Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-05
PLACING the PICKETS.
Preparing For the Battle at Chi
Cago.
THE OHIO DEMOCRATIC RAcKET'
Prospect For a Bolt in the Party Of the
People in the Buckeye
State.

CHICAGO, July Especial T. II am ut
terly disgusted with Ohio. am sorry am
one of her fayorite sons. Whenever the
Republicans want an Al. spot cash speci-
men Of Democratic fooGshness, they look
10 Ohio and are never disappointed. Ru-
mors of the row in the OHIO camp had
reached us. Then two or three congenial
souls bowed down with the weight Of our
grief and woe, went out and wept a good
while. We lifted up our voice in mighty
vail and called for Cincinnati beer. We
got mixture almost as vile as McLean's
Democracy. If there is anything worse
than that unless it is the bullheaded obsti-
macy Of few alleged West Virginia dyed-in-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ocrats Of your own State, would like
to see it. Mclean is a pismire IN
politics, and sewer. rat in newspaper
dom. Every man reads his paper, but re-
Hgiously keeps it out Of his house. Just
now he is doing the two-horse act in more
things than one. He is publishing a Re
publican and Democratic paper, and is
booming Hoadly to kill Thurman. After
Thurman is out of the way, he will expecto-
rate on Hoadly and drown him. Mclean
is the Ohio John Kelly. One of the things
that rnpresses me with its incougruity is
the spectacle of George Hoadly in Demo
cratic convention as a candidate for Office.
Why the fellow is as brazen as the Colossus
Of Rhodes He has been in every party
that has had en- existence in the past thirty
years. He was
Blatant Know Nothing.
lie was a Republican; then a Liberal;
then Republican; then.a Democrat He
is the paid attorney of more monopolies than
any man in the West And yet this is the
man fool Democrats want nominated for
President. The plea that he carried Ohio
is sophiStry. So did Bill Allen, and it
caused the Democracy to lose all they had
gained in Ohio for score of years. The
for Hoadlys election, by $4,000 votes, than
if he had been defeated. If Hoadly is nom-
mated there will be a bigger bolt than that
which makes the hair on Blaines head
stand perpendicular to his sea lp.
An Estimate.
The managers Of the Ohio Hoady boom
figure his strength as follows: Ohio, 35;
Alabama. 10; Arkansas, 5; Connecticut, 3;
New York, ); New Jersey, | Kentcky, 3;
Tennessee, 6; West Virginia, 10; Virginia
3, Wisconsin 10. These figures are those
of prominent HOadly manager, who ne
marked that it has only been a few days
since any systematic work had been done
for their man. On what he bases these eS-
Inmates, unless it is huge pile of letters
and kilograms he had, is a mystery, but
withal he spoke confidently Of HOadly's
chances Said he: With Tilden out of
the race, Hoadly is positively the strongest
man spoken Of and believe any Democrat
can be convinced of this fact" HOadlys
friends are awake and working, and it is Ger
tain that he is gathering strength in all the
western States. excepting perhaps Indiana,
which is playing for first place herself
Now there is a specimen of cheek, blow
and buster that would make john G.
Thompson green with jealousy. I'm poor,
and awfully in debt, but I'll wager a bottle
of Monopole that he don't get twenty per
cent. of the above estimate Is it bet2
To-day Tn for Mcdonald, tomorrow Tina
Democrat and don't mean by this that
Mcdonald is anything else but a Simon
pure Democrat. | simply mean TO say
that at this hour Mcponaids boom has the
healthiest appearance of all the boOms. The
muscles appear firm; the veins are full OF
good-looking blood, and there is bloom on
the cheek ami light in the eye that is born
of Immortality, or seems to be. But
these Chicago dewS are terrible on the
and we are liable to wake up
anv morning to find the Indiana boom lying
stark and stiff in death ON the lake shore.
One thing is sure however, if the boom
does die No dead boom in Chicago will have
a 6uer funeral more mourners or deeper
regret. Mcdonald is a great big, honest.
man, who would he
credit to his State and an honor to tho
nation. find that the solid
men are looking toward him
The working classes remember him
as friend. and the great mass of the peo
pie feel the warm beats OF his big heart ami
know that in his hands the interests of the
whole rtople would be safe believe Nc
Donald is one of the very best men that
could I've named. And it is not at all un.
likely that he will be the candidate
other Fellows.
Booms are 50 numerous here that one
in danger ofbeing struck by one
Some are honest open-faced bOorrs: others
are nasty mean things that stink worse tnan
the Chicago river, aad that smells worse
than ANYTHING know Of except Blaines
record or Buffers history 1t makes me Ill
TO think of the pictures of Tom Jefferson
and Andy Jackson being compelled to look
down from the sides of the convention hall
on such nasty, recking bOomS as those of
Ben Butler and George Hoadly. Frame
these in with John Kelly and John Nc
Lean and they form picture that the King
of the lower region: himself would want
to fumigatc for several ages before admit
ting TO a place in his ART gallery.
THE KIDS GET THERE.