The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-15
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Plain Man Gives u Mighty, Entcrtalnin
Account 81 the Great Republican Rally Il,
Chnrfaston, OnoIl .El
To The Editor VI he An,tl'igenetr: Nf.
slR:-lf the hopes ola Democratic vic.
tory IN your section OF the State arc baseu
on air, they arc most certainly based on |.
very void vacuum here. II the grant old
Democratic partyin your region Is to be
symbolizcd by very empty barrcl, 1t is
typitlcd down here by II barrel Will. It's
bottom clean gone-in both cases it lost
its head long ago. !. Z ags1 ~ "
Last Saturday tho boys-just q few Of
thcm!-got together and had n little torch.
light procession here, and the grand old
Democratic party has been hiding In hol.
low trees aud rock clcits ever since. They
are not only powerful scared,' but they
are "clar lriv out" They are just loo vi.
tcrly gone. ~ q ..|g
A few weeks ago tho grand old, Demo.
cratic party Ind u torchlight proc ession
here. They had q mighty Big time. They
had some Two hundred torches, eighty
men, ton women and one hundred and
ten boys. And oven some OF these boys
were Republicans, rs know, for my little
fellow WIS among them and felt Obliged
to "wallup' him for going in such com
pany. As, }El. ~. !, Ss'g, 5.5s
4, "RE,L RIGHTLY" AFFAIR.
Well, some OF the Republican boys here
thought they would Just show the grand
old Democratic party what rcai, slick.,lp
procession was. So they went down to
the club one night and got Sam cCilasson,
hes tie President OF it, to appoint Il com.
mitton on arrangements, who might know
their business, and enough sub-commit-
tees to give I'll the boys an Office, though
Us there wasn't any pay about it most Of
them didn't act, and then We, the club.
directed tho committee of arrangements to
lead oil and give us something that was u
turnout: Well, the committee on arrange.
mcnts Just took their coats of. They
wouldn't say much what was in the wind,
but VIC let them 20 ahead and rightly
rcckoncd that, like the rabbit, they were
Oh the home stretch. & "a 5.fa.
The first thing they did was TO stick n
few posters around tire town and tell us
that they had made ready to fetch in
everybody who had 4 mind to come and
that the big time would lie OH the 9Th Of
September, just about two weeks. They
had excursion trains OIL the railroads and
free steamboat rides, and let it out tilut
there wohld be u big gun down hero from
New forA us well as Maxwell and Hut
crimson, Davis and Barbcc. We bows
were NIGHTLY pleased with the way tie
committee took hold and set back and
picked our teeth viii, considerable graft
tication. We reekoncd that il they went
ON as they had set out that We should
have procession Of at least three hun
drcd, and lay out the grand old Demo.
cratic party from the word go.
lG9 GArnERlSG OF ritz CLANS.
Toward the evening OF the Friday before
the 9th, which was on Saturday, it was
astonishing to see the big lot OF country
CHI Fps that kept coming in from the back
dis rlcts, and even some from Braxton.
told the boys that I rcckoned they had
lnistooS the time for the hanging, which
uou come oil till the middle Of October.
Gut they kept coming all the same, and
by night the streets were right lively. OF
4 Saturday was out peart by sun-up. Tho
town was asleep, but.the streets were full
OF "iellers" who were strange to nc. And
the still morning air seemed 10 tell me
that something big was not far OF. And
that .'thar" air was right, and don't YOU
forget it When the first fast train came
in | was standing OH the river bank, look
ing across ut the unusual line Of cars And
then saw men Just piling out or them,
AMI the "tieliers" seemed to have some sort
of organization, and they came down the
river ban TO tho ferry, and there was a
brass ba ID with them and counted over
,litc hu ldred OF them, and quit count.
ing tori was interrupted by a "Dimicrat'
standing next to Inc, who wanted to know
'..what in hell'was nil them iellers a do
ing" And when told him they were Re.
publicans come to the big turnout, he Just
shut right up like postum will on q
stick you tickle his chops with. i64t VII
STILL. THEY COME.
But that wasn't all OF it. When the
next train came in there was still
more cars and still more men,
and they Ind flags and bands too. And
the town was just chock full by that time
and never did see such. q Zig lot OF men
together mall my life since the war quit!
The town was full, the streets were full,
the bar.rooms were full and doing 4 rat
Ting business with Cleveland and Hcnd-
ricks' pictures up over where they kept
the bad whisky, and there were right
smart OF tho boys who were full too. But
it wasn't alone the boys who were coming
on the cals and boats, not alone the boys
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