The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-07-05
A ISLANDER REFUTED.
ONE OF THEREaIsrER's RooReAcks.
The Citizens of wato, Express .Aslr Indignation
at the "Rsyl,tsr" Reporter. Imaslnatlou In
Regard to the Liquor Trsllc-Ths Testi.
nOay ofBu.lnss Men Ofths Town.

w SToNi w. Vas, July f.-1our corte-
spondent Is averse to newspaper con,ro.
venies, but must reply to an attack made
on me and the town by correspondent Of
the Register to-day. In my last letter
stated that believed the town had been
benefited by the abolishment Of license,
or words to that effect. He says had 1
"scen the beer that came here on last Sat-
urday would have changed my mind"
And further "not less than twenty-five or
thirty kegs were shipped to private par
ties" didn't see them, and, more than
that, when consulted reliable authority
l found that the Register man didn't see
them either, unless u gool sized dose OF
that self same beer transformed his bewil-
dered optics into such liberal msgnilers
that lie could change six half kegs and one
whole one (making total OF four full
kegs, into twenty-five or thirty-six half
kegs aud one full sized keg Of lear bsirg
the actual amount received here over the
O. & w. on Saturday. SO much for "iact"
number one.
The impression Is left on the mind oft
reader Of the article in the great whisky
organ, that mord whisky, beer, &c, Is
drank now in Weston than before the re-
iusal OF license. In reply to this let me,
after consulting those who know, lay b. FIRE
the publicthe amountof intoxicants ship
ped over the G. & w. during the month OF
April-the last month under license-and
during the month Of May, the first month
after the refusal Of license:
SOME COLD FACTS.
For April there were lObarrels, half.
barrels and kegs Of whisky delivered
here; and 50 kegs, l04 half kegs and Is
cases Of beer.
For May there was no whisky, 8 barrels,
kegs and % cases Of beer delivered.
Compare the figures, and then nail another
"facL" on the wall Of public disapproval.
He says-"Ask any merchant in town
what effect the refusal OF the court to grant
license had on business, and he will tell
you that since the first OF May his business
has decreased at least 25 per cent" This
is the most important Of his "iacts, and as
your correspondent lisa common laboring
man, and not In business, he can do no
better than let the leading business men
answer this false representation themselves.
Hear them. They are the men who ought
to know.
E. N. Tunssill, proprietor OF the Bailey
House, and known to the travelling public
throughout the State, in reply'to my ques-
ton as to the truth or ialsity Of the before
mentioned statement, said: Business has
not decreased but is on the increase. There
are six women here from the country to-
day doing the trading while their husbands
are at home at work, in place OF being here
spending their money for whisky, as they
might and many OF them would have been
II there had been licensed saloons. SraDg.
ers remark that the town is nice and quiet,
and there is unquesiionablv less drunken.
ness" Hear, Mr.. Register, hear.
A. A. Warren, OF the hrm OF Harrison
& Warren, hardware dealers, said: Men
kwho used to spend their money ior intox-
icants, and would come and ask to be
trusted for this and that now have the
money and pay for what they get. And
in place OF decrease We are doing as much
or more and a better and saier business
than before. No whisky in mine" Stick
a pin, Mr. r. man-which should be inter-
preted "Rum' man.
John A. Barnes, general merchant, says:
"Business Is not decreased, but my busi-
ness in fact is better during June than
during the same month last year"
VIM. L. Dunington, general merchant,
said: "The action OF the court did not
affect my business in the least, w5ile the
town is in a decidedly better condition
morally"
STILL FACTS PILE UP.
John R, Ryan, boot ald shoe dealer,
says he neither is in favor OF nor against
license, but, politically speaking, sits salts
fed on the fence, yet he asserted that 1t
Rad made no change in bis business
while, BY the way, his cash receipts for the
past month were over $500 more than dur
ing the same month last year. Bat we arc
not trying 10 prove that the refusal to
grant license increased business.
Chas Moore, OF the firm OF Moore Bros,
hardware dealers, said: "It Is not de.
creased, but is on the increase, and more
than that the town Is much more orderly
and quiet"
Gregory, the grocer, said: "My sales are
much over what they were this time last
year." .
Ed. .Ralston, Of the firm 81 Ralston &
Simpson, drugs and jewelry, said: "Bus;-
ness has not decreased, but great many
men who heretofore spent their money for
stimulants, can't get It now, and have
money TO buy what they desire and need,
thus both bettering the condition OF trade
and society"
George Ross, general merchant, said:
"aly business has not decreased. And by
the refusal OF license many who should
not have whisky, who are known inebri-
ates, cannot now get 1t, and are thus bet
'er of. I.'s al q mistake that people are
kept away from town because they can't
get whisky, and II few OF them are, they
are not the class Of men who are benefit
10 business men,"
The only man on whom l called that
said business was decreased was the clever
Mike Dougherty, Of the firm Of Dougherty
& Morrison, boots and shoes. Mike thinks
the bottom Is knocked out Of bu.iness; but
from the fact that he he has only been in
business but for few months he Is unable
to compare the present June with the Juue
Of last year, the only Just comparison, We
called on other busnets men, who do not
desireltheir names mentioned, and some Of
these In favor OF license, and yet they were
unable TO report the tabled decrease OF 25
per cent.
tried to get the opinion Of the Hon. A.
A. Lewis, dry goods merchant and grocery
man, one OF the oldest merchants In the
place, and late candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for StIte Senate, and he
remarked: "0h! well, you understand.
You correspondents just fght that out"
which considered polite request TO 60
to tine d-l, and marked 1t dowA that the
Hon. A. A. was not yet out oil the political
arena and didn't want 10 commit himself.
have not made q statement relative TO
the decrease in business, but have laid be-
fore the candid reader the words Of the
majority Of the leading business men Of the
place, men whose yeracity can be impeacl-
ed by no man, and they emphatically deny
the assertions Of the Registers "Rum" cor
l rpannndent that hnRinsss haa darreaaah 0h