Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-18

For ten days past, but notably dur
ing the past week, the impecunious
ward heller and political parasite has
been very much in evidence about the
Public Building. He infests the corri-
doris and stairways of the City Hall
and Court House alike, and tackles
everybody who comes along, sometimes
for little cash, but generally for a
tip as to where some certain candidate
can be found. Every fifteen or twenty
minutes they make a tour of some Of
the offices, and woe to the victim they
fall foul of. 1t is a case of stand and
deliver, and as the shortest way out
of his misery the aspirant for public
honors generally goes down in his
pocket for enough to secure a few
hours peace, only to run up against
similar crowd the next day. There
is no such thing as satisfying these
people. They are apparently limitless
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liquids, and while the campaign lasts
they will be found at their posts daily,
absorbing everything they can obtain
by pleas, professed friendship or
threats.
That this costs big lot Of money
goes without saying, and it is particu-
larly costly in presidential year. No
one who has not carefully observed the
bleeding" process can appreciate the
awful total. Thousands and tens of
thousands of dollars are swallowed up
in this way, and it often takes the
official salary of any given place for
two or three years to pay the expenses
OF one brief campaign. One case is on
record in this county where a candi-
date for $1,4O0 place expended $4,000
to get it, and other cases are almost
as bad. In a personal conversation
the other day an official said: Il went
into the campaign for the nomination
little green, and thought a couple of
hundred dollars would see me through.
| had about that much, and spent it.
Then | borrowed couple of hundred
from friends, and that went. Finally
l thought | would get enough cash and
be done with 1t, and | borrowed S4OO.
That lasted just four days, and 1 bor-
rowed $500 more. wound up by bor-
rowing another $500, and won out with
just $40 in my pocket" Another OIL
cial said: Il ended up on election day
with just half a dollar out of about
thousand, and as 1 felt pretty bad |
spent that on myself. It's the same
old thing this time. Up to noon to-
day / spent just nineteen dollars, and
the days young yet. If l get out of
it with twenty-five dollars a day for
the rest of the campaign I'll be doing
as well as l expect"
1t will be seen that running for Of
fee is an expensive business.
The Martinsburg Independent, In
talking about the Republican Guber-
Material nomination, says:
Thomas E. Davis, of Grafton, is
not an aspirant, and that is a splendid
reason why he should be made a can
didate. backed and elected. Solid.
substantial, manly, every good think
ing citizen could vote for him, with
conscience approving. While this
is said. it is not intended to worry
others in their profciencies. We do
not believe in instructing a delegation
on any one man theory. We believe,
specially, that this eastern Pan-Han-
die should never do SO. They are bot
tied, corked and labeled, when that
occurs, there's no fiZz in them when
they reach conventions. Cooked, done
to death, before they get there, and
the smart people administer See:
Heed
One of the warmest local contests on
the Republican side in this county is
for the nomination in Clay district,
between viii Gutman and DR.. l.. n.
Refer. These two gentlemen are
spending all the available time in