The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-10-18
TIE ELECTION NExrTHBRsDAf
AND THE SUPERVISORS.

sors Yesterday in refusing 20 ordef the
Clerk of the Board to furnish the peces-
sary poll books, &c, for the election to be
held next Thursday, was mere waste OF
breath in so far as it can have any effect
to prevent the election from being held
The Clerks duty in the premises IS en-
Joined upon him by the law and is not
contingent upon the order of the Board
It was not necessary for the Board to
mass or refuse to pass any resolution up
on the subject. The law declares what
the Clerk must do, and no expression OF
opinion upon the subject by the Super
v;sors can relieve him of the obligation
under which he is placed or
shield him from the consequences
of a violation Of the law. We are
informed that Mr.. CECIL himself, the
Clerk OF the Board of Supervisors,
takes this view Of the matter and will
furnish poll books and other blanks
necessary for the election OF the proper
off;cers in the several townships who
may apply to him for the same. Ana
10 it's effect upon the individual mem
beers of the Board the action yesterday,
or rather the refusal to act, is mere
nullity. The Supervisors preside at
popular elections in their individual
and not in their collective capacity
Each must determine for himself his
own duty in the premises without re-
gard to the opinions OF the Supervisors
in other townships, and the opinion OF
the Supervisors in other townships
and the opinion Of majority OF the
Board cannot operate to relieve the
individual members from their ooliga-
CATION to obey the law. Accord
ingly, the Supervisors in at least five OF
the township in this county will attend
the polls next Thursday and conduct
the election. If the other FIVE do not
attend, arrangements will be made IN
accordance with the provisions OF the
code, for holding the election without
them. No one man can be permitted
to disfranchise tie people OF an entire
township nor stand in the way Of the ex'
nre.sion OF their will. The election
each township in the county; and
the people will vote as they please for
representatives in Congress, without re-
gard to whether the gentlemen who
have been elected as township Super
visors give the election the sanction Of
their presence or not.
But the vote taken. Yesterday is to be
regarded in another light. 1t is an ex-
preston of the individual opinions Of
the Supervisors and shows the people
of the county in what townships it will
be necessary for them to select other
persons to conduct the election. The
four gentlemen vino voted for the reso-
luton directing the Clerk to send out
poll books and the other necessary
blanks will open polls in their respect
i've townships, as will also Mr. KELLY,
OF Richland, who was not present when
the vote was taken but who authorizes
us to say that an election for members
of Congress will be held in his town
ship next Thursday, il in no other.
Should the other FIVE Supervisors
refuse to act, the voters OF
their respective townships may,
in accordance with the provisions OF
section of chapter Of the Code, ap-
point other persons to take their places
and act for the time. We trust that
this will be done and that the people Of
the several townships in which any at
tempt may be made to prevent the exc
preston of their will, will come to-
gether next Thursday and rebuke the
delinquent officers by their votes. We
cannot believe that there is still any
honest difference of opinion among
those who have cared to inform them
selves concerning the law, We have
have asked no one to be guided by our
opinion alone, but have refer.
red our readers to the views
entertained by the ablest and
most prominent lawyers in the
State for evidence as to what the
Courts will certainly decide. The
weight Of legal authority and advice is
so Overwhelmingly in favor of the
legality of the election to be held next
Thursday that nothing but the blindest
partisanship now attempts to gainsay it.
Ifthis District is to be represented in
the next Congress at all, the representa-
tive must be chosen next Thursday
Do not be cheated out of your votes by
any Radical trick, and do not suffer the
voters of your township to be dlsfrsn-
chised through the within Of Super
visor.
The Prosecuting Attorney for this
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