Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-07-31
MiIIG PRESCRIPTION


WIG PROSCRlPTloN.-A letter from
w. w. SE,roN, Esq. the worthy and excel.
lent Mayor OF Washington. addressed To the
hal'or oi uls "onion, appears in that paper
In answer to certain charges of prescription
mad; b. a corrc pondcnt Of the '.Union."-
MIR. Sc ton had lur sem: timc allowed ,hes,
charges To pass in Ill ,nce, since their Ealsi,,
was WI enough known To tls great bod, OF
the citizens OF Washington. .'As however
he adt>, 81 perceive that these cominuniCa.
tiens are extensively cited by the demo, ra;ic
press, ss Ju.tlt ling the removal of officers
by the government. they have beconi. invcs.
led with All importance, and n power q,
lniiciing injury on Others. which will. | trus,
encuse my coming forward, thus publicly, 10
give them AN unqualified denial"
The authoro of the cl,arg"s in question anirms
that, commencing with the mavoralty and
going down through all the different Office,
under the municipal laws. not one is held bu
a democrat. For this total exclusion Of re-
pubilcans from public employment. no fair or
unfair excuse can b, pleaded. nor can any
MN, IN truth, call it aught but vile and ruth.
less prescription"
tOthcr extracts are given Of the same general
purport, TO which M. Scaton gives the sub.
joined reply; and IL is for the sake of quoting
such Just and manly views and sentiments tina
we have referred TO this subject:
Now, Mr.. Editor, after giving c~urrcncy'to
these confident assertions, YOU may be sur
prised 10 learn, that the nominations referred
Ia, instead of having been selected ON any
principle OF prescription or favoritism, en-
brace, almost without exception. the same
persons that The mayor lound in oiiice at the
time oil hiselection, five years ago; and nearly
all oI whom were continued in, or appointed
10 ofice, by a Cemocratic mayor:-that the
mayor has made but four removals during his
administration--two of which were for intern
perance, and two for incompetency;-tlat the
whole four were, to the best of his knowledge.
whiSs;-that two of the four who succeeded
them, as he has since learned, were democrats:
that he does not. 10 this day, know the
OF one halt of the persons he found in
office, and has continued i'm Office To the pres
tmc:--ihat he has never excluded a man
from Office, or appointed one To Office, OH ac-
count of his politics that instead of there
as is alleged, but one democrat in office.
the mayor has democratic authority for stating
a considerable numbcrof corporation OF
ficers are democrats that, so far from hold
ing the cruel and anti-republican doctrine of
prescription for opinions sake, the mayor dis
avows and dctcsts it;-ihat ~ far from re-
the Offices placed at his disposal as
being his property, to be given or taken away.
according To his caprice, or the indulgence of
party favor, he looks upon himself simply as
the foreman of the public, To see his fellow
servants perform their duties faithfully, with
the power aud the obligation TO remove them 4,
II they do not and that, so long rs an officer ,
rs faithful, competent, and exemplary in the
discharge OF his duties, tie. mayor would as
soon ttiun OF going, and thinks he would have
Just as much right TO 20, into his house and
take the bread from his hearth as toiake away
his Office. Whethg this b. democratic doc
tihnc' yOu cau best tell but il has ever been
the doctrine out of office, and The practice in
of your obedient and very humble ser
want, w. w. SEATON.
WAsnlNGToN, July 81, 1915.