The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-28
sTEUBENvHLE.
srEupRSylLLE, April 20.

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Editors IutslliEencer.
Your correspondent purposes to avoid
any controversy with any newspaper,
but when the steubenville Ga.ette Ques.
tons his veracity and denounCes him in
q libelous invective, he is not SO timid as
to passiyely wrap himself up IN his con-
cealed identity, content that the arrows Of
contumely cannot penetrate this coat.ol-
mail. A former letter from the under.
signed contained the statement that "the
public press Of this city is neutral, and is
silent on this subject (pikes), as the anti
pike men threaten to stop any paper that
advocates pixies" Referring to this the
Gazette says the author "is one OF the few
individuals in SteubenvillO who do not
read the Gazette, or else he is a bare.iaced
liar" 1t isplain to see from his vulgarity,
the foul and loathsome channel in which
the Gazette mans mind runs. However,
when we communicated the facts quoted
above. we knew whereof we spoke. 1t
will he observed that reference vas made
therein to preEeni time alone, and no men
ton was made oithe attitude our journals
assumed prior to the election. To be
brief and to prove the inaccuracies OF the
Gazette and its malicious defamation OF
ourself, we need only to remind those con-
versant with the affair that when the anti.
pike convention which met here denomi.
mated the majority for pikesa pretended"
and some delegates proclaimed that there
was fraud In securing that majority, what
paper defended the genuiness OF the re-
turns and the characters OF the men who
otticiated at the polls? Since this meeting
was held these journalists have been as
silent, as sleep, championing neither the
one side nor the other; hence it would
logically follow that they have been neu.
trail. We reiterate, what we said before,
the coarseness and profanity OF the writer
OF the cowardly and odiouS paragraph in
which we are assailed, are indicative OF a
mind insensible to the fine impulses Of
honor, and do not establish that he has
very attiuent facilities for telling the truth
himself. He descends to borrow from the
vocabulary OF the dregs OF society to ap.
pease his feyerish passion, and il some
powerful and poisonous stimulant does not
sway the sceptre ofhisintellect, he wilfully
and recklessly prevaricates.
tits rumored that at the general conven-
ton in May the action OF last weeks con:
vention, relating to the impurity OF the
election, will be repudiated, and no inves-
tigation Of the vote will be had. Already
two announcements have been made for
the Office Of County Commissioner, there
being one to elect this fall. There will be
candidate faVoring pixies and one oppos-
ed in the field. The destruction OF Republic
can and Democratic is for this purpose,
to be erased. In many townships the
electors have declared their intention to
support no one for Office who voted for
pixies. But how the tax levy which this
majority iorpikes authorizes the Commits.
sioners to make unless fiaud is shown is
to be avoided, is wrapt up in the scroll OF
q subsequent epoch which nought but
time can unroll.
So the good ship Pinaiorean her suaye
and urbane Sir Joseph Porter, X. G. B.,
his sisters, his cousins and his aunts,"
will be here next Friday! This famous
craft Of her Majesty, and the irresistible
relations OF the Admiral OF the Queens
Navee," the rollicking sailors, Miss Jose.
phine and sparkling Little Buttercup."
Although it has been many months since
they sailed from merry England, and al.
though We have despaired OF ever vel.
coming them to our shores and city tween
the hills, we are the more happy to know
they are Just without the harbor, and our
shouts will be all the louder and warmer,
and no doubt our patronage iairer and
better. The youth Of this place will be
more especially exercised about "the sis.
tiers, cousins and aunts." II they are bonnie
lasses and winsome beauties, the average
Steubenville blood will 90 to see them II
he has to sell old iron from now until the
night OF the performance, and the jolly
little opera will be received by jammed
and fun.loving house.
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