The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-16
BROTHER WHARTON, of the Parkers.

OuEB 4tUteSS links IuaL III our alluBlOn
to his occasional references as to what
Wheeling people say of Parkers-
burg, we intend to excite a prejudice
against that place, and, also, against his
efforts TO build it up. He does not like
our quotation from his local columns
of the item about coal, and he gives us
to understand that he is in earnest when
hetalks of Parkersburg's ability to be-
come a supplying point for that article,
even If she does at this present time linz
port her own consumption of it from
Wheeling and Pittsburgh. He further
more tells US that "iron is nearer and
more abundant in that region than in
this, and that the time is to come when
Parkersburg will "be richer than
Wheeling ever was or ever can be. !"
And he also tells us that the great re-
gret connected with his life while here,
is that he did not persevere in urging
"the removal OF Wheeling HILL" That
was the one thing, which he thought
important, that he ever advocated and
"failed In"
Now let us say to our brother Whar-
ton, after quoting as above from his ar
ticle, that he should not be SO testy and
unamiabIe in his replies. Wecertainly
hold his energy, here and elsewhere, in
high esteem and complimentary re-
membrance. We presume that it is
allowable to point out the fact once and
awhile, that his enterprise down at Par
kersburg occasionally induces him to
institute comparisons between that
place and Wheeling, as in the item
which we quoted the other day. As he
bids us to take all the care we can "of
the interests of wheeling," we do not
see that we can carry out his injunc-
tons in full without looking somewhat
after what he writes about this locality.
We must beg to assure him that we
have never considered that there was
any need for jealousy between the two
places, any more than between
two people in different lines of
business. Wheelingis resting on very
slender foundations, indeed, If she
must be ProPped up at the expense of
PRrkersburg, or any other town. If
she has not inherent sources of life and
prosperity, mere words will not give
them TO her. 1t is pretty well demon
strated, however, that she can "paddle
her own canoe" and that, notwith-
standing any number OF prominent
citizens may go down and assure the
editor of the Times that Parkersburg is
"master of the situation" and that she
has 'betterlocation,'' and all that, yet
nevertheless Wheeling goes forward,
"conquering and to conquer" in all the
great items of industry that build up
town, not for day, but for the indef-
mite future.
WehOpe, therefore, that brother Whar-
ton will dismiss from his suspicious,
in the future, the idea that he seems
to entertain, and that always appears
to irritate him at the least mention or
comment, as to there being any jealousy
up hero either of Parkersbnrg itself,
Oror his individual efforts to build 1t
up and make great and prosperous
city out of it. We assure him in ull
brOtherly affection that his inevitable
and indeCatiG0ble citations and quota
tions about what appointment citizens''
from Wheeling say in praise of the
spacious and airy little city, that sits,
like the Queen of the Adriatic, ''amid
such vast potentialitles of wealth." do
not stir up one "green or bilious feel
ing" but, on the contrary, we rejoice
at the prospect that hereafter the
United States Assessors books are to
verify all that these appointment citi-
zens" have told our friend of the Times,
and all that he has been telling the
world for so long season.