Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-08
WHAT A NIGHT.
LIVELY TINES IN TOWN ALL LAST EVEN
ING.
Ths hteres. IN he Election 0vsrshsdOwei Every
thing Rlss-SOns Of the Scenes About
the City Depicted.

The scenes about the city, last even
ing, rather discounted anything ever
seen In this town on the night before a
Presidential election. The confusion,
the uproar, the arguments, the asser-
lions, the betting and the bluffs, the
schemes and the counter plots, were
without number and Of infinite variety,
and even as late as one o'clock this
morning men whose eyes ordinarily
closed in sleep long before that hour,
were ccngregated around the corners,
IN the hotel Hobbies, and In the restaur-
ants and saloons, and the battle ragged
as fiercely as ever.
The people who were complaining
week, or even but two or three days
ago, about it's being q dull campaign,
were free TO confess, as they looked at
the surging crowds and listened to the
turmoil. that even the old-time election
gait had been surpassed, and tha6 such
= whirlwind Of excitement had =ever
been seen before.
In every building at all open TO the
public. such as hotels, restaurants, sa-
looms, etc, there was thrOng OF inter
ested and more or less excited men.
They came early aud they stayed late,
aud the air was full OF the buzz OF
voices all the time. In the lob
by OF the Mcclure there were at least
one hundred people all the evening, and
perhaps q cOupleOf thousand were there
1t one time and anOther during the
night. On one side two or three politi-
clans were consulting with their
heads close together, few
feet away candidate would be
earnestly talking with several friends,
next TO that group would be crowd
discussing the terms OF bet, and a lit
tie farther away some one would be re-
calling whoever would listen TO him
with some yarn regarding candidate.
Newspapers were being read, tables OF
past elections consulting, men were
wondering how New York and Indiana
were going to vote, and there was an
endless hub-bub. At the other hotels
the scenes were very similar.
But it was In the saloons that the
most picturesque sights and the most
vociferOus sounds were to be found.
All were jammed TO the doors with men,
sober, exhilsrated, intoxicated, tipsy
and drunk. Some were attired In the
torn. disheveled and muddy feminine
garments which had been through the
buriesQue parade, and tobacco smoke
and cuss words filled the air. Many a
A.rous Ves started during the night, and
hot words were banded back and forth
at lively rate. AS the night
grew later the crowds at the
saloons grew worse, In two senses.
They partOOk more generally or 3
rough nature, and they were drunken,
and particularly in some Of the South
Side saloons, and about the Second
ward market house there was many
difference which resulted In a scrap
outside Money for the purchase OF
LIQUOR seemed to be limitleSs, and propo-
sitions to bet resulted in the houriShing
gcad OF anincrean AL sides, Much cash
~ less thaR tws "a the hands Of stake
holders during the evening and night,
and the average OF 10 was with the odds
on the Democracy, both as whole, on
West Virginia and on the success OF the
local candidates
While all this and much more was
going on indoors, the streets were well
filled until the small hours OF morning,
fragments of drum corps went here and
there, followed In some cases by no one,
and Ia Others by little squads o. enthus-
iastic and bOisterouS men In female cos
tunes, who were not quite themselves,
and there was general air Of excite
ment in almost every quarter OF the
town. 1t was q lively night, and to-
night will, in all probability, be its
eQueal.