The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-24
At'heeliua &egister.
.a,ur day Morning. Angus, 20
r,,a,iou Of tho B. & o Rni,rond.

Toxutiou OF the ID. g. o RRiirOHd.
.rh. J,isIIiqenccr has been exercising
;,sr'f frarfully during the past
&c., lavs. not withstanding the
,,. weather. in endeavoring TO
.,trrfactnre convenient issue
,r,, which to 90 before the peo-
,,. IN The fan elections. From its anN-
,ry uron this subject We may infer
.l,; :, has come to the conclusion that
,r,. old cant about loyalty" which has
- ,ong served the purpose of rascality
md drccption. is about "played out"
II seems. too. that the oft-wOrn phar-
.,,ical cloak Of superior devotion TO
rh, interests ot THE new State, '"our
infant commonwealth. and all that
.,r, or thing. i not considered Suf-
fr:rn, 70 hidt. Ia" growing deformities
Of radicali>m. or screen the par Y from
,ornllr indignation and rebuke. Some
raw Srhrrnc mnst be devised, some new
.ursl.on raised, some new jugglery re-
sorted 70. "r the Radica! party i'll this
STATE viii lose its hold upon power and
- grasp will slip from the public treas
ury. In this dreadful state of affairs,
nur morning contemporary comes boldly
- the rescue Regardless of the snltry
,;moSnhrre of these days when the
..ang SiaI RACES" he cudgels his brains
through two columns of dreary print,
and grava!y proposes plan of escape
rom the ils that thickly beset his par
y. H. wants the radicals everywhere
"a nominate for members of the Legisla-
mrc men VIII. are in favor of taxing the
property at the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. He seems to think,
GOOD. easy soul." that Immediately af-
,rr this action on the part of the radical
conventions. the conservative men of
each county viii hunt up some lonely
individual who is opposed to levying
ne tax in question aud put him forward
= their candidate. In this manner the
issue will BE- made up; the question of
taxing the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Will 20 before the people, the radicals
having the popular side; the radical
party will he saved for the preparation
Of new villainies npon tie people of the
State: and IN" Ipfellige"co will he
happy.
But our neighhor seems 10 forget that
the present immunity from taxation en-
,oyed by the b n O. Railroad is solely
the work of the radicals. That party
has cnjoved undisturbcd control of our
legislative body ever since the formation
Of the State and the exemption of the
Baltimore road from taXati on, as well
As every other legislative enormity and
Injustice under which our people grOan,
! the work of radical hands. Does he
then suppose that the conservative men
oi the ."ate are going, at this late day,
% url'itl dul tNtuec ANU II pooooUiS,
re.euact the follies of the radicals
against whom they have been warning ::
1t woNld. indeed, seem so, if he is serious
in proposing that the taxation Of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad be made
the question at issue before the people
This fall, the Radicals pledging them
selves in favor of taxation.
The radical party cannot so easily es-
cape from public condemnation. There
: Il mountain of crimes upon its head
that must he expiated, there is vast
catalogue of its misdeeds in West Vir-
Iinia for which it must atone.
But We doubt much whether the plan
proposed by the IRteligencer would even
result in the taxation of the Baltimore
aHd Ohio road. We are certain it
would not. unless q set of men We're
chosen as representatives different from
a Il better than the Legislators the rad
jcai party has sent sent here during the
past tour years. No matter how many
pledges they may make, no matter
how Solemnly they may declare, before
lection, that they will vote for the
measure proposed, the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company has so many
means Of furnishing additional infor-
nation" and putting the question in
Snch different light from that in which
II was previously seen, that men like
those who compose the bulk of the Rad
zeal party in many counties Of this
state, and like those who have consti-
inted a reckless and defiant majority in
our State Legislature during the past
four years, cannot, or rather hare not
resisted and ~W not resist the influence
olthese seductive appeals.
Let honest men be elected to the Leg
lslature, and not only will the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad Company be
compelled to pay its just and equal share
Of taxation, but there will be general
system of retrenchment and reform in
snSnrated that will tighten the burdens
oIthe people and bring TO light hun
dred frauds and misnanagements which
II has been and is the desire Of the Rad
zeal party to CONCEAL. .-...
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says: "a young man has
Just committed suicide at an hotel near
the Rue st. Martin, ny sticking about
iifty pips into his hreast- When found