West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-02-06

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to come here unless he prefers this
market. He too served honorably
and creditably as a member of the
County Court for many years. He
never thought of asking the people
to vote an idea into his head, his
hat covered ideas enough to prompt
him as to his duties to his constitu-
ents. Everybody knows Squire
Whetsell and knows that he can 90
to Terra Alta or Kingwood and is
not dependant upon a bridge at
this place, but MIR. Wheeler named
HIM because he knew his judgment
and knowledge in such matters
would be valuablei in this connection.
Now for the interested party in this
committee, Mr.. Wheeler. Now
that sounds SO ridiculous that we
won't dwell longer on it, for every
one who knows Squire Wheeler, and
VIC believe we are safe in saying that
he is known by nearly every voter
in the county, knows that he is a
gentleman of the most sterling quail
tiles, unimpeachable as an official
and Owe scrupulous in matters that
pertain to his own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
and ever his name was not men
toned in connection with the pro-
posed members, but in q compli-
mentary way was named by Mr.
Whetsell. Now we submit it to the
majority present in the court room
when the vote was taken and claim
that IRE dill not ask the court to
appoint these particular gentlemen
OH the committee, but did ask that
they should not appoint parties who
had no knowledge of the situation
and our necessities. The President,
MIR. Conner, then called for a vote
upon which Mr.. Beatty said 81
move we give them the committee"
the motion carried and the vote
stood, yeas, Beatty and Shaw, nays,
not n single member of the court
responded, whereupon every specta-
tor IN the court room laughingly
declared cit carried, they get the
committee, when Mr.. Shaw sprang
to his feet, and for the first time
announced that they were voting on
the committee as suggested by Mr..
Wheeler. Admitting for argument
sake, that he was correct, we submit
the question to all disinterest per-
sons, especially those who stood by
and heard it, did it not carry ? and
were we not entitled to the
committee? There we're seven
members present; two voted in the
affirmative and five sat quiet and
said nothing until they realized how
they had defeated themselves, then
they, with one or two exceptions,
commenced to kick and squirm out
of it. Presuming hat "might is
right" they decided against us, but
after some further discussions the
board consented to take the vote in
another form, namely, to appoint o
committee, we having Withdrawn
the names of all proposed candi-
dates. This motion failed by a
vote which stood, two for and four
against. Now in all common de-
ccncy and truth, n your CORE
spondent hide behind the shallow
apology of "interested parties ,"
We could annihilate his arguments,
one after another as easily and
eifectually as we have exploded this
one, and clinch them as we did when
we appeared before the court, but
time and space bid us desist.
Rowlesburg, Jan ~, 1890.
We gave Mr.. Schock credit for
having more Judgment and discre-
ton than he has evinced by his
article. In his haste to shoot off
about this matter, he neglected to
load his gun, therefore he makes a
heap Of noise but brings down no
game. We are surprised that he
cannot distinguish between CORE
spondencc and editorial matter and
as he labors under the impression
that he is replying to one Of our
correspondents instead Of our edi-
t%orial, we will let him down easy
this time and not attempt to criti-
else too severely his hasty lutheran.
ces. Besides, his article takes upso
much Of our room this week, that
in justice to our readers, we will
defer most Of our say in this matter
till some other time. We summed
up the whole situation in our article
fairly and impartiaUv TO both eidos