Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-21
BLOOD ON THE DOOR.
PROHIBITION RBNDS THB PENNSYLVANIA
REPUBLICAN wIGWAM.
Chairman Palmer Sounds the War Whoop. and
Makes Dash for Matt Quays Scalp
- McMAnss Brings Away
Few Hairs.

PHILADELPHIA, June 2O.-Henry W.
Palmer, Chairman OF the Prohibition
Amendment State Committee, said this
evening: 81 assert distinctly that the
whole powers of the Republican and Dem
ocratic machines in Philadelphia was ex-
ercised against prohibition, and that no
viliainy known to the most expert political
villains on earth was omitted to compass
the result.
"The evidence is to be found in the fact
that the chairmen OF both parties in Phila-
delphis ordered out their forces, ostensibly
to carry the Suffrage Amendment. The
vote for the Suffrage Amendment and the
vote against the Prohibition Amendment
are substantially identical. This clearly
shows that the men who worked for ore
worked against the other. The same tao
tic were employed elsewhere. That this
was done with the advice and consent of
the big leaders l don't assert. l know
some of them-notably Governor Beaver
and General Hsstings-Were honestly for
thelamendment.
NOW FOB THR WHIRLWIND.
"What the effect will be on the politics
of the future it is not hard to forsee. If
the poll was $50, 900, then 300, 900 Prohi-
bition votes were cast, and cast by men
who vote on principle They are not the
kind to sit still and be swindled of a chance
to win by band of conspirators who did
not keep the word of promise to the ear
May be it is time for the people of the
State to inventory the situation and see
whether it is worth while TO submit any
longer to the domination of leaders who
seem to be neither honest nor wise. AS a
Republican, with all others had a right
to expect that thoee who absolutely con-
troll the party machinery in Philadelphia
sne elsewhere, would not allow its use
either directly or indirectly for the pnT-
pose of defeating the amendment which
WAS submitted, not because the party man
ayers believed in it, but because it was
necessary to keep $4,000 Republicans in
line. Some of the cOdntiy Republicans
are getting little tired of cutting wood
and drawing water for the present political
managers, and spprehend there will be
music in the air in the near future.".
REPUBLICAN DBFEAT PREDICTED.
Horace Geiger, Chairman of the Phils-
delphia Prohibition City Committee, said: :
''Tne result of this election will defeat the
Republican candidate for State Treasurer
and carry the fight to Legislative districts
in favor of prohibition 10 insure major
lty for statutory prohibition in the next
Legislature"
James McManes, the well-knOwn Re-
publican leader, said 81 can only reiter-
ate what l have heretofore said that such
defeat for the prOhibitory amendment,
in the face of such majority as the Re
publican party hss in this State, can't be
otherwise than detrimental TO the party.
The result is no surprise to me, as the
leaders and workers of both sides were sll
against the amendment. l WAS against
the submission of the amendment at the
time it was resented, because did not
know for what purpose it was offered.
My opinion was At the the the resolution
was submitted to the convention, that 1t
was offered in good faith, but l am now
convinced that such was not the case"