Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-11
THE BOYCOTTERS.
THE COMMITTEES STILL VENDING THEIR
WEARY WAY ABOUT TOWN.
Vary Cold Comfort Given Them al Almost Every PlacS
Vizted-A Lady's Spirited Reply.
On the South Side

The Boycotting Committees which hav'
charge of the rather large task of compel
ling the citizens Of Wheeling to lend thei
aid to the enforcement of Wrong are still
ON their travels about town, reminding
one of nothing 50 much as couerie o
Nineteenth century Vanderdeckens, con
demned to drift about in the mud anc
mist until doomsday as apunishmentfol
the despicable part they have
PLAYED in the attempted robbery of the
morning newspapers. On all sides TIT
| members of the committee have beer
treated with the scorn and condemnation
they have so Justly meTited, aud 80 far q:
can be learned they have accomplished
nothing of moment, except to bring down
upon themselves the eXecration Of bushes:
| men and the contempt OF oul
citizens at large. The word "BOycotter'
has lately become synonymous with every
thing that is cowardly and brutal, and thu
men who are endeavOring to rule this com
munity through this imported yilliany ar
looked upon with something more thar
aversion By those who believe themselves
fitted to attend to their own affairs.
1t would be interesting to know just
what q boycotter thinks of himself
He may go about the streets, IN thu
company of others of his ilk, with some
show of brayadO, but when he Is alone
| with his conscience he must have a de-
cidedly unpleasant time of it. If he
looks at his reflection in his mirror an i'll
voluntary shudder must course W
and down his frame, and at night
| when he crawls into bed
in the darkness of hi
chamber. and reflect upon what ht
is doing, the mental picture presented
must cause him to drag the bed clothing
over his head in an effort to shut out that
which is so we'll calculated TO disturb his
piece of mind.
The contrast between the industriou:
printer, working three hundred and sixty
five days in the year, if he choose
to the BOycOtter, tramping the
streets on the most despicable o.
missions, is a great one. The business o.
the walking COMMITTEES, under the present
circumstances, must rest heavily upon 8
man.
Quite a number of business men yester
day returned unfavOrable answers to the
committee. A lady, in business on q
prominent street, indited the committee
seorching letter, in which she set forth IL
emphatic language her intention OF con
Quoting her affairs in her own way, and
defied the BOycOtters to do their worst.
Her missive was preceded and supple
mented by verbal messages from all sides,
and the net result was decidedly uncOm-
| Portable for the rule or ruin gang.
The Sixth ward committee was at work
Tuesday evening canyaSSing the ward to
see what harm they could do the morning
papers, by inducing by coercion merchants
and individual citizens to withdraw their
patronage by stopping their subscriptions
to said papers. The committee Is cOmpos-
ed of a fellow named Jake He'll, common
Ily known Us "YOCk," who
is not working and evidently
desired some way to put in his time, and
a young man named Francis Ferguson, 4
bricklayer who is doing the nasty work
because the Assembly to which he belongs
appointed him, and not because he wants
to do ii.
They visited number of private indi-
yiduals and number of business men,
and rs far Us could be learned, they
met with less than no success.
These men simply know that they are at
tempting to boycott the only English
newspapers in the city, but if you asked
them what for, they could give
you no satisfaction, except to ut
er that wOrm-caten chestnut-'be-
cause they employ rats" They
are working for an alleged principle that
they know nothing OF, and for a cause
that they do not profess to have any
knowledge Of The Sixth Ward people
should ask these men to put their demands
in writing rs well rs full explanation OF
the cause upon which their demands are
| based.
The boycott in the lower end Of the city
and the Sixth ward in particular Is work
ing both ways. Business men who
have succumbed to the demands
of the bOycotters, and to their
shame he it said there was several who cut
off their subscriptions, have lost all the
| fecder-nailerS, feeders and their friends,
and the major portion of the community,
which is down on the heniOus boycott,
should, and doubtless will follow in the
wake Of these men. Men who have
stopped taking the paper now borrow that
of their neighbOr to read. The neigh
Dor who is sensible enough to
not let the boycOtters intimidate him
should refuse to lend his paper
to those who want the news every day
but have been driven by threats to discOn-
tinue their subscriptions. 1t is poor
rule that doesn't work both ways.