The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-26
AUorh of Appeal to the senate.

The Senate spent yesterday in fruit
less bAllOting on the capital bill-Yot-
ing INTO the substitute and voting out
again one place after another in way
that indicates either very little purpose
or very deep one. Which it is the
public will be better able to Judge
wien the final result is announced.
To outsiders it looks as if the OPposi-
ton to Parkersburg were acting with
out concert or definite plan.
Gentlemen opposed to Parkersburg,
Tit is your purpose to prevent a loGa-
ton at that place, why fritter away
Objectionable ut best and is continually
undergoing mutilation and growing
weaker as against Park efsburg? Why
not attack the bill itself? You say you
have votes enough either to Indefinite
ly postpone the bill or to strike out
Parkersburg, whenever you choose.
Then why don't you do il? Why this
dilly -dallying? The voices that have
been coming up from the country pa
pers for few days past indicate that
somebody will hear thunder If loca-
ton is made at Parkersburg, with a
treasury fifty TO sixty thousand
dollars worse than empty. You
may be able to stand the consequences,
bnt the tax payers cannot and will not {;
and if you desire that our party (nOw
in the majOrity,) shall maintain its
ascendancy, do not we beg you, furnish
our enemies a whole armOry full OF
clubs TO break our heads with in the
next campaign. Don't lay such loads
of imprudence and bad legislation on
the shoulders OF the Republican party
OF the State as to break it down in the
election Of Legislature next fall. a
party has need TO be very strong, in
deed, before it can afford 10 do such an
intlefensible thing as TO locate the Capt.
tai at Parkersburg, with an empty
treasury and a people already taxed to
the utlcrmost limit, with the certainty
that before the officers are warm in
their seats there, n systematic raid will
be made OH the Legislature for appro-
priations to build-and all in face of a
vigilAnt and thoroughly organized foe,
ready and eager to take advantage OF
every mistake. 1t would be blunder
such AS no party cOuld survive. If we
expect TO maintain the ascendency OF
Republicanism in the State and through
1t to build up our free schools and 9TH
or liberal institutions, we must as n
party majority exercise IL reasonable
degree of prudence, for the party in
power il wholly responsible for what is
done and will so be held. If the Senate
must locate now permanently some
whore, then we trust it will be some
where that can be defended before the
peOple-some Interior pOint-Clarks-
burg BuckhanOn, characterization
But, couple with everything else the
rumOrs about the Influences that the
PaTkersburg lobby have been using
here, and location at Park ersbure Will
raise storm of Indignation among the
people in all parts of the State that will
operate most disastrously on us as a
party. The political balance i'll this
State is now such that the party In
power have to choose between circum-
spection and defeat. flour friends in the
Senate think location at Parkersburg
will keep the party strong or make it
stronger, we must defer to their de-
cision, but we are compelled to dissent
from their judgment.