The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-24
george W. Jeffers for Mayor.

6eOFBe We ScheEs hoE 1""JS
Is it not just possible that the use Of
lash to compel voters to support a
so-called citizens ticket in the election
next Thursday may be as Objectionable
as the party discipline Of which some peo-
pie complaint All men can't see alike
and it is altogether probable that large
numbers of our citizens are not SO
forcibly impressed with the merits OF
each individual upon what the InteI's-
geneer styles the "real and really ex-
cellent citizens ticket" as that paper
PROCESSES to be. Something may be ex-
cused upon the ground of paternal par
TALLY, but the voters don't take very
kindly to the effort that is being made
to dragon them into the support OF the
IateHigencers bantling no matter how
lovely it may appear ia the eyes OF its
parents.
There are now four tickets in the field.
Two of these were nominated by regu-
.larly chosen delegates OF the people as
sembled IN convention, and the other
two were nominated by-nobody knows
who. In both of the popular conventions
Mr.. -JErFERs received the nomination
for Mayor-upon both of the tickets
that were secretly framed the name OF
Mr.. HALL appears. Now we have moi
a word to say in disparagement of Mr.
HALL, but in so far as the popular will
has been consulted in proposing can
didates for election, Mr.. JEFFERs has
been twice designated as the popular
choice. Mr.. HALLS name was before
the convention last Saturday night ano
received a very flattering vote, but MIR
JEFFERs had a majority. If the ex
pressed preference Of the people can be
regarded as indicating the real citizens
ticket, certainly that nominated 10y a
convention of nearly forty dele
gates, no matter how they were
chosen, has higher claims tt
that title than ticket selected by three
or four. gentlemen privately, in some
back office, and dictated to the people
We don't ask the voters Of the city te
support exclusively any of the variod;
tickets that have been put forward. We
have thrown down the bars completely
and advised our people TO vote simply
for whatever candidate thev preferred
but the effort made by the Intelligence
Yesterday morning to sneer a: what il
calls 1.-The LETTERS Democracy and tt
hold up the ticket Of its own selection
as the only one worthy Of support
throws flood Of light upon its anxiet!
to dispense with party contests in NUM-
cipal affairs
Mr. JEFFERs is a very worthy gentle
man and highly esteemed. He is more
thoroughly familiar with our city affair;
than any other man in Wheeling
The ordinances were coditied by him
and, as city Attorney, he has drawn
every ordinance and written every con
tract made by the city during the past
FIVE years. He is quick and prompt III
deciding, familiar with parliamentary
rules and will expedite business anC
make an excellent presiding officer ii
the First Branch Of Council. He j;
now in Charleston, sent there by The
city councils, to attend TO the interest:
of the city in case before the Supreme
Court of Appeals. He will be com
PEELED to remain there until aftel
the election, and his friends here should
see to it that his interests are not per
mitted to suffer during his absence up
on public business. He has twice teen
nominated by public convention dur
ing the past few weeks, and we cannot
consent TO stand idly by and see hin
singled out for slaughter. The Inteif
qencer has chosen to make the tigh
upon him, it finds fault with the tickle
chosen last Saturday night because h,
received majority of the votes. Wha
its objections to Mr. JEFFERs are, We
don't know. There can be none as t.
his eminent fitness for the position o
Mayor. He is a young man and 6
Democrat, but we have yet to Learn
that these will be considered disqualifi
cations by the people of Wheeling
He deserves to be elected, and, we trust
will be-