Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-09-13

creditors to accept them in payment
of promises to pay gold and silver dol
lars. They invented and first enacted
an unapportioned and unconstitutional
direct tax in the form OF tax on IN
come. They took away from State
banks the issue of circulating notes
and gave it to the United States. They
packed, degraded and assailed the Su-
preme Court because it denounced the
Republican legal tender law as uncon-
stitutional. They were born vituper-
ating a Democratic President some
forty years ago, because he used the
army in Boston to execute the process
of the Federal Court, and in Kansas
to execute Federal laws. The relations
of Mr.. Sherman to the decentralization
Of silver in 1878 are well known. 1t
was he and his allied Republicans who
So shuffled and paltered with the specie
resumption legislation Of 1875 as to
leave it in doubt whether or not re-
deemed greenbacks were to be EXTERN
mated, and thus Mr. Sherman led up
to the endless chain enactment of 1878
The Republican authorship of the sill
yer law Of that year and of the Sher-
man silver law a dozen years later,
cannot be denied. Since Secretary
Chase went upon the Federal Supreme
Bench as Chief Justice, where he made
confession and endeavored atonement,
Mr.. Sherman and Mr. Mckinley have
done more than any two of our public
men to make cur money, our currency
and our taxation unsOund. 1t is in
credible that the 10000, more or less,
of Democrats in New York who voted
for Palmer and Buckner and the many
more New York Democrats who voted
for Mckinley electors, can, after four
months of the Mckinley administration
and of the Mckinley Congress, longer
tolerate association with Mckinley
ISM
THE POWER OF THE MAYOR.
Mr.. Belmont was asked if the Mayor
has, unGer the new charter, as has been
so persistently represented, powers
that are unusual and unprecedented.
He replied that he did not think so.
He said that popular attention had
been diverted from study Ct the rc cha r,
ter as a whole by ehe power conleIIeu
upon the Mayor, during only the first
six months of his term, to appoint
heads Of departments not elective, and
remove those holding office by the
Mayors appointment.
'It is to the Municipal Assembly
that the charter has expressly impart-
ed the power and made its duty to
see to the faithful execution OF the
laws The Assembly can appoint
committees to inquire into the Mayors
conduct. The commission reporting
the charter to the Legislature said that
the 'MunicipS Assembly can supervise
all departments and officers of the city.
PARTISANSHIP IN THE CHARTER.
"a lurid search light is thrown on
the demand for -partisanship by
the clause in the charter creating a
police board of four members, and de-
claring that the Mayor must not ap-
point so that more than two, when
either is appointed, belong to the
same political party, or be of the same
political opinion on State and national
politics. The two sorts of politics
must be combined! Both are imbed-
ded in the charter!
THE virus of Republican politics in
jected into the charter is distinctly re-
vealed by the power given to Governor
Black to remove whenever he pleases
the next Mayor from Office, and even
suspend him as soon as charge
against the Mayor has been made. The
Mayor has thus been made an agent of
the State to execute laws as Governor
Black shall prescribe, and yet the 'Citi-
zens' Union insists there must not in
city affairs be State politics, although
there is in the charter a State power
to NEEDLE very preemptorily in our
city government whenever the Gov
ernor pleases.
THE MAYOR NOT ALL-POWERFUL
The new municipality is to be too
vast, its taxing power too great, its
right to interfere with ones liberty and
property too serious, to be in the hands
of any single officer. If the office of
Mayor had under the charter the DOW
ers, duties and responsibilities which
many individuals describe, the office
could not be filled; no man could be
competent"