The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-04-17
GheGttelIigeneer

We should have noticed some days ago
the result Of tie town election Mt Wells
burg, where the so-called License ticket
was elected over the Prohibition ticket,
A Council has been chosen that is ex-
pected to grant license once more to the
hotels and saloons Of that ancient town
to sell all kinds Of spirituous aud fer
mentcd drinks. This time a year ago
there was great excitement In Wcllsburg,
Il. indeed there was in many other places,
on the whisky question, and u Council
was elected that refused to grant license.
For year past no liquor has been sold
publicly in the town, The drinking por-
tion of the inhabitants'have either sup
piled their wants from steubcnyille and
Wheeling or else gone dry, But now has
come the "cOunter-revOlution," aS they
say in France, and once more the license
people are ON top The same thing Is
true up at Steubenville, only they did
not give up the business Mt that place.
There was no issue Of license or anti
license in their election, no license being
required in Ohio to sell stimulants, Still,
in no town in the State, Of its size, was
the pressure OF opinion brought more
promptly to bear than at steubenville.
The ladies' Of that city Of twelve thons-
and inhabitants took the matter in
charge and manifested n zeal and persis-
tcncy that challenged attention far and
near. We had frequent occasions to-
chronicle the sayings aud doingS Of the
Crusading Sisters, especially Of the
charming md indefatigable Secretary,
and at times we were almost persuaded
that they would finally worry out the Sa'
loonists by the multitudnousnesS Of their
songs and exhortutions. But tho Per-
sonal Liberty Club arose In their midst,
and that was fire In the rear for which
the Sisters were not prepared. They
could not visit the club aud blow down
the walls OiJeriCho around tho ears OF the
members as they did around the beer sn-
looms. There was no admittanco to the
club "except on business, and not even
then snve to those who could give the
COuntersign, which was sweet smile
with II straw in ii. Between the
two fires QiquOr fires we mean Of
the saloons and the club, the din OF
battle grew fainter and the hearts OF
the sisters became dCspondcnt, and finally
they ceased to go forth at even tide and
lift up thcirvoiCos In irOntOf the saloons.
And thus the conflict gradually died away
and the sisters returned to thoir domestic
duties. And thus it has happened that
Steubenvillc il once more given up to the
usc of stimulants. We are told that
Gambrinus holds high carnival now in
that town. The boys take their lager and
fight their chickens more deIiantly than
ever. They consider Preacher StcwartS
assertion about the wine used ut Cana Of
CiaIilec not being fermCnted, n huge joke,
and wickedly quote those lines running
"jOhu +, Robinson, he,
says twas not ~ down In Juue"'
The wicked newspapers Of that town
encourage the boys to sing this song
Parsun Allen, oithe GbrseHe, who was a
truly good man as long a'~he saw
anything in II, discovered reaction
coming on and sold out his paper
to three very wicked young men, mostly
from Cadi1, whose capacity for drink Is
only equaIled by their MunchanSehiSm
Ton the first Of APRIL, and who, in gen
eral dCprayity, can discount even Conn,
of the Herald and Nems. From this state
ment the reader can judge Of the extent
Of the reaction that haS set in at Steubeh'
vile. The last estate Of The town seems
to I've worse than the first. Somehow the
crusade brought all the latent and dor
mant wickedness Of the place to the sur
face, and there Il remains to this tlny. 1t
il thought by some that II will be more
tolerable for even .Capcrnaum in the DAY
Of Judgement than for Stcubcnville.
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