Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-02-21
REPUBLICAN OlERTURES
WERE MADE TO THE INSURGENT
SECOND BRANCH MEMBERS
YESTERDAY.

WE'RE MADE TO THE INsURGENT
y SECOND BRANCH MEMBERS
YESTERDAY.
7 THEY FAILED IN THE EFFORT
4 To Induce st. Myers and Marshall to
Vote for a Republican to Succeed
Milligan-A Proposition and a
Pointed Reply-Asked to Confer
with SchmuIbach, But Declined.
Late developments in the council
manic muddle have transformed the
4 regular Republicans from lions to
lambs. Their meekness now, compared
. with their former air of bravado, fur
j nishes striking illustration of the vi
cissitudes and uncertainties of politics.
They have suddenly discovered what
4 80 per cent. of the rank and file of the
8 Republican voters have known all
along-that the insurgents are not so
: black as they nave been painting them,
and are really not such bad fellows
. after all. The conditions under which
the discovery was made, however lead
to suspicious as to their present
sincerity.
a The Register received authentic in
Z formation yesterday that the regular
Republicans-not as a body, but in
: dividuals-have offered to grant the
insurgents the privilege OF naming the
3 entire slate, provided none but Republi-
1 cans were placed theron 1t is not like
n ly that all the regulars would ac-
quiesce in such an arrangement, mas
] much as it would mean the certain
defeat of Schmulbach. Even if the reg
ulars were a unit upon the PROPOSE
4 ton, it could not be entertained by
4 the insurgents for reasons given in the
Register yesterday, principal among
4 them the oath which obligates them to
the support Of the Democratic slate.
Z The Republicans are defeated,
Schmulbach is defeated, and the Re-
Y publicans and Schmulbachs i4ienQs
j are dying hard. The insurgents have
4 found themselves very much sought
after, and emissaries from the camp OF
a the regulars have sought to obtain
4 terms OF compromise. Any old thing
& that Will serve as a spike to hang
! a dying hope to has been sought out
4 and pressed into service The fatal err
d rof OF contemptuous treatment of the
i lnsurgent ultimatum is realized now
! that it is too late In their despair they
, eXclalm, III the language of a modern
z melodrama, oh, heeting world re-
4 verse myself, and give me back but
z ! yesterday"
4 An office holder called upon Messrs
4 James Marsha and Eugene ST. Myers,
= lnsurgent Republican members of the
u Second Branch yesterday, and asked if
a they would agree to vote for a Repub-
4 llcan to succeed F. NJ Milligan in the
n Second ward. The two insurgents gave
Z the following diplomatic reply, in writ
4 ing:
will the Republican members of
q Council agree not to vote for Henry
y Schmulbaon or Charles Horstman. if
the insurgents agree to vote for a Re
publican selected by Republicans, to
= NIL the Milligan vacancy?"
y There was no reply to the query but
5 the emissary of the regulars returned
. within short time, and asked the Sec
Z ond Branch insurgents to meet Mr.
> Schmulbach at a certain place last
night This they declined to do, stat
) ing explicitly that no terms of COM
promise by which they would vote for
Z Schmufbach, could be considered The
5 conference was not held. 1t is evident
Z that it was part of the Republican
< scheme in the event that the support
3 of st. Myers and Marshall were secured,
to refuse to allow T. W. Killeen to
5 qualify as member from the Sixth
Z ward, thereby giving the Republicans
: majority on joint ballot, and MAX
: ing possible the election of a Repub-
> lican to fill the vacancy occasioned by
Z the death of Mr.. Milligan. Independent
) Of the attitude of the insurgent Repub-
licanS, this course would not have been
s possible, as there is at least one Re
publican member of the Second Branch
Z who would not join with his colleagues
5 in deliberately robbing Mr.. Killeen of
the seat to which he was elected
& But the insurgents would prevent the
. Killeen steal for the reason that it
Z would be obviously suicidal for them
5 to elect Republican to vote against
z the slate to which they are pledged
s 1t is apparent that the only hope of
5 the Republican lies in their ability to
J: buy outright a sufficient number of
Democrats to give them majority. 1t
: is not the proper time TO discuss the
question of the improper use of money
a 1t is possible that there may be occa-
= sion for that later. 1t is not believed
= however. that any sum of money would
. be sufficient to cause any Democrat to
!. betray his associates; and it may be
. stated as an absolute certainty that no
? Democratic member of Council would
; commit perjury for a money consider
y alton.
!, There has been considerable news
. paper discussion and street talk about
, the so-called Democratic caucus slate.
D As matter of fact. strictly speaking,
: there has been no caucus slate. The
; terms of agreement between the DEM
? ocrats and insurgent Republicans have