Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-16

Primaries on the 25th Inst-Lots
of Unhappiness Theryby Engen-
dered - An Open Charge That
This Conclusion Was Reached
Two Weeks Ago, at the Odd Fell
lows Hall Meeting. and That Ger
tain Favorite Candidates Were
Notified, While Others Were
Kept in the Dark - Tickets Will
be Distributed the Evening of the
24th-The Conspiracy Against
Richards a Boomerang.
The Republican County Executive
Committee met last evening. at the
City Hall. and held most important
and interesting session.
AS a result, il may be authoritatively
and definitely announced that the doors
will be thrown wide open at the Repub-
lican primaries, on the 25th inst, that
the tickets will be distributed at p.
m. on the oath, and that there will be
no sixty foot line, and no obstacles to
everybody voting, and no objection to
candidates hiring as many workers,
pullers and haulers and knockers-out
as their supply of the long green may
| warrant.
1t may also be incidentally chronicled
that there is a good deal of red hot
| feeling over the matter, that certain
| members of the Committee were very
freely condemned in choice French, last
evening. by some of the candidates and
their friends, who charge a number OF
different kinds of crookedness, and that
Mr.. J. X Hail. member from Centre,
appears to be the unhappy target for
most of the abuse. and that solemn
oaths have been registered that he will
be knocked out at the primary when it
comes to the question of re-electing
! Committeeman from Mr.. Halls dis
trict.
But worse than all this, it is charged
with great detail that the action taken
| by the Committee last evening was in
fact but a duplication of a conclusion
reached at a session of the body held
d. L. ". ". II. NAH NNO NtthS dSO, iiAN
that after that meeting certain candi-
dates, favorites with majority of the
Committee, were given a quiet tip as to
what would be finally done, and that
upon the strength of this information
| the candidates thus favored hired their
workers. laid their plans. and were all
prepared for the actual result long be-
fore the ether candidates knew how the
cat was going TO jump. 1t is therefore
held by the candidates belonging to the
| category last herein referred to that
dirt has been done them by the ma
| jority OF the Committee aforesaid, and
hence the silence is broken by the whet
| ting of scalping knives and the whir
| Of the grindstone and The friction of the
axe against the same is heard above
the hum of industry and the hustle of
trade and commerce. Verify, it is an
| occasion for tears.
When the Committee was called TO-
Sether. last evening, /. was found that
| Mr.. Hugo LooS was absent, and that
Mr.. John Shellhase had a proxy enti-
Ting him to- share in the deliberations
| Of the body. That this would happen
was known to a favored few on Mon
| day. and the story is worth the telling,
il the depression will be pardoned by
| the reader. Mr. George w. Robinson.
candidate for Clerk of the Circuit
| Court. knows about as much about
what is going on in political circles as
| most people, and he early had tip that
| Mr.. LoOs would be out of town when
the Committee met Wednesday even
| ing. He also had a pointer that Mr..
Loos was disposed to yield to clamor
for proxy, and that the same would
fall into the hands OF man who would
favor open" primaries. Mr. Robinson
accordingly sought Mr.. Loos Monday
and mildly suggested that he ought not
| TO give proxy.
But" said Mr.. Loos, 81 have made a
promise, and what can | say to these
people?"
1T don't matter about the promise
said Mr.. Robinson; Il want to warn Won
right here that the proxy business don't
go"
Then Mr.. Robinson retired across the
street and kept tab on matters. Pretty
soon he saw Mr.. Loos agitate the tele-
phone. and in about 'steen minutes Mr..
Shellhase trotted uD street. steering q
bee line for Mr. Loos' store Mr.. Rob
inson hailed him, and something like
this snsued:
Going to be proxy for Mr.. Loos?"
Il don't know anything about
proxy"
"Oh, You don'tIA Well. I want to tell
you that I'm dead On to the proxy bust
ness. and it don't so. See?"
Then Mr.. Shellhase entered Mr. Loos'
store and there was conference. while
Mr.. Robinson proceeded to raise a dust
about the proxy affair on the outside.
and to predict with singular accuracy.
how the feline was going 10 hop at the
Committee meeting. He was a good
guesser, for not only did Mr.. Shellhase
have Mr.. Loos' proxy at last nights
meeting. but the Committee declared
For an open ballot.
But to resume the thread of our mar
rative
The Committee was slow in getting
together. last evening, owing to the fact
that Capt. Otto. of Washington, was de-
tanned by private business. but abou.
a quarter 10 nine they were called TO
order. There was goodly attendance
of candidates and hustlers about the
Civ Hall Hobbies, before the session,