The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-12-12
The ChnrterE Iee,Ion.

wrecked last fall. They permitted no
differences of opinion about their chief
candidate. They allowed nobody to be
candidates without pledges to abide the
decision of the Convention. The gen.
tleman who introduced these pledges.
seems to have altered his mind some
what since he was engaged seducing
Judge Berkshire from the Union fold
last fall, and urging him to disregard
the Convention in which he had been
unsuccessful. But it is an old saw,
that circumstances alter cases; and
perhaps he has one rule for the
Union party and one for Mr.. Sweeney's
party, both adapted 10 circumstances.
Under the "abide by the decision of the
Convention" pledge, Mayor Sweeney's
little tea party was quite harmonious,
but it appears the happy feeling did not
extend far beyond the limits of the
ring" by whom the affair was man
ipulated. A sop was thrown to Mr..
Scarborough, who was not nomi-
mated for Sheriff last fall, and
one or two other small favors were
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offices after the Sergeants'. the same
men are presented 10 our citizens to be
reinvested with the authority ofthe city
government for another term The
democratic party OF this city has sever
al men who are at any time and in any
respect better fitted for the Mayoralty
than Mayor Sweeney; who might have
been presented with clean hands and
who, save in party sense, would not
have been Objectionable TO our citizens.
His Honor, however, knew too well
how TO improve his opportunities to al
low any convention to be assembled
that he and his friends could not con-
troll; and knowing what they were
about, they were not only safe but
tolerably shrewd in requiring
pledge of acquiescence. But that
pledge did not effect much in the
Mayors case; for gentlemen of char
acter and influence to whom many Of
the Democratic party were looking for
the position, happened to possess some
little shrewdness also, aud they de-
clined to put their heads in the trap set
for them. So that while Mr.. Sweeney
has all the honors of the nomination
TO himself, he didn't succeed in getting
anybody pledged to support him whose
support would elect him. Tha; cast OF
his net at least was a water-haul: and
we shall be much surprised if he do not
find very shortly after the election that
be has made another. He will have to
wing very large flock of jail birds to
help him out-more it is to be hoped
than can be found in our jail between
now and the election.
Mayor Sweeney comes before our
people again with bad autecedeuts and
bad record. His organ, in an uuhap-
Py hour, denounced Acknowledgment
AS the objectionable sin, obIivious of
the antecedents of the present leaders
of the Democratic party of this county.
We have seen what dreadful pangs it
has already suffered over this indiscre-
ton in prospect OF Mayor Sweeney's
denomination. How then can it endure
its present unhappy situation! Since
the late election it has boldly thrown
away all aliases and reassumed the cast
off garment OF "Democracy''-that De-
mocracy which back to the remotest
traditions, made unrelenting war upon
Kuow-Sothingism. Now it must give
IA not reluctant support to a man whose
record has been exposed as one of the
most bitter Irish hating and German
hating and Catholic hating Know Moth
ings; and that too when it expects to
elect him by the votes OF our Irish and
German and Catholic citizens. If this
be not bitter pill for them TO swallow,
and il 1t be not bitter task
for the doctors of the Register. to ad-
minister it, then we are no judges of
phySic. Other eminent Democrats with
like antecedents prepared this noxious
dose. Original simon-pure Democrats
here are very badly or indeed in hav-
ing allowed this Know Nothing COM
binRtion to get such complete control
of their resources as to carry off, cleo
tion amer election, all the spoils of office:
while genuine Democrats must stand
outside the magic ''ring" and snuff the
aPPetizing odors OF the municipal
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The Union party of the city presents
ticket throughout that commands at
once the confidence and respect of all
parties. 1t is strong ticket, because
the men are capable, because they are
honest and because they have no cor
rnriicn to cover up, but come before the
public with clean hands. And it is
eminently strong too, because the hard
handed working men of the city are
amply and ably represented in it. They
come before the people, not so much as
party candidates, but as the candidates
of all men Of all parties, who want to
terminate the existing city administers
ton that has grossly abused its powers,
that has raised immense revenues and
absorbed them without adequate results
to the city; that has made city taxa
ton so high that rents advance each
year from 70 to . per cent; that is in this
way driving population and capital be-
yond the city limits. Itisa fact, which
our solid men and all our tax PAYERS
take too little account of, that Wheel
ing Is but a New York on n small scale.
1t costs immensely too much to carry
on our city government. We risk
nothing in saying that it costs more
under the Sweeney administration to
govern this city than it does to carry
on the government OF the whole State.
And yet how little security we have for
either life or property. And the money
thus spent comes OF our citizens in the
shape of taxes, rents, exorbitOnt water
rates, SC, sc. Where it all goes may