Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-16
MISMANAGED.
TIE REPUBLICAN CLUBS MAKE A VERY GOOD
DISPLAY
Desuits Bad Weather and Bad Executive Work By
Marshal and Saf-A Noticeable Lack Of
Enhusian-Small Turnout From
the City Gibbs

ssHurrah for Harrison, and d-n the
men who are managing this parade"
This was the shout Of o disguised Pitts
burg man last night when he found his
club, with sdezen others, had been left on
Twelfth and nearby streets, while the re-
msinder of the column wasfar on the South
Side.
The rentiment was re-ectoad on all
sides, and the torrent Of profanity which
was poured out uroa the damp night air
was appalling, although 81 nearly Justified
profanity ever is.
Thefaet is, what would have been a very
fine parade, was terribly botched. The
management was evidently not equal to
the occasion, and the affair, after it cnce
got started, managed itself pretty much all
Though the evening.
The display made last night Iepresert'
the biggest thing the Republicansof Wheel
ing are capable Of, with the aid of three
weeks of preparation, and two thousand
men from outside the city and county.
The city of Pittshurg, all the towns sur
rouuding that stronghold of Re-
publicanism, and almost every vii
lage and town within o
hundred miles Of Wheeling, had been
levied upon o swell the paradipg column,
and the result was that two thousand
organized men were sent into the city in
the course of the evening. 1t was ex-
pected from the great stir which the
local Republican a~uthorities hsd made, and
the TIE nendous Efforts put out, that the
number from abroad Volld be at lest
equally By the turnout Of the home
ORGANIZATIONS, but truth compells the
statement that tie resi- O7se was exceeding
smsll. In fact, tie Wheeling men were
lost in the midst of the delegations sent in
from outside, and formed bnta very small
usrt-not over one ifth-of the whole.
The column was to have formed on the
streets lust north and south Of the creek,
the first division, composed Of Wis ting
clubs, on Ma n street, north Of Sixteenth,
and the second and the third on the South
Side, with the right res ing on Twentitt To.
But nobody seemed to have q call to lock
after the Organizations, and see that they
took their proper plscas. The Chief Mar
shsl and staff for the most part conten.ed
themselves with striking attitudes, on
horseback. on Fourteenth street, and the
result was that the Islard club got uixed
up with delegations from EIns-
Vile, and Little Washington, the
Junior Plumed Knights got stuck up
on Market streit, rear the sta Of
the old Ark, and when the column finally
moved, about huff tie firtt division moved
away and left the other half standing in
the mud for half an iO1r, until q reporter
kindly informed them that they were lost,
and pointed out the road. Another mix,
worse than this. occurred on the South
Side, and the resul: WAS that hundreds Of
men fell out Of the rsr k, while other hun
dreds swote like the army in FLINDERS as
they trudged through the mud or stood
about in the rain.
The decorations were the reverse of pro-
iuse, and the applause, as the column moved
through the streets, wss noticeable for
its al senCe, Notwithstanding the hteRigen-
Ger had plead with the public to hang
out flags, and make TIE welcome to
the visitors as warm as possiblef'
and threw cut ''suggestions' to not only
cheer, ''bnt in reese the applause with
the hands." Nobody cared to cheer, ex-
80 kh-.-.A al~,roSinp IF tba n No march
ing of some of the visiting o'gsn'zstions,
aud the reception If the demonstration
was decidedly Geld. Every cheer for
Harrison was answered with two fer
Cleveland, Gnd in a dozen PLACES DSmo.
cIats got up impromptu pa'adEs, several
of them containing q hundred men each,
and q stranger 10 the towr, who had not
been previously posted, would have been
as likely 10 guess il was Cleveland
parade IS tie other way.
The route Of procession was about the
worst that could have been arranged, and
the kicking was loud and ~prolC nged. The
membership of the visiting organizations
a,e certainly to be compliment ID for keep.
ing in has as well as the did under the
circumstances. They were evidently
trying to do their best, tut the tramp
through the mud was too much for many,
and they dropped out by scores and itties.
Long before the column made its appear
ance On the march up town, Pittsburgh
men could be seen on the streets in large
NUMBER, they having fallen Out in disgust.
Following is the roster Of TIE parade
when it started. When it passed the Nc
Lure Honse on its way up town, it CON-
tsined about s.fouItn les than the num-
bers given
W. II. Travis, Chief Mar hal.
Chief OF staff. Major J. Kelsey Hall.
Adjutant General, Cap. Sam BTubaker.
Bugler. Capt 1heo. Roll r.
Richa:d Robb, se.son Noble, A. s. List,
Hugh Sterling, J. G.. Kline, Walter Bell,
Thomas H. Lewis, W. r McMchen
aud DIR. John DicEey.
Opera pouSe Bandit men.
Piumed Knights,
Capt. job Lit. Commanding,
81 men.