Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-11-01
USING DOODLE.
REPUBLICANS END2SVORISG TO BRlbE
WHEELING VOTERS,
In Violation Of Law-HOw the Wanamaksr " Fat
is Being Distributed-The Vote Two
Years AgO-Political Notes.

Republican political campaigns in West
Virginia are generally campaigns OF
Doodle.
The present campaign is no exception
to this universal rule.
And right here in Wheeling this ke-
publican and peculiar method of ascer-
tanning the will of the people is being
applied with an energy and thorough
ness unusual even with these masters OF
the art of corruption.
As long ago as two weeks Republican
money made its appearance here in
Wheeling. and Republican henchmen-
men who have had long practice in the
art of bribery and corruption-were to
be seen in unusual sections OF the city,
and at unusual hours, and in unusual
company, sowing green-tinted argu-
ments among the floating element open
to purchase, in the hope that by this
method they might succeed in winning
a way to victory for their ticket. From
that time up to the present this sort OF
thing has been going on, until to-day
Republican money-drippings from the
fat which Wanamaker fried-is in the
pockets of voters, in the hope that the
men thus purchased or attempted to be
purchased will lend their votes and
influence to the Republican cause.
No quarter of the city, il is believed,
has been exempt from the visits OF these
boodlers, but they have been excep-
tionally active in the Eighth ward. A
Republican worker. known throughout
Ohio county for his work OF the same
nature in previous campaigns, and par
ticularly rs an organizer of the deluded
colored voters, has been down in this
ward very frequently of late, and when
he was not down there on his most
questionable of all political errands, he
was receiving visits in his Office from
his agents, or directly from men whose
votes were supposed TO be on the mar
ket, and who, after calling upon him,
went away richer by two dollars, or
five, or one, as the case might be.
The REGISTER is not talking at ran
dom in this matter 1t knows whereof
it speaks. There is proof right in this
office, and there is more in existence,
not in this Office, cOrroborrating the
statements here made.
Do these Republican boodlers realize
where they stand? DO they appreciate
the position they occupy? Have they
forgotten the law recently enacted by
the Legislature, expressly providing a
punishment for the men who corrupt
the franchise? Or do they imagine that
that law cannot or will not be en-
forced? Has the fact slipped their minds
that at the opening of this campaign
Mr.. T. 5. Riley, Chairman Of the Demo
cratic State Executive Committee, and
Mr. Il. +. Meighcn, Chairman Of the
State Executive Committee,
combined in an address to the voters OF |
the State, and which is posted every !
where, in which the law as to bribery |
was recited at length, and that appended |
to the law was this notice.
1--WE hereby give notice to all parties that |
the above law will be strictly and rigidly |
and request all persons who may |
be approached with the view of inducing |
them to violate any of its provisions, or any !
person who may have knowledge that any 1
Of its provisions are being violated, or arc |
TO report TO US at the earliest pos
sible date the names and postoffice address
es of any such persons
If the parties who are dispensing the |
Doodle do not lookout, there is a good |
chance for several persons to wear peni-
Tertiary stripes.