The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-06-30

asted, and these we voted against; and
then they changed the date OF the first
election from the third Tuesday IN
August, 1877, to the second Tuesday in
October, 1873. This put the bill into
such shape that its friends would not
vote for. 1t, but having learned
by the aid of little judicious
spying into the camp Of our enemies
what their plan OF operations
would be, we had quietly prepared
the substitute for the bill which
was afterwards introduced by Mr.. Siple.
OF Pocahontas, and passed by both
Houses.
In fact the original bill was intro.
duced in the shape it was more TO draw
the fire OF the enemies Of location. and to
develop their tactics, than with any hope
of its passage And when it had served
its purpose we went to work TO defeat
their we'll laid schemes and plans, and, TO
their great surprise and disgust, we did II
most efectuslly.
The friends OF Charleston were willing
to vote for any bill that could pass which
gave them = reasonably fair show IN the
race; but, OF course they wanted the oest
bill for tina. place which it was possible
to get, and they became satisfied that
the best bill they could possibly gel was
OF fixing three places to be voted for,
one in each Congressional District: Inc
friends of Martinsburg and Charleston
had no difficulty in coming to an agree
ment upon such a bill, but there wa
some difficulty in selecting the place 70
be voted for in the First District, ana
this difficulty arose. not merely IS TO the
selection Of place to be inserted. but
the selection of place which could and
would bring to the support of the bill the
necessary number OF Delegates and Sens'
tors to pass it. and 80 tar az we could as
certain there were but two places which
could come up TO this requirement and
these were Parkersburg and Clsrksourg.
The town of Clarksburg was by no means
our choice for the seat Of government. II
1t had to be located in the First Congress
sionsl District, but our feelings, sympath'
les, and interests were all with Parkers-
burg. But the friends of Clarksburg
came to time with the necessary number
of Delegates and Senators to pass the
bill, while the friends of Psrkersburg
did not, and we closed with the friends
Of Clsrksburg and inserted that place IN
the bill. We did this the more readily
because we regarded Clarksburg
the weakest point that had
ever been named for the seat
of government in the First district, and
our opinion was that if We could not
beat Clsrksburg, we could not beat any
place In that district, and that is still our
opinion. The bill in this shape became
a law, and now yeu are called upon TO
vote for the permanent seat Of govern
ment at one of these places, and my mis-
sion here to-day is, if possible, to oon-
vince you that the interest OF the State,
IS well as justice to the Third Congress
sionsl District require that you should
vote for Charleston.
MARTINsBURa IS A GLOWING, THRIVING,
Go-AHEAD TOWN,
situated on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road. Her people are industrious, intelli.
gent and enterprising, and there Is no
place in the State where the officers Of
the State and the representatives OF the
people would be more cordially received
and welcomed than in that city. But the
objection is made all over this upper
end of the State that she is located on
the Maryland line, and that location OF
the seat Of government there would enure
rs much TO the development of the State
of MarylaL d as to this State, and that
such q location would be greatly more in
accessible to large majority of the
people of the state than
Clarksburg. This, SO far as the upper
and northern end Of the State is concern
cd, may be true, but so far as the Third
Congressional District is concerned. ID
not true, so far as the matter of accessible
ity is concerned, for she 10 much more
accessible 10 the people Of the Third Dis
trict by the present routes Of travel than
Clorksburg is. And, therefore, while
these objections are having very dam
aging effect upon the prospects Of Mar.
tinsburg in the First Congressional
District, they have no weight at all with
US. And now
WHAT SHALL SAY OF CLARKsBURSI
understand that my good friends Of
that ancient town are not pleased with
something 1 am reported to have said in
regard to her in my speech the other
dsy at Hinton. And now that y goodly
number of its citizens are present pro-
pose to repeat sill then said, and little
hat Il
spoke in communication and not in dis.
psrsgement of their town.
Clarksbnrg is An ancient, essy going,
conservative, independent, respectable
town. She keeps all she has got, and
takes all she can get. In her charities
she practices the lnjunctions of scripture,
and lets not "her right hand know what
her left doeth," and she don't let her
left hand do anything for fear her right
hand will find 1t out. And then the
fact is that she Is too independent and
too respectable. She don't care for any
BODY. and so far as have been able TO
learn, no body cares FOR her. She don't
care a continental what happens, SO it
don't happen to her, and she carries a
load Of responsibility that would utterly
crush any other town in the State
Clsrksburg is to West Virginia and the
world, what Boston is to Massachusetts
and the rest of mankind.
Boston never forgives any one for
having been born out Of Boston,
aud Clarksburg never forgives any
one for having been born out of Clsrks-
burg.
The town is one of the oldest in the
State, situated on the Petersburg
branch Of the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, and with all the advantages ofthis
great road for squsrter of q century, its
friends, in their address to the people,
only claim that sit has, with its immedi-
ate suburbs, spopulstion Of nearly 4.
OOO." How far they extended its sub.
urbs' to get nearly 1000 population they
don't tell US.
Charleston is situated on the great
Ksnawhs river, and the Chesapeake and
Ohio ralirood, which road has been in OPP
ernt,on for about five wears. When the