Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-11-04
BOOM AND BUM.
CITY D0INGS YESTERDAY AND LAST
EVENING.


Radical Frenzy and foolshness-A 6ener-
al Baeehanalian RevsI-last
Nights Wonderful
DoingS
The twenty.four hours ending with
midnight last night were altogether un'
paralleled in the history OF the city.
And they were altogether as indescriba'
HE. II has been estimated that fully
one thousand Radicals arc unable TO
give any succinct account OF themselves
during that time, and the es'imateis not
an exaggerated 6ne. There are some
Quiet and respectable persons connected
with the organization known as the Re
publican party, and they ito their
credit, be it said) got some sleep
on Tuesday night. But there is anoth-
or element and it's numbers are TO the
other as five hundred tn one, which
went out on a genera, glorious and pro.
longed Iamboree. They began at 10
o'clock OH Tuesday night and are still
hard at it. At this writing, and it is two
| inches past midnight, the streets have
not the quiet which is their wont, but
are filled with R,dicai bachanals. cover.
with placards, labeled and branded
with the shame OF their leader.
The city, at four O'Clock. yesterday
morning, was a sight to behold. Market
street between Twelfth and Sixteenth
streets was bowling pandemonium and
contained many good and pious
Republicans who would have
forfeited their church stand
ing could some OF their language
have been reported at the sanctuaries
wherein they are bright and shining
lights. Some OF these had the grace TO
90 home at daylight, but many, surfeit.
ed with victory and ceitiin strong and
curious liquors. preferred 10 remain In
public and "rah fer GsrieeP >; and
they did.
Yesterday afternoon they reappeared,
like Titans refreshed with slumber and
lager. They took possession OF the sal
oons and made merry They sang
Marching Through Georgia" with Won
deriul vim and damned the Democrats
and the South to eternal perditlon.
They we're gloriouslv tight and glorious.
" hapnv, and which they were most
was difficult TO say.
DAYLIGHT waneJ and night came on.
BY this time the great Radical heart
was full. 1t must ouipour or burst.
The former happened and pestilence
was averted. They gathered their for
ces, their numbers considerably thinned
after their two defeats, and paraded the
streets. The procession was very good
one we are free to admit. But there
was one thing we did not like about it.
Too many SOS appeared. There is
something degrading in thus parading
and making boast o. what should have
been their shame. 1t was saying: 1--WE
care not what crimes Garfield has COM
United. He may be all that is vile and
corrupt, but he is Radical and that COW
ers multitude OF sins"
They amused themselves by hurting
maledictions at this office and speaking
alfectionately of "that God ID REGIS
TER" using the endeariug term in a
variety of ways And they alec amused
themselves, and no doubt pleased a
number OF ladies. by repeating certain
play on Haucock's name, that was GER
tainly disgustingly vulgar. With these
t,ifling exceptions, they made good
display.
The small boy was in his element. His
soul was filled with sense OF transcen-
dant peace and he blew his brains out
through tin horn with the calm con-
seriousness that the country was saved.
lie was multiplied by five thousand and
placed in ten thousand places at once.
Nor was he alone in his glory. MANY
full grown men, made childish by the
effect OF the aforesaid strongand curious
liquors, also took horns and made night
hideous. The ear OF night, "the palpi-
tating bosom Of night" rs our friend
Poe said. was filled with this sound and
is vet, though the blasts are very tremu-
lous now, and sound as though an occa-
sional "hic" was thrown in gratis.
But that were the Democrats doing
all this time? Were they dropping and
idle? Not So. They turned out in
force and in numbers far exceeded their
dear Radical brethren. They helped
them to bring into greater prominence
the misdoings ALI Sin Garfield, and they
wore appropriate notices and badges
on their breasts. Alter the RAIDS broke
ranks. they fell in and rendered de-
lightiul and soul stirring serenadet 20 the
editor OF the Inteiif,ncer, their dear,
dear friend, who had so often told the
truth about them.
The passing hours brought changes
and also brought headaches to the rev.
elers and toward midnight the saturna-
liza began to draw to close. The eyelids
of the most enthusiastic Radicals grew
heavy at one o'clock and by two all but
the howlers had retired. But OF them
there seems no end. At 2:30 o'clock II
glance at the streets found them in
lively condition and at this degenerate
hour, to be drunken Radical, was bet
ter than TO be a king-eXcepting King
Grant. In this connection We will say
the Young Mems Garfield Club, rs a
rule. bore thems' Ives well, and were ex
amples which some OF their political
brethren might have initiated 10 ad
vantage.
We did intend to publish some choice
sxcerpta from the Radical vocabulary Of
profanity. OF abuse, but it is too, too
much, and We refrain and close this ar
ticle by reciting singular circumstance:
As the procession was passing down
Market street by this office an immense
and heterogeneous crowd attended 1t.
Directly in front of our door this mob
as met by skirmish line of the Saliva
ton Army, northward bound, singing
Justify, something about Crossing Jor-
dan river" The blending OF these fer
vid notes with the proiane war whoops
OF RAIDS produced an effect not easily
forgotten. We remember il we'll.