Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-14
A PLEASANT PARTY
or Democrats and Republicans Have
Bar quet at Bridgeport

or Democrats and Republicans Have .
Bau quet at Bridgeport.
Bridgeport Democrats and Republicans
banqueted together at the Sherman House
last night. The merry making was Ct 8
hilarious nature, and psr~tisspsbip was for
the time at least entirely forgotten. Dem
ocrats and Republicans joined each other
as partners in the may stag polka and
quadrille, and side by side they bumped
their glasses of foaming lager in friendly
good fellowship. The names of the candi-
dates of 1883 were not mentioned once,
and any one not acquainted with the MS
ture of the affair wonld have bsen at q loss
to know the cause of the bilarity. All
evening till eleven O'Clock the party sat
about the parloIs and in the office engaged
in pleasant conversation, and listening to
the strains of Meistel's orchestra. At that
hour supper was announced, and an tie
CANT affair it was. Three long tables had
been arranged, which occupied tina entire
dining room, and at thess forty persons were
soon seated. At the supper table especially
did the good feeling exist. Jests OF all
kinds were passed back and forth, but in
no instance was anything pertaining to
politics mentioned.
For the first course IA elegant bowl of
turtle soup was s9Ivel each man at the
tables, after which fully half an hour was
spent discussing cold turkey, cold tongue,
sliced bam. corned beef, hslfa dozen kinds
of salads, fried oysters, ste%ei oyeters and
oysters raw, ice cream, cakes, lemon aud
pumpkin pie, nuts, candies and coffee.
Tbs tables were filed q second time. The
spread was simply elegant, and was nicely
served by q corps of well trained walters
from this city.
After suppsr the Iell ian began. The
entire party turned itself loose, and the
p4rlor was a scene of the most exciting
reyalry. The hand struck up the appro-
late air "Johnny Git Your Gun" ard
the crowd were holes into the cGpet with
an aid fashioned hoe down. Then q few
more tho 'ongh enthusiastic members Of
the psr!y sang comic songs and an amateur
| clog dauCer helped en- the tumult.
The affair was gotten up entirely by the
| Republicans and was for the benefit Of
theie d .mocratic brethren. All bands en-.
ioyed themselves highly, and the blowout
will do more than anything elsa c)uld to
bring back ell the good feeling which
exis'e ed before the campaign opened.
The following is n partiel list of those
invited: T. c. Judkius, Will Noll, Frank
Fisher, A. T. Bowie, DIR. John Cooke,
N. Kuhn, Leonard Donly, Henry Nemen-
GER, VIM, Cook, Anton Hammer, j. G
Dsnt, Hon. K. B Mitchell, Andy Moore,
Ed Keller, Eli Gilmore, Hop. Ross J.
Alexander, Geo. @. Mckee, E. W.
Citizens, G.. W. Meiil], DR.. W. s
Fisher, DR.. Van Wagner, Geo. B. Hath
away, John Very, Tom Duncan,
Sam Barclay, Jack Glasscpck Joe Miller,
T. &. May, E. W. Houser, George Sim
pers, Fl. M. Clark, John A. Topping,
B. NJ. Caldwell, J. E. Waters, Charles
Smith, J. o. Ho wells, H. G.. BIaaum,
A. G. Brsnum, Matt Martin, Ambrofe
Beard, DR.. NJ. Todd. John Richardson,
Charley and Nslse Noble. Some few Of
these did not attend, and quite q number
not named were present. The list does
not include the local members of the Re-
publican party wro attended. The fol
lowing is the Committee which had the
all air in charge: Chairman, K 7. Howell,
Secretary, John W. Stuff; Will F. Giffn,
DR.. A. J.. Hsinlein, J. W. Fowler, @. A.
Junkins, F. P. WOodmansee.