result to-
morrow will show, they succeeded in get
ting up very respectable procession.
There were not 100000 men In line,
neither were there half that number but
an unbiased count iO0ts up :, 22o, incIud-
ing officers, .'musiciauers," banner and
color bearers; in wagons, on horses,
ana on foot. AS they paraded through
out the city their red capcs, red caps and
bright torches impressed the observer
with the fact that the scarlet color was
appropriate to the party which had been
ushered into existence in blood. and re
tanned lis hold on the sympsthIe5 OF the
people through fraud and misFepreSehta-
ton. The procession formed on Chap
line street at about $50 o'clock, and
marched throughout the city, taking IN
North Wheeling, Centre Wheeling,
South Wheeling, East Wheeling AID
suburbs. in fact the whole city
was thoroughly gone over, even
the alleys were not allowed
to escape the presence Of the gentteme"
who composed the rank and file OF the
great party which has taught US so well
the pleasures of revealing in corruption,
and numerous, yes very numerous, were
they VINO escaped the eagle eye OF Mar
shall Sterling and disappeared within
the friendly portals OF
gin-mill, meandcring forth at
late hour through the alleys and eros;
streets in quest of some convenient nook
safe from the argus-eyed
police, that they might lay
their weary forms to rest, and pass on &c
troubled dreams. During the march
many disgraceful scenes occurred, many
of the RAIDS using epithets ut only for the
foul mouth of blasphemer, and insult
ing not only those whose opinions differed
from their own, but also the many ladies
who lined either side OF the street u
witness the demonstrations OF the Two
factions. On Main street, where the two
professions passed each other, the DE
mocracy were greeted with demonla'
wells of derision, and denounced as "GOC
oap,n Rebels" and in other terms equal
ly as euphonlous and gentlemanly. Blu
the "Communistic Rabble,' the Howl!
ing and undisciplined mob marched b!
with respectful demesnor, disdaining t
notice the taunts and slurs that emanateC
from the throats of numerous men uni
formed with the cap and cape purchased
by the corruption fund of the Rads' an(
of whose conduct the better class OF tn
Republicans were heartily Disguised, an(
condemn in terms of the serverest ma
ture. There were sixteen vehicles IN tn
procession some of them containing
prominent citizens. In one was Mr.
Thomas Horn brook, Esq and Messrs. A
w. CAMPBELL of the hteiligence1, JohI
Frew. John HoInbrook and Mr.. HO Iii
day. The former gentlemen wore an oil
wide awake" cape and badge, which h
had worn during the campaign OF ..
In numbers the Republicans exceeds
that of the Democracy, but of the tw
professions, the solid phaIanx OF Yves
Virginia voters in the Democratic lire:
was far in excess OF that which Ia
Republicans can boast there having bee
nineteen car loads of RAIDS from abroad
and but very few visiting Democrats.