The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-02-18
The wheeling proposition.

Inc judiciary cOHlInllt0O'H ia
yesterday recommended the adoption
the Wheeling proposition for retainin
the Capital in this city for five years
The consideration of the report gave ris
to a remarkable discussion involving tn
moral, social and Political character o
the citizens of Wheeling. A crazy crea
ture called CARROLL started the discus
sion, whoOping, bowling ano
c1ntorting at length over th'
alleged rebellous status of our people
Juggling into the performance some ole
time personal grievances against tne
REGISTER, and sndeavorins to make the
Legislature champion his private quar-
rel by indefinitely postponing the
wheeling proposition. As the Parkers-
burg people, whose measure he patron
ICES. repudiated all sympathy with his
raving, and as his frOthy fulminations
are usually the source of merriment or
contempt, nobody's equanimity was spe-
cially rufiied thereby.
SMITH, OF Morgan, picked up the
frayed ends of CARROLL's anathemas,
and proceeded to weave q tangled web OF
ribaldry, falsehood, malignity and gas
conade. The dsloyalty of the people OF
Wheeling was his chief grief, bat to this
he added prodigious array of sccusa-
tions s,including every thing that spite can
spit, upon all topics from the sting of a
newspaper squib to the illiberality OF
pea nut venders. The people OF Wheel
ing were rebellous beyond description
and more tfan this, their atmosphere
was black with the smoke of rolling
mills, their newspapers didn't puff him,
their parlor doors never opened to well
come his ponderous presence; let him be
short of money nobody supplied him,
and, worst and smallest of all contempt
ible thiaEs. nobody in Wheeling mad
ever given him single glass OF
peanuts" In this style he fret
ted and fumed, giving every
body to understand that all the def
cieacies of Wheeling, not excepting the
contributions of cash and peanuts
would be supplied by Parkersbarg, wax
ing warm with his theme until the pent-
I'D inspiration of the speaker found
vent in the perspiration of Thousand
pores, and then having exclaim-
ed in one grand feat Of gesticulation to
which nothing short of windmill IN
full motion could approximate, that he
"wouldn't stay in no such place" sub
sided from his climax of odor and orato-
~. and muck to everybody's relief,
slowly but literally dried up"
The vindictive and intolerant spirit
which looked out through the gnashing
teeth and fierce demeanOr of the eml-
nent slang whanger was fifty rebuked
bv Mr.. SMITH, of Kanawha, who, in
brief but pointed speech, held up to de-
served ridicule the malice, not to say
meanness, which had hurled upon the
House such seuseless blast OF sound
aud fury.
As in the case of CARROLL, of Morgan,
nobody felt disposed to anything bat
mirth over the performance Of the
mighty mountebank from Morgan. The
gentlemen in charge of the Parkers-
burg movement had emphatically disa-
vowed all sympathy with either, and
therefore their rantings were merely re-
garded as silly episodes in the business
of the day. The chosen representative
OF ParkersLurg was FLICK, of Pendleton.
He was selected to look after the inter
ests of that town in the case before the
House. Repudiating the Others, the
friends of that place said, "FLICK is au-
thorized to speak for US, he is our man
ager, he will give our views"
FLICK proceeded to "speak," +" "man-
age" and "give views" He spread
himself to vilify, traduce and blacken
the character Of the citizens of Wheel
ing without reference to age, sex, class or
party. Not content with denouncing
them for want of Sociability toward the
members, he assailed the fame of their
wives and daughters" by the most viii
lainous inuendoes The substance of
one of his filings was that from their
own knowledge of their families, our
citizens were afraid to trust their
wives and daughters in the society of
members of the Legislature. There was
no question about his meaning. There
was no doubt of bis purpose to insult, by
ribald wittioism, the ladies of this com.
muuity. The citizens were mer0euarJ
and dishonest. Alluding doubtless, to tn,
recent robbery perpetrated upon some
of the members, he said that if the
citizens of Wheeling could get their
money in no other way, they would en-
ter their rooms and steal it while they
were asleep"
These are but specimen passages. The
whole speech was a succession of as
saults upon the honesty, responsibility
aod honor of the community. hired
scandal-menger with the price of his
scurrility in his pocket, could not have
belched forth viler mass of indeceney
and calumpy than this man heaped upon
the people of Wheeling. 1t was the
cold-blooded effort of a practiced, pro-
fessional black guard to defeat the
proposition of our people by attaching
to their reputation every aspersiou that
a rascally invention could frame or a
reckless tongue could utter. We know
not who or what this man was before he
came from Ohio to West Virginia and
began his career of carpet bagging.
We only know that an interloping ad-
venturer has attempted to drag the hon
ored reputation of this people into the
mire of his own wallowipg, and we