The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-17

The TROUBLE Now BEGINs.-Last
night was o mild forstaste Of what we
may expect during the next four or FIVE
months. All day yesterday the bulletin
boards at the telegraph and newspaper
Offices were surrounded d BY anxious
crowds waiting to hear the result
of the deliberations of the Cincinnati
Convention Everybody expected
Blaine was the coming man, and when
ever his name was mentioned il elected
words of praise from nearly all the Re-
publicans. Blaine was the choice by long
odds with the Republicans Of this
aity, and they had there cannon
ready and planted on Wheeling hill to
fire hundred rounds in honor Of bis
nomination. All the workers of the party
here were Blame first, last and all the
time, and their enthusiasm for their hero
was boiling over. But alssl for
the mutations of politics, their
favorite was defeated, and the
"Great Unknown" who turned out
to be Hayes, was nominated This put a
dsnper on the boys for little while,
but they soon rallied, and as they had
bought their powder and gone to the
trouble of getting the cannon on the hill,
they were determined to have
some fun anyhow, so they COM
menced firing away in honor of the great
unknown. By eight o'clock they got
enthused and with the assistance of fire.
quent quaf's of the foaming lager, they
managed to forget all about their iavorite
and commenced loud shouts for Hayes.
In very short time it was impossible TO
find Blaine man in the large crowd
which assembled on Market street, in
front of the Mcclure House The boys
finally concluded to get Kramer's band
which they did, and paraded up and
down the streets, the band playing,
most of the time that familiar air,
"Down with the traitor and up with
the stars A number OF boys joined the
procession who made hldeous noise by
the footing of horns and general promis
cuous yelling. They went over to Centre
Wheeling and serenaded Hon. ID. 9. Hub
bard, who appeared wrapt in an ensan-
quined shirt, and made speech after the
style of the popular air the band
had been playing all evening. The
crowd retraced their steps to this end Of
the city, the band for u change, playing
Orally round the flag, boys" The big
gest rally, however, was arouI d beer
saloon. After this the Intcliigencer office
was serenaded, but as Brlstow had been
slaughtered, there was no one at that
establishment who was anxious to make
speech, under the circumstances. At
ter several more turns at "Down with
the traitor, &c" and "Rally round the
flag" by the band, Capt. Dovenor was
called upon, and he got upon a
telegraph pole and GRATED in that style
peculiar to "a Republican speaker
under the excitement OF such occasions.
He referred to the Republican party hav-
ing saved the Union IN 1860, and they
were ready to do so again in this Cen
tennlsl year. Some chap in the crowd
innocently inquired if there was going to
be another war, having been misled by
the Captains remarks The crowd shout
ed and the band struck up the same
old tunes again and they were all happy.
Having shouted themselves hoarse and
gotten about two hundred and fifty
, pounds of patriotism aboard, the crowd
dispersed and wendell their way home
ward, fully convinced that they had
saved the Union and the country for the
one hundreth time. Thus ended the first
night of the Republican campaign.
"Dull ros ues affect the politicians part,
| And learn To nod, and smile, and shrug
with art;
Who nothing has to lose the war bewails
And he who nothing pays, at taxes rail"