Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-11-12
The Future in Grease---lt win
So to $500 Before
Three Months.
Sons Political hindsight 0hssrVa-
tiOns---Surprising Things in
the Late Unplsasantness.

eaectually. On Monday the market took
8 Jump TO $lS5 and the spectators were
lid with excitement. Enthusiastic bnllS
promised that it Vas going straight up to
500. but alas the next day il dropped
s,ain to Sl2O, the next q little lower and
Thursday got down to $l.lS, and here it
stopped. IL was said TO be the arrange
ment Of the bear operators to put the price
down to Sl.lO before letting it advance
a-siu, but some large purchases by New
Workers brought the reaction too soon for
them, and Thursday the market advanced
from SllS to Sl.3O by successive bounds.
Notwithstanding this remarkable advance
the transactions Of the day fell below
three million barrels, so wary were
The SeOrehed Bulls
from their experience of the early part OF the
week FrIuay morning the market opened
very firm 40 $. 81. and with small advances
and declines finally reached SIS24. The
operatiOnS were very heavy. The great in
crease OF business at the Exchange makes
the present builGing entirely too small,
ari Tor the purpose OF stfOrdiug better
,..arterS prominent operator yesterday
rrrrha>,d sight on Fourth Avenue, at
e, uf over 500 UOO, upon which fine
r.t.iIns viii De erected for the sole use OF
y.I operators.
Tnr ...t-, Of oil is very uncertain. 1t
rrf>,u: -.rr> ic is cheap. and is not dear
s,S Whether 1t will reach the latter
rgure he present winter or not IS an open
problem uyon which men differ. The pre-
ysiliu. upuI,n seems to be that in case no
new fields uf prominence are developer
ag3 no large Ayers struck, we Will haze
Sa.0OOiI Before Three Months.
l-,-sburrers are of that opinion and are
ing upon It, and this might well lie
r.gea a bull city. Even if oil does go 10
s-there will be many declines in the meal
while upon which numerous bulls VIII
h-.ak their horns, rs many OF Tn EN- did on
Monday IL is said a number OF deal
e-s that day lost all they had made in the
advance from fifty cents, the aggregate
being in the millions,
The election in the Keystone STATE IS
over and Cameronism is paralyzed here
Are several surprising things connectedwith
The result. There is first the small vote
Fr1 .ru bv independent Republicans next
.gr light vote uI the labor Candidatel and
las, but not least the election Of LenO-
cratic Congressman in the strong protective
ia-.u District Of Pttsburg. From he
amount Of blus,er and noise made by be
men who called themselves Independents
the real Republican party and that tE
~,alwa-t faction was composed entirely {
the office holders and their hangerS-on
When the bsftOts came 20 be counted thes'
men fpund themselves in q wOeful minor
nv. They scarcely secured as many votes
as charley Wolfe did IN his personal cam
psign. In this county their vote was about
tao thousand less than that gwen to'
Wolfe one year ago. Several reasons ar
assigned for this. In the first place mos
ErrubllCaus became convinced that
The FaetIOnaI Fight
within the party was simply struggle D.
tween two SETS OF men for the control
the party. with the aim OF getting conpl
of lie Offices. This conviction Cau:d
many dr>ertions from the Independents,
and caused thousands of Republicans o
stay away from the polls altogether:
AIr.hcnv county alone the Republican
Vote. which, considering the growth OF ae
TWO cities, would naturally oe largely n
creased. was over 1900 less than the We
oi I>sO. The Independents try TO eEpLn
jhelr light vote by saying that manDt
them. fearing the Stalwart ticket, Yod
with the Democrats. While that stR-
ment may be true TO q certain extent, It's
nevertheless apparent that the mass OF te
Republicans have more confidence IN u
present organization of the party than
=
to force on II even by defeating it. Ha
there been no split in that party and con
S,uIent.y not so many dissatisfied stay AZ
huw, = the Republicans, with such de
S,ryedly popular candidate as General
Beaver, would have swept the state With
sn immense majority. The question nov
Is. will these factions reunire? The whee
,f political life is as uncertain
q, wheel Of fortune, and after the wa
The Democrats voted for Ben. BItl eI
.u Massachusetts,, nothing could be to'
ridiculous 70 lUOS for, and the reunion o
tie Republican party is of course possible
But Il i not very probable. Men d" no
son iOrLet their csluminaJiOn, and
The Great bitterness
that has been stirred up by this persona
Striie will not allow the rutfied temper o
the partiCipants TO be smOOthed very soon
Simon Cameron has declared that the In
GeFenden'ss and + guiarS can never unit
:gaIn, and this declaration Will be J red "a
10 the former. He has gone further ant
asserted that hi>,,sOu DON can be returned u
the United StaIes Senate when the tim
ZONES. Just how Donald proposes 70 &C
oomp'sh this feat of political jUggleTy !
arI iO tell seeing that the Democrats nos
have q majority Of twelve on joint 0auo
m the State Legislature, with the pTuspsc
u' Increasing 10 considerably before IN
time for el-Ctlng pon'S successor come
But The ways OF the CamsronS are devious
ami - simon once succeeded IN SecU-ln
IN election from Democratic Legislature
my ~uu bon may DO the same. In
upIuiUu amnng those best yersed in Penn
sylvia. a politics Is that il the Democrat
uOw conduct themselves becominEly, the
can have long lease Of power IN the aiial
tl the trwUpuWealth.
Iue next surprising thing in the ou
Il e. ~. ~ asaHa MI n
10y Arm.'r.ug the guhernabOrial ctud ID
ot the Lrhor ia-ty. Up 10 the very day
tae eter.luu Armstrong prOiesSed u
o'nHGrut OF bis election, 6nt his vote vi
:" Insignificant Lat the newspapers ha'
not Thought worth while to report 1t.
The Labor Organizations
ceS"r''d him wholesale, and except Ju
81 aT"U' Pittsburgh where he is well knOS
and highly esteemed, scarcely any vOt
we're cast fer him. Thus IL IS evidence
ssaIn that 10 more than two great polite
PARTIES can ordinarily exist
be most surprising thing in the who
matter - the election of the Hon. James
Hopkins 10 succeed Russell Errett IN %
g'rss. The Republicans worked the pr
"',.'e tariff dodge for all IL Is worth
us campaign. They asserted with q
g''',>i tOidness that Democracy and n
'''e UeIe anonymous, and To cap the G
h'N atu the great champion Of protectl
Inl. lig Iron Kelly, a few nights beto
,he'',.lOn To whip in the faint hearie
lr' h",wilhstandIng all this, in Pit
tIn J.. he hot bed Of protection, the so
q %. srched up and voted the Dem
era ticket This does not indicate th
h' ]" ul'ls have any great fear OF the tar
sAErt'Ig harm at the hands OF the Dem
E"'.r party. Mr.. Hopkins has been
Col Eress before and will immediately IA
s"I'1ui ih,nI place, which he is well htu
IL hl
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