Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-29


nearly so confident that its leaders will
be noatsd into the city Offices by the
back-wash Of last NOvember's national
tidal wave without opposition as it
would appear, else it would not 90 to
such lengths in order to falsify
the remarks Of the Register upon the
sltuation. II the Republican organ is
sure, as it says, that the Democrats
have not a chance in "a single ward"
and that for them the city offices
''have gone glimmering," there is GER
tainly no call for that organ to tell false
hoods about the Registers views upon
the subject aud TO misrepresent the
Register as having acknowledged"
that there Is mot the ghost OF show"
for the Democrats in the coming cleo
ton.
II the Intelligencer has no doubt OF
Republican victory even before the
Democratic ticket is placed in the field
there is certainly no necessity for it to
set its expert prevaricatur, &c. A. d."
who usually confines his peculiar style
Of Justification to State campaigns, to
work on city politics. Yet, here
we have that political romancer with
his usual air Of candor and innocence
writing about the fear" Of the Regis
ter, expressed in its issue OF Thursday
morning, that the Democratic ticket
will not be OF that character which can
be- trusted, owing to the declinatiOn of
the most desirable men to become can
didates."
1t goes without saying that the Reg
lister never expressed any such absurd
and unfoUnded fear. &c A. D." is
never bothered by the lack OF basis for
his fabrlcations, as witness the follow
ing, again:
The Republicans may we'll challenge its
(the Republican ticket's) comparison with
the ticket that will be chosen b. the Demo-
cratic primaries, IL we may believe the
Registers statement that the most desir-
sirable Democratic material is declining
the nomination for Council in advance.
OF course, the Register has never made
any such statement; nor is it even par
italy true. On the contrary, 1.-THE most
desirable Democratic material" is not
declining in advance" That kind Of
material does not desert its party be-
cause it has suffered defeat, and it is
ever ready TO do its duty TO the party
and to the city. For good and sufficient
reasons of their own there are gentle
men who before almost every conven.
ton or primary decline to be candidates,
but the Democratic primaries to be held
to-day are not confronted with an I'M
usual number OF these Withdrawals, and
certainly by no lack Of frst-class mater
ial, which, II judiciously selected, will
win in every ward over the Republican
candidates, who nowhere, it is acknowl-
edged by candid Republicans, rise above
mediocrity, and frequently fall below it.
In the city elections, the Register has
before had occasion to remark, the peo-
pie pay little heed to party and usually
vote for the men whose names are the
best guarantees Of honest aud intslli-
gent conduct of the city's affairs, and it
is upon this basis that the Democratic
primaries should do their work to-day.
1t Is the only chance OF success. II / s is
we'll done they may rely upon the good
sense and judgment OF the citizens Of
Wheeling to do the rest.
The Republican bosses pin their faith
to the continuance of the Novembs
landslide; believing that a sufficient
number Of those who in November were
fooled by the calamity howlers into
voting the Republican ticket, will con-
tinue TO vote blindly In the city election.
That, we repeat, is the only hope of the
Republican bosses, for they make no
plea Of special fitness of candidates or
any needed reform in city affairs; and,
indeed, theirs would be but a sorry re-
form ticket
II the claims Of the greedy and i'm
patient sDoils hunters and their organ,
the purely partisan Intelligencer, are
good the people Of Wheeling have
cause to look forward with a great
deal OF serious alarm to the next Coun-
Gil, for the claim is that it will be
solidly Republican and it would ba little
short OF a calamity TO the interests OF
the city TO allow the Republican bosses
untramelled sway in Council and in the
departments OF the city government.
The people would very soon come TO
realize this aud the Register does not
believe they are prepared to take such
risk or allow the November national
election TO influence their votes in the
city election and on the purely munici
pal business matters involved.
SMALL TALE
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