Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-06
ELL OF PROD. /"
gn,yS TAKE EXCEPTIONS TO TaE
Listing OF VOTERS
,.,.-,h There Was No Claim That They We're Not
$500 3, Go On tho Books-Ihreas Of Man
6sm9sss, and Of Other Awial Things.


50. uorse. Yesterday afternoon.
NJ. cause OF it was the very bad
- made by Chairman J. X. Hall,
.ta Republican County Executive
y who, seeing what looked
-, opportunlty TO make trouble for
lection officers, and hoping to per-
...ioyaIidate the whole list Of voters in
80 .i.oorntv. threatened TO appeal to the
S-.-, 70 prevent the listing Of Demo
.. voters who had priRG fGcie
-st,o be enrolled. Pursuing this,
A.. V,u raised q cry OF "foul" and Of
a,.,,i~ness. aud made ugly threats Of
s,,i,.nr q writ OF mandamus, Of "kick-
over The whole election machinery,
5ofdoIpr other startling thing. lie
-. .,rsnltei counsel and preached
,arfqr % one of the Judges
..ts Circuit Court, but by the time he
~ GONE 10 this extreme % began 10
,,r-r tLe chairman that perhaps
.-sttfrrs complained of were not 50
.--a1.a after an, and as reason re-
...s4 her sway, there was sudden
-.Tfr- OF. Mr. Hal, during his big
MI. said many things which showed
,-,s much excited. Ho declared for
..5,.--ass." .'the law" etc, said the
r..-- he objected 10 had 20 stop
~ I'm stop the whole thing,
s.4 even went 20 the length Of
s-.-s.rr Clerk Pendleton OF SHOWING"
81 listing le complained OF was
,.-1rc Asa matter of fact, Mr.. Pen
5a..a didn't know anything of the
-r The truth is that the Republi-
cans have shown great activity IN fill
jgrutueir lists of voters, and claimed
tbe doing more work than the Demo
c-s-s Clagr.ued 40 seeing their lead
swept away 0y the Webster district list,
f-ar-b. In 5y Mr.. WeiSger5er, their
d.aru0iutueut was allowed 20 get the
6s--sr oftleir Judgment, aud hence the
tears which were shed.
Tine "tr0u1'e" arose To this wise:
Shortly after one O'clock Mr. John
Wssger5er and Assessor @. u. Blan-
rr,- went into Board of Commission
s-tCerk PeudleJ0n's inner Office, out
O.. The way ot the noise and confusion
r the Public Board room, % transcribe
man ,heoGcia, lists of voters the names
aa5a.. one luGdred and thirty voters
IN Webster district, who had been
missed rv the Assessor la making his
preliminary canvass. The list Of voters
sa sought tJ be enrolled had been gath
cred no by the Democratic workers on
tte South Side, and had been turned
u. q h..
designated bV Lr. Blanchard as an as
s,aa- t0 aid in clearing up of the
arce sw0gut OF work accommodating.
Iheuames were upon the Official blanks
provided 57 .lW, and some of these had
been signed by Mr.. Weisgerber, as
wrcauE for them, In the blank set
apart for the signature OF the Assessor.
Ot course. Mr. Weisgerber was not the
Assessor, ald the fact that be put his
name i1 tle blank did not make him so
many degree.
Will. Messrs. Blanchard aud WeiS-
gerber were running over the names,
l-----.Llg theu Ger entry lGS-J. i.
Hail. Chairman OF the Republican COuu-
ty Executive Committee. came into tue
room. through the door communicating
with the large Board room, and after
r looking on for moment or TWO, inter
posed al objection 20 the listing of
tae names. not because there was any
' pre..rss thaJ they were not persons en-
Titled t0 be listed, but because he
claimed they had been gathered up by
lla,s.s-lut OF the Assessor, while the
C1c advertisement had stated that
ell persons desiring 20 De listed must
call 90 the Office To person.
Mr. Han was very indignant,
and threatened, among other things,
tl-tii there was any further attempt TO
list che names he would apply 10 the
Court, 10 session up stairs, for a writ.
Later be declared that the work should
DOT 20 on, OF he would upset the
whole thing, aud 90 another time said
he could "alrest Mr. Blanchard right
there, t be had q mind % do so, but
he didn't want 90 make trouble, etc.
The listing o., the names was at cuCe
suspended, aud Dir. Hal, sought the
Court room t1 have @ talk with the
Judge about the matter. but as cases
were on trial, nothing could be done.
lie then went on. ana held a c0nsulta-
tiOn with some members of the Bepub-
liCan Committee, ana later sought the
advice OF counsel.
The incident naturally created q hub
.bu0 about the Court House, and the
matter was cLewsd over pro aud con for
two or three hours, during which it was
explained by Mr.. Blanchard and others
that thlre was no intention of doing
GDythiug either illegal or unfair, that
the voters bad right 90 be listed, that
many OF them could not come person
ally 90 the Court House, aud that this
method had been taken OF securing their
names upon the list. On the other
hand, MIR. Hall and other Repub-
licaLs maintained that the method
was "uniair," as the tendency was
70 have Republicans obey the adj
KertisemelJ aud come personally 70
the Court House, while Democratic lists
could be 'run ia" over their heads Mr..
Hall stated that his Committee had
large lists themselves, one contain
taiuiIg one hundred and eighty
I've names iu Richie and another
Sne hundred and five names in Wash
lugtOn, etc, and that there should have
been a statement that they could be
brOughtin made TO bis side The wrangle F.
lasted until nearly five o'clock, when
hr. Howard, Prosecuting Attorney, APP
pered, aud said he thought tho enroll
Ing OF lists, so far as that went, was an I
right, provided the Assessor, in his dis
erection thought the men were entitled
90 Oe registered. Later still there was
consultation between Mr.. Hall, Mr..
, Blanchard and Judge PAUL, at which it
was taclJ.y agreed that the thing was