West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1885-03-06
BILL NYE
POURS COLD WAT 1R ON THE
R. R. EXCITEMENT AND
POUNDS AWAY THE
REMOVAL AGITA-
TORS WITHOUT
GLOVES ON,


gard to the removal Of the county Sc at is
being cussed and discussed By the CORE
sponden,s and the public generally. we
have at last concluded 10 venture an arti-
Gle on these all absorbing topis OF public
interest. We therefore arise 10 say our
say and declare that we know what we
know, a. p r. Smith would say.
In the nrst place We would say that the
revival of the II. r. bore is simply due to
the return Of the periodical and ghosily
question of the removal of the County
Capitol and has been aRitsied simply to
rebut this ghost which has been haunting
King~ood 10 the terror of its inhabitants
for several decades past. Now We stand
hrmely on just this platforms
We are opposed to the removal of the
County seat from Kingwood and we OBJ
ject TO the building of Narrow Gauge
X. II, to Kingwood.
We are not a particle uneasy, however,
that either of these foolish projects will
ever be inflicted en- the people any more
than in the shape OF . Paper h. r." and
the County Seat Removal To morrow"
Tomorrow, never comes, neither will
the IA ilroad to KiDgwood or the Court
House TO Rowlesburs. 1t ought TO be
very plain to outside observers that the
late II. X. excitement was gotten up for
no other purpose in the world hut to coun.
teract the influence Of this late inconsis-
ten and selfish removal question, and it
lie really amusing to note how easily the
Kingwoodites bluff these Communicate Ag-
itstors, by simply showing their hands
and getting in little railroad gas. AS
possession is nine points of the law and
the lawyers The rest of it, Kingwood is
mighty apt to hold her grip on the Court
House.
We have never yet seen in ali the sTti-
Giles on this subject offered to the public,
single one but would take water. TIE
most of them were dictated by sellish
motives and would not bear the light of
reason. The Rowlesburg people are
drinking too much OF the airy gas OF in
toxicating illusion aud when they come
to sober up they will feel very much
like the "Cock-eyed Man of Destiny,
who has been running for the Presidency
Tor the last twenty five years and is now
leather away than when he began. They
seem to have coded themselves into the
belief that all the interests of the C, unity
are centered in their particular conner of
IT,
TO move or not to move; that's the
question and while it may be consu.na
ton devoutly to be wished by few ex-
cited ard scrdid individuals. the majority
of our citizens prefer to bear the Troubles
We have than 20 fly 20 ills we know not
OF. The places that are bidding for the
county seat by Offering to build the pub
lie buildings necessary for the change,
are so blinded by the golden illusion of
having the county seat at home that they
do not grasp the cold, bard facts in the
case. We are very well satitfied that any
place that would secure the county seat on
these grounds would be very sick Of it
before they would complete, at their own
expense, such excellent county buildings
as we have already been taxed 60 heavy
to erect, and we venture to prophecy that
the county wCpld be called upon TO help
finish them.
1t lie trle that Kingwood is not ,xac,lv
the center OF the county, but It IL the
nearest town OF any ir poItsDce, to the
center. AlbriShtsville is really the most
central place and if it was as large as
Terra Alta or Rowlesturg it would i'm
medately put on airs and clamor for the
prize, and with good substantial reasons.
and of the two places as they are, we
would say AlbrightsVille in preference TO
Rowlesburg al the time.
fbe people along The r. II. are howl
ing about the distance they have to travel
to get TO the county seat. How Is il with
the citizens OF the lower end of Valley.
Grant and Pleasant Districts They al
ready have fully a. far to 90 and how
would it DO II the county seat was remov-
ed to RoWlesburg ? Still the people Of
the latter place have the cheek to talk
about the "greatest good 10 the greatest
nupbeT," "tbe great distance they have
10 travel n get 10 the county seat" chow
handy would be Tor everybody to come
70 Rowlesburg on the railrosd," what A
central point the River City 10, "etc. Then
II they 20 ~ far 80 70 get IL before the
people, il 10 bound to fail and they will
have worked themselves into q fever over
this ghosily Jsck-o-lsn,ern tina, seems 90
haunt their dreams, Besides, after howl
ing about our heavy bKes and the very
eight addition produced by Coy Jackson q
Resesessment order lhey should certainly
go GLOW on such aa expensive luxury as
building q Court House for themselves.
Another excuse offered for The removal ia
that there is a Ring a, Risgwood that
runs end cOntrsles the county sffairs at