Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-02-07

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very different being from Republic
can reformer during the city campaign
TIE organization Of prohibition
party in Kentucky shows the exiraordi-
nary nerve and courage Of the ProAi-
bllionists.
THE Cleveland Plain Dealer speaks oil
tie "bacHn Of Repub,cauism." Too
large an incubation Of these Is what
ais our city Council.
How would lido Tor the Chicago Mail
10 print IFS Il. Observation-Disclosures
pot-be-closed.ou-Sunday editorial in req
ink? Ii would look more like business
TIM Ohio state Board Of Health Is
irving TO abolish indiscriminate kiss
trq. This may do as regards the street
car and sidewalk article, but the hall
way and moonlight brand will still so
marching on.
THE Democratic majority in Council
has yielded everything the Republican
minority could expect, aud more than
they were entitled TO. Still they are
bushFhacking for more; and the ousi-
ness Of the city suffers.
MIR. VEAzEY's experiments before
the Congressional committee inyestigat-
ing the whisky trust, IN which he made
LIQUORS that would sell for "a gallon
out of chemicals that cost but dollar
orso. show that an that makes loaded
is not the pure stuff.
A BILL making it an offense punisha-
ole by fine ana Imprisonment TO manu-
facture or sell the detested and detesta-
ble erinoline in Minnesota has been in
troduced I'm the State Legislature. Our
salvation may after all come from the
woody and rigid northwest.
TIE attitude Of the Republicans in
Council on the electric lighting bill is a
hint of what might have been expected
had they gained control Of the body.
They are against the interests Of the
people, where they conflict with the
claims Of private monopoly, first, last
ana all the time.
TIE Wheeling REGISTER says: "Only
l,ff tina N'rfFU-G ar0nu .OIl-
press. thank the Lord To wnlcn the
country ferventy responds Amen" IL
MAS al ,vevs SO with 81 Deu0cratic Congress
sDd we Aect II VIII always be so.-Be,-
Il.lszns.
TTIS the obsuucting Republican Sen
atorial end Of it the country is complain
ing Of, dear.
A FINE lot Of Christians are the mem
bers of the Pastors Onion Of Columbus
who have resolved TO make no more
oueDing prayers in the : Legislature
without pay. The Legislature could
get even by formulating one good
strong prayer and having the Clerks OF
the two houses read it every morning.
1t would do as well as the paid-for sup
plications Of mercenary ministers.
WHAT great and high sounding prom
Uses OF reform the Republicans in COun-
eli made during the campaign, and now
that they have been given about equal
control with the Democrats, how glori-
ously they are carrying them out! Fhey
have, by dilatory tactics delayed the
election OF officers in the hope that Mr..
NJ. j. O'KANE would be called TO
Charleston I'm the meantime and that
they would thus gain some advantage.
But they may as we'll abandon that hope
% once, for Mr.. O'KANE will stay here
until the whole matter is settled.
THE Republicans Of the Second
Branch Of Council are a queer lot. They
saw ft last night 10 make q party Ques-
tion ont Of the measure to be submitted
20 the Legislature providing that the
city be allowed TO supply consumers
with electricity without first being com
PEELED TO purchase the present ineli-
cient rattle-trap Of an electric light
plant. The Republicans talked and
voted solidly against the measure, with
the exception Of one Of their number
who had the good sense 70 vote with the
Democrats on the right side. 1t was a
question Of the convenience Of the whole
city versus the unreasonable claims Of
few stockholders in the present con-
Germ, whose service is about as wretch
cd as it could be. The Republicans are
welcome 10 an the party capital they
can get out Of their course in the mat
ter.
A NEW PHASE.
The airing Of the Panama canal fraud
developed the fact that the company,
though itraised S265, 900. 600, spent only
$50. 900, 900 for actual work, the balance
being waisted or stolen. This leads o
sagacious contemporary to note the i'm
portant fact that If this statement is
true, it Is the best thing that has been
said lately to show the feasibility Of the
Panama canal enterprise. If al the
work on the isthmus cost only $50, 900,
600. there is good reason TO believe that
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