Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-25
wANTED-MEN!

The above is most respectfully sug-
gested as form OF placard whlcn the
Republican Executive Committee might
adopt to insure the presence OF what
is generally regarded asi indispensable
to political meetings-audiences In all
other respects their rallies in the First
and Eighth wards last night, were
bowling successes. Their spellbinders
were on hand promptly, and the COM
mitteemen atd officeholders were pres
ent to see that the enthusiasm was
stirred I'D to the point of effervescence.
They waited, and waited, and the audi
ence came not. Verify 'the best laid
plans O. mice and politicians gang aft
aglee."
This placard idea is given to the com
mittee gratuitously, inasmuch as 1t is
evident that Republican eloquence
alone. no matter what the quality or
the size of chunks in which it is dlshed
out. has not sufficient potency as
drawing card. There must be some
spectacular or vaudeville feature. and
the placard might be altered to suit the
district. For example, free beer might
be more magnetic than free music IN
certain districts, and the cake walk
that would tickle market nall audi
ence, might fall fiat with the erudlte
and cultured constituency in Madison.
However, it is, the idea alone which IS
offered: the ingenuity of the committee
man. familiar with the needs OF the
respective districts, will provide forms
for it's elaboration. 1t might be re-
marked, parertheticasly, that free booze
usually draws like a mustard plaster.
II was a veritable Klondike for the
Republicans-from a weather, not
treasure standpoint. To think OF the
failure of Republican meeting IN
Richie! For time bsyond which the
memory of man runneth not, even ante
dNing the beginning of the reign OF
Squire Schu1tze, the only public inter-
est in elections down there was CEN
tered in the size of the Republican
majority. District candidates return
ing to their wives on the morning after
the election. were invariably met with
tha ouestion-not care you elected?"
hut GLOW much?" Sixty minutes no
flee was always sufficient to get an au-
dience satisfactory both as to numbers
and enthusiasm.
But. sad to relate, the Republican
"rally" last night was a fizzle-and
Squire Schultze is in the harness, too,
pulling with his old-time vigor for the
ticket.
Tn the knowledge that the inhab-
itants of Squire Schultz's domain are
accustomed to retiring early, the
speakers went down soon after supper
to Mozart Hail. corner Jacob and
Thirty-eighth streets, PROBABLY with
view to reaching Turner Hall in time
to get an ovation" as they walked
TO the PLATFORM. Senator Nelson q,
Whitaker was accompanied by Hon. H.
w. Harmar. one of the crack wind
TANNERS of the First district, Hon. }. Z.
BRADY and State Labor Commissioner
I. V. Barton. Committeeman George
w. Bell met them at the door, and there
was an ominous look in his eye as he
extended the glad hand. George has
lust been promoted to the intermediate
grade in the School of Politics, and
the uuartette of spellbinders mistook
his pecul. ar ocular expression for stra-
bismus.
When the door swung open the
speakers prepared their auricular nerves
to sustain a shock but authorization
gave place to- dismay as they beheld
the audience of lumber and air.
Chairs were neatly arranged in rows,
and benches were lined along the walls
to accommodate the overflow. The
crowd was painfully conspicuous by its
absence.
In the course of few minutes Jos.
Freeze. E. P. Wheat, August Knoke,
Godfrey Sehul. and other Office-holders
and ex-officeholders strolled in. Then
came few boys. hunting a nice warm
place. The speakers waited until $40
o'clock. by which time the crowd
numbered tbout thirty, all told. The
frigidity was so thick as to be suscept-
ible Of division with knife. but the
temperature of several persons in the
hall was above the boiling point.
A whispered consultation was held
among the big guns and then God
frey Schul, with the suavity of Ches-
terrified, calmly announced that Com
mitteeman Bell had not received notice
of the meeting until Sunday night, and
therefore did not have time to work
UP a crowd. He was sorry to disap-
point those who came expecting to
hear speech but the meeting would
be postponed until Monday night Of
next week.
Then the faithful thirty filed out In
dian fashion, the speakers and ward
leaders unanimously resolved to
whooperup for Monday night, and the
lights were extinguisheE.
Senator Whitaker, Hanen. ct al,
boarded am uptown car for Turner
Hail. At Tenth street they alighted,
and a meeting took place which cred
ible eye-witnesses describe as pathetic
in the extreme. Frank w. Nesbitt
and H. NJ Willis had also run against
a frost"
At five minutes past eight o'clock the
janitor of Turner hall stood as a soli-
tary sentinel On the sidewalk. He was
humming the sweetly sad refrain, "The
crowd that they longed for never
came" Half an hour later twenty
five Republicans assembled in the
building, and it looked like the maxi
mum had been reached. Without any
formal exercises, the meeting adj
journed.
And Harry Mcclure wept.
Ryan-Finnegan bout at Pythian Castle
this evening.