Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-26
SEEKING A MARTYR
To Lay Private Feeling on His Par
ty Altar.
A Genial Republican Tells Some OF the
Troubles Of His Friends in the
City Canvass.
I'VE are in a devil of a ouandary. "

I'VE are in devil Of quandary."
The speaker was prominent RsPu6h-
cana man who..occupies.:a high seat in the
synagogue Of the party, and whose voice IS
heard with respect in its councils. he had
a half cargo Of egg and milk on board, and
talked with freedom born Of genial feel
ing of Christmas good will
I'VE are in devil of a quandary about a
candidate for Mayor, and had to change
our plans on that account. There was no
use voting for candidates for Mayor on Sat
urday when We had no candidates to vote
fer. Nobody seems to want to run against
Mortimer Pollock, and the half dozen
men the Committee has proposed have de-
clined point blank A Republican Mayor
does cot seem to be the proper nutriment
for Wheeling voters, somehow or other, and
thew won't have one. lost my boots on
John Frew, in 1881, and my socks went on
Spaulding Wallace last year. | don't know
what we are going to do. went myself to
two or three men, and urged them to lay
personal feeling on the party altar, but they
won't lay"
who will be the man, at last, in your
Judgment :,
DIR. Logan is good man, but he don't
want 10 run, and doubt if he can be per
suaded. Samuel Laughlin and j. W. Pax
ton are talked of but neither Of EN- wants
II. Augustus Pollock might take it, if he
could get it, and so might n. B. Scott Ben
iamin Fisher, Tommy Lewis, Col. Wilkin-
son and others, but the question is to get
man for something better than to be set up
only to be knocked down again, and Mort.
Pollock would do that to any Of that batch.
John Frew is thoroughly good man, and
might ike a chance to buck against the
! bricks-I mean the Board of Public Works
! but he has been so often a candidate OF
late that every printing Office in town nigh;
have had his name stereotyped; and, be.
| sides, he won't have it. guess the nomin
alton will be gently waited to one of those
! have mentioned, with the usual result.
After drink all round and ftful
silence. the orator resumsd, balancing his
china cup by the handle and speaking
/ thouShtfuly:
There are so darned many men after the
Office Of Chief OF Police that | am afraid a
| little bitterness is sure to result. The men
are so terribly in earnest and each one so
confident, that hard feeling is almost GER
ain TO grow out of it. 1t was lucky we
souelched those niggers when We did or the
/ devil would have been to pay, one way or
another in spite Of anything aud the
/ funny part Of 1t was the fuss ell came from
,vo of the candidates who would
/ lave pledged themselves to put q
/ econ on the police force, while the others
nho would not pledge, paid no attention to
the demand. ~
And who will be the nominee for Ser
geaEt?
Pretty hard to say, though the fight
seems TO be between Williams and Thomp'
son. as far as | can see. Really, nobody
( knows, as Habberfeld, Fugate and Cline
are fighting hard, and each one confident
! The election of any one Of them won't be
the moonlight picnic it was two years ago
in the palmy days of Bennett Frank Bow
ers will have the best show on the ticket
and Henry Seamon will have hard man
TO down in Johnnie Crockard. There is one
thing more important, and that is that the
I Democrats are morally sure to carry the
Council this time, and, if thay do, there may
be some 'rearranging and shifting that will
displace certain officers who have now Snu !
berthsY'
Then there was another Ebation and the
orator passed out The door swung back
and forth after him, but before it ceased its
movements one Of the party said, with deep
disgust:
"Darned fool. He wants to be Mayor
himself and that's what s eating him Nv