The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-08-10
TREAsuRRRst REPORT.
The Capital Removal Question.


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Editors Of the InteIligeneer:
must again ask permission of you to
rCler to the Capital removal project. l
should not do go but for the fact that your
correspondent, INC" in writing from the
"city" OF Grafton, contrsdicts some state
ments in my former letter; or in other
words, he makes me say thing I never
did and then contradicts it. Speaking Of
the removal question, he makes me say
that the people Of Marion county "Ieel no
interest in the question" No such Ian
gusge can be found In my letter. On the
contrary, said that "in the opinion Of
many men with whom ! had conversed
upon the subject, the Capital removal
project should not DO made a part or
parcel In the election Of members OF the
Legislature this fall" / did make this
statement, and yet maintain that 1t Is
correct. Your correspondent should con.
slider that there Is q wide and essential
difference in "feeling no interest" in an
object and suggesting plan Tor obtain
ing 1t. l simply suggested plan and en-
dCAvOred to point 1t out. / hope your
correspondent may readily discover the
error into which hO has fallen, and that
he may be Os prompt 10 make the cor
rectlOn as he was in making the mistake,
"For error and mistakes are inluite,
While truth has but one way 10 be I the right"
But your Grafton "city" correspondent
says that he has nowhere seen evinced
more decided and uneQuivocal opposition
to the further retention Of the capital at
Charleston than in Marion county," He
says, TOO, that he speaks advisedly OF the
opinion Of the people Of Marion county,
for the reason that, until quite recently,
he has been resident Of the county.
This, to use slang phrase, "is too thin"
1t seems little singular, too, that a citi.
zen Of Grslton-the "City" Of Grafton, l
mean-should know more about the feel
ing OF the people oil the t0Dn Of Fair.
mont upon the capital removal question
than they pretend 10 know themselves.
If "MC' has "Conversed with scores Of
persons upon the subject under discus.
sion, and has thereby discovered that mo
county in the State is more unanimously
in favor Of removal than Marion" he has
either found out something unknown 70
the people Of Marion, or suddenly, and,
perhaps, wisely concluded that the ques-
ton does not amount TO much anywhere,
and that if agitated at all in Marion, II
is about as great in that county as any
county in the State. Itthere was any agi.
tation Of the capital removal project in Ma.
rion county worth naming, The Fairmont
West HIrginian and the Fairmont lndeS,
two newspapers published in Fairmont,
would certainly have more to say on the
subject than they now have. Indeed, l
never have noticed word in either OF the
papers referred TO. II there can be two
prominent men found in Marion county
who favor the agitation Of the capital re-
mOval question in the October election,
then am willing 10 confess my ignorance
Of the feeling or sentiment OF the people
OF Marion. Let me ask INC" TO again
carefully read my former letter, and then
sec If he cannot say better things Of 1t.
Let him especially read the reasons which
give for not wanting to mix up the cap.
itsl question with politics in the fall cleo.
ton.
BY the way, why docs not "AIc" make
the capital question more lively in the
"city" Of Grafton? Why does be not tell
the editor Of the Grafton Sentinel to write
more about II? That paper don't agitate
the question worth q cent, though the peo.
pie OF that "City" would like to have the
capital located with them. Truly.