The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-10-09
.5.NOsPAR.ADE HERE
BY THE REPUBLICAN, CLUBS
Saturday Evening The Demonstration Port.
,poned Until Monday Evening, when tho
t, Blaine md Logan Ciubs will
S.,s Paint tho Town He'd. "a

Fi3 Yesterday morning INC lNTELLiGENCER
announced TINT Republican torchlght
demonstration would positively take place
Saturday night next. Since then tho
programmehas been changed and the pa.
radc will not take place Saturday evening,
but on Monday evening. This lust ar.
r,ngcmcnt Is final, and was decided on ut
u meeting Of tho officers Of the Blaine md
Logan regiment and the committee from
the Lincoln club appointed to arrange for
the parade. T
At an informal meeting Of Lincoln Club
monday evening 1t was suggested that It
would be good idea TO have lust grand
rally before the State election and that
Saturday night was the night for 1t. This
met with appreciation and d committee Of
arrangements was appointed and the an.
nOnncrmcnt authorized TINT the parade
would take place. The gentlemen Mt
Mondays meeting in deciding nsthey did,
lost sight OF the fact that Steubenvil!e for
three weeks past had been laying herself
ont for Il monster day and night demon
stration next Saturday, and that nearly
every club within q radius Of fifty
miles OF that place had been invited TO
participate, including tho Wheeling clubs.
overlooking this they went ahead, raised
money mud secured music. ~ ~"
TIE CHANGE OF PLAN.
last night there was meeting called o.
,, the officers to arrange route for Satur
day. At that meeting n decided feeling
: was manifested by the line officers agains
turning out Saturday night, rs many OF the
!, companies had set their hearts on going t
: Steubcnville, having received invitation.
: from there. The Lincoln Club committee
t on the otherhand insisted TINT It's arrange
S mcnts could not now be oyerthrown. A
y long discussion followed, but ut last the
difficulty was solved by the club giving it.
s band to the regiment for Saturday nights
n trip, the club in turn to be given bant
f Monday night without charge, u purse be
c Ing guaranteed for TINT purpose.
/, In addition to the desire on the part o
c the marching clubs to attend the Steu
bcnville blowout, there were other reasons
o for making the change. Major Barke
4 had invited by letter Il large number o
4 clubs in this State and Ohio to participate
i in the parade on Saturday, but nearly al
q OF them had made arrangements for goin,
- 10 Steubenyile and the indications were
: that there would be only the Wheelin,
clubs in line. BY postponing matters til
Monday night Steubenvillo promises t
come in force, and the indications ar,
that the clubs from over the river will b,
- present. A committee consisting o
Major Barker, S. 7. Norton and Capt
: Will Fisher was appointed on invitation
l. to notify the clubs invited Of the chang
Is in the programme, urge them to come AM
10 inyite other clubs.
no CLASH.
~ Another reason for the change was tn,
!. urgent appeal from Steubenville to attend
a 1t having been decided 10 20 4 full turnou
i is urgently requested. A committee OF
: transportation has been appointed ant
: rates and time will be published to.mor
= row. An equally big turnout is looked fo
i here on Monday night. Lincoln Clul
4 will turn out very strong on that occasion
In connection with the above arrange
| mants reference must be made TO another
exhibition OF the Usual grotesque impu
s dence Of some Of the leaders Of the Dem
5 cratic party in this city. Tuesday
a morning the ISrELLlGEScER announced
e a parade Of Republicans for Sat
: urday night, the party thereby
i, being first in the field. Yesterday morn.
ing the Register announced n Democratic
parade for the same night, that party de.
: string, apparently, to profit by the Repub.
: lican enthusiasm and decorations and
+ claim them as their own. Nor was this
all. That war-worn and battlc-scarred
veteran, .the.hcro OF a hundred conflicts
COL Robert White, addressed a letter to
Col. Travis asking him to come to his OF.
fee and arrange the routes Col. Travis
very properly, being first in the field, did
\ not 60 or send any committee. Yes.
tertlay Col. White sent another letter that
/, was not us polite us it might have been.
{ Those present at the meeting lust night
were very much refreshed by the reading
Of these letters. The Prince OF Gall might
not be n misnomer as a nom de plume for
, Col. White. $50