Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-01
VACATED.
JUDGE BOYD wIrHDRAwS rHB RESTRAIN
Ina 0nDBE.
Entered in Response 10 Mr.. AknsOn's Petition
Of WSpssdsy-Ths Writ Of kaDdamu
Still Hanging, and CsrhOrari
Applied For.
rbs lD1., Rspublicah isaders were a sad

The local Republican lsaders were sad
eyed and lugubriOus lot, yesterday.
TIE proceedings inaugurased by them
in the Circuit Court, Wednesday, by the
hurried fling of papers which had been
prepared and laid away on shelf q week
or 80 before, turned out In way which
made them sick, and at noon, when they
filed out of the Court House, their solemn
visages and the quiet earnestness which
characterized their conversation made the
crowd look like it was National conven-
ton of undeItakers, taking recess for
dinner
To be knocked out 30 easily on one short
round, dssz'ed the gentlemen who have
been croSding up behind Mr.. Atkinson in
an effjrt to aid him in securing good hold
on something be was not entitled to. Es-
pecially wers they Disposed 70 "bleSS"
their luck, after having so carefully, and,
as was supposed, with such infinite wis
dom, chosen the legal grounds upon which
they were 10 stand in their last endeaVor
to turn down Congressman Pendleton.
The way couutensnces heightened out,
in the Court room, when Judge Boyd an
nounced the setting aside of the restraining
order, IVES funny. The Republicans had
crowded iuto the Court room, and were
generally occupying front seats, from which
points of vantage they had hoped to wit
ness the total discontinue of the Board OF
Commissioners and Democrats generally.
When the announcement was made, they
filed mournfully cut, and their disappoint-
ment was marked enough to bring tears to
the eyes of a potato.
After while they recovered enough to
"Wonder what had been done with the GER
tifcates OF election" and for the succeed
ing hours of tie afternoon they almost for
got their great grief in skurryiug around
town and button-holing folks in a conf
Dental way in the hope OF sscertainlng the
whereabouts of the papers. Many were
the yarns told to the bewildered Rspubll.
cans. They were told the papers had been
sent off by special messenger, that they
had been sent by mail, that they were
going by express, that they were IN the
custody of the members of the Board Of
Commissioners, that Clerk Woods had
thsm, that they were locke l Up in this vault
and in that, and by dusk the bowlers OF
fraud were in quite state Of mind, and
were filling the air with wild threats OF
what they were going to do in certain con-
tingencies. Gentlemen were to be arrested
for contempt of Court, have mud thrown
at them in the IRteligencer, held up to pub
lie execratiop, and 30 on ad lib.
For their walls and threats the Demo
Gratis calmly returned the sunniest Of
smiles, and the assurance that AL was
we'll"
The long array of extraordinary legal
remedies invoked by the Republicans
caused q good deal of fun among Dsmo-
Gratis. Said one gentleman, last evening:
Let's s2e, they have prohibition, certiOrdri
and mGndamWs except hdbeaS
corpus"
The Republican inquiry as to the where
abouts OF the certificates of election wac, Of
course, inspired by desire to persist in
their policy Of delay, add prevent, is pos
sible, the ssuauce Of certificate by the
Governor to the successful candidate. This
has been their aim all along, and they
kept il up to the last.