The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-10-29
REPUBLICAN NOMINEE rWows
8oMB INTO DEMOCRATIC CAMP
Az MEETING last NIGHT
AT wOOpSDALE.
Reealistsp for Attack MADE by HIS OPP
ponsnt on His Personal Character.
Given Ovation

Charging that an attempt Is being
made TO buy the office OF prosecutirs
attorney for his opponent. Carl "a.
Rachmann, Republican nominee for that
office last evening threw bomb into
the Democratic camp in an address ue-
liSered before the men and women Eot-
ers OF Woodsdalc. Ills retaliation Tor
the nud-Sline;ngt campaign conuuCtcu
asainst him and for the SIands cb11Sc as
was greeted with enthusiastic applause
by those present.
Mr.. Bachmann said . certain party
had sent broadcast through the county
letters which he signed urging the vnt-
ers to support his opponent. Wheh
! any man goes out and spends St.VoV 70
1 elect his candidate IN Ohio county, the
speaker SAID, then that man has SOM
mann said. that when nc does that.
then he Is trying to buy the office OF
prosecuting attorney. l can say some
thing further on that point but alii
not going To do II tonight -,
In his address, Mr.. Bachmann SAID
that attempts have been made TO con
yey the impression that he IS response
| wheeling. The law provides shat IN cit-
| les OF more than $4,000 inhabitants, ne
said, those houses are unuer tne 49,, AZ
4 troll of the city. There Is candiaats
Of sheriff. who is the mayor OF wheel.
ing" Nc said. II there are such houses
then why don't ne close them
Duties Of the offee.
Mr.. Bachmann said that he Is Ganui,
! date for an office that carries WITH u; ~
as much responsibility as any othce IN
4 Ohio county; an office that requires IS
much work as any office In the county.
The duties OF the office are to advise
the board OF county commissioners, pr
pare and act on all their contracts; q
dNy as an advisor 10 the board OK
equalization; the duties as memoet
Of the insanity commlSslohi me outieS
In Juvenile cases, non-support cases anu
/ delinquent children and the prosecution
Of criminals.
Mr., Bachmann said that any man car
rylng out the duties of that oilice can
not employe a detective agency.
-. Attack On His Character
IT want you ladies TO take this mes
sage to the women who are spreaahtns
those untruthful stories about me; that
II they will honestly show 10 you any
case that I have been interested III our
ing the last four years IN when l uiu
not do my du:y will Tlthora" FROM
the race. 1t was nice Tor some pSiho-
Gratis 10 start those lies about me-. They
told them to a woman who told them 10
some one else who in turn rcpeateu
IAem until when they reiurnei rc, 10 I'm, inc
them She believed the story she IN turn
heard can tell you that my OPP
ponent. IN circulating these reports. nta
but one thing IN view, anu SuAt
get the Office and get II diSnonesItiiS, -,
'When | was at a meeting heId on
the Island a few evenings ago; Iaus
told me she had just been told by 2u-
other lady that she could not vote tor
ma because my brother was one OF IN"
worst drunkards In town. Why l never
had a brother. Another woman SAID ShS
could not vote for me and go nome anu
look her family in the face because she
had been told | was one OF the mo''
corrupt men in Wheeling.
"My Democratic opponent sees the
handwriting on the wall. He knows
that when the votes are counted NO
yember End ne will have been defeated
He knows ne Is on his last legs and II
now running on a reform platform IN
his reform campaign he says there eN-
lists in wheeling certain dives and Ger
tain hell-holes, which, II elected, ne
WHY clean up. - ,st
there exists next door TO the Grand
Central hotel and across from tne
American Legion headquarters mouse
OF PROSTITUTION. He says nc can sec Ihe
women in the front room from the wtn-
Sows OF the legion office. ! don't know
SUhether that is 4 house or proSIltuSlon
or not. I was never In X: But my
Democratic opponent was either IN II or
got his information from some one VINO
Regulated by City
DO you know that you knew
house of PROSTITUTION existed IN Whcei.
tnoS yon could not go before 4 justice or
ths neo re and swear out warrant 10
close ito You have TO bring your eEl-
dance before n grand jury sitting IN