The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-01

Court House Removal IN Taylor
County second Letter from
Harmon Sinsel.
PRpS1Yrowx, TAY1oR co, W. Val
June 9, 1878. !
Editors InlSliiEsner;
i SEQ an editorial in the Grafton Stai-
mel Of today, under the caption Of "The
Removal Of the County Seat" in which
the editor eriticiIss my article in your
i.us OIL, the 10th inst. BE says "Say
some yery unfair and hard things Of the
PEOPLE Of Grafton viii any Of the
good aud law abiding citizens Of Grafton,
cOn.trus any thing In that article to re.
llect upon their charaeterI certainly not.
Every community has lie violators Of the
Law, and certainly Grafton Is not an ex'
ception to the rule. IL II fair TO tar the
law abiding citizen for their special ben.
ef,S The editor says "thO only line Of
argument az the opponents to removal
have TO IAll back upon, to'wit: abuse,
MISREPRESENTATION aud yili6calion Of the
people Of Grafton y ItlhAye misrepre.
senied the debt Of the corporation oi
Grafton, give the people the facts III tg-
ures, showing the debt principal and In
tsrest at this time. The widow Tsxter
did lend The corporation $4,000, and !
have been ersdlbly informed that
the unpaid interest has large
" augmented Il. That one Item
does not make the whole Of the debt by
any means. II there have not been ex'
pended and lost 10 one way and another
SO 900 on the Fair, aud still judgment
aud lien on the lands for the purchase
money, for more than they will bring.
show Us the facts from the record, and
moi mere assertion that | have misrep'
resented The facts. One might ask, what
has this to do with the removal question
I, has much; wish to compare their past
aets with what they then promised and
failed in, AMI what they now promise,
This is where ii hurts; this the "yilihca'
tioun Of the good people Of Grafton.
Salt thrown on 4 well person does no;
hurt; II only smaIts where there are sores
The opponents Of removal are not to open
their mouths, but submit like slaves, or
be tradueed and slandered in the niosi
vile and malicious manner. have en-
eoun,ered that spirit before, in my oppo'
siiion TO The pro,slaSery party before The
war. The editor tries TO sour the persons
who sigued the proposition to build the
public buildings for s., 900, by saying that
| think II was not done in good
faith. / say now what / said
then: that no such proposition
il binding il Law, and every intelligent
person knows il. will say more than
that, IL the County Court were to enter
into contract With those persons at our
next court aud the buildings were re.
moved, that contract would Be void IN
law for want Of Jurisdiction to make il,
and you ought TO know II. All such
propoSilions are made for sinister mo-
uves, to forestall public opinion. He
says sit is everywhere conceded that bet
ter buildings than we now have can be
pu, up for the sum named therein. And
there l. no man 10 the county who knows
the truth Of this better than Mr.. Sinsel
himself. now assert, and most honestly
believe, that such = jail a. We now have,
and such court house Ss We ought q
build il we remove Il With all OF its hx-
lures cannot be built for les than Ss5,'
900, to DO justice to the contractors.
They sill psrsisI in saying that 1890 ol
the voters will be benefited by the
removal. Let us. see how that il II
ali Of the rOies Of the county were
polltd there would be about $500. Al
least 1000 OF that number never have
any business connected with the court, a.
suisors, Jurors or Witnesses. About so
persons At one time or another are Liable
TO Be called upon as jurors, looof which
are from Tie west aide Of the river and
would be injured by = removal oue
third Of the business would probably b
from the wet side OF the river, which
would be about 100 Of the suitors and
witnesses, Who would be injured BY re-
movAl. So 10 round numbers We would
have injured BY q removal 1900 not CON
nec;ed With the court At all, so jurors,
,ui,ors and witnesses on this side,
making 9,SNO voters Who would hs taxed
aud ineonrsuieneed for the benefit o.
500 Every iRtelliseat person must
know that the above estimate Is fair
o0e. Editors Of the Sta6R5, II you wish
10 DO the fair thing, will Yua please pub
lish my articles in parallel columns with
your editorials, ASd the arguments tor
rSnoyalt Editors ISTEI1l0FScEE, Sher
yOa furnish ne with the proper name d
SVox Fopali,r which have requested
you to DO ii private letter, | will pay
my respects 70 the vile eAlumniStor, whC
should have sigSed his name Vox Dia'
hoi.. lido not wish to shOOt IN the dark,
let should waste my ammunition on .
RoleeAi, which every decent man should
shan. Respectfully yours