The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-15

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might name. II speaks well Tor the solit
money foundation Of this place to say
that TO all outward appearances, the dis
tress which has affected other cities, and
particularly manufacturing places, has
not been visible here. Not q bank has
suspended, not q mill has stopped or re-
duced working hours or wages, or mum.
Der Of employees. Money has been, and
Is yet, "ight,h but our business men work
on actual capital, not credit. We ven;
tpre' to say there Is not q city Of tho man.
uiacturiDg importance Of Wheeling that
can show, n the light Of recent events, Q
better record forsolid, buslness prosperity.
,,,s,ss 4 QUESTION OF CAPITAL. -7Yii,
The papers Of this State are again sgi-
tating I the removing OF the Capital from
Charleston lowell, almost anywhere
else. Last winter q committee Of promi.
nent citizenspt Wheeling visited Charles.
ton for the purpose Of pressing upon the
Legislature, the necessity OF removal, and
the claims oil Wheeling. This, Committee
did not ask the Legislature To make
Wheeling the permanent, seat Of gov
eminent, but only To- transfer II here 70
such time as The people might have an
opportunity ID select q point that would
DO equalIy advantageous, to the whole
State guaranteeing that the removal
should cost the State nothing, and agree
ing 10 furnish all necessary public build
ings free Of charge for q stated number Of
years. The committee found large mum.
Der Of the members Of the Legislature In
favor Of removal, but the difficulty was that
each member wanted 1t located at some
particular town or cross roads in his own
county; so the bill for removing was lost
ID the Legislature, more through the d.
yisioh oi It's friends than from any partic.
ular' claims, or strength that Charleston
had Ii that body. Another years expe.
rience Of the inaccessibility Of Charleston
has constrained a great many members to
forego the supposed claims OF their par
ticuiar sections and to favor removal 10
any point having railroad facilities, and II
this matter Is pressed, we doubt not that
the next West Virginia Legislature viii
convenient Wheeling. And why not? It
Is true Wheeling Is on the outskirts. OF the
State, but 1t Is equally-true that she Is
more accessible TO almost any part Of the
State than Is Charleston-and 10 these
days the distance between points Is not
by the, miles that intervene, but
81 the facilities which we have TO gain
them. ..-~ ..-.--.r:y g..
The fact ia, this little State Of West
Virginia cannot. be run successfully as
Iong as the Legislature meets In q one
horse town like Charleston. The. menu
oers. of that body are not, we must &C
the best men In the State, but
ID the contrary, men brought from the
obscurity oil their own circumscribed
county and elevated through personal
without regard 10 ability, TO
! scat I'M the Legislature. Therefore,
hey need the refining influence, oil com.
nunity like Wheeling, where the AFRO.
yance Of Ignorance will be curbed, and
where the conceitl OF thG paryenue will
be kept in the bounds Of common decency,
MA "FAT TAKE" 1el ta.l-.E
In this community the people are not
ID unsophistocated to allow raids on the
public treasury such has been made by
Walker, the Public Printer, without pro-
lest and exposure. He.may take advant.
aeeofi the red wamuses and ginseng Dig
gers OF the Legislature, butt the fimsy
pretexts, with which he lines his own
pockets at the expense OF the State, are
I'd apparent 10 an Intelligent community
he would not dare'to' ad.
vance them The Government hip pent Q