Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-01-18
TAXPAYEK MAKES
An Appeal 10 the Voters OF the City OF
wheeling.

wheeling.
To the Editor Of the Register:
SIR:-The psItisal administration Of
our city's affairs and interests in the past
two years must have attracted the atten-
ticn and thoughtful consideration of all
classes of our people, regardless OF their
poliiics Session after session Of Council
las been tquandefed away by the majority
party in IT'D efforts to pass unnecessary
legislation, in which no one had any p~s-
eible interest except Republican politi-
clans and officei olders. The entire two
years has been consumed in needless USE
less party warfare. and thousands and tens
of thousands OF dollars Ofthe peoples money
have been wasted, until oil the revenues
of the city are consumed. The city treas
uIy is made bankrupt, and the people are
again appealed 10 for another large loan Of
5000, 600. 10 be again fquandered for party
purposes in the future, SIS in the past,
should the present majority party be sue
cessful at the polls next Thursday.
All conservative, conscientious citizens,
Business men, Taxpayers, the working
classes, all should consider we'll before they
cast their vote next Thursday.
That vote involves, perhaps, the success
or defeat of the loan ordinance, or policy
in the administration Of city finance and
legislation, of great interest to the entire
city, ard should b. well weighed before
You cast it. We have had nothing but
Republican partisanism during the last
two years, 10 the neglect of everything
else. Should the Republican party sue
cesd again 10 the control of the city at the
coming election, the coming two years will
be bot q repetition OF tho two Just past.
The remedy is in our hands. Will we use
il?
From the incorporation of the city down
to January 1887, the time when tie city
passed under the control of these who now
manage it in all of its departments, there
never was period in all of these years,
when pariyism inspired, moved and con-
trolled Council legislation, like it has
within the past two years. Every interest
of the city has suffered and been made
subservient to the party in power, regard-
less Of the consequence to the psople. The
City Solicitor has shown himself TO he a
rsntankerous partisan of the bitteIest type.
Almost all the partisan legislation passed
by, and proposed to Council, he has been
the author OF, and then its most radical
and uncOmpromisiDg advocate before Coun-
Gil. 1t is q plain matter of fact,
that no city can afford to be governed by
and legislsted for by any party exclusive
ly. The majority and mir ority Rave COM
moa interests involved in the administra-
ton of sffsirs, and party Issues cannot
separate them. The present Council has
so managed cur city as 10 lead one to sup
pose that there were no ether people in
W. eeliug except Republicans. The ma
jority is now ruled by the minority. 1t is
our duty to see that the Council ia changed
in both Bran ches so that we may again
have our city managed as il should be, and
not in the interest Of the City Solicitor, p.
b. DObbius and combinations.
All voters who are opposed TO the party
in power and its way OF managing the city
will vote for the Democratic candidates for
Council 10 all the wards in the city, next
Thursday. A TAXPAYER.
January i, ls59.