Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-19
SEARCHING FOR SOAP.
Mr.. Elkins In Straight for Ready
Cash.
WHO WILL AND WHO WILL NOT GIVE.
Campaign PrOphesying---GOS. HOadly Con-
6dent of 0hiO---The 0isaffection
On Both Sides.

eueISSllC uduaScE VI luc ANepuOASoh NoH
vass, said recently that victoIy for the good
old party was simply question Of finance.
This question of finance to which Mr.. Elk
ins referred was not so much how best to
distribute money as how to get it. If Mr..
Elkins and the shrewd politicians who are
associated with him have a purse, very
few puzzling questions of finance will arise
respecting the use of it. Mr.. Elkins al
ready finds that he must get up early in the
morning and work hard all day if any such
campaign fund. as Ehat which Dorsey hand
led is to be at the disposal Of Mr..
Blaine's committee. Promises for sub
scriptions so far have not been very en-
couraging The Wall street bankers
and brokers, who, through Levi P.
Morton raised = million dollars in 1880,
seem to be utterly Indifferent now. The
steady decline in prices of stocks that be-
gan when Garfield was shot; the depression
of trade; the failure of Congress to do any
thing to relieve the banks in respect to the
embarrassments Of curtailed circulation, and
the general indifference regarding the re
suits of the election have made the men
from whom the big subscriptions used to
come rather misery. Mr. Elkins is report
ed to have said to a distinguished Demo
cratic friend-now a little lukewarm-as
they sat on the veranda of the Deer Park
Cottage, that ifhe could get up scare,the
business men would come down. Yet it is
q curious fact that some of Mr.. Blaine's
most enthusiastic friends here have said
that nothing short of business panic could
beat him.
star Routers.
The business men who were known as
Star Reuters will make the basis Of the sub
scription fund that Mr.. Elkins expects to
obtain, but these will not be the Star Rout-
ers who were recently prosecuted by the
Government. Dorsey is attending his cat
tie ranch, and is reputed to be brown,
hearty and healthy, sick Of nothing but pol
itics. Gen. Brady has received as yet no
letter, either asking for subscription or
how the departments are doing. But Mr..
Sanderson, who made a great deal Of money
out of the Star route cOntract3mwho is a
relative of Mr.. Blaine, and the failure to
prosecute whom was one Of the
many curious mysterious of the Star
route scandals, will make hand
some contribution. Mr.. EIkins him
self is reputed to have put down $4,000,
and as Mr Elkins is known to have never
planted seed without reaping harvest, he
plainly does not regard that large sum of
money as thrown away simply for the honor
and hard work that are entailed by being
Chairman of the Executive Committee. Mr..
William Walter Phelps expects to be, and
probably will be. made Envoy Extraordin-
arv and Minister Pleuipotentiary to the
Court of St. James in case Mr.. Blaine is
elected President. His subscription is said
to be 100000.
Morton's Cash.
Mr.. Levi p. Morton, who expected the
place of Secretary of the Treasury under
Garfield, and who got the French mission,
has, according to reports received here,
consented to be drawn upon for "a proper
amount Some other rich men are down
for good figures, but the amount does not
begin 10 be enough Ohio is begging for
money, though the local managers are in
formed that they ought to be able to raise
enough in their own State for the October
election. Wisconsin pleads for cash, so
does Maine, and even Republican Vermont
wants help. West Virginia wants green
backs, and viii get them, too; but unless
Mr.. Elkins campaign tund gets a good
deal bigger than it now promises to
be there is going to be a good deal Of disaP-
pointment in some places. The Govern
ment clerks so far have not invested any
large sum in the campaign fund. Although
Grandfather Clapp is evading the civil ser
vice law with all his old time energy and
sbrewdness, the clerks have as yet hardly
subscribed enough to pay for room rent and
the printing and postage for the circulars
in which appeals for aid are made. 1t is
understood that less than 81, 900 has been
raised here in the departments. Already
the clerks are beginning to be informed
that while they are protected by law so far
a. assessments are concerned, there is moth
ing in the civil service law to stand between
them and removal in case the Republican
party is beaten. The pressure that such an
argument will cause is expected later IN
the canvass to squeeze out good many
dollars.
Doing But Little.
The Administration does little as yet. If
President Arthur refused to allow his friends
to spend any money to secure his nomiua-
ton, a good many Of them argue that there
is no reason to give any cash to help the
election of the man who beat Arthur. 1t is
a fact that some of President Arthur 5
wealthy friends went to the Chicago Con-
vention prepared to give material assist
ance. John Fl. Starin would have been
glad to respond to any reasonable and le-
climate request Mr.. NJ. V. Cooper would
have been pleased to pay for the return
tickets and hotel bills Of impecunious dele
gates who were supposed to be for Arthur.
But II was not allowed. The result was
that a number of Southern otfceholderS
who brought on delegations and quartered
them in private houses, expecting that Gen.
Arthur's friends would pay the bills, were
Obliged themselves to foot them. The Hon.
Frank Hatton, who may soon become Post
master General, did pay an amount nearly
equal to a half years salary for the board
and bills of some of the Southern delegates
whom he had the not very exquisite pleas
ure Of seeing give their votes to Blaine;
The friends Of Gen. Arthur, both official
and personal, do not expect to respond
very literally; and as for any other kind
of assistance from the Administration.
Mr.. Blaine's friends won't ges
much. To this remark an exception must
be made in the case Of Secretary Chandler
There has been those who have never doubt
ed that Mr.. Chandler did not forget his old
love because he took up with a new one,
and that he has ALWAYS yearned to see
Blaine in the White House. The note
worthy break in Mshone's Virginia delega
ton at Chicago. by which -four Of the dele
ga,es were recorded as voting for Blaine,
T,,as entirely due to Mr.. Chandler, and the