Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-03-21
Politics Doesn't Enter Into the In
tciiigeRcsr's Crusade,
But, All the Same, Some Very Peculiar
Schemes are Ale ged to Be Uader
Consideration.
A Tremendous Crowd at Last Evenings
Temperance heeting---nr. Murphy to
be Here all Next Week. The New
Military COppany---funesal
Ceremonies -Robberies
---Amusemeats.

There rs rot much of q novel nature in
the gambling matter. Both sides are
merely maintaining their respective posi-
tons, and awaiting the meeting Of Council
next Monday night. And it is the popular
expectation that that meeting will usher In
q picnic, and a crowded lobbyin the Second
Branch is q foregone conclusion. But, in
teresting as Tuesday nights meeting will be,
it won't be q circumstance to what will take
place At the subsequent meeting of the Com
nittee on Police, should the Mayors com
municslion, reciting his wild break, be re-
ferred to it by Council. This meeting, as a
matter OF course, will be held with closed
doors, and what trsnspires may never De d.
vulged to an interested public; but, all the
same, q verbatim report Of the proceedings
would furnish ample foundation upon which
to rear q quarter column scare head, aud
would richly reward the ~enterprising re-
porter who might get his ear to a knot hole.
And right here 1t would be well % divulge
q little scheme which it is alleged Repuoh-
can members of Council are putting
IN, q d which, If true, goes very
far to subst initiate the REGISTER $
claim that this whole matter is a deliberate
" and carefully prepared JOB.
This lob, the details Of which 1t is said,
we've being worked up yesterday, Is
something like this: When Mayor Gruobr re-
porrs his attempt at dictatorship to Council,
the Frank Healy matter will be attached as
a sort OF a flyer, and will be put IN such a
Eay that the natural course OF action will
be: Will Council rise up and purify itself by
dropping Mr.. Healy from membership.
Then the Republicans, having brought
things to a focus, will stand aside
and let the Democratic majority choose be-
tween the two horns Of the dilemma. II
they proceed against Mr.. Healy there will
result internal strife to q greater or less ex-
tent among the Democrats in the Fourth
ward. and in the city at large, by which the
Republicans hope to profit, aud the Mayor
will have on additional club with which to
beat Captain Smith, for having been harsh
with the alleged erriDg member, Council
could not we'll be lenient with the Police
Chief. the two cases having been ingenious
" linked together. And, on the other hand.
If the Democratic members find the charges
against Healy not well founded, then the
Intelligencer, the Mayor, and the Repuot'
can members will put on a look of despair
and proclaim to the world that it is impos
si6le to do anything with the gamblers 80
long as a Democratic Chief OF Police reigns
and the Democrats have a majority Of
Council. Oh, its a nice little plot, but may
be it won't work. ,
Many people, who at first were fascinated
by the glitteriUg bubble blown by the Mayor
out Of Intelligencer soap suds, nov see the
hollowness of the whole thing, and the
course pursued by the REclsrER-tha o.
insisting on fair play and that an opnortu-
niry should have been given the Chief OF
Police TO show his hands approved BY
q number of people who. on Tuesday aud
Wednesday, were inclined to side with the
Msyor