The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1865-01-19
City Politics..

raid upon the IMeHiyehceF camp, VI eoi
deserter has gone over to the enemy with
all the secrets of the campaign Some
thing has occurred to vex the royal soul
of the editor of the IptelHgencer, and he
"sloshes about" fearfully. 1t is very
naughty in Mr.. WILEY to oppose the
plans Of the editor of the Intelligence, for
the editor don't like opposition andw
TO be let alone. We will speak to Mr..
WILEY about it, when we see him, for
there is no telling what harm the editor
of the IRtelHgencer may do to others and
himself when he starts to run muck"
or commences to throw stones" as wild
~ as he did last Tuesday and Wednesday
mornings We think Mr. WILEY is to
blame for the whole of it, for the editor
aforesaid never INDUCES in such fearful
spurge as he committed on Tuesday
morning without being moved by some
threatened disaster to his hopes OF the
SeuatOrship. We have enough respect
for our neighbours intelligence to believe
that he would not labor so strenuously
TO make bricks without straw i'll seek
ing to damage the good and we'll earned
reputation OF Mr.. SWEENEY, were he not
actuated by some impulse more powerful
than the simple desire to retain the pres
ent city administration in power. Ger
jaiuiy, unless driven to desperation by
the peril of some hope dear to his
heart, he would not labor to disprove
our statement that Mr.. SWEENEY
was the most efficient Mayor who ever
he!dthe Office here" He would certainly
have remembered the occurrences of
which our correspondent speaks in an
other column, and would not have taken
The pains to inform US about the condi-
ton Of affairs in this city in 1861, when
he knew so we'll that, although we were
not then residents here, we have had
many opportunities since of hearing
"reminiscences of those days from those
WHO lcere residents and knew how to tell
the truth. He would have known that it
d ,es not require many years of editorial
lie in a city like Wheeling, to learn i'll
what estimation a public officer is held
bv citizens of every shade of political
faith. Oh no! the h,tslligeacSr never
would have committed the folly of Tues
day mornings editorial had it not been
that the Senatorship is in imminent peril.
A, the members of the Legislature began
to assemble on Monday, the editor, of
barely constitutional age" found his
hopes of election fading, still fading"
and. as he must have something upon
which TO vent his swelling ire, bethOught
himself of Mr. SWEENEY and the city
election.
Finding that the nomination OF Mr..
COTrs rendered the old mode of attack
slightly absurd, the editor was driven to
assault Mr. SWEENEY III another way
But first, observe with what m air Of he
ruic resignation he throws Mr.. COTTs
overheard. Let every nominee who
stands on that platform with Mr. SwEE-
NEY fall with him" There's touch OF
the old Roman III that How manfully
he cuts loose from candidate of whose
election there never was a ghost of
Glance. and with what virtuous self
denial does he declare his willingness
HAT Nr COTrS and Mr.. SWEENEY shall
"tall" t1.ctherl With what a grand as
sumption of autocratic dignity does he
dismiss into "outer darkness one of the
regular nominees of the Union men,
That wa, rel done; that was lofty; that
vas what Mr.. LINCOLN calls "a big
thing
But tue dismissal 81 Mr. COTrs was ii
sjghl affair in comparison with the Stu-
unlouS character of tho assault upon
Mr.. SWEENEY. In the frenzy which pos
srssed him, he seems to have forgotten
there were some citizens Of Wheeling
whose knowledge of Mr. SWEENEY was
mitccqual to his own and whose rocol-
lection of the scenes of 1861 was quite a.
vivid as that which pervaded his cdit"-
li:l mind lie knew that he might as
well have tried Ia convince the people of
Wheeling, Except, perhaps, the twenty.
thirtc or fifty of whom he j. onc,) that
the moon is made of green cheese, as to
cudcavor to persuade them into the he
lief thai Mr. SWEENEY WAS an inefficient
Mayor and stroye to subordinate the
Cuion element of this city to the domi
nation of the secession element. -
Ii The editor of the Hieliqcacer
viii take pains 10 inquire, as We have, of
those who were present and observed the
events of those days, he will tnd that our
concentration of Mr.. SwEENEY's mayor
ally was abundantly justified 10y the
ractS ENtrcme meu, both 0bOlitiouistS
aud sccessionistS. whose designs upon
thcpcac Of the city were frustrated 10y
his vig,lauco,jhatod and feared him, ana
each accused HIM Of being favorable tn
the other but now that the passions
which RACED then are somewhat sooered
down, except in the minds of those who