Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-28
GkS---GALL.
The Law Fully Sustaius the Action
of The Democratic Trustees.
DR.. Logan, Superintendent Dillon and the
lnteIIigencer CausticaIIy Crit
cised---h Mighty interest
ing Reading.

tsted for the last few days over the ln5aue
conduct of The Iutelligencer and the parti.
san action Of the Republican members
of Council with reference TO the
appointment of Mr.. Samuel Dsrrah as
Superintendent of the Gas Works. Tie
trouble seems 10 be that q Democratic
Board Of Trustees appoints a Democratic
Superintendent TO Gil the vacancy occn-
siousd by the expiration of the term Of
Mr.. Dillon, who has ever been q rabid,
radical, bigoted and partisan Republican.
Upon the day the old Board Of Trustees
went out OF olhce, Mr.. Dillon'5 term also
expired. Since then he has been holding
office
AT TIN sUrFERANCE
o. the new Board O! Trustees. We quote
from rule ., which is AS follows
AS Boon as practicable after their cleo.
ton and ]qaaliica ion, the Trustees shall
appoint their officers, who shall be called
respectively, Superintendent Of the Gas
Works, Secretary OF the Gas Works,
Assistant Secretary of the Gas Works
and Collector Of the Gas Works, and shall
report the names Of such officers TO Council
| Tor approval and confirmation. Zach Of
such officers, upon having been duly quail
fed Is provided By this rule, shall conunne
in Office during the term Of the Trustees
wbo shall have appointed him and until
b successor shall have been duly appointed
and qualified to act, uuless his term ctofice
expires by death, resignation, removal
from office, or other lawful cause.
The Trustees shall have authority II,
their discretion 20 discharge any such Oil
Ger 50 appointed q. sny time.
Mr.. Dllioa Is holdlHc vt the will Of the
! Irustces. He has not been elected Tor q
new term. Mr.. Hart sBys that The Demo.
cratic Trustees
SHALL o ELECT 4 DEMOCRAT;
hat 10 do 50 wouli BE- base parlisauslmp
ami q violation of SENSE and decsncy Ih-
matter has reached lhi- termination The
Trustees, elected by the CRY Council, IRE
not 10 BE suffered to Eelcct their owa Super.
iutendent, Gs other Trustees have done, but
they must select Mr.. c B.. Hart man
Friday or else be ctcrGally damned.
Under which kirg shall the people live.
Why is a Democrat Ike Mr.. Da.rah ueces,
sArily Il vie partisan, au3 Il rampant dyed
Al the wool Republican like Nc. Dillon not
Il partisan? Echo and Ca.rlrs BurdCtle
Hart, once ia his purcr ard better days T.
Democratic partisan, mast ana%er.
Dillon was elected to the position he
holds By a Board Of Trustees composed of
three men, among whom DE-. Thomas II.
Logan and Mr.. Thomas II. Lewis were
shining lights. When did De. Logan be
pin to b. non. partisan? Has he not been
u Republican political lesder iOs nearly
talf his lifetime. aud has he not long been
known as d Radical bell weiheri Where
is the man thai ha, ycntured upon so much
rs o hint tia, Mr.. Lewis was not q partI.
SAM When these two gentlemen deny
their partissuship, they are trading as
wolves in the clothing Of sheep, and when
they cease 10 be partisans they will be-
come what they are not now, spectacles
for gods and men, sud colossal monu.
men;5 Of
PURIFIED = R~EGENERATED HEARTS.
They appointed Mr.. Dillon, a partisan
brother Of their kind end color, and no
Democrat raised g howl or yelled partisan
ship at them. The REGISTER did not start
= hue ard cry and the Democratic mem.
bera OF Council did not vote against his
confirmation. Why They recognized
the right Of the majority Of the Trustees to
make their own selection Of q Superinteud.
ent and did not want TO say they would
vote against q Republican as Il Repubh.
can.
The same night that the Republicans
refused to confirm Mr. Darrah, the
nominee OF the majority Of
the Gas Trustees, the Fire Marahals,
a Republican il ever Republican there
were, sent to Council the names oil two
Republicans appointed to Office under him,
and every DeHocrat voted TO confirm
them. On the same night Mr.. Hoffman, !
Democratic member of the Fir.t BraLch
Of Council from the Fifth ward, "a Demo.
cratic ]stronghold) resigned his place. Did
il occur TO the Republicans or c B. Hart
that it wa fit and prJper andin good taste
TO elect Q Democrat 10 represent the ma.
jo7ity of the Fifth ward? Oh, no; q solid
Republican vote was cast 70 make q Re
publican
REPRESENT \ DaH0rGAVIc CONSTITUENCY.
No Democrats are shouting partisan
ship or abusing the Republicans for acting
this way. Wa n Democ.g, elected to
succeed Mr.. B,nqell and if 50, who has
heard The rews?
The whole matter depends upon whose
OK is lored. No mortal with the old Of e
microscope could discover e partisan Re
publican. Such ~ animal lives not in the
City of Wheeling and was never found
among Republican politicians.
The ~lnteliigencer assumes that Mr..
Dillon IS not ~ p~artisan AID has paid no
attention TO politics in bis administration
Of bis Office TINS is utterly and in
every particular false. From the hour a
partisan Board appointed him, he has
turned out Democrats aud appointed Re.
publicans. At the time Of the election Of
the new Trustees the great bulk Of the EN-.
ployes we're Republicanss and many Of them
dsrkeys imported from outside Of the city.
Democrats have complained time and
again that they could Eot get work at the
Gas Works, and that they we're discrimin.
a,cd against as Democrats. The new Trus.
tees determined that this Stale Of
affairs must come 70 au end and
that the Gas WORKS should have a
Superintendent VITO void place Democrats
UpoE Az Fyr'L FOOTING
With 2 puLlicars IrcY hey- done SO
Hence ms k)ql SEEING no reason why d
D-mo.sut wcuii no, answer their purpasfs,
they selected ore Herc. these tears
Why should Mr. uaTrHh DO more partisan
than Mr.. DilloU, Could he be so2 Why
shall 10! a Dsmorra,ia Board select its
Superiutead.n if q Republican Board
have that privilege Ask Charles B
Hart.
We DOW desire TO call the attention Of
our readers 10 The supreme law governing
the Gas Trustee aid to on extract from
the non partisan. fair minded, e~Yen.hRuded
and IMPARTIAL letter 10 the Council OF DR.
Thomas II. Logan, who has li,ed for 70
many years without discovering tia, be
was q partisan Rel ubiican.