The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-02-02
..THE.cAPIrAI. aUEsTIoN.
A Glance at the Intrigues and Intri.
gueEs Of the Last Few Years.

A Glance at the Intrigues and Intri.
guers OF the Last Few Years.
Rdltors ufthe IntsllIgSneer :s.y TTgl-1
lhaye read with much interest the re-
cent correspondence in the 1ETELLaRN.
GER and Its own editorials upon the CAPT.
. tal question, also the rhodomontade Of the
I. I. and his direiul threats as TO wha,
the Third District will do II the First and
Second don't let them alone. But The
barking propepsities OF the Charleston
mastitt are so well known, thattho feRr q
his bites will hardly result In diving
the voting population from the State.
There have been some opinions urged
BY correspondents as 10 the causes that
led 70 q failure Of removal. that are weiplitv
and correct; bht, IL my Judgment. the feai,
controlling cause has not yet been made
known. With your permission l will
give one or two reasons, as look at the
matter, why Charleston retained the CAPT.
tai in the struggle this winter.
THE REMOVAL TO CHARLEsoN.
IL Is not necessary now to refer to the
causes that led tofitB location at Charles.
tonsR y. the mass 81 the people do mot
know II every person at all familiar with
our political history knows that It was
placed there 10 insure Il. G. Davis cleo
ton 10 the United States Senate. But
after that feat In political legerdemain
was accomplishedsit was again sprung
Eupon the Legislatife and the, Constitfi.
Itional Convention with Increased lviruL.
lence. The politicians wanted tho Third
District to pull their Constitutional chest.
nuts out Of the fire and II was allowed
to remain there during tAe ssessiouy N
1919. But after ithe CONSTITUTION had
been ratified, the officers elected under II,
the courts reconstructed, and Democratic
officials well and firmly settled In their
cushioned seats, 1t was found that The
Vapitalsquestion could again BE- agiiaeatl
without endapgeribg the live. aud aspifa.
uons'of ambitious politicians; also. iet Il
DC remembered, that, at about this time,
the people had become 80 incensed on
account Of the inaccessibility of their
Capital that the thunder Of their remon-
snapce vas already SpeleFkting tbeeens|
sitise tympanum Of &atchfdl poliicisns
THE CAMPAIGN OF 1872,
Consequently 1t was again brought for.
ward at the first session under the new
constitutions Evetybody iiifielt ,6ftherTl
end Of the!States favored II. IJohnsSn ia |
tilled pages with glittering generalities to
ms legislative friends iavoriug removal.
NO Senator was TO be elected that winter,
and 1t was quite natural that be, should
want to remove II at once e0ESthat IL
wouldn't be q disturbing element in rs
when he expects 10 turn up Jack, Henry
q. smiled" over It and II almost said"
let her rip. Gideon said move it by all |
means: Solthe forces were sInafshsledl |
q bill prepared and pissed through Inc
H0nseaitefa severe aid protfa6ted strnp.
gle. Then through some unaccountable |
olunder, the Chairman Of the Judiciary
Committee insisted upon pocketiug the |
Dill until after tho recess When the
Legislature recommends detection %as
discovered in the ranks Of the removal.
ISIS, IN the person Of Senator Caldwell,
OF Writ. After much haggling, se-saw.
ing and caucusing the bill was tabled TO |
await the chances andevents Cof another
season. 1907 al 9iISUIESUGt
wanna hANN VI 1850
Upon the reassembling OF the Legisla-
ture in October, '7S, it was again agitated,
Dut more upon the sub rosa order, so inm1
informed by my Charleston corrrspondII
ents. 1t was proposed TO make sure
thing OF 1t before springiDg it. As Cald.
well was reported to be "all right" It was
thought that our Wheeling friends had
SOFT thing" But finst then omin0IiEI
whisperslbcgan tdicItc1late; threatening
rumors filed the air. STheThtrd District
stood up bold, defiant and threatening.
Gideon began TO melt perceptibly and
whisper about the safety Of the Demo.
cratic party, Johnson N cent on, rcnu.
!ous smessag@ Of deyotiopiloithe Third
District, while the sibilating electricity
came all the way from Washington, shot
Dy Henry G.'s def hand, to Ego slow"
be cautious" "look out Tor '75.p q Then
things seemed 10 come TO a dead lock,
and i required,all- the ingenuity and per.
seVering labor oilyeur worthy Reptesent
alive, General Panuell, TO move them.
The fact is, the fiat had gone forth Iffofil
Washington that the Capital must not
n0to be disturbed, because It was too near
the election of q u s. Senator, and the
Third District must be. kept Modified
Henry said 50, Johnson thought so, and
Gideon swore that the Seuatorshipl
shouldn't go out OF the family.
SENATOR BLAKEitoRR ,uNDERdoEs con. |
VERSION.
Thus things stood near the close Of the
session, and between the SefEoftsito Allayll
the excitement Of tho opponents of remov.
al and to shut Jack ,Pannell's eyeethe
politicians were kept busy gB1t how
could they work or'G1 CaldWelPhad gone
back on them and Blakemore had
pledged himself to the remoyalists tie
winter before but as heieanie from ID re.
mote point, where the Capital question
would not naturally elicit the direct in
tercsL that itwould elsewhere, the little
Senator from Pendleton was pitched upon
as the savior Of their hopes. After his
ampitionlwas aattered with the promise
OF United States Senator or anything
that he might want, The S6nator front
Pendleton soon announced that. to re-
move the Capital would be unjust and
impolitic. As he held the key 70 the stu