The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-09-15


md marched lup Into town as II the,
meant business. and ] reckon you woult
think they did u you had heard them vel
Tor Blaine and Logan md Maxwell. tWher
thu last six hundred showed up Into tow1
"Dimocsats'l began TO be as scarce Us tlie.
In December, aud their faces had abou
the length OF d two.year.0ld shoat. ! move,
did see chaps SO scared rs they were. They
hadn't atworu to say, And II It hadn'
been TINT tho bar.rooms was so mighty
Tree that day every denr one Of them woult
have gone right home and stald in thu
bosom Of his family till tho next morning
JOHNNY REDS iiunnAnlSo Pon BLAINE.
| What struck me most that day en- thu
streets was tho great number OF old Con
iederate. soldiers hanging about with the
Union boys md "hollerlng" for jim
Binine. II was powerful strange thing
to me TO- see "fellcrs" who had worn the
gray and "lit" under Ice, now yelling ioi
tiaine Us Il their bellies would break,
And says | to my old woman that night,
odd girl, this moving out Of tho old gray.
back liners 'agin' the grand old Dimicptic
party means business" "Thcy seem to
think Jim Blaine y IL second kind Of Il
Jackson or Il Lee and 10 havo u feeling that
they can put him through IND bust the
Yankee dudes and Free Traders that he'll
get the tax Off 'terbackcr' and whisky for
them and head of the Dimicrats n making
the taxes any heavier. And for my part !
believe they're right" tn NJ'
Y RIGHT IN THE HOME OF WINDY, roo.
And then the way tho boys Just slune
up their hats and hollercd for Maxwell,
too. You would never have thought TINT
THIS town was the tarrying plnce Of the
fire. headed son Of the grand old Dimicratlc
party who is Just now of in the woods
warming up the hearts OF them iellcrs
who never saw railroad and don't want
any. And II wus to put my money In
the election and judge by tho why the
boys hero yelled for Maxwell, don't
reckon Windy will ever get out OF the
woods, either! Maxwell Is such Il kindly,
strong headed looking sort Of Il man that
tho boys here all took masteriul to
him, and he is going to carry this county
by l,50O to 1000 anyway! a gentleman
with Il white beard and slick tongue
from New York, named Warwick, made
aspecch, too. And tho WY he touched
up the Democrats was Just delicious. He
lust laid them out stark and stiifcvcn be-
lore they knew they were hit. lIc showed
up the little games Of tho free traders,
who, under the lead OF Carlisle and Nor.
rison ran tho last Democratic House Of
Representatives ut Washington, who arc
dong their level best to ruin tho indus.
tries Of West Virginia and break up tho
workingman. 1t was dark by tho time ho
so through. a'g
A RIGHT rEAET SCENE.
BY that time, tho streets were full of
men with torches, aids riding pell.mell up
and down carrying news ind soaring tho
small boys and women up the trees and
doors steps. 1t was right pear. scene,
this sort Of thing, and kept up for III hour,
when by that time the boys began TO get
pretty well into limo. First up came Big
!! Sgade OF over 200 horscmcn. They kent
their horses together. They held high
thel4' torches. They chcered for Blaine
Losau and Maxwell. After them came
the Coulburg band, then n company OF
miners from Winiired over hundred
strong, we'll drilled. They wore white |
hats and plumcs. After them came
splendidly drilled and uniformed COM
pany OF the Eagle guards, the best drilled
platoon in the procession and William
Wyant their mine owner WIS Mt their
mead. Alter these came men from Fred
rick, and from Coal Valley, Coalburgh, |
md other mines till the three hundred
ooys from the Campbell's Creek mines
vent by hollering like all the rest for
Blaine, Logan, Maxwell and Victory.
After these came the Greenback brigade.
And fine show they made. And they
had lots Of fellows among them had
always taken for moss backs, but they NIL
ieny it and swear they had rather die
han be Democrats After these came
pig body Of the Charleston boys, some
100 or 400 strong, y $Gss
ITO MILES MEN. ,5rs|l