Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-06
II WAS LIKE A BEE hive.
GRAFTERs sWARMED INTO THE
CITY BUILDING AND COURT
HOUSE
AFTER THE TAYLOR DOODLE,
Which Was Handed Out in Generous
Chunks Where 1t Was Supposed
to Do the Most Good-The Inquis-
ftorial Court Observed Banking
Hours-Some Were Disappointed.

Like bees in hive did the grand
army of Republican grafters swarm
| into the court house and city building
yesterday. Never before. even upon
the eve of an election did the building
present. such an animated appearance.
The heelers and vest pocket vote car
riers, and the high privates who put
a price on their loyalty TO the party,
| lounged about the corridors or gath
cred about in groups, making inquir-
/ les as to the headquarters of the
Doodle distributors, or comparing
notes as TO the results of the little song
they sang. Most of them left the
building richer in purse than when
| they entered, but some were disap-
pointed, and were inclined to be very
/ sore thereat.
| The atmosphere was laden with to-
| bacco smoke and the corridors were
covered with the liquid essence of the
| weed.
| The inquisitorial court sat again in
| the office of the prosecuting attorney.
and there Were few persons who felt
| more like sleeping last night than the
! officers of the court The publication
1 in the Register and the viva voee ad-
| vertising of the Doodle distribution,
! through the beneficiaries thereof, serv-
ed to round up all the heelers. and
they made final charge yesterday
| morning.
| The cash was dished out in chunks.
| liberal to some, and misery to
Others. Very few would accept less
| than five dollar note, however, and
this led a Republican candidate for
municipal Office to complain rather
bitterly, This is going to make it
| hard on US" he said. They're giving
everybody FIVE dollar bill to-day. and
when the city election comes around
the boys won't accept ones or two's. .
| Many of the "grafters" who came
late were disappointed A Register re-
| porter watched seedy trio enter three
offices, and meet with a polite refusal
in each office. They were very bold,
| and threatened to vote the Democratic
ticket. The officials, who refused to
| duff up" smiled as they departed,
and remarked; you couldn't drive
any of those fellows to vote the Demo-
i cratic ticket. They are like the ne
groes-we can count on EN- every time.
| were not putting out any money on
sure things like that"
| The crush in the prosecuting attor-
news office, where Dannenberg, Shell
haze and Chew were conducting af-
fairs, was something awful. So much
money was dished out, that the In
| quisitorial Court decided to observe
banking hours, and closed up at three
O'Clock. It was not so much a matter
of choice as necessity. The estimated
amount necessary for the day had al
ready been dished out, and the plans
of the committee called for the dis
tribution of the remainder of the
| "barT' to-day.
| Dannenberg, Shellhase and Chew
were the most Sought after individuals
in Ohio county. After they announced
that business was suspended for the
day, the belated grafters searched high
| and low for them, and they were ac-
tually compelledSo hide to keep away
from the push"
TITS all our way now" said prom
inent Republican leader, and his man
ner plainly indicated that they expect
| ed the wholesale distribution Of the
fund to elect DIR. Taylor.