Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-28
WOULDN'T PUT UP.
ANEW WORKMAN wHOsHOUTED THROUGH
THE INTELLIGENCE"
That BE Had Money 10 Bet On Harrison-aow 10
Weakened Whom Democratic Cash Was Pro
ducsd-Intrsstirg High Tax Literature
Saturday Nights Meeting.

Every once in q while the indiscreet
Iatelliqeneer gets some coDfding Republican
brother into trouble.
There was case in point yesterday.
The organ of high taxes came out in the
morning with hslf-column interview
with one L. j. King, representing NV
York chemical house, and the gentleman
was made to say number Of things which
caused him no little Inconvenience and
humiliation.
In the course of the talk with the Inteiii-
geneer man, Mr.. King said, in reply to the
question, "HoS is New York;"
''She i, all right. 1 have considerable
money bet on the States going Re2ubli-
can, and thouah I am poor man, 1 am
willing to be more"
Several D amocrats, who have been leos-
log for weeks for a Republican who had
c,sh to back up his political faith, read
this public invitation by Mr. King, and
putting their surplus money in their
clothes, they swsrmed into the McLure
House and snIiously enquired for the
gentleman. He was found after soma lit
tie effort, and . well kuown Democrat del
icately introduced the newspaper account
of his anxiety to bet, and ssid he would
accommodate the New Yorker with o
wager of any amount mp to five hundred
dollars. Mr.. King hssitsted somewhat,
and finally asked for odds. He hadn't
said anything about wanting odds in his
interview, but he was offered a premium
of fifty dollars on five hundred dollar
hst. He said something about put
ing up five hundred, to six hundred
Il Democratic money, and was told that II
that was the best he could do the bet
would be made. Finding that his little
bluff didn't have the desired effect. no be-
van TO make other conditions, and dsally
when every reasonable Proposition had
seep refused by him, there was circus.
Democrats kept dropping into the Mcclure
House with money, until there was tifteen
hundred dollars of Cleveland cash on hand,
and they began to ped with Mr.. King 10
make q bet. The most extrayagsnt in
4ucements were offered him, they even 60
ipg TO the length Of offering to make him
present of fifty dollars in cash If
ne would put MP five hundred dollars
against ak hundred on Nav York. He
refused, and sought refuge 10 a game of
l. l. ~. nv
still fingered around, and every once IN
while delegation of them would 60 over
70 the pool table and shake handful OF
bills under Mr.. Kings nose and plead with
MIN 10 make bet The squirming Of the
R.pub' IAN brother made lets of fun for
he GRO I'd, and his impairment was thor
aughly enjoyed, until he lost his temper,
.ad his partner in the game called on the
hotel people to call eff Tire crowd
Despsiring of getting Mr. King to bet,
local republicans took limited amount
If the D-mocra 1, money. demanding the
patty stiff ODDS OF SIS to $50 and 500 to
s75, but Mr.. King stood aloOf and would
haze none of il.
Later in the day the attempt to get the
saosuir New Yorker 70 make his bluff
good WAS renewed, and there came near
aeing fight, but no money went up, even
when Offers were made t. give him two to
one that he had never voted Tor Cleveland,
~ he announced in the Inteligencer inter
view, and that he had no money 10 bet,
a,d never intended 10 make bet Of any
sort. He wa deaf 10 everything, hut later
Ia the day was sasn p'uring forth y
grievances to 81 InteL!igsncer msn, aud II IS
% ne presumed the olaf will reappear Ia
some form or o.her this morning in that
paper. ,
= VAS q very fine illus.ration Of one Of
he Rrpub lean efforts to Impress the peo-
pl5 urh the belief that ttey really have
coanct In the present campaign, but 1t won't
stand the test Of cold cash.
Later in the at ernoon Mr.. King was
called down en- another branch of his Rs
publican b eff H. had tS'ed that he had
lately been shown certain samples OF drug
gi,ts' glass ware, such as graduates, fun
nels, cologne bottles, etc, which Were
made in E gland, and imported and
The duty phi, for lees sum
than the same gods could be
made here, ard hs iSi0rmant,
NJ. Brown, Of the Canton Glass Company.
bed aid nuder the Mills II wages would
have 10 he reduced, or toe factories closed.
A leading glass manufacturer Of th's city
,nok mp this statement and criticised 1t IN
scathIpg manner, showing that 1t wss
totally untrue in every respect, and that
tn adoption Of the Nuts bull would very
materially better the condition CT the
Americaa glass manufactures.
Tsks il all together, the interview with
Mr.. King was about the worst break OF
the campsign.