Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-03-08
ELECTION PANGs
The Aristocratic Suburb All Torn Up Over
Fierce Election for Munich
pal Officers.

When local isuses and not politics
guide municipal elections. the contest Is all
the more heated and personal. This was
the case at Leatherwood, in the city cleo
ton Just completed. This beautiful and
aristocratic village. having been duly in
corporated under the laws of the State, Is
compelled, like its less beautiful sister OF
Wheeling, to biennially undergo the pangs
and throes of an election. For many weeks
prior to tns event, the feeling runs high,
but refinement prevents t being ex 1ib!ie1
to the outside werld. This is why 1t was
kept SO quiet. P, litics has given the proud
suburb wide berth and the two great
parties were not arrayed ia arms. No; the
great question which agitated the lane and
Toll house politicians was board walk or no
board walk. The conventions were held,
week apart, in the school house, the trs'
declaring, in q document which covered
rbe backs of six old letters, that good
board walk must and shall prevail.
The convention of the obstructionists
was quiet and orderly, but there was q
stern do-or.die air apparent. The one ora
tor of the occasion voiced the sentiment OF
all when he affirmed, with suppressed pas
ion: I'VE will never bear the yoke OF ty-
rsnny and taxes. We will rouse the people
iron the confines of McCabe's Point even
10 the summit of Belleview hill, and the
mnd shall be knee deep along the avenue
of Sweetbrier Lane before our substance
shall be wrung out in taxes" Appropriate
resolutions were adopted, eDgrossed on the
back OF a soiled cuff and hoisted to the sum-
nit of the wind mill.
The election day came on apace and the
mud of Sweetbrier Lane was trodden into
hquid by the busy feel OF the corner cleo
tiGneers and the acre politicians, on both
sides. Heated caucusses were held at Mt.
Belleyiew and secret meetings convened
under the arch of Woods run bridge, and
when the day came that was to cast the ole
not gap had been left open, not fence
PANEL remained unpatched.
The day dawned. The polls opened early
and the chsllengers turned out In lorce.
AT 10 o'clock bulletin posted on the
sci DOL house door-a special to the Lsath-
erp cod BQ.OO, board walk organ-an
nounced the triumph of the Nicholson
pavement was secured and sufficient votes
had been polled to prevent the possibility
of defeat. When the sun had hidden it.
self behind Tunnel hill and the lights Of
Belleview cast a rosy glow over the turrets
OF Gilchrist Chateau, the bulletin was con-
firmed. Mr. J. ID. Dubois had been elected
Mayor by an overwhelming majority. Bot
all interest conferred in the Trustee, or
Council, where the momentous question
was to be decided. Great was the Joy OF the
bu.rdwalkists, when Messrs. r. A. McCibe,
JIu 2. Gilchrist and Colonel Thomss
U'lIi.n walked out with o cool maj Drity.
F.: Recorder, J. r. Greer, jr., had walk
ov,r, ind will, in future, run the clerical
department..
4 bitter contest was had over the Ser
eesi'tcy. Charlie Hull, the popular can
81, lie was attacked ON the ground that he
10y 0rtd swimming in the city limits; while
, lslIevew lady charged him with having
re been seen with a sereuading party.
But, in spite OF them sll, Charlie pulled
Trough by large majority, the assertion
that be was carpet Dagger from tn, S0u b
not having any effect while the whispered
slender that be was Jessie James in dis.
guise fell OF its own weight. The fact that
Charlie had pledged himself to arrest the
high water for trespass did much TO carry
him through
The first meeting of the trustees is anx-
iously looked for, to learn the Forthcoming
levy. The rumor that Mayor Dubois will
We TO the boardwalk bill is without foun-
dalion of fact.