Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-11-18
TEE OrFICES.

In another column in an interview
with our Fairmont correspondent com
plant is made Of the hardness Of the
administration 10 making desirable pO-
litleal changes in the Offices in the Sec
ond District.
The complaint is just except nso-far
as Congressman WILLIAM L. WILSON,
who represents the district, is made to
shoulder the blame. Every minute OF
his time and every energy ne possesses
is conscieutiously and unseliishlY de-
voted not only to the interests of his
local constituents but Of the whole peo-
pie from ocean to ocean. Mr.. WILSON
has the abilities of giant for work but
he cannot do what is beyond human
mower. He cannot attend to the petty
details Of parceIling out the local post
Offices Of his district and at the same
time give his attention, time and en-
deavor TO the manifold, ceaseless and al
mostunlimlted requirements of the posi-
ton to which he has been assigned, OF
carrying out a great national reform
the details and intrlcacies Of which are
myriad, and would crush man who
was not the Intellectual giant that
WILLIAM L. WILSON Is.
The state of political affairs in the
Second district as outlined in the inter
view is undoubtedly true. But the
same is true almost everywhere, and If
Mr.. WILSON were to resign as Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee and
devote all Of his time aud abilities to
pulling the wires and working So and
So and So and So into this and that Of
fee. the situation would probably not be
much improved since it seems to be the
policy of the Post Office Department to
allow Republicans in Office TO hold on as
long as they VISA TO,
A fair Illustration OF this characteriS-
tic of the Department and the apparent
uselessness Of Congressional influence
is the present situation in Wheeling.
Congressman PENDLEroN has used his
best endeavors TO have Postmaster Cow
DEN. whose four years were up long
since. removed and q Democrat appoint
ed in his place, but Mr.. CowDEN stills
holds on aud seems likely to hold on for
soma time to come. That, however,
is not Mr.. PENDLEroN's fault nor is
the similar situation in the Second Dis
trict Mr. WmsoN's fault, though it is
true that he has had no time TO attend to
the local political affairs of his district.
The complaint which is just In the
main, and at the same time unjust
to Mr. WILSON, resolves itself into
this question: Shall Congressman Will
son drop the tariff reform bill which be
of all mon in Congress is best fitted to
frame in the interest OF the nation, aud
devote himself strictly 10 the local polit-
cal affairs Of the Second District?
II his constituents do not want their
in Congress to be Of such
callbre that the nation demands his ser
vices thoy will shortly be given the OPP
portunity to nominate some other man
in his place. There is little reason to
fear. however, that Mr. WILSON'S strong
hold upon the respect and admiration
of the majority Of his constituents IS at
an weakened because he has risen from
local to national fame and use.
The complaint that he failed TO par
in the Investigation Of the i'm
needed OF the Monongahela
river Is unfounded aud unjust. he
could do much moro through his inhu-
zee in Congress toward securing the
WoprIaeIOn desired than BY going on