Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-31
A LITTLE DAZED.
The Sober Second Thought Among Ohio
County Republicans.

The Sober Second Thought Among Ohio
County Republicans.
Signs are multiplying that the Republic
cans of Ohio county, in which we include
the three or four thousand who were not
at Parkersburg with the half-a-dozen who
were, are not altogether happy over the
somewhat anomalous position in which the
party has been placed by the adoption OF
the temperance resolution by the cat
loftical conference. In fact, it is gradually
dawning upon the intelligent and think
ing element of the party that something
approaching an error has been made, and
that the Ohio county contingent who al
most unanimously" cOncurTed in the plea
for the submission Ofan amendment ought
to be shook up in a bag. People who re-
member the scenes of riot at the State Con-
~vention two years ago, and who listened to
the imprisoned protests poured out upon
the palpitating air by Capt. DOvener and
Others from this city, and who bcheld the
~rapturous Joy of Mr.. Hart when the tenn
perance plank was thrown out OF the stuff
there selected for platform, are somewhat
dazed at the radical change OF front shown
ut this late conclave of advance agents for
the great moral shows, and even after the
lapse of three days there are intcllI-
gent and cultivated gentlemen who dis
tinctly avOw that they cannot COM
prehend the situation, and there
fore know not what to say; while Others,
who look only at the results which must
accrue to the party from the stand taken
by its leaders, are rather frank in their eN-
preSSions of disapprObatiOn. Especially
are the German Republicans disguised and
alarmed. They see the leaders Of a party
with whom they have always acted, DELHI
erately plotting to ruin their business en-
terpriseS and force upon them q law whose
operations would deprive them of their
most cherished rights, and on every hand
can be heard the mutteringS of the storm
which the luckless Republicans have pro-
voked. On the other hand, the cOnscien-
tious and earnest Temperance people are
convinced than the resolution so lately
adopted carries with it no real weight, be-
ing merely the individual expression of
some scores of self-constituted representa-
tives of a party which may ut its next State
convention, undo what has so FIR been
done, and they are therefore not in the
humOr to rush en- mdSse into the
ranks of such uncertain friends.
Several dozens of Republicans were yester-
day asked to define their position on the
stand taken BY the Conference, and the
result was a very interesting bundle Of cX-
pressiOns. Among them such phrases rs
1T was a great piece Of f~OOlishneSs, " lit
ought II have been let alone" "we have
given away our chances in Ohio County, y
"a great political blunder," 1.-THE State
Convention will repudiate it, never iear, y
and Others of q similar nature occur with
great frequency. Barely half u dozen gen.
tlemen thought the resolution was timely,
and even these admitted that it would
cost the party votes IL could i'll afford to
spare. One gentleman said: 1T Is a de-
liberate effort to involve in financial ruin 4
class of men who have done more for
Wheeling than any other equal number OF
her citizens. / refer TO the men who gave
us the State Fair, the Elm Grove road, the
| Park, and some of our chief manufacturing
establishments. In driving them away
you deprive us of our most enterprising
people, and sat our city back to the rank OF
some interior towns. Oar people will re-
member this at the proper time o,,
This is a good place to refer to the I'M
mense demand for REGISTERS, Thursday
morning, along the Ohio River railroad and
in PaFkersburg. Notwithstanding q large
extm supply had been sent out, many who
desired TO read 4 tiFst-class account of what
had been done at Parkersburg, were una-
BILE to find a REGISTER, and had 10 be con.
tent with some other and inferior version OF
the affair.