The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-01-14
The City Election.

places ia the several Wards this even
ing for the purpose Of nominating can
didates for members OF the city
Council. 1t must be remembered that,
under the amendment of the city
charter made by the Legislature last
winter, the term OF office of councilmen
and other officers of the city has been
doubled : A city election will hereafter
take place once in two years instead OF
every year as heretofore. Two mem
hers of the First Branch Of the Coun-
Gil will be elected in each Ward, the
one receiving the highest number Of
votes serving for four years, and the
other for two years. Members of the
Second Branch are to serve two years
and the Mayor, and other city officers
VIII hereafter serve during the same
term.
tits therefore doubly important that
care be exercised in the selection Of
good men for the positions named. 1t
is no slight sacrifice to any substantial
citizen or man Of business to serve in
the City Council. 1t consumes much
time, and is attended with much
vexation of soul and body Buff those
most interested in the proper manage
ment Of city affairs will not give their
personal attention to these things, there
are others not so competent and not so
we'll qualified to govern into whose
hands it will fall The places will be
filled, it not by the right men,
men, by the wrong. We mention
the matter this morning in order to
remind our citizens Of the duty that is
incumbent upon them, and the import
ance ofgiying it proper attention no~.
The Parkersburg Gazette is willing
TO allow all to vote against whom no
proof is adduced Of completely in
rebellion, making it incumbent upon
those who challenge the vote to produce
the proof. But it thinks this not
enough, because the constitution de-
clares that "No persons except citizens
entitled to vote shall be elected or
appointed to any State, county or
municipal office and holds that the
FLICK amendment is necessary to enable
the ex-rebels to hold office
1t don't strike Us in that way at all.
IT, by the act the Gazette advocates, the
ex-rebels may be entitled to vote,
certainly the right to hold office will be
also secured. But it will not be neces-
sary to incur any risk in the mat
ter. Let the ex confederates vote
under the provisions of the act advo-
Gated by the Gazette, or any other that
will accomplish the same purpose.
Their first vote may be given upon the
question OF calling a Constitutional
Convention; their next for members Of
that Convention; and their third to
rstify it's acts. Their right to vote and
TO hold office may thus be secured
without any danger Of its being ever
again taken away, and thus the unpal-
atable features of the FLICK Amend
ment may be avoided. Won't that
suit, Major? .- .......l
The idea that the opponents Of the
FLICK amendment are actuated by a
selfish desire 70 keep ex.rebels from
being eligible to office, is disgracefnl
only 10 the man that entertains it.
There is not scintilla Of evidence upon
which tosground, 90 unworthy a susPi-
cioo,. The Parkersburg Gazette is one
of tie last papers from which We would
have expected such an insinustion, and
we are sure that its editors good sense
and Better nsture must have prompted
him To- erase the lihes he wrote q