Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-12-01
THE MALICIOUS ORGANS.

The Intelligencer has been very not
in the collar since the refunding Or
dinance election last Saturday. The
people of this city turned down it
and the City Hall bosses, whose slav-
ish organ it is. 1t was an awful
thrashing, and it hurts yet. Our neigh
Dor has become vindictive. savage and
venomous over it, and whenever any
thing touches that fresh sore spot it
lashes itself into an ungovernable
rage.
Whenever the Register mentions the
fact that the people won victory by
defeating the refunding ordinance by
an Overwhelming vote, the organ falls
in a fit and froths at the mouth in
wild rage. Poor thing!
From what we can gather from its
incoherent offerings, 1t says the peo-
pie didn't defeat ths ordinance be-
cause there was only about half the
full vote of the city out. When the
organ RECEIVERS from its daZed condi-
ton it will realize how foolish it's
statement is. 1t will appreciate the
fact that the refunding ordinance cleo
ton last Saturday called out the largest
vote ever cast at a bond election in
the city of Wheeling-showing an I'M
usual interest among the people in the
outcome. The organs drivel about
Democratic organization against the
ordinance is on par with the rest Of
its crazy post-election rawlings on this
subject, and is as silly and impudent
as its to'k about money being used to
defeat the ordinance. In common de
cency, the Intelligencer and its asso-
ciate organs ought to keep their
mouths shut when the subject of
money is mentioned in connection
with this discredited refunding ordin-
ance, which a clique Of rich prospective
bondholders proposed to saddle on the
people Of this city.
At the mention Of money, or the
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ought to blush and hide their heads
for shame. Why did they advocate
this ordinance which they knew was
a bad and very dangerous thing for
the city? One of them was op-
posed to the ordinance at the start, but
suddenly became converted and an
ardent advocate of the scheme. Why?
What was the argument" And will
the other organ--the Intelligencer-
tell us if it ever heard of that close
little syndicate of home and foreign
alphabetically foreign-that had its
lines laid to snap up the whole half
million of thirtyfour year four per
cent. bonds? If so, what is its opinion
of that little syndicate and it's scheme,
and isn't it rather ashamed to talk
about money being used to defeat the
ordinance, when it knows so much
about Doodle on the other side of the
question?
And, finally, is it not time for it to
quit harping on the fact that the total
vote of the city was not polled at that
election in view of the further fact
that it was the largest vote ever polled
in the city at such an election. and
that the City Hall ring had more than
two hundred observation-disclosures and
others-at work in the city drumming
up votes for the ordinance, while the
other side was prsc 1ically without
| organization and workers?
The City Hall ring, with their COM
| plete organization, it is safe to say,
got out every vote they were entitled
! to and pursuaded many other voters
to vote their way who were not in
| clined to do so. 1t is also safe to say,
as the Register stated yesterday, that
| II the total vote of the city lad been
| rolled. the majority against the ordln.