The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-16

books ofIhe registrar OF their Tow nAhips
have only to-day and tomorrow TO put
themselves right on the record.
BIZ a notice publIHhed in our local
columns 1t will be seen that a citizens
meeting In called in the Sixth Ward
This evening, the purpose of which is TO
nominate candidates for the City Coun-
Gil. We trust that the meeting will be
largely attended by all those who feel
An Interest in the selection Of the right
sort OF nominees for Council ticket
from that ward. And we also trust
that the same sort Of meetings will be
held in other wards In which they have
not yet taken place, aud that in every
instance men viii be placed before the
public whose superior fitness for their
positions will be at once recognized and
conceded. wecould hope TO see every
thing like narrow partisan or personal
prejudice discarded in these uomiua.
lions. The city needs upright, Intelli-
gent, capable, and economical men 10
care for her interests In the Council
chamber. There Is where our laws are
made, our appropriations passed, and
our vital interests either carefully aud
Iuteligenily Eostered, or iEuorRntly and
recklcsSly trifled with.
II would seem rs II the present time
offered an opportunity that has not
been afforded for long while past to
throw aside and sink all minor eOusid,
orations, aud to nominate and elect
men who will have an eye exclusively
to the public interests. Almost every
one who has not been blinded by an
intense prejudice can see that a set of
nominations have been made that, as
u whole, fall TO command the public
confidence aud respect. 1t is not DIM
cult to discern the animus Of the
managers and sohemers who have
gotten up many OF these nomi-
nations. They have apparently de-
termlned 10 force their extreme views
not only upon their own party, but
upon the whole body of the people. II
is not unnatural, therefore, that there
should be plain symptoms OF a revul.
sion Of public feeling. The moderate
men OF the dominant party very prop
srly join in the general expression OF
Misrepresentation and condemnation that
81 heard upon the streets. They cannot
fail to perceive that their interests are
thcse. and only those, OF their fellow
citizens, aud that the highest and beat
interests OF the whole community call
for the wholesome and unmlSiakabIe
rebuke OF the violent spirit that has so
sIgualIy displayed itself In some Of
these nominations. In common with
others their ipclinatiOn is to give ex.
preston, on the day OF election,
TO this rOVolted feeling through the ball
lot-bOx, and to that end the desire and
effort OF every intelligent and unselfish
man should be to afford them pro.
per opportunity. Il should, therefore,
be tho policy of all who have the re-
buks OF the violent faction o. the domi-
nant party In view. to get up such tick
cts IN the different wards as will
leave no reasonable man au excuse
for falling to cooperate in that rebuke.
We trust that Ihese views will meet
with the coneurrenee OF all citizens
who have no personal, clique, or faction
motives TO subserVe, and that all such
persons will meet together in the diff
CerSnt wards and put Ia nomination
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vance the city'a true interests In the
Council, but at the same time set their
faces against the reckless and defiant
attempt OF a violent faction to assert
their control not only over their own
party, but over the general public.
IN the proper aud no doubt repre-.
sentative spirit OF tho violent faction
that now seeks control OF The Demo-
cratic party in our midst, and OF the
city otiicOa, the REGISTER OF yesterday
comes out in a threatening bull Of ex-
communication against all members OF
the party who shall dare, in despite OF
that faction, 70 become candidates, As
Ihe organ Of the faction II denounees
as gusrrillas all such candidates.
aud prOclaims against them the pains
and penalties OF objectionable heresy.
From the nominations OF the usurpInR
junta there Is to be no appeal to the
public, but its despOlic, selfish,
extreme, aud proscriptive arrange.
lnents are TO be accepted as dual. Those
who shall dare TO disregard the DEGREES
enacted are given to understand that
they will be crushed out. and that in
the future they shall have no part nor
lot In the heritage OF the saints. The
Nasty clique, like board OF cardinals,
propose 20 expuFEate the calendar amer
election, and all recOsanoy and contu.