Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-07
HIST0RtC FACTS.
A Continuation Of the Radical Record In
City Affairs.

/ years.
A few years since Council adopted re-
s,Taining ordinance to prevent the city
expending in each year more than it's
yearly income This applied to all de-
partments of the city government.
Daring the past year Council author
izsd the Water Board 10 borrow thirteen
thousand dollars 10 meet expenses of the
high reservoir, the amount of the Ian TO
be paid out Of next years income.
A contract was made and signed with
Mr.. Lemons to pave Market street. from
the creek TO Eleventh street and Eleventh
street from Market to Main. This work
was stopped by Council but the contract is
binding and the cost OF the paving about
twenty -four thousand dcllars) stands az
an appropriation cut Of next years rev
enues.
Both these appropriations are contrary
10 the spirit OF the restraining ordinance,
and # established as good precedents the
next Council can do the same, and more If
il wishes TO.
Council granted TO a private company
the right 70 establish an Electric light
plant in the city, in opposition TO the city
| Gas Works, the most valuable property
owned by the city. The result o. this
move has been the loss to the city Of most
| of her largest gas consumers. To remedy
this piece of statetmanship, Council has
for months been deyisiDg some way for the
city TO establish an electric plant of its
own, at q cost OF many thousands Of dol
lars.
In the loan ordinance now before Couu-
| Gil, an appropriation Of twenty. five thou
sand dollars was inserted by Council, for
Strengthening Caldwell's Run, at a time
when the Strengthening of the Run was be-
fore one Of our Circuit judges for a
decision. Tie decision has since been
given in favor OF the city, and states that
no obligation rests on the city to stiaighten
the Run. Fortunately the term Of this
Council is near its end, or the money
would be appropriated in the face of the
decision Of the partisan Judge"
Daring its official life the Council has
expended several thousand dollars 10 de-
| Tending before one Of our Circnit Judges,
an infamous insult TO our foreign born
citizens aod liquor dealers, aud If ma
iority of Radicals is sent TO the next
Counil, the City will pay several thons-
and dollars more for the same purpose.
/ We refer TO the Fine and Police Ordinance,
which forbids sny person otherwise
QualiAed) who cannot read or write En-
glisb, or who is directly or indirectly en-
gagged in the sale Of liquor, filling certain
positions under the city government. No
matter how we'll educated in his own lam
gausge, foreigner must read and write
English, or he can't be policeman. No
man, native or foreign born, If he is q
member of sal ION keepers family, or has
an interest in saloon or liquor store, can
be policeman. How kind to the people
born in this country, who have enjoyed
our common school privileges,
aud who through choice or
want of means have not been
engaged in the liquor business, these Radi-
calls are. We are the cream, you foreigners
and accursed liquor dealers are the scum,
and We won't permit you to be represented
in the department Of DOR City government,
where some of rs through our criminal
habits" may possibly land. No wonder
Gregory Warner 30 willingly came toward
70 represent his ccuntrymen and fellow
liquor men in an effort 10 obtain from the
Circuit Court a decision, which would
place him ard them among the people Ct
this City in the possession Of the rights
given TO them by the Constitutions OF the
United States and West Virginia The
last completed piece Of our Councils devil
try is the now famous redistrioting Ofdi-
nhnoe. For giving strictly legal and hon
est opinion on lts merits and defects,
Judge Jacob has been assailed by the cow
! ardly editor of morning papr, after his
retirement from Office prevented him hsy-
ing an opportunity to officially notice q
slardsr on his oilic.al conduct
This ordinance has been credited to the
City Solicitor, 50 it's father, but truth COM
pels denial of this fact. The prime
mover in the ftdistrictipg business was
not the Solicitor, but a financial man in
Council, who was smart enough TO make
the bullets and have the Solicitor shoot
them. When the enumerators were sp-
pointed last summer, Democrats were Ie-
futod a single representation among them.
The Island enumesator was expected TO
show go large IN increase IN that
ward thst an additional member would be
T given il. Ills enumeration 0hOwed de-
orease in the population, and he was
TOundly cursed for bis failure to find the
people wanted. A second enumeration waa
appointed, and he too failed 10 turn up the
required population.
A pause followed, and the brilliant lice
Of reducing tAs Democratic wards in the
number OF their representatives was
. brought forward. This had TO be prepared
in secret sessions of the faithful, and at no
time were the returns made by the eau.
merators shown to any Democrat in Copu-
Gil When the plan was matured show
Of figures were made, which were outrage
Ously falae. The results of both the last
charter election and the election
last November, Prove its fslsity.
} Taking the ratio Of voters to population n.
published ia the InteligeAcer a day or two
since. rs being 10 4 so and multiplying
+ the vote of Webster district, /, 4S9 by I go,
we have 6.Si9. Centre districts vote,
74Sx4 60 gives 3,440. Richie districts
, vote, 1,O97x4 30 gives 5 045. The redis-
! trip;s propOsee 10 take l,40p population
from Webster district, or the Sixth ward,
and add it to Centre district, or the Fifth
ward, making tie Sixth wards population
SAC and the Fifth wards 4 $40. Taking
800 az the number Of people for each
I Councilman the excess over $50 counting
for one Councilman we have the Sixth and
: Fifth wards entitled TO four Councilmen
each and the Eighth ward 10 four. This
is fair to ell three wards but did not suit
, the gsntlemen who bad been for two year:
carrying Out the boast made by one o.
their number, before tip holding of that
famous ospcas, in February, 1851, by
the Lord the Democrats have got the hon.
ORG in the election hut We have The Doodle
and you bet Nc ere gling to divide il
among ourselves And you bet they did.
CluSCil under the above reapI ortionmeni
would have hsd Is Democrats TO - Repub-
lioAns, and the bjOdle would not be forth
coming IN the mex Council Something
had TO be done and in defiance Of law,
, honor and common decsncy the Rsd;c ,ls
!. raised the redistIic.ing ordinance, by sheer
, force of numbers. and now ask our votes to
return R,dicsl msiOrity TO the next
Courcil to run things the next two year:
rs they have bsen in the past two.
Some Of the most active schemers in
this log rolling scheme have quietly slid
out OF the peoples reach by declining to
Iun again, and some Of them have been
rejected by their own party as being too