The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-02-15

Bcnlhl, WlOle'SOuleu, COmpanl0naDle meL
! ever met His kindly, open naturg
draws men TO him, and makes friends Il
al. He has never been in political lite
having given his attention 10 his privatt
Affairs and 1t was only upon repeated
solicitations that he consented 10 become
q member OF this Convention. His father
lett but twosOns, the other ono Of whoniis
q lawyer 10 Louisville. ~ "~ 'ss
w. X. Pendleton Is from Brooke Coun.
", being one Of the delegates from the
Senatorial District composed Of the Coun.
ties Of Ohio, Brooke and Hancock. He is
President Of the Bethany College, the
finest educational institution in the State,
founded years ago by Alexander Camp.
bell. Mi. Pendleton Is the best educated
man In the Convention, and by all means
should havebcen at the head d the Com.
-mittee on Education, but, like all the rest
Of the Panhandle men, he was ignored.
Al, Pannell Is the other representative
from the above Senatorial District. He Is
n banker, 4 bachelor and the richest man
In the Convention.
Ohio county is represented by James s.
Wheat, W. w. Miller and George o. Da-
venport. General Wheat is considered
one oil the first lawyers Of the Sate, hav.
ing given the best years of his lie to the
Intricate science. He is conservative in
politics, and in partisan sense is neither
Republican nor Democrat, WV. Mil.
Ter is n young man, but has held many
important positions, although he does not
seek honors Of the sort. He was mem.
bcr Of the Legislature in 1867 and 1868;
has been President of the Ohio County
Board OF Supervisors for number of
years, as well aS presiding officer of one
of the branches of the Wheeling City
Council, and in addition to this has long
been n member Of the Democratic State
Central Executive Committee. lie is
spoken of as one OF the most active, go.
ahead party men in the Panhandle.
George o. Davenport'is young lawyer
N ability, and quite extensive practice:
He and General Wheat represent the city
of Wheeling, combining the experience
Of age with the energy Of youth.
Marshall county is represented by j.
w. Gallagher, OF Moundsville. Mr.. Gal.
lagher is u merchant and farmer, and n
gentleman Of integrity, moral worth, and
He is President OF the State
Penitentiary Board Of Directors
Hanson Oriswell aud James N. Pipes
represent the Senatorial District of which
Marshall county is part Mr.. Criswell
is man ofability, and deservedly popular
with both parties. Mr. Pipes was an off
cer in the Union army, where he lost an
arm, and during Republican reign in West
was Secretary of State.
s. az THE PANHANDLE IGNORED.
From the foregoing, it will be seen that
the Panhandle has q fair share of, ability
upon the floor, yet it has been'overlooked
in the making up of committees, and no
Panhandler has been given q chairman
ship. This has made considerable dissat-3
and well it may; for there is.no
other section OF tic State that can show,
TO the same surface, half the population
and wealth Of the Panhandle. The treat.
ment OF the Representatives ofthat strip is
on a par with the proposition Of the back
county members, to give each county o
in theLegislature regard
less OF the wealthor population of that
county They propose to make barren
lands and countless acres of rocks count
as population and wealth, and thus over
balance the Panhandle, and deprive it of
that share in the Government whichits
wealth, intelligence and population would
justly, award IT.
PANHANDLE POLITICS.
The politics Of the Panhandle is Demo,
cratic, although not largely so. Situated
between two great Republican States, its
close commercial, and social intercourse
with them both has had its effect, and the
white population is very fairly divided.
Perhaps the Democrats in all four of the
counties have six hundred majority. In
the event that these counties should drift
into Pennsylyania-just where they ought
to be, and wherethe people III them want
to be--it would make little change in the
political statiis Of that great State. Poll
tics would have but little bearing upon
the question.
Disguise 1t as you may, the truth re-.
mains the same, that Wheeling, In Viz
ginia, prospeEohs as she is and has beer, !,
Is not the city that she would have been
had her lot been cast upon the free soil Of
P Pennsylvania. Slavery and slave rule
checked enterprise and retarded develop.l
ment wherever It's baneful influence was
lelt !, and hence lthC Panhandle and its
chief city IS not to-day what it would
have been had it been consecrated 10 free
dom fifty years ago.
THE PANHANpIR's LAST OPPORTUNITY.
The golden moment in the history of
the Panhandle, the ripe time to strike the
hot iron before it became cool,
was when West Virginia seeded from
the Old Dominion. Then the Panhandle
should :haVe taken advantage OF ,those
times when partisan passions
was law, and ridiculous farces fulfilled
requirements, cut loose
from the back country and gone 10 Penn.
sylAnia. She had ms much tight 70 doit
Is did the WESTERN part Of The sStatetO
cut oil from the eastern, and she should
have taken advantage of the general
Overturning Of landmarks, and had the
line run straight across from
the 'soutlwesterlI corner OF Penn
rylvania to Ohio. Look on the map,
seader, and you will think so, too,
But the time is passed, and now West
Virginia will not consent to lose her fl.
vorite strip OF territory, Qavorite, though
small,) because of the amount Of taxes
from there, and the Panhandle is
likely to be the Panhandle iorevermorc,
PANHANDLE PAPERS, sam
The first two newspapers Of the State
are published at Wheeling, namely, the
INTRLIIGENCER and the Register.
The INTEILIGENcER is the Republican
organ Of West Yirginia, and was the first
journal ever established upon
Virginia soil. 1t has ever been conducted
with ability, and, although its adventwas
hailed with STORM Of Kisses, and much