Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-05
THE RING Is RUNNING \ |
AND EVERY KNOWN METHOD Is
BEING EMPLOYED TO ELECT
DIR. TAYLOR.
DOODLE AND BULL DOING
Arc Very Much in Evidence-Head-
quarters Have Been Established
in the Office of the District Attpr-
ney, Where an InqufsitoriaI Court
Has Been Established.

The Ohio county Republican ring is
making a desperate effort to prevent
the dissertation of the county club
house-by the election of a Democratic
sheriff. Every resource known to pol
itics is being employed to save DR.. D.
H. Taylor from defeat As a result of
their heroic efforts, the bosses are now
boasting that, while the situation pre-
scented a dubious appearance ten days
ago, the election of Or. Taylor by a
majority of 500 is assured.
TELL me of Republican who is go
ing to scratch DR.. Taylor and | will
send two hundred workers after him
between now and election day." said
one of the ring leaders last Saturday.
He meant exactly what he said. If
moral suasion, if the most ingenious
arguments, if threats of political os
| tracism-if all these methods fail, the
ring has unlimited Doodle, and it is
being given out with lavish hand.
The office of sheriff, important as it
is. has been greatly magnified by the
bosses, and favorite argument is that
the election of a Democratic sheriff
will be the entering wedge in the de-
struction of Republican domination in
Ohio county.
The headquarters Of the ring" has
been established in the Office of Prose-
cutting Attorney Meyer. If you are a
| Republican, and have even limited that
you intend to scratch Taylor, the
chances are ten to one that you have
been summoned to appear before the
| inquisitorial court in the Office of the
prosecuting attorney. If you have ig-
| nored the summons, it is longer shot
than ten to one, that you have been
personally waited upon by a delega-
| ton of "ringsters," who have argued
and plead with you, and threatened
you.
The officers of the inquisitorial court
are Chas. E. Dannenberg, assistant
county clerk; John E. Shellhase, clerk
of the Water Board; and Matthew A
Chew, member of the First Branch of
Council. The attaches of the court are
lesser lights in the ring" more than
hundred in number, whose duty it is
to hunt up evidence, and to drag in the
culprits. The inquisitorial court has
defined a Taylor scratch as the most
heinious crime of which an Ohio county
Republican can be guilty. There was
an original list of 300 Republicans
placed in the hands of the inquisitorial
court of officers and the names have in
creased and multiplied since the lesser
lights have secured the county for evil
dence.
The Republican who is brought be-
fore the court is sized up when he en-
tiers the door, and the mode of attack
is Immediately determined.
Il he be an active politician, an ex-
Office holder, prospective Office seek
err, the bugaboo of the entering wedge"
is trotted out, or the whip OF recalci-
tration is flourished over his head.
If he be simply voting Republican,
and not a politician in the common
acceptation of that term, the task of
conversion is regarded as more difficult,
and every conceivable stock argument
Of the ring" is brought into use.
If he be regarded as purchaseabIe,
the price of his assistance on election
day is ascertained, and the Doodle is
handed out on the pretext that it is
given for personal efforts to work for
Taylor.
The fact that there is unlimited
Doodle in the inquisitorial court, has
travelled like contagion, and the
"heelers" have fallen all over them
selves in the mad scramble for the Of
fee of the Prosecuting Attorney. The
"heelers" have proven themselves to
be as diplomatic and ingenious as the
court officers, and they have indicated
that the only answer to their argu-
ments is the answer that has the prop
critics of length, breadth and thickness,
the peculiar property that talks"
Some Of the "heelers" who were one or
two dollars richer when they left, will
be interested in knowing that others
received as much as twenty.
1t is a campaign Of bluff, bull-dozing
and Doodle.
Vote for Gen. w. Dus CHI. Dem. candI-