The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-03-18
BeIlaire Polltics-Reiections ON
the alayOr-The Necessity for
Rotation In Office.

AAAO AAGCGNnANI Ava
Rotation In Office.
Editors IntellIseueu;
It 10 not without feeling OF delicacy
that We ask so frequently consumption
Of portions Of your space for purposes
that are surely very uninteresting TO the
greater portion Of your readers, but It is
the only channel through which We can
reach the parties that are and will be in.
terested.
Municipal elections rarely occur with
out creating more or less strife between
the representative parties, and II Is Of
course expected that every honorable
advantage will be promptly taken when
opportunity offers It. Bellaire is by no
means an exception. Her Offices have
become so remunerative that there are
always . host Of candidates before the
nominating conventions, and there seems
to be more than the usual interest rend-
Ing upon the result Of our April contest.
We are not writing in the interest Of any
candidate. We simply ask to make =
statement Of the undefhand work that
our observation has brought TO light, and
which we hope to make as plain to your
Bellaire subscribers as II is 10 the writer.
II is directly at the unexpected nomi-
nation Of the Republicans Tor the May
orally that we refer. The candidate, it
seems, would monopolize the office. He
Is the present incumbent, and when his
term expires, il we are not mistaken, he
will have served six successive years. It
is the openly displayed Partially shown
10 the cases cited below, and which we
can SEQ no other object for than re-elec-
tion. Some two or three months since Il
was deemed advisable by the managers OF
the Bellaire Goblet Company TO discharge
their skilled workmen and employ new
force from the East, which was done. At
the same time it was freely circulated BY
the discharged employees that the Eastern
men would NOT be molested under any
circumstances, and from The fact that they
were and had been for years prominently
known here as men Of high character and
integrity, II was surely unnecessary that
the entire police force should be out upon
every occasion to ercort the new force Of,
workmen to and from their work. Il is
fact that sinee their advent here they
have in no instance been molested.
except once, when they were the
proyokers OF the disturbance. They
have not escaped the tongues Of the
unmanageble boys, however. In more
than one instance they have been targets
on the streets. at which huch phrases as
ablack sheep" "snow diggers," "scabs," /"
&c, were shot. We know that prominent
membera Of the Union used all their in.
fluence in trying TO prevent these provo
cations. We know also that the Mayor
and his subordihates were advised OF this
fact, and that in justice they were bound
to believe 1t.
Since the trouble at the Goblet Works
commenced the intimacy OF one OF It's
prominent mapagers-a magnate OF the
city; andw has previously been dubbed
aThe Bossp-and the Mayor has been
very marked and noticeable to any one
almost. From the fact that this magnate
Is prominent Democrat We think this,
together with careful comparison Of
the following figures will be very signif-
cant TO the reader:
VIM. @. Gill, one Of the present work.
men, was arrested on complaint Of shoot.
ing with intent 10 wound-couvicted and
fined in the insig gicant sum of one dollar
and costs; the very smallest amount IN
the power Of the Mayor to impose. Rea,
another workman, was arrested on com.
plaiut Of using abusive and opprobrious
epithets in public place, convicted and
fined two dollars and costs.
John Stroble, an anti.sympathiser for
the last named offence, was fned fifteen
dollars and costs. His Honor, in passing
the sentence, regretted that 1t was mot III
his power to impose fine OF $50 and
send him to jail for six months.
Again some Eve ot, the Eastern men.
were arrested for the same ofense, and II
was with the greatest difficulty that the
complainant could have his stfidayiLs
prepared; none OF the officers volunteer.
ing assistance, and the Mayor being In.
competent, he had TO await the conval-
esence OF the City Solicitor. They were
then on file some two or three days before
the one appointed for the trial giving
plenty OF time to the defense Tor examina.
ton, but at the last moment the officer
whoee duty 1t was to make these COM
plants, destroyed the ones that had been
iiled BY the citizen and substituted tor
them his own, thus allowing q strong
claim for the defendants attorneys 10
stave of the case until alter the election,
which was readily granted by the Mayor.
That this was all pre.arranged we have
not the shadow Of q doubt, and 1t is the
earnest wish OF the writer that these facts
may be read and appreciated. c.