Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-01-17

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land T. j. Blair. the two Democrats
! elected, will make q manly fight for the
| Democracy when these national issues
| are presented before that body. but
| Mr.. Lockhart and Mr.. Mcbride, coun-
! cilmen, and Mr.. Huntington. mayor,
will out-yote them and determine these
momentous questions in favor OF the
Republican view. If the entire Demor
| cratic ticket, as nominated, had been
| elected, these matters would not have
been settled at all. for the Council
| would have been composd OF two
| Democrats, two Republicans and one
Prohibitionist. Thus the wal In the
! Philippine Islands would have con-
| tinued, and the two great parties would
| have had to hold national conventions,
| proclaim their views IN these ques-
lions and nominate candidates this
fall. AS the matter stands, however,
they will all be settled at the first
meeting in February. Who will a
that it is not better that it be SO? How
dreadful was the situation before the
election. To vote the Republican ticket
as nominated the voter must support
A. A. Warren, one of the most Jealous
and earnest Democrats in the county.
Again, it is said, that the Democrats
who voted for Mr.. Huntington helped
TO declare that he had been elected
to the Legislature, and that his seat
was stolen, and that by their votes they
helped rebuke those who stole his seat.
Then it must be equally true that the
many more Republicans who voted
against Mr.. Huntington asserted he
was not elected, and that his seat had
not been stolen. By their votes they
rebuked those who have declared him
to have been elected and his seat to
have been stolen, The argument OF the
bewailing correspondent on this ques-
ton is simply ponderous.
Again, the vote cast in 1893, in the
Fourth delegate district, composed of
Lewis and Webster, for Mr.. Dunning-
ton and Mr.. Talbot, amounted prob
ably to nearly 5000. The vote in Wes-
ton at the recent election, between Mr..
Huntington and DR.. Warder for mayor,
was a little over 400. Now, according
to this very able correspondent, this is
conclusive proof that the Democrats
who voted the Republican ticket n
the municipal election said by their
votes that Mr.. Huntington was elected
to the LEGISLATURE in 1898, and that
Democrats had stole his seat. This
crushing argument may have been de-
yeloped and revealed at great labor by
the able author. If the town be NOM
inally Republican by about seventy
majority, as this all-knowing cores
pondent asserts. many more Repub-
licans voted the Democratic ticket than
Democrats voted the Republican ticket.
The lamenting correspondent seems
much distressed at the idea that the
number of costly suits brought by
property owners within the last year
to protect their lots should ever end.
It is quite amusing to hear those re-
sponsible for more litigation in n
year than the town ever knew in the
fifty-three years of it's previous his
tory, loudly and pitifully mourning for
the poor taxpayer. Generally. as in
this case, the loudest howl comes from
a non-taxpaying source. At least Is
per cent of the t~axpaying power of the
town would unhesitatingly declare that
the occasion and necessity for the suits
pending and yet to follow should never
have existed.
1t is quite manifest and generally
understood here that the cause OF
complaint in certain quarters against
the management of the Weston Demo-
crat is that it is managed in the In
terest of the Democratic party. and
no certain individuals.
The reference in the News to the
mixed drill on the street on election
day is the more laughable, when the
march of the A. P. A. brigade is re-
called, and the lash Of the prospective
whip of intolerance and fanaticism so
freely used on that day and before, Is
remembered. Proof is at hand when
occasion requires its production.
The allusion by the writer for the
News to the alleged counseling and
coddling of the negro vote, is amusing
to the extreme when we consider the
bulldozing tactics and d~ark-lantern
meetings in the interest of the other
side.
A year ago DR.. Warder carried the
town by 100 majority, and at the re-
cent election he lost it by four votes.
The united support from the quarters
named, the unlawful destruction of Mr..
Ralston's property and the effort to
confiscate the property of a large mum
Der of others are responsible for this
great change of sentiment.
The rhinoceros-hide Office seekers are
on the other side of the question, and
will be the first to learn that the seed