The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-11
Going a wooIlns aud Getting Fleeeed.

have a horror Of would be the lockjaw."
Going n wooIIng aud Getting Fleeced.
The Democrats Of Cincinnati missed II
badly in making national politics a test ir
their late municipal election, Having
thrown down the gauntlet and made the
result ofthe election atestof public feeling
in regard to national matters the people
took them at their word, and said, in 81.
feet, I've accept and we will rebuke YOU"
And they did administer a very whole.
some rebuke. So confident were the Dem
ocratic leaders Of success that soon after
the close OF the polls a band was hired to
serenade Col. Harris, their candidate for
Mayor, and bets were freely offered on
3,OOOto 5000 majority, So far as local con-
side.ations were concerned the advantage
was on the Democratic side, and but for
their national platform they would un.
doubleday have carried the day by a
good majority. The platform, which
was prepared by Judge Hoadley, u
thor Of the famous Oregon Electoral
Opinion, hailed the assembling OF the
Democratic Congress as the cause Of re-
joicing; denounced the present Admins.
tration as usurpingan M fraudulent; charg-
ed the Republicans with assessing vast
sums ofmoney upon Federal of~iceholders;
with cndeavoring to maintain an extrava-
CANT and unnecessarily numerous army
to thwart by violence the will Of the peo-
pie; with using e%lectioneering agents at
the polls under the name OF United States
Supervisors and Marshals to arrest men
without warrant; with degrading the
courts into partisan machines, and with
a long category Of other crimes. One Sec
ton Of the platform was as follows;
awe believe that the real object Of the
Republican leaders Is the subversion Of
the States, and the establishment Of a
centralized government republican in
name only, but in substantial character
and real structure imperial. We believe
that it is the purpose OF the Republican
party to endeavor by force or fraud to hold
continued possession OF the Federal Gov
eminent notwithstanding defeat at the
polls, and that nothing but an overwhelm-
ing manifestation Of public resistance will
cause the abandonment Of this design"
The platform concluded with o demand
for the repeal OF the Election laws, and
pledged the Democrats of Cincinnati to
sustain the majority in Congress in their
declared purpose to refuse to vote the Gov
eminent a dollar until the odious legisla-
ton was stripped from the statute-books.
That platform aroused the city, and
brought out the unprecedented vote at a
spring election OF 1890. The majorities
otthe Republicans range from 400 to LOO.
The Democrats endeavor to explain by
saying that the candidacy OF a German,
Charles Jacobs, for Mayor aroused
the spirit Of German Clannishness.
The fact is that Jacobs, with
one or two exceptions, is the lowest
candidate on the ticket. Capt. j.. B. Pora-
ker, for Superior Judge, who ran several
hundred votes ahead OF him, was the OBJ
jeCt Of especial opposition by the Demo-
Gratis on account Of his connection with
the United States Supervisor law as Chief
Supervisor at the last Congressional cleo
ton. The result is almost universally in
terpreted in Cincinnati as a rebuke to the
late proceedings in Congress.