Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-01

egistS and "Me-Too's. Refuse to
Talk-The L~achrymose Intelligent
Ger INDUCES in a Characteristic
Jeremiad-WiIfuI Mf~srepresenta-
lions and Uncalled-For Abuse.
Meeting of Council VIII Probably
Be Held ON Tuesday Next.
The position of the Republican Coun-
cilmen varies according to the temper
ament of the individual. Some are
lachrymose; others are belligerent.
Those who consider their duty to
the public as paramount to playing at
politics, are disposed to look at the sit
uation philosophically. They played
the game right up to the handle"
and lost, and are satisfied. They real
ize that success would have meant
at most simply a postponement of the
inevitable. 1t is the bosses who are
the disturbing factors. They are not
only dethroned, but they are humiliat-
ed. Their arrogant pride has been cut
to the quick. Their power has gone,
and gone beyond recall. They know it.
They cannot, will not submit graceful
ly. Their last act will be a hindrance
to the new officers. The business of the
city will suffer meanwhile, They
know this, but the spite begotten Of
wounded pride is of more Importance
than any consideration of the public
interest.
This is the present programme of
the dethroned ringsters and discredit-
ed strategists. If they can get a suffi-
cient following among the regular Re-
%publicans, they will carry it out. At
present, some of them are falling
in with the ring" plans. What the flu
ture will develop, can only be con
jectured. If the anger and chagrin
of the regulars had cooled off, it might
be possible to forecast future develop
ments. The ringsters find a mouth
piece in their personal organ, the in
telligencer, which exhausted its vO-
cabulary of invectiYes against the Dem
ocrats, the insurgents, the Sheriff, the
police, and everybody and anybody
who played a part in compelling the
Republican Councilmen to do that
which they were elected by the people
to do. The Intelligencer diatribe was
| not less remarkable for it's lack OF
logic or truth, than for it's display of
i'll temper.
On Wednesday the Republicans were
! too hot for utterance, and contented
| themselves with general complaints
and sweeping threats. The Council
! men themselves had cooled off by yes
| terday. Not so, however, with the
slate candidates. Their anger was
! something fearful to behold. They
| counted noses and held little confer
ences during the day, and in the even
ing there was a larger assemblage, at
which ex-Sheriff H. C. Richards and
| Col. George B. Caldwell were present.
A Register man met Councilmen
Hazlett, Schockey and two others, at
ter the conference adjourned, and
| made bold to ask a question about
| what had been done. The quartette
performed the vanishing trick in a way
that would have mystiied Hermann.
There was a chorus of grunts. which
might mean anything or nothing, and
the Councilmen fed from the lnquls-
tive reporter as if he were a p~estilence.
A little later Col. Caldwell was found,
and asked a number of questions.
'Forewarned is forearmed," said the
genial counsellor, and you can't ex-
pect us to tell you what we propose to
do"
will you say whittier or not you
have abandoned the idea of carrying
the fight into the courts?"
well, we have either decided to do
something or to wait until the other
side does something"
IL Is TIE un0S4 cLdhQlLS bndL Ilt IN
publicans will take no action until
the next Council melting. when it is ex-
pected that, if the present programme
is carried out, they will refuse TO ap-
prove the bonds of the newly elected
officers. 1t appears that the ring
sters'' are manipulating the strings,
and if the regulars will consent to as
sumo the role of puppets. nothing will
be left undone that will tend to en-
barrass the newly elected officers.
The Democrats feeI perfectly secure
in their position that not a single &C
ton which they took was illegal.
The Intelligencer seems to be as
densely ignorant of the plain rules
governing the deposed chairman of