Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-21
POLITICAL AND OTHER WISE.

ii. v.
POLITICAL AND OTHER WISE.
Interesting Gossip About the Members of
the Legislature and Others.
Special to the Register.
Charleston, W. Va, January 90
IN. B. SCOTS race for the United
States Senate has only begun" said a
prominent Republican, and he had the
name of a man who knows whereof
he speaks. He made the prediction
that the Senate will unseat Democratic
members, but he was not counting upon
the sense of decency and fairness
which some Republican members of
that body are believed to possess. His
explanation of his statement is inter-
esting. Scott can never be elected
to the United States Senate" he said,
with the Legislature as at present con-
stituted. Scott will find this out within
a day or two, then the summary re-
moval of Democratic Senators will
commence. Even if he can hold his
party members in line, he is afraid
that the United States Senate will not
seat him, if the votes of Getzendanner
and Pierson figure in his election"
| This is a matter which the develop
ments of the next few days will de-
termine. The Senate committee on
privileges and elections will meet Sat
urday. Then, if ever, the Republicans
will be compelled to show their hand.
| What the Democrats will do in the
House in the event that Democrats in
| the Senate are unseated without just
cause is a matter which Democrats
will not discuss. Unseating is a game
which two parties a play and as Sen
ator Fast rises to remark, the Demo-
Gratis holds the whip hand.
The degree of anxiety manifested by
the members of the Ohio county ring
during the Republican caucus was
only exceeded by their joy when the
result was announced. On the fifteenth
ballot Scott fell to % votes and the
| opposition had united upon Golf, who
received IS votes. The crucial moment
had arrived. The programme of the
anti-Scott following was apparent. The
ring leaders breathed a very audible
| sigh of relief when the result of the
eighteenth ballot was announced.
Some trouble was experienced in in
| ducing members of the Ohio county del
| egation to introduce the bill prepared
by the Board of Education of Wheel
| ing. When it is stated that one of its
| salient features is a blow at the reve-
nues of the City Collector, the reluc-
lance of the Ohio county Delegates may
be better understood. 1t was intro
duced by Mr.. Behrens. The Register
representative talked to Harry Mcclure
about it. I've never been asked to
introduce it," he said, "but I've been
| asked not to-" A little later he allow
ed the cat to leap from the bag, when
he said: What are you going to do
when half the members of the Board
ask you not to support it?"
Louis E. Schrader, official stenog-
rapher of the Senate, is a veritable
Napoleon of finance, a man of infinite
resources. He conceived the scheme
of renting a postoffice box under a
partnership arrangement, and interest
ed Allan B. Smith, of Wheeling, in his
plan. When he stated at the postoffice
that he desired to rent a box for
Schrader & Smith, the young lady
asked:
What is the purpose of the FIRM"
Its purpose is to receive mail for
Louis E. Schrader and Allan B.
Smith," he said.
He was given a box key. Yesterday
he was asked how the scheme work
ed.
Bad, very bad" he said, they've
got our money and we don't get any
mail. Nobody writes to Schrader &
Smith, and letters for individual mem
bers of the firm are delivered else
where" Ha! Ha!
A day or two since a member of
SCOTS buttonhole brigade approached
Delegate Snuffer to talk Scott to him.
He opened up with this feeler:
What do you think of SCOTS
chances"
Scott? Who's he?"
why, n. B. Scott, of Wheeling"
in a surprised tone.
"Ah, yes. I've heard of him. Is he
running for the United States Senate"
SURE Rogers departed for home to-
day. very much crest-fallen. The car
load of anti-Scott petitions was side
tracked somewhere. 1t was not pre-
scented. If it had been introduced in
the caucus, Atkinson might have been
chosen for Senator. The urbane Squire
developed a remarkable capacity for
claiming things. He had Atkinson's
election figured out to a nicely. He
overlooked one very important mat
ter-votes.
Democrats generally share with Re-
publicans-some Republicans-in their
JOY over the termination of the Sena-
torial fight. Judge Golf would have
been much harder to defeat than Scott.
He is not allied with any factions,
while Scott has a host Of enemies in
his own party. McGraw's chances for
succeeding Faulkner in the Senate are
frightened b the Republican caucus
nomination ndnaio H. y: ARkLE-