Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-05-19
The CornsR OF THE EDrToH or THE TINES TO-
WARDS OUR CITIZENS coNsrDERED-IlIs STATE
mESrs ABOUT Nix. KNoTE's BASE CoNSEcTIoNs.



[POT the IntsIiigene=r.l
The remarks OF the editor Of the Times in his
paper Of the lS:h inst, concerning me- requires
think, some notice. confess ] regret this,
and that when handed the editors of the In
telligenccr my note, which closed with saying
II did not see what right the editor Of the Times
had to any more" did not suppose was giving
it to him. ! supposed and sui suppose | WAS
entitled to the mask assumed, but it seems
was mistaken. So let that pass. will premise
that own gas stock, and have no interest in
the company, but am a mcmhCr of the City
Council. The communication he complains Of
is in these words:
Tho Editor oTIhe TImes.
as the Editor uf the Times subject to the or
binary rules of dGcency OF is he exempt from
them? or Is lie, BY reason of gaseous proper-
sites, freed from the ordinary restraints which
gentlemen impose themselves, even in dis
cuSSOn and controversy with ndversary?-
Or are we to regard him sort of privileged
IhersitceS, sent among us of God, to rail at and
deiame Wheeling and any body aud everything
which is in it. Just as suits his silly, ridiculous
and vicious tastes and iuclinatOnS? or is this gas
question OF such momemtOuS magnitude that all
who cannot agree that the city is Mt liberty 10
violate its charter. or that the City Gas Lamps
ought TO be put out, are to be regarded as out
of the pale OF civilization aud treated as kEavcS
aud outlaws. CITIES
quote from the Times, not having the Intel
gencer. hr. Bingham says, every assertion
here made is not only untrue, but mean and
slanderous To the last degree" | VIII make short
work Of these allegation. II what have said
is untrue, 50 far as fact is concerned, then adj
nit that what said is mean aud sIanderouS
But to the proof or rather to some of them, for
l have no tile Of his paper. will give sam
pie or two:
In his paper Of the Sd of May, speaking Of the
approval and increased patronage he had rceiv-
cd by reason Of his course on the gas question,
he SAYS he Cau afford to laugh TO scUrn the
| Efforts of the Gas Company and its 'ai"io'S, to
suboFR frcs press" In the same paper he calls
tho Gas Company Fan niquituus and piTdt'cdt
monopoly"
1t was The people of Wheeling which gave ex-
istencc and vitality to this gas monopoly, il one
It is, and thought, at the Iinle, they were doing
the community good service. Tic owners Of
tihc gas stock and their mmons, are people Of
Wheeling, and tie free press spoken Of pertains
to Wheeling and the suhorned and suboIners
are of Wheeling. submit whether the Ian.
guage have above quoted from the Times does
not look like "deiauimg Wheeling and any
body and every body aud thing which is in it
But further:
In the fines of the 4th of May, in speaking
Of the proposal to the city-that it ahrogate its
contract for gas unless the Company yield--hc
says, "TEAt lie suppoScs the Council will favor
| the prOPOsai"-but adds, III, however, VIC are
/
der that popular indignation may blast them
forever"
In his paper of the I4th of May, there APP
peared n communication in his papc' which he
introduced to his readers by some /, or twelve
lines of hearty approval In this 'nmunicn-
ton speaking Of the City's Commit he says
TO ' 'lT he ' so1a tEt G SSls aIaas III
f.. Speaking of the Council, or its Cou.,nittee, he
says; There is not man among them Of the
writer may be excused for designating such
plastic tools by name so cnnhlin.) with soul
50 large, but what it might iizZie through pin
/ hole-o who had any more back hune than an
empty bag-ihat they are would demagoEucS
! that We there in Mhcelng) are cursed with
/ host Of these little great men, who are DESTROYS
/ Of being immOTtailZed in the archives of our
I city, and who are ever ready to throw up their
hats with the people" and then again to bend
the plant hinges of the knee, that thrift may
follow tawning," aud much more Of the like
kind. These words lac expressly endorsed, and
to them "inritea special attention"
! My charge against him, aud for which lac
must have my nane is, that ia his discussions he
departed from the ordinary restraints which
gentlemen impose upon themselves in discus
sion. For this, he charges mc with falSehood.
! ] again submit tito ;he candid and fair, wheth-
or have not, by the above quotations, more
than proved the truth of my charge against
him.
/ la another numhcr Of his paper, speaking Of
Mr.. Knate, chairman OF the cUumril'S committee,
he said ''he never expected any other course
/ from him, and that his only surprise was, that
as Knote was obliged from his Bank connections
10 act as he did, chairman, tl'7l lac did not 10
it sooner" In my communication Tdid not my
whether this charge was true or falst-l said,
substantially, that having made it, he ought To
hide has faee or ProUe IL tue. aud so l say
again. Such charges serious Mr.. X is 4
1 Bank director, and for Rueht the people Of
! Wheeling or strangers know. it might rest on
some good foundation, and they who regard die
would suppose--nuS: suppose it did. Such
charges Affect as aS community, and hence it
was proper t>houid call public attention To- them
in the language did. 1t is true do mol De
eve them. and it Is also tfur that the edits. Of
tle Times has 50 far wholly failed 10 give 1t eyv;
! rlAusibiii,y.
l" his Communication Ct the Isth aud in