Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-10-24
PLEDGES OBTAINED
From Eighty-fiys Thousand lnde-
pendent Republicans
TO VOTE AND WORK AGAINST BLAINE.
Another Business Mems Meeting For
Cleveland and Hendricks to be
Held at Once.
INDIANA ON HER METTLE

NEw York, October est is a common
assertion made BY the Sun and other Repub-
icsn organs that the Independent Bepubi-
cas- are exaggerating their strength. The
contrary, however, is the fact 1t is fact,
however, which those who are still pinnipg
their hopes on Blaine carrying New York
would do well to remember, that $4,000
Republicans in this State have over their
own signatures announced their intention,
all of them, not to vote for the "Plumed
Knight" and most Of them to vote for Cleve-
land. These pledges have been obtained
BY the Independent Committee of One
Hundred of Brooklyn. The result Of the
canvass was announced yesterday to the
Cotton Exchange Cleveland and Hendricks
clnb by its Secretary, Mr.. c. F. Laighton,
himselfa Brooklyn Independent Republican.
Against this careful canvass what is the de-
lusiye claim Of the Blaine men2 Ex-Col-
lector +. A. Merritt, now ConsdlGeneral to
London, who has abandaned his post to
make votes for Blaine, states that the lude
pendents may poll 5000 votes in New York
and Brooklyn, not more.
A StimuIant.
The Blaine demonstration on Wall street
Monday has only served to stimulate the
Democratic and Independent Republican
merchants down town to more earnest
work. 1t aroused the Cleveland enthusi-
asm to a greater pitch than ever. The
business men have already determined on a
demonstration which shall throw the Blaine
meeting into gloom from which it will
never emerge.
Another Meeting.
On Saturday next there will be parade
of all the Cleveland organizations in the
downtown exchanges, among the dry goods
men, the jewellers, the insurance interest
and the various trades. A conference to
arrange the details will be held this after
noon at the Stevens. Representatives from
all the organizations will be present The
dry goods men will turn out 2,400 men.
By actual count the number of men in
the dry goods turnout at Monday 8
Blaine parade was l,430. The produce
men will send rousing delegation. Mr.
F. s. Williams, of their club, said at the Cot
ton Exchange yesterday, that among the
Blaine procession from the Produce Ex-
change were a number of Custom House
employees, clerks Of the Pennsylvania Rail
road and other outsiders Over half of the
men in the Cotton Exchange contingent
were not members and one was an unnat-
uralized Italian. The man who carried the
banner for the Lower Wall Street Club was
an unnaturalized EngGshman.
And Yet Another.
At meeting Of merchants in the tea
coffee and sugar trade yesterday afternoon
it was decided to hold another grand Cleye-
land mass meeting next Wednesday after
noon at $50 clock at the lower end of
Wall street, near the ferry. Mr.. J. j.
ODonohue has been chiefly instrumental
in this movement, being assisted by such
men as Osgood Welch, Ira Burslay and W
Il. Kirkland Among the speakers at this
meeting will be Carl Schurz and Daniel
Dougherty, of Philadelphia.
The merchants in the tea, coffee, sugar
and shipping business yesterday formed
Cleveland club, with H. c. Maddox as
president and c. NJ Bull as secretary. The
membership obtained in two days is 83l.