Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-02
Insurgents STILL OUT.
THE TRIO OF REPUBLICAN BOLTERS
HAVE NOT BEEN WHIPPED
INTO LINE.
THEY ARE STANDING FIRM

Upon the Ground Indicated by Them
in Their UItfmatum-The Other Re-
publican Membe Are Making
O~vertures t. the MinOrity-NO
Change in the Situation Yester-
day.
The distinguished Southern Con-
gresham who inquired during a SEES
sion of the House-fWhere are we
at?"-contriouted to the English Ian
| guage a phrase which is peculiarly ap-
plicable to an effort to describe the
condition of mind in which the Repub-
lican bosses find themselves through
the attitude of the trio of Council
manic insurgents. The individual and
collective denial by these gentlemen
that they entered into a deal with the
Democrats, while discredited in some
quarters, has unquestionably caused
many Republicans to commend them
for the stand which they have taken.
1t is charged by friends of Messrs.
Chew, st. Myers and Marshall That the
story is a product of the imaginative
genius of the strategists CD, and that
it was circulated for the sole purpose
of arraying public opinion against the
insurgents. There is the element Of
probability in this charge, inasmuch
as a careful investigation Of the stories
in avarv inc+opco loads the cnarchnr tO
a Republican politician. Under the
circumstances, until the contrary can
De proven, the public will regard the
boilers as entirely honest in the stand
which they have taken.
The public building coterie is at its
wits ends to devise some scheme to
circumvent the plans of the insur-
gents. The gray matter in their cram
iums was working overtime yesterday,
ana a degree of pe~rtinacity and inge-
nuity WIS displayed which might be
commemorate if employed in a more
worthy cause.
Flirting with Minority.
The politicians who run things, and
whose will it has heretofore been re-
garded as political suicide to oppose,
have gone so far as to make OVertures
to the Democratic minority. Any
thing to beat Chew" is the cry, for
Chew is regarded as the chief devil in
the conspiracy, and they are willing
to placate St. Myers and Marshall up
on any old terms.
Inc threat of political ostracism ap-
pears to have had no effect. Mr.. Chew
says he is going out of politics. Mr..
st. Myers says he would be as well
pleased to DE a high private in the
rear ranks. MIR. Marshall points to the
fact tnat it was only at the urgent and
persistent solicitation of his friends
that he ever was induced to take a
primary course in politics. If the in
surgents possessed political ambitions
the task of whipping them into line
migl-, be simplifed.
we IL STE NudI We Cdu w Will C1C
Democrats first" is the suggestion OF
one clique" and deal with the boilers
afterward." Thus has the discredited
old lady the City Hall ring been
making goo-goo eyes at the minority
members and manipulating its well
worn nose-rag in seductive fashion.
The Republicans offer things with a
string to them.
The emissiaries of the old lady, at
the instance of Charlie Henning, it is
said, have worked with the Fifth ward
Democratic delegation, and a member
from the Sixth ward, and offered the
City Collectorship to August H. Weld
2 ebusch as the price OF their acqulscence
in Republican schemes as to the other
Offices.