Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1870-02-16
The COnstitutiOn!--'Dear Distracted
Thing ~

for the removal of the post office to Mail
Street, has greatly distressed the editor
of the Constitution, as might have beef
expected, and they indulge in some yer!
unfair criticisms in regard TO 1t, which
, propose to notice.
The Constitution says: "ln n para
graph he declares that the present loca
ton is nearer the centre Of business, anC
in the next, says that the vicinity of th'
new room is so thronged with men anC
vehicles, that it would be difficult Il
drag a mail bag fourteen or fifteen time:
a day across the walk, n urges as {
reason, that the present location is sci
dom visited by any oRe unless they &C
there after their mails" Now the letter
of the Post Master reads thus: ''Tht
centre of business is more or less huct'
uating, but 1 am clearly of the opinion
that the Post Office is nearer the centre
of business now. estimating the business
of the CITY in all its departments in dol
lars and cents, than it would be on Main
Street. - and in another paragraph-''rhe
approach from the street to the Main
Street room is generally so thronged
with UehicleS as would greatly impede
the receipt and departure of the mails,
which is a matter OF no small importance
when it is considered that there are dali
" about fourteen arrivals and depart
ures. Neither would il be convenient
for those who come for their mails in car
riages, as is common in the present loca-
ton, which is always free from these OBJ
structions." The Post Master does not
saw "that il would be difficult to drag a
mail bag fourteen or fifteen times across
the walk on Main Street, or ''that the
present location is never visited by any
one unless they go after their mails, y
and vet they charge him with these state
ments to insinuate that he contradicts
himself in regard to the centre of bust
ness. Is it not true that the approach
from the street to the room proposed, is
generally INSTRUCTED with horses and
vehicles hitched to the railing along that
front? and does it follow that the centre
of business is there because vehicles are
generally standing there? There are
many other places on both sides of Main,
Market and Liberty Streets that are
equally ~''thronged' with vehicles; are
they all equally central? Would not
such Instructions be very Objectionable
in front of the Post Officer But let us
examine the facts in regard to the bust
ness of the City: The Constitution Office
is located on Main Street, and has a pa
per circulation of less than nine hundred
the CHRONICLE, on Market Street,
and has a circulation of about tiCeRty-
three hundred, and the relative business
and job work of the two offices is about
in the same proportion. The banking
capital of the city, as taken from the du-
plicate for taxation, is as follows:
MARKET STREET.
First National Bank..---..-.--S240,0 900
Freeman d Hunt..---.---..~..-. 1900
ii. Harsh. 1900
s25s,oOO
MAIS sTREET.
Trumbun National Bank..........sI5O,OO 600
7. J. McLain & L,529
Bal. in favor of Market St.......-.1OS,3 81
.s259,9OO
The Mercantile capital of Market
Street, as the tax duplicate shows, is
more than double that of Main Street;
in fact the mercantile capital east of the
centre line is twenty per cent. or more
greater than that of Main Street from
one end to the other, and the business is
quite as much in favor of Market Street
as the capital indicates. There are fUe
business houses on Market Street east
of the centre line thai pay a special tax
as "Wholesale Dealers'-oRe on the UeSt
side of that line and tiCO on Main Street.
There are five hotels in the immediate
vicinity of the Post Office, which do, at
least three-fourths of the hotel business
of the City, and there is one on Main
Street. There are three livery stables in
the same vicinity, and there is a branch
Of one of the Market Street livery stables
Main Street. The petition SAYS ''that
the present location is not central enough
to meet the wants OF the community.
The Post Master replies that the present
location in nearer the geographical CEN
tre-nearer the centre of population, and
thinks nearer the centre of business
than the room proposed, and the facts
demonstrate that he is correct.
This is a fair, straight forward answer,
and If the Constitution men regard il 'as
weak as dish water and the merest bal
derdaSh," let them answer it with facts
and figures, and they will find it strong
for them and their allies too.
''weak" as it is.
Now let us analyZe this petition a little.
1t is well known that it was gotten up
by the Democrats and q few interested
outside of that faith" Nine
signed the petition, of these fire
are democrats, to wit: NJ. Birchard, j.
/. L. Fuller, H. II. Moses and L.
II. Ensign-aU the democratic lawyers
in the City; all the editors OF the Con-
Stituti0n signed it, and SeUen-eights of the
voters of the city signed it
in fact there are more democratic names
on the petition than there are democrat
c voters in the city. These facts show
he political character of the petition, and
are the reasons why the democrats and
heir allies were so anxious TO get it
back. The finess was artful, but our
Post Master was too sharp to be caught
oy it.
The Constitution says: "He STYLES the
sectional when there are names
rom eYery part of the city and tuTnpike[?I
sast, west, north. and SOUTH" OF course
he democrats signed it without regard to
personal location OF convenience; but
very elD republicans signed it whose bus
ness is not WeSt of the centre line, and
many whose business and residence is
vest of that line did not sign it, as the
document itself will verify, and yet
h~ree-fourths, at least, of uU the names
west of that line. The Consultation
would have you infer that the petition is
lot sectional by their innuendo, but it
lare not say so directly.
In regard to the "Remonstrance."
bout which so much buster has been
made, 1 will say that such a paper was
tarted, and in a few hours a considerable
of names obtained, when several
favorable TO the present location,
eluSeu 10 SlSn IL, anu auNlseu the person
charge of the paper to stop the
and let the Democrats do their
pest or. their lGorSt, which was done
the Post Master free to exercise
lis own judgment and good sense in the
natter.
The editors of the Consultation, in the
conclusion of their article, say, "If ire
we're of 500 Republican voters in a
like Warren, and wanted the Post
Office removed to a convenient location. ,
re roUId hare II done" &c. There is De-
nocracy for you! If the editors of the
should become ono Republi-
an voter, what a mighty fellow they
would be! A room fifteen feet wide on
lain Street would be more than conve-
lient-one ten feet wide would be am
lie IF it was near the Constitution office.
nd the Post Office would be removed
hereof UrSe 1t Would-Jt they were a
Republican UOterg o, shades of DemOc- .
Y.
1t. Union College.
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