Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-08


disgust in the white camp alone. The ap-
pointment Of Ransom Bennett to be Mar
shall reused the very old Harry, and many
colored men elevated their avoirdupois on
their auditory sppendage. A fight was
imminent, and the cry was,
Git ava from dat winder,
Git AVA dar now clar;
For our blood Is up tonight
And dar's gwine ter be night,
And de razzors are ayin' in de ar.
A mustard poultice was prescribed and
the kickers were held down to-day. But
to morrow there will be fun and big gain
for Cleveland.
The Exercises.
PRAYER was offered BY the Rev. Dr. Locke.
Ex Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, now Reg
lister of the United States Treasury, was in
troduced and spoke eloquently for an hour.
He is a polished speaker, almost
white, of commanding presence and
made a fine impression here.
He was followed by the Rev. DR.. Poindex-
ter, said to be the most eloquent colored
man in Ohio. Hon. David Taylor, Repub-
hcan candidate for Congress, also made a
neat address. The Republicans profess to
be more than jubilant over the meeting.
Democrats are satisfied with the animosi-
ties it has created, and say that for every
vote made for Blaine two were lost.
The Press Gang.
The members of the Cambridge press are
tip-top fellows, who did all in their power to
accommodate visiting brethren from the
outside We we're taken into the inner
circle and treated ike princes. No words
can express our obligations to them or to
the proprietor of that best of hotels, the
Eagle House, where everybody stops.
handsomest men on the ground were the
following tour newspaper men who have
made their papers popular in this section:
W H. Han1on, GAINESVILLE Republican, E.
Hill, Quaker City Independent: Charles
Taylor, Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph; J.
L. Locke, Cambridge Daily Times. By the
way the Times is as bright sparkling and
enterprising as the the town is handsome
and cultured.
Ex-senator Bruce.
Ex-senator Bruce said, in reply to a
question, that in no one of the many places
he had visited within the past fifteen DAYS,
had he seen anything like disatfection from
the Blaine ranks. He said: Mr.. Blainepos-
sesses, as has been so often said, mag
netism that draws and holds men. In
Cleveland, from which city | have but just
come, there is a wonderful break to
him among the Irish, who recognize
in him a friend Of their race sympathiser
with their wrongs. He will lose some Ger
man votes there but not so many as arc the
Irish votes he will gain. To characterize
all Germans, or even majority Of them, as
opposed to temperance shows either a la
mentable ignorance Of facts or willful
misrepresentation Of them. The German
detection in Ohio will not amount to more
than twenty per cent of their voting num-
Der. Mr. Blaine will gain from fifty
10 seventy-fye per cent Of the Irish
vote The colored vote is practically
solid for the Republican nominees. Demo
Gratis who for moment cherish thoughts of
carving Ohio are of all men most misera-
ble do not mean by this that Ohio Re-
publicans need not work; do mean that
only work is needed TO carry the State
handsomely. | arrive at this conclusion
after most thorough and extended review
of the situation in the State.
Have you studied the situation in West
Virninia|
YES. have had some opportunity to
ascertain the feeling there. :"
'I believe with thinking men, that West
Virginia will cast her vote for Blaine.
There is no reason why she should not
have been Republican heretofore. In 1872
the State voted for Grant The following
election was won by the Democracy. Since
that time | believe Republican defeat has
been due to apathy and to misunderstand-
ing OF the situation. Now it is different.
Not even Ohio is so carefully studied as is
West Virginia by outside politicians. Every
bit of news from there is carefully analyzed
and know Democratic managers at Wash
ington are alarmed over the situation. The
fight between the REGISTER and the other
wing was more generally talked Of abroad
than may be supposed, and the opinion pre-
walls that in defeating the REGISTER the
party was beaten. Strange as it may ap-
pear West Virginia politics are more dis
cussed abroad and better understood than
those of any other State in the Union
How does the Independent movement
strike you?
Whatever OF force the bolt had was lost
in endorsing Cleveland. Not because it
was Cleveland but because they were ex-
pected to name q third man. Another fac
tor of weakness in the movement is this:
The Independents are strong only where De
mocrscy is strong. New York City is al
ready Democratic. While they add their
votes to those Of Cleveland Democrats Pro
tectionists and the Irish will strike back by
voting for Blaine. twill simply cause a
shifting of ballast without adding to the cargo
of Democracy.
"Is the South soEdY' was asked.
TO me there is no phrase so offensive as
the solid South That it is solid in Ger,
tain sense is not disputable. That it should
be so in any sense that evolves sectionalism
is wholly absurd. Circumstances
entirely within the power of parties
has made it solid in the Offensive
sense and the same parties or party can
remove the Objectionable feature at viii.
As q matter of fact more than one State
south of that line of evil, Mason and Dixons,
is Republican in sentiment. But like
West Virginia the Southern States have
been given over. There is but one way TO
create a new order Of things in the south.
The Republican party north, must cease to
exhort US to do, and come over into Mace
donia and help US This l believe will be
done this year and the results viii be graft
fying. Let northern Republican
speakers come among US, forgetting
isothermic lines and latitudinsl differences
and stump" as they do in their own States.
The results viii be these: The thousands
Of northern men South, who have refrained
from voting heretofore for social reasons,
and who are Republicans will vote that
way. Second; the whole colored population
which is Republican BY education, AssociA-
ton and interests viii vote the Republican
ticket because they feel they will be pro-
tected in it. Another class, not hereto
fore considered, though influential, is
the independent Democratic vote Of the
South that viii vote to continue Repubi-
can national administration in order to