The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-08-05
acknowledgement
CRUSHING EXPOSE
NTH, Charleston Constitution

oftnecnnrIe,ton Constitution
...,,h,. Reason, whyit should
runD'T'''DSss rejected
p.,,,, d Vat EtgiDia' .,
R@ f%Ss ,,.,tb Thursday in August i!
% ,s ' viii Be called upon M 70 amended TSsS I'D
SSaasitaion Of the st. ste Al Charles
Cotvs9i %In Sri il there Is any question Ues.iS
s;slion i Is this II. mol Question, Is i and to
a9d rel Eeiai ,SsIiss, OF the prudiGes o.
permit sne !, . ,tt 10 influence your defer
ninstiont 10 Roud be anpstrotc; onS Sit
Wise ~ srrnSomSered tbsta Constructor, Gtl,
TO be FememU ',,tutory law 10 this: that
hnSI ,'io,,s /, ran be repealeu W auiSS -
tDj1diciO,oa,, u SI Legislature; but Con
1i iSs Sui however erroneous in principle,
sllIaI S,iou. IN lis effects, can only be cor,
G ,,eS bv calling a Convention ioF Inc
FecIsu " which would not only be ye1a,
Iian, AID troublesome, but would lnvOiTe
i a.a, I expense and additional taxation
r.SsoiSe theselscs in view, your alien l,
Nc hsP !, DESesDsctiulIy invited TO the follow
pgcoDsiderations; -,
rrvLAw PROVIDING FOR TUE CALL ,, VI
III TaE CONVENTION WAS NOT ASKED 70"
NJ TIE PEOPLE.
nj, not denied that some hme ago ~
,,s,s was dissatisfaction in some portions
WIN I,bo State with the Constitutional re-
. " ;-i on the right OfsulFrage, prohibit
s y. NSrson, who 6sd been engaged Ia the
ia y. ,ebellion from voting; but you know
,S sS hi; restriction had been removed by
WV 'I va, called the "FliCk Amendment"
O5iSctiops also formerly existed to certain
~; os,hs These, however, were not re-
cri,ed by ,be present Constitution. You
IsvSr lo1pj thsn there. They were the
s srsSl Of statute law, and had been re;
G aoslSJ seversl years ago. Hostility had
H. s1'I e,isled 10 Tue registration laws; but
,Io.S Sjso had all been repealed. They
U U Snger existed. And at the time the
I,s fSnyepliOn was called, all the male
r III Of The State over 81 years Of age
we're entitled to vote; no person was re.
oUi,ed 10 take any test oath whatever; and
trery provision Of the registration laws
had been repealed. These facts are unde-
aisbe.
Moreover, YOU DO all know that at the
time Of the calling Of said Convention all
Me people Of the State were in the perfect
cni5ymeut Of every personal and political
mi which the State could guarantee.
TIey were in q more prosperous condition
han they ever had been before. No pub.
jic debt bad been created. A system Of
Itee schools had been established. Greater
progress had been made in material, moral
and educational development in the last
preceding six years than in any previous
quarter Of a century Of their history. They
we're ContenIed, happy and prosperous.
Not a single petition had they ever pre-.
,ented to the Legislature asking that q
Constitutional Convention should be call.
cd Nine.ienths Of them were not aware
thSt any such a project was in c0ntem-
plitiOl. The question had never been
discussed before them. 1t was the work
u politicians, designed to accomplish per-
.Onal ends.
Now, what were the reasons these poll
lCisns assigned in Justification of their
procedure, and as the grounds on which
they asked you to vote for the call of a
Convention? You must remember them
well. You well remember that you were
told that the number Of officers, and the
expenses Of the State and county govern.
meuIs under the present Constitution were
eIsylgant, oppressive, and ought TO be
reduced RetrenChment was theory. You
hiye forgotten this. Now what has been
leresulI? Examine
T1E COMPARATIVE EXPENSES, NUMBER OF
OFFICERS, &C, OF THE PRESENT AND
TUE PROPOSED CONSTITUTION.
|. The number Of members of the Leg.
stature under the present Constitution is
seventy.eight-ulder the amended Con.
sIitullon, eighty'nine; increase, eleven.
= Present Court Of Appeals, three ;
proposed Court Of Appeals, four; increase,
one.
s. The new Constitution diminishes the
number Of Circuit Judges by four; but in
The stead Of these Jour il creates fiity.four
County Courts, with liIty.iour president
Judges thereof; net increase in the mum.
Der Of these officers made BY the new over
Tue present Constitution, fifty.
L 1t substitutes justices Of the peace
IO' The present supervisors Tor all fiscal
sal police purposes; and Tor every super.
peace.
But how does the case stand in refer.
e1ce % expenses?
!, The salary Of the Judges NJ ,hp
present Court Of Appeals Is two thousand
GG,,ais lleIr salary in the proposed Con,
i iIIon is twenty-five hundred and fifty
uOIAS, OF an increase Of two hundred
aua EIIy dollars annually on each Judge,
~ The pa diem OF member, Of tbc ,
legislature IS now three dollars; by The
amended Constitution it is fixed al (0nr
dollars ptr diem. ~ ''''
:. The annual salaries Of the circuit
Judges are under the present Consliti,.
uon, eighteen hundred dollars; under the
a aeT, they will be two thousand dollars
each Judge, N N''iA'S on
4 AT present the annual salary NJ ,bo
S Suai.Or Of Public Accounts Is fifteen
, duuG,Gd dollars; under the new Copstitn.
iUc-a Ns 70 be Two thousand dollars-an
increase 4, Of five hundred dollars, W.
I, - =, ine compensation Of the supervisor
and a. present liked at two dollars a day
1 nuu may sH be diminished by the LepisIs.
ISs ' al, Inc justices OF tue peace, Under
thu, Ss amended ,u Constitution, who supersede
N diem. "'' HASe 'nFee dollars
"a. And 50 the matter runs, These Or,
pS,s ABOUT TS which there can be no dis.
T Tos:, There they are, written in lbe n utV
T5 s,1 so., D; Head them for yourselves
"D4' SOFT OIL FetFenchmnt is this?
ANOTHER NATTER OF EXPENSE,
Already yon bor, -,