Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1889-02-10
MARTINS FERRY

In April there will be three COuncilmen
to elect, one from each ward. This ear,
more than 1T any time in the history OF
the city, we need a good, honest, trust
worthy Council. There will be great
mary railway franchises to be given away
Nearly all the streets in town will be
crossed by railway lines, and dishonest
man in the legislative body of the munich
pality will be able TO do things which pos
sibly could rot be undone, and which win
be forever a menace to the welfare Of the
city. We want railroads, we want i'm
provements of all kinds and it will be nee
essary to discover new plans
OF operating certain department.
and creating funds where they do not now
exist. These things must be done in n
thoroughly honest and business like way,
or the people will surely suffer at later
day. a good plan to adopt in the matter
of selesiing members of Council is for
every voter to decide in his own mind
who, in bis ward, he would prefer to
entrUst with the absolute care and man
agement Of his private affairs were the
voter to conclude to be absent for two
years. Your Councilman takes you public
+ business entirely out of your hands, and
if he is not, according 10 your idea, capa-
bic and honorable enough to handle your
private affairs, he is not fit to manage
your share of the public business. Several
gentlemen have been mentioned in each
ward for these responsible positions, and
it is quite natural 10 suppose that those
egotistical people who deem themselves
/ the powers that be, will soon commence
manipulating the wires, with the end IN
view, of getting men into these
positions who can ne used TO the
best advantage. For Councilman
the man wbo knows TIE least about poli;i-
cal chicauery and who hes the fewest po'
htical ambitions ard friends is the best
suited. We want men who will legislaie
for the greatest coed Tor the greatest num-
bsr. and not men who Will 60 SPECIAL Jobs
for those whO can control the greatest num-
Der Of votes at the next County or Town
ship election. In some respects the city
courcil is far more important to US all
than is the President of the United States
or the National Congress Neither can do
us any very great harm as an individual
community, nor can either levy taxes
which will make our backs ache while We
plod through the mud, but the councilman
is all powerful in these little things, and
the little things are the things that hurt.
At this late day it is not the proper time
to either censure or erititise the body now
in existence unless it grows rapidly de-
PRAYED, but it is all important for the vot-
ers of the different wards to remember that
they have a duty to persorm IN April
which requires discretion and much
thought
A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
says that General Harrison has deter
mined that the Democrats now in Office
shall remain to the end of their terms
This will leave J. Y. Patterson in the
postofice till the spring of 1890, and as
Mr.. Patterson has been a faithful, efficient
and obliging officer, no one, except hun
CIV applicants will regret the determine
ton Of the President to allow him to serve
ont his term Ohio VaHey Nelrs. Mr..
Patterson would no doubt be better able to
measure his appreciation Of this comph-
ment if he knew whether it was written
with the right hand or the left.
James Woods is building a new tene-
ment tonse on Walnut street.
The discreet farmer who refused 10 sell
his apples last fall at 81 per barrel, and
who now sorts out the decsyed ores and
sells the good, barrel and all, for 70 cents,
is not the happy member of the cOmmu-
nifty.
The Ohio T'dHey Nelcs says there has
been a pike between Martins Ferry and
Bridgeport for ten years, and the tsx pay
ers know it well. The Taxpayers msy
know it, but the teamsters are not con-
WINGED Of the fact.
The following is a part of the proceed
inqs of Council On last Tuesday evening:
The Trustees of the Water Works sub
mitted a report, from which it appeared
that 81 ga Ga principal and $31. 90 inter
crest were due the Gordon Maxwell Steam
Pump Company on the original contract
for pumps for the power house, They also
asked that Council provide S25, 600 more
for the extension of the water system in
certain specified portions of the city.
Mr.. Hanes thought the matter ought to
receive ser;Ous consideration, and in his
opinion should be referred to a committee
to 90 over the ground included in the pro-