Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-17
WHEW
HOW THE REPUBLICAN PRByARIcAr0Rs
GET IN THEIR WORK.
Ch,ics Extracts from the Specials Sent from this
City 10 The Pittsburgh Papers Of
Yesterday Morning.

Tie sre:ial correspondence from WHEEL
irg, in the Pittsburg papers of yesterday,
su,pxs.d in picturesque lsirg the wild
imsginings Of Rider Hsggard or the start
lirg ronaDces of Jules Verne. After read
log such stuff. these is little reason to
wonder that Republicans all ovT the
country, after ese'y election, cuss West
Virginia uenbsrs Of their party for max
irg will statements about what they were
able t, do, in the way Of Carrying the
State, thereby inducing newspaper readers
to risk their hsrd-eaInsd cssh upon the
States being wreste1 ton the Democrats
In 1884 o wide circulation Of these rose
colored Republican predictions resulted in
the less Of thousands Of dollars to gentle
men with q disposition to risk money on
the Republicans carrying tie State, aud
the amount Of grumbling resulting when
the Democrats cariisd everything before
them, as usual, was something terrific.
r publican predictions, when applied to
this particular State, after the last Presi-
dentist election, were clasEei in the ssme
cltegoIy as dicers' oIths, and exGtsd Moth
ing blt derision.
As indicated at the outset, tie same old
tactics are being resorted to this ysar, aud
the Pittsburgh journals referred to afford
excellent examples Of the wild statements
being made. Appearing 10 reputable pa
pers, these things are naturally taken at
their face value By people who have no OF
p~ortunity to knoS the facts, bat here they
excite amusement or indignation, accord
log to the particular features of each
separate lie:
For instsnce:
In the Pittsburgh Times, the Wheeling
corresI oadsnt, in lis desire TO biiog the
parade Of Monday night up to something
in keeping with the tremendous efforts
made, was not content to enumera.e the
column rs it actually existed, but took o
map o this psrtof the country, and calm
ly put down oae or more clubs from every
considerable town within say a hundred
miles. This accounts for his assertion tina:
there were or .niz ,tious in line from ST..
Cl,irsyil'e, GAINESVILLE, Cambridge, Zanes-
III NJ NIGr.lln StotE ray,na par
sers6urg, FGirmont, Morgsntown, Middle
b)urne, llarks6urg, Grafton, tt; not ole
Of which was actually represented. This
saue romarc;r, following the wake Of the
MteRigeneer, says there were seven thous-
and men in line.
The Commercial Gazette has this daisy
paragraph IN it's telegram:
'At II O.. lock the MGrshals ofthe parade
reviewed tie head Of the procession IN
front of the IatGLigencer office. Thu first
division was over two miles long, and the
second division then began to psss Four.
tteuth street, where is located the re-
vie wing stand. 1t is estimated that the
parade was over seven miles 'o1g"
Every man, woman and child IN Wheel
NJ knows there was no reviewing stand,
that the column didn't pass the LRtelH-
geacsr office, and so on.
Pr, cssdiug this paper says: Demo
cracy in this State is doomed West Viz
g;pia is going to break the sold South
She will cast her six electoral votes for
Harrison and Morton, will elect four Re-
publican Congressman and stnd a RsIub-
lican TO the Senate ID succeed Senator
Kenna. II may seem aston ishing 70
people living outside The Stats, but such
Is the case, aod it will require q political
earthquake to change the outlined result.
II is possible that the Democracy may
slect one of the Foar CoDgres,men, bu,
thsrA thev stop"
A little further on:
Toe First ard Second Congressional
districts are almost certain 10 90 Rspubi-
ran. The Flint has been represented By 3
e. publican ,o- six years and W. L. Will
son, Democrat. from the Second holds his
sest By only Al majority, and Pendleton
county, the Bourbon standby, was held
back Till ell the Other returns wers in
The only district which seems doub full Is
the Fourth. The Republican candidate
there has q majority Of 900 to overcome
N may rOl No hDlS 10 uO IT,
While in this humorous vein the writer
says:
The number Of f,ppars in the State is
extraordinarily large. A. first the Rapub
lican papers Published the namts. but that
has been stopped. Lie Vas made o bur
den to them"
He Is right about the burden business,
huk a little off as 10 the Gauss. Then he
goes on:
Threats hsve been used, bat it is no go
The loUp.rs have Topped 20 stsy."
CoDiog back to the parsds tois hopeful
H~unchaussn says:
Republicans here say when Yves. We
ginis is carried by them Pittsburg people
must come DOWN again"
1t is hardly probable the same men who
were ~mismausged Mondsy night will ever
come back, ever VIXEN West Virginia Is
carried by the Republicans"
Tue Dispatch correspondent says parade
'the was an hour and twenty minutes pas
ing a given point" instead Of tbs actual
forty minutst, and that at contained 1000
me7," and was 1--WE miles l,ng.' Thel
he grew wilder than ever, and said:
NEARLY 8 riot occurIei at the conduct
Of the electric street cars, which refused to
stop. The Wheeling clubs finally stopped
them by force"
Trere is moe of this sort Ct ret, but the
above affords q fair sample of THAT Repub-
licsns outside the st s'e are bsing fed On
To show By the I~nteiigeRcer itself, how
wild its own claim. and..tratO Of the cor
respondents, OF 1000 men is, t1e exsggsr-
ated ard elaborate roster of the parade
gotten rp by the I~ateliigencer, footed up
but 4,052 msn.
QUAY'S POLITICAL DRINKERS.