Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-19

| spire the reaction. In the first-coupled
case the prominent fact was that botA
groom and bride were children OF d.
YOrced parents. In the second named
case fhe principals were divorces. And
in the lest named instance the court
shin proceeded while the lady's first
matrimonial Gordian knot YVES being
severed by the slc,Tiy moving shears OF
law cour.. NsW York s1c.sty mas
withs,ood as many sbock- as Prone
theus had when bound % his rock; and
it seems capable o. withs.anG.ng many
more shocks. But this aggregation OF
the divorce moths eating holes IN wed
ding garments has brought a shock TO
society which mas led 10 COSBY remon-
s.rance. And already Republican
member Of ne Legislature, and a Soc
ETY. disciple. announces his intention OF
taking New York we1lock cut CT its
mere contract vitality and making l.
cense and ccTemcui2ls reQC site; also
lettering the easy divorce OF his own
STATE and CT CHER States. The Legisa-
ture, now fortnight cid, has begun
business on very moral lines, and ii
contains more sanity members than
heretofore; SC that the propositions Of
hardening Lo.l marriage lines and d.
yOrce c-b"aos may succeed.
This city is now well On its second
year Of reform civic administration. In
my fifty years of public life have beer
eye witness of four reform municipal
administrations, and each one came TO
grief. All the reformers in Office proved
to be amateurs. But the existing re-
form government has developed Oprea
bouffe Who does not recall Offenbach's
Grand Duchess?' Wen, we have
Gen. Baum Mayor, and his troops are
Ike those wao sang in That opera yoici
IA sabre de mon pere
With ,ae exception Of the heads Of
the finance and Of the tax department
both hCldovecs from a former political
administrat.on-eyery other depart
ment is Differed by amsteurs. These
are especially prominent in our police
department. And i, IS pi,iabls to see
Police Commissioner Grant, son Of our
grel, Grant, conteE. to play subser-
Went second fiddle in tne Police Board.
Unless soldiers have confidence in their
commanders, their courage and self re-
spect are not kept high. So our police
and detective forces are weak So
weak, that woman visitors from a dis
lance leave their jewels at home, and
male visitors keep a c.ose clutl on their
pocketbookS and reyolvers. The inse-
curity of cur hotels, houses and thor
oughfares is likely to keep away from
us the delegates to the Democratic Ma
ti0nal Convention, and take it to Gin
cinnati, where there is a we'll trained
city government, and from which its
crooks have jOurneyed to this me
trOp0lis. wher5 they have been having
high jinks. In the course OF my
Twelve years experience here as Dis
trict Attorney, four years as Mayor and
Police Commissioner, have learned to
know crooks. l met them in cars, at
opera and theatre, n the streets on
every side, aJr they join large numbers
Of citizens in holding the police heads
in contempt and therefore crowd here
for business. But Boss Pact. the bcss
Of the Legislature, shares this contempt
and he Is likely to prove 10 be the Mar
Gus Curtis, who shall leap into the abyss
for the patriotic sake Of becoming a
municipal s2y.cr.
A. Oakley HALL.