Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-20
RING IND anti RING
CAME TOGETHER AT THE FIFTH
WARD REPUBLICAN MEET
ING LAST EVENING
SOME QUEER ADDRESSES MADE
ny Various Notwithstanding Of
Strange sDoinss mt h South
Side Republican "Love Feast
sFafherIy Advice" Given to an
Anti-RfnE Man.

lie RcpuUilSSu SAuO "a ~ aASA
ward met at Hartman's hall last eve
ming and reorganized for the campaign
by electing C. d. Thompson al presi-
dent, Squire w. w. Rogers, as vice
president, William D. Robertson, as
secretary, and Andrew Hare as treas
urer.
The following named delegates were
also elected to the Parkersburg con-
vention to be held in March: Ed. ].
MUM, Charles Bachman. Charles Hem
ming, Lee Dobbs and Andrew S. Hare.
1t was also decided to give the dele
gates the privilege of selecting the al
ternates. C. D. Thompson acted as
chairman and William Robertson. al
secretary of the meeting and during
the evening addresses were made by
William H. Travis, DIR. D. T, Taylor,
S. C. Jansen, Charles ]. Schuck, Frank
w. Nesbitt, John Arbenz. Jr., Robert
Anderson, Lester Smith. Sheriff H. C.
Richards. J.. K. Hall and Clerk of the
Courts Charles Henning.
After delegates were elected to the
Parkersburg convention the love feast
was declared on. Speeches were in
order and every candidate for Prose-
cutting Attorney, both straight and
otherwise, were present, and promptly
responded to calls for speeches.
Messrs. Jansen. Nesbitt, Schuck and
Arbenz followed In their order. Mr..
Jansen declaring that he was bitterly
opposed to ring rule and was promptly
answered in an eloquent speech by ].
X. Hail and Charles Henning, who
had the audacity to call themselves
'ringsters." They further said that
it was also absolutely necessary to
have political organization, or as Mr..
Jansen wished to term 1t, ring rule, in
order to defeat the Democrats. He
was instructed by Mr.. Hall that IL he
did not promptly mend his ways and
declare himself a full-fledged Repub-
lican, that his name would not be-
placed on the ticket.
Chas. Henning also gave Mr.. Jansen
some father.., advice and informed
him that the only way to gain success
was through the straight and narrow
path by the ring route. upward and
onward to victory.
1t was also suggested to Mr.. Jansen
that he was being misled; that he was
foolish in his ideas and was bucking
something that heretofore had proved
an i~mpregnable barrier to all corners.
and that ring rule was a necessary
evil. in reply to which Mr.. Jansen
said that he had been driven from
God-forsaken Europe to free America.
and the only thing that disguised him
in this country were political ma
chimes, ring rule and corruption In
politics. and that he proposes to de-
vote all his spare time in bucking and
scattering to the winds everything that
now lies in the way Of an honest ball
lot. He also insisted that the Aus
tralian ballot was the only means by
which an anti-ring candidate could
possibly be elected, and wound III by
inviting the Fifth Ward Republican
Club, ringsters and all, to the anti
ring meeting to be held this evening
at Tappert's hall, at 1880 o'clock,
where he promises to entertain in good
old-fashioned J~effersonian style. Az.
ter a few hearty ha~ndshakings Mr..
Jansen was dismissed and the ring
went into secret session.