Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-19
THE RING IN DESPERATION.

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with formidable looking double-lead-
ed editorial, the history of which is in
teresting, and somewhat amusing. 1t
was written by certain member of the
City Hall coterie, not unidentified with
the newspaper business, in an effort to
break the force of the exposition by the
Register of the rings methods in con-
nection with the refunding ordinance
Its substance appeared the day before
in the evening organ of the ring in the
shape of an interview, or Statement"
and was reproduced and refuted in yes
terday mornings Register simultane-
ously with it's final temperance as an
editorial leader in the rings morning
organ. Half an hour or so before it
was finally put in type after being
trimmed into editorial shape for the
morning organ it was read by it's au-
thor to the leaders of the City Hall
coterie whose mutton depends on push
ing through the outrageous refunding
scheme, and this cabal passed upon,
amended, and finally approved it. Thus
we find it the intellectual fruit of the
combined able minds of the slick gen.
tlemen who are engineering the refund
ing ordinance, and as such it must be
taken as the best argument that is to
be produced in favor of the scheme to
mortgage the citys future in order to
help these gentlemen out of hole
which they themselves have dug by
their incompetency and waste. Before
going into details, we desire to call at
to the publication as it appeared in the
morning organ:
The Registers charge that the Republi-
can council has increased the indebtedness
of the city in outstanding orders is DELHI
crate falsehood, and is the dying wall of
that organ, which is inspired to take its
stand against the refunding ordinance by
some of its stockholders who are also
holders of city bonds paying a high rate
of interest
This malicious falsehood is quite
worthy of it's author and of the organ
which fathered it. When the Intelli-
gencer cannot meet argument with ar
gument, when it finds itself in a corner
from which it cannot honorably extri-
cate itself, when, in short, it finds it.
self beaten, it resorts to the familiar
methods of the yellow journal and of
the sneak, the liar and the coward, and
endeavors to impugn the motives and
reflect on the sincerity of it's opponent.
AS for the figures that don't lie" that
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draw false conclusions for the twenti-
eth time in the organ, while they were
grossly incorrect in many particulars,
prove nothing except, as was shown in
yesterdays Register, in which these
same figures were reproduced from the
evening organ, THAT THE PRESENT
METHOD OF PAYING OUR CITY
DEBT SHOULD BE CONTINUED
AND THE REFUNDING ORDINANCE
DEFEATED. For example, were not
these very figures published for the ex-
press purpose Of showing, and glorying
in the show, how much during the past
three years under the present malad-
ministration of the city's affairs the
debt had been reduced? 1t shows the
reduction has been at the rate of thirty
odd thousand a year, AS THE LAW
SAYS IT SHALL BE, under the pres
ent common sense method of paying
off the principal of that debt This
callsto mind the fact that one of the
chief spokesman for the City Hall
coterie has been declaring that this
was not so, that the debt was being re-
duced only at the rate of some $4,000
annually. 1t is wonder that this
same gentleman, who was probably
among those to whom the Intelligencer
editorial was read before it was print
ed, did not object to this vital and very
damaging admission. Possibly he did
and was overruled. We have no exact
information on that point Aside from
this, however, here we have the City
Hall refunding schemers glorying in
the fact that they did what the law
compelled them to do! Furthermore,
they are making much of the fact that
they did this under the present system
of paying the city debt, although 1T IS