Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-22
SEVENTH WARD.
An islander Arraigns the Republicans for
Lack Of Interest In Its Welfare.

An islander Arraigns the Republicans for
Lack of Interest In Its Welfare.
To The Editor Of he R,ghter.
SIR:-To n person of liberal mind aud
independent action the condition Of affairs
in the Seventh ward of this city has a pc,
culiarly aspect Just at this time. The
Seventh ward, il is known, is composed
largely of strangers in feeling ard senti'
ment to the majority of the people of this
city, and because they are mostly aliens
and foreigners in sentiment 10 the majority
OF the residents of the city the Republican
party has claimed them as its own, that
party taking up all heterogeneous masses
that could could not DO by any other party
assimilated to it, and the Republican party
in the city management treats the Seventh
ward as a conquered province or as com
posed of q set Of people who have no mind
or will in the matter of the distribution OF
public revenues, but a being obliged to
submit in all things to tho arbitrary wish
of their Radical masters in Council assem-
bled.
The Seventh ward pays its due proper,
LlOu W llt WY III NNdONA NaAAo NNA a
year, also of the ten cent levy, into the city
treasury; and of all the wards in the city
there is no one which has more streets and
alleys upon which the ten cent levy is re.
quired by law to be expended; yet, be-
cause the Seventh ward is year after year
"big0tedly radical in its vote, the highly
moral Republican majority in Council can
only return to that ward g, 900 in any one
year ont of distribution for the purpose OF
making improvements Of Sll0, 600. Is
there no place in q Republican Council-
mans mind where an idea of simple JUS
tice might lodge and bring forth fair deal
ing? So far the Republican officials have
held to enc course of injustice TO the Sew
enth ward. and if the population of that
ward persist in voting the Republican
ticket for Council, it looks as if there will
be- no end to the injustice. The only ben.
efis of any kind ever had in that ward
have been given by a Democratic Council
and from a Democratic Board of Public
Works. No proper return has ever been
made by any Republican body whatever to
that ward.
1t is proper to ask why do the Rspubli.
can bosses persist in this Injustice to Their
own? Do they wish ia scatter their ma
jority out of that ward or simply iniure
the property of their friends there? Why
this lack Of respect for the rights OF that
ward?
To a disinterested observerthe hose house
in the Seventh ward looks like a Republi-
can losfng shop, and the public hall over
head seems to be kept at the public ex-
pense for the purposes of the Logan Club.
Now, if the + publican msiority ia that
ward is not able to establish for itself a
club room and lolf5g place without bur-
deniDg the city with the expense of main
tanning the same, surely the Clerk of the
Board of Police and Fire Commissioners
might make some return Of his salary to
the public by looking after The sppoytion-
ment Of the expenses Of that public build
ing to public uses and Republican benefits:
and we confidently assure the public that
if said club will faithfully charge up to tie
Republican majority all the uses that pub
lie building now spOpged by it off the
helpless public, TIE building will be largely
self.sustsining. 1t must be the business
Of either the Clerk of the Board of Police
and Fire Commissioners or of the Chief of
the Fire Department to see that a public
building, such as the Seventh ward hose
house, is not made at the public expense a
public nuisance to the neighborhoOd in
which it is located. ISLAND.