The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-01-27
Second Ward Citizens'Ticket.

Editors OF the Register:
A supporter of the above ticket has
made some statements in your paper of
Yesterday, which | desire to notice.
He asserts that the candidates on the
PEOPLES ticket are 'good men" He ad-
nlits that they were nominated at large
meeting of the citizens Of the Second
ward" We may add that the meeting
was duly advertised in the REGISTER, and
that the "Supporter' OF the Citizens ticket
were on hand early at the meeting, and
his friends also and were contideut of
success; and it was not until during the
progress of the meeting, and until the
friends ofthe Peoples ticket came pour
ing in, that the said supporter and his
friends became Disguised and commenced
to curse and denounce meeting which
they had expected to control.
supporter" further says that tissue
made ut the meeting was entirely une&-
pected." He knows better! He and his
friends were at work weeks before the
election, making the effort to secure the
nomination of such persons as would
quietly ptcdge Themselves to favor Sup
porters" improvement. Nor were their
efforts confined to the Second Ward. In
every ward of the city, the Peninsula
Bridge Ring of which supporter is
member, have been operating for weeks,
to secure council, pledged not to public
improvements, on just and judiclous
scale, but pledged to vote for their pet
enterprise, without regard to claims Of
"a, how nnrtions af the city
supporter knows this to be II fact;
and yet with an atfcctation of surprised
innocence, he talks of an "unexpected
issue. supporter says that 6S of the
voters at the meeting referred to, will
change their votes on election day. How
does he know that? Have they been in
Inundated by supporters threat that
some Of them should not be allowed to
haul coal from his bank? Have they
been seduced by the promises 50 lavishly
made of work on the Peninsula Bridge,
by supporter and his friends, who
probably expect to get the contract? Or
have they been bought direct with some
of the money supporter" boosted he had
ready to spend, in order to carry forward
his real estate spcculations Mt the expense
of the city? How is it?
supporter whincS about the charac-
terof the large meeting which nominated
the "Pcoplcs Ticket, but he is careful
to say nothing the meeting which noml-
mated the "Citizcns' Ticket VIII he
tell us when the meeting was held? Who
was there? How many votes were cast?
Did supporter vote for himself? The
people of tho Second ward would like to
know how that ticket was born anyhow.
OF course the meeting which nominated
it want ''set up!r'
supporter endeavors to create the
impression that the Peoples ticket Is an
anti-improvement ticket. He knows
that this is not true. They may not be in
favor of improving in accordance with
supporters ideas, but they are in favor
OF improving the streets and alleys of the
city, for the benefit of property which has
been paying taxes for years. They re-
gard such property As having the first
CLAIM upon the city treasury. They are
not in favor of expenditures which will
contribute chiefly to the benefit Of con-
tractors and spectators, and to enhance
the value of property outside of the city,
which has never paid any city taxes and
most of it probably never will.
The people Of the Second ward know
their friends, and recognise their true in
terests, and the true interest Of the city
generally, and will act accordingly.
PEOPLES TICKET.