The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-25
THE ELECTION TODAY

year-who are to determine how much
taxes shall be paid and how it shall be
spent and whether any protection shall
be furnished in consideration thereof.
Whether the present NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
is to be prolonged and rendered chron-
ic, depends on the free choice of tho
voters of this city to-day.
Considering how much the manage
ment OF it's municipal affairs affects all
the interests of the city, it ought not to
be necessary to appeal to voters to go
to the polls to day and elect good men
for next years. rulers. Every man in
the city engaged in the prosecution of
any lawful business or honest calling
has deep interest in to-day's election;
because business prosperity and law
Iessuess are Incompatible. Every man
who owns taxable property within the
city limits is interested in deciding to-
day whether he Is to be plundered
during the coming year by crew
who, having nothing 10 tax themselves,
know no restraint on the taxing
power but their royal pleasure and
their capacity to devise ways to spend
the revenues they exact without fur
nishing any protection to those from
whom the taxes are exacted. Every
man who has a house he does not want
broken open, and drawer he does not
want rifled who has dollar lett after
paying his taxes, and does not want it
st0len-is interested in voting men into
Office 10 day, who will not allow his
house to burglariZed and himself rob
bed with impunity. as so many of our
citizens have been under the present
disgraceTul rule. Every man who has
IA family to be protected from the insult
of drunken rutfains,-who has children
he would not have contaminated by
their beastly example, has deep in
terest to-day in helping TO clean out
the City Sergeant's Office and the Coun-
Gil Chambers, and filling them with
sober, upright, intelligent men who
will guard the city and protect the
decencies of society. In short
every voter in the city, no matter what
his circumstances, his vocation or
business, his politics religion or person.
al preferences between the candidates,
Is profoundly interested i'll purifying
the city government of its present dis
graceful and Injurious administration,
and has plain and imperative duty TO
perform.
All honest men will agree thus far.
Then how are the interests of our citi
zens to be promoted and their duty
Affections Of the present rule to be re-
mOved7 Can 1t be done by voting to
keep III office the very men who now
afllicL us9 Is the police corps, from
Sergeant down, to be improved by re-
elccling its present head, under whose
laxity thieves thrive and honest men
suffer, and by electing a Council OF the
same stamp3 will Shanley be- any
filter for the place next year, backed
by an endorsement OF his present rule?
Will he appoint any better men than
those who now perform such arduous
service around the whisky shops
There is no reason to expect any change
for the better. There is reason to APP
prehend a change for The worse-if that
were possible.
To those enlisted in the work of re-
electing Stanley and OF perpetuating
present disorders, we deem 1t hopeless
to address any argument. 1t is only to
those who agree with us in deploring
present evils, and who sincerely seek to
remove them that we appeal. We try
to be charitable always towards those
who differ with us, whether in purpose
or-as to means. We think no Republi-
can in the city differs from us in desir-
ing the defeat of that class now repre-
scented and led by Stanley. So far as
thnra ara Il iffaraucaS wa Coucaiva thov
are as to the mode OF accomplishing the
same end. Every intelligent man in
the city must see that the brunt of the
Eight is between the Stanley party and
the Citizens Ticket, for example be-
tween Stanley and Conant for Ser
geant. Yet there is in the field an in
dependent Republican, who for some
reason has felt constr aimed to annou nee
this morning that he has not been hired
to play the part he is playing. We do
not deny Captain Baird's right TO be a
candidate. Like every one, he can do
as he pleases; yet we profoundly regret
that at the present juncture it pleases
him to do grave injury to the cause
he processes to represent and the friends
he Processes 10 serve. He has not the
ghost of a chance to be elected and
must know it. Does he want to elect
Shanley2 We hope not Yet his being
a candidate can have no other result If