Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-25

turbance or Hard Feelings Any
where.
Yesterday in this city was high water
mark for a Republican demonstration
in the State Of West Virginia.
Aided by free transportation on all
The railroads running into the city
backed by the power OF these great cor
pora,ions to turn out their men on what
was virtually special service, having
advantage of all the money al the COM
mand OF the Republican Committee n
this State. aided by whatever help they
could get from the great States OIL Oaio
and PENNSYLVANIA, they poured thou
sands of men into this city all duIng
the afternoon and evening
And yet, after two weeks or prepara-
ton. and with the hep OF the sixteen
hundred uniformed and organized men
i'm this city and Benwood, they could
show bu; three thousand three hundred
men in line. by actual count.
Hundreds upon hundreds-to say
thousands would not overshoO- the mark
who were brought here free OF cost
refused or failed to parade, either in the
afternoon or evening. Many towns
within easy reach of this city, like Little
WASHINGTON and SteUbenville, did not
send Il single organization. While mis-
MANAGEMENT somewhere failed TO pro-
vide TRANSFORMATION from other towns
like Sistersvine, which would have sent
a. least five hundred men had there nave
been railroad facilities.
Ii was a grea, political demonstration,
yet even the most bitter Republicans
cannot but admit ,hat at least as far
as the street parade was concerned, II
was a failure.
Yesterday mornings In,eligencer, al
! ter going carefully over the preparations.
said there would be from $500 10 S,UoO
men in line. Three thousand three
hundred is 5000 short OF The smallest
figure given by the InJeiligencer, and
4.7G0 behind the highest. In o.her
words. there were only half as many men
in the column as the most conservative
estimate of the Republicans, and only
about one-third as many as their high
es, hope.
And yet it was q great parade.
Il demonstrated number OF things
to the observant observer.
One OF these is, that the Republican
| management have the most powerful IN
fuences at work on their side TO maui
voters about the country, and round
them up in any old town they may Sc
, lect.
But lis the old case of the horse over
over again. You can lead him TO ne
water but you can't make him drink.
Thousands of men, through one mo-
/ tive and another, can be brought 90 q
city. bu- only a small proportion OF them
I VIII parade or y5,l for Mckinley. These
rhin-s point a moral, and there were
oui.e a number Of incidents yesterday,
in this city. which would adorn a tale
But why recount what most people
know. and the goldbug management
best Of all.
Let's 10 the events OF the Gay.
The ou--ol--Own delegations OF rail-
readers began TO arrive before noon.
The first was from along the line OF tGe
Wheeling and Lake Erie, and numbered
only about thirty. The second was a
delegation from the Pitjsburg end Of The
Wheeling and Pi,tsburg division of ,ho
B. & o.. and cOu1-ed about one nun
bred and twenty-five men, with @
band. At one O'Clock the delegation
from the main stem of the Is. d o..
hailing from as far as Grafton, APP
peared. They numbered about five hun
dred. Half an hour later second train
arrived bringing about one hundred
and forty men from the vicinity OF Graf
ton. At one o'clock me c. d P. men
to tho number Of about three hundred.
came in. and later two long trains cane
ND on the Ohio River road, from cS lar
as Hun .ing.on. bringing over one thou-
sand men. The c., J.. < W. pfous Ut
in several hundred. over fifteen hundred
came in from ont lie b. * O., IN ONO,
as far as Newark, and other scattered
and later delegations swelled the crowd
by perhaps another thousand. In each
delegation the Bryan men ran from
TWEEN .y-fye 10 sixty per cent. accord
ing to the testimony Of the men them
selves. and many a shout for silver came
from the lungs Of men wearing sod
badges. But that is another story.
As eiriy as one o'clock the railroad
ers began 10 congreg3,e about The Guy
Hall station of The Wheeling and Elm
Grove road. waiting for trains 10 the
park. and soon the entire street was
filed with the crowd, and continued in
taat condition, despite all the excellent
TRANSPORTATION facilities Of The Wheel
ing and Elm Grove road, as managed
by Superintendent We;sserber. until
three o'clock. Even as late IS four
o'clock The trains for the Park we're we'll
filled. The meeting s- The Park Casino,
addressed by Receiver john K. C0wan
and others. is fully reported elsewhere
in this paper, and VIII be here passed
over with the remark that many hun
dreds who were hauled long distances
10 near a goldbug address refused fatty
to 20 within four miles Of the place Of
meeting. One result Of This was the
abandoning of the original idea Of two
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