Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-11
NOW FOR THE EAST!
Bryan Expected in Wheeling
This Afternoon.
CITY HOLDS IT'S BREATH
Il. C. N" Bumps Right Into
Scherr-Swisher Row.
IT STARTS BEFORE BREAKFAST
Peerless Is Right on Job, Too, With
Democratic Lotions for Re-
publican Bruises.
CITY HOLDS IT'S BREATH
IT STARTS BEFORE BREAKFAST
Special From Stan Correspondent

Special FROM Stan Correspondent
WHEELING W. Va, September IL
This smoky city is all of d stir in an
ticpation of the speech here tonight of
William ]. Bryan, who is headed this way
in plushy. plutocratic private car for his
oratorical invasion of the east. All the
democrats in these parts hope Mr.. Bryan
will talk about labor. All the republicans
hope he won't. And there is reason.
Since the DuportW ard Broker subcom-
mittee of the republican national commit
tee announced that the names of presiden-
tial electors would look just as we'll on
the Scherr ticket as on the Swisher ticket
and thus relieved the nerve tension of
those party leaders who had visions of
this hot factional row among the repub-
licans of the state playing the very deuce
with the Taft-Sherman combination, la
Dor has been the main cause of worry.
From a republican standpoint the labor
situation up here is anything but pleasing
Local lnduStrleS-and it mustn't be for
gotten that Wheeling is husky young
l1ttsbirS-have never recovered from the
depression jolt of a year ago and full
time has been an unknown quantity ever
since. More than that, the biggest outfit
OF them all, steel mill employing be-
tween six and seven thousand men. never
mas resumed for minute. The streets
OF wheeling are thronged with gloomy
looking workmen, who haven't anything
TO do. and there's more pessimism in the
AR than snbke-which is coming some.
Normally. labor up this way, while split
up as everywhere else turns out a re-
publican majority with commendable reg
ularity. But this year. even optimistic
republcans say. II may be different. They
40 not anticipate that the detection OF
that portion of the labor vote which ordi-
narlly Is republican will be sufficient to
Nitdily effect the success of the national
ticket In the state. but just the same the
LABOR situation is giving deep concern.
An Intelligent Lot
The democratic managers acted with
real human intelligence when they ar
ranged for Mr.. Bryan to come into West
Virginia at this time and into Wheeling
in particular.
\ considerable portion of the city's pop
ulation is in mighty receptive moed for
Mr- bryans views on the republican
party S attitude toward labor and every
thing else, and he'll get a hand all right.
AND probably many of those who will do
most TO swell the noise will be republicans
nursing a common crouch. The republi-
can managers take some comfort how
ever. from the fact that there is a lot
OF folks in this world who talk one way
and vote another.
1t is blessed good thing that the ar
presidential
electors to go on the tickets of both state
factions has been made or Steam-roller
FRANK and his trained and educated as
sistants would be doing the most active
and persistent frettinS of their young
nVeS, Tor after all the efforts at COM
promise and adjustment that have been
made the Swisher and Scherr factions
are certainly further apart than ever
Couldn't Wait Til Breakfast.
This morning at the salubrious hour OF
30. our Baltimore and Ohio train
from Washington was pulling into the
Wheeling station, pretty nearly all the
herthers were awakened by sounds of
strife on the platform outside, oral at
first, but rapidly approaching the fistic
stage. BY the time the sleepy and curl
Gus managed to stick their heads from
the car windows, personal violence was
II our midst and a large person with un-
kempt whiskers. who looked as if he
might be pig iron puddler-whatever
that may mean-waS scientifically Swab-
binS off the platform with smaller but
no less enthusiastic individual.
Porter. Oh porter" cried nervous
faminine voice from upper thirteen, or
thereabouts. there are two men outside
fighting horribly. Make them stop it.
They'll kill each other
The porter never even looked out of the
window
X,
cncouragingly from his cubby hole where
lie was shining shoes, never you mind.
This is Wheeling, you know, and / sus-
p"ct its just couple of them Swisher
and Scherr people arguing.
So that Will convey faint idea of
just what this West Virginia factional
row really means.
Not All Settled Yet.
As a matter of fact the action of the
Ilrr iIa
it adjusts one phase of the situation so
that the republican national managers
may think of West Virginia without
shedding tears, hasn't changed. in any
degree, the status of the Swisher-Scherr
scrap. 1t has been known hereabouts
for more than q week that the subcom-
mittee will not recognize the contention
OF the Swisher leaders that the Taft
electors should not go on both tickets.
According 10 the Scherr people. that
claim was born Of sheer desperation.
However that may be, the members of
the courthouse convention movement-the
Scherr people-asked nothing from the
national committee save that Taft cleo
tors be directed to go on their ticket,
and in granting that request, the Scherr
leaders say. the national committee dis
posed. 10 all intents and purpo ses. of
every material question of regularity and
irregularity.
ticket is regular enough for the name of
William II. Taft and James S. Sherman
to go on II, and il it is regular enough
for the names of all the electors and
congressman to go it, it is regular
enough for republican, who believes in
the integrity of his party and the decency
Of his candidates to vote it,
It's Rather Mixed Anyhow.
On the other hand. the braves of the
Swisher tribe lay great stress on the fact
that theirs is the regular republican
ticket. declared SO by the national COM
miItee. ignoring minimizing the fact
that pestered West Virginia republican
may vote either state ticket he pleases
at the polls in November. favoring either
Swisher Scherr. and remain regular
death and taxes so far as the national
ticket is concerned.
Here's one thing that shows the biting
bitterness back of this faCtional scrap.
Tie Scherr people now say that while
they would have been happy to see the
republican party in West Virginia re-
united under the leadership of "a man like
JudGe Nathan GOff that now they want