Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-24

To-day the special city election upon
the proposed refunding ordinance will
| he held, and there will be large vote
for such an occasion, in some quarters
estimated at as high as five or six
thousand. Usually comparatively few
| voters go to the polls upon such an oc-
casion, but the interest to-day will be
! extraordinary, as the taxpayers realize
| that the adoption of the ordinance will
lit individual pocketbooks pretty hard
for a good many years to come, and
| do the city no good as whole, but
| rather a serious harm. Yesterday the
ordinance was leading subject for
discussion among all classes of citizens,
| and many hot arguments were heard,
! while plenty of people could be found
who knew to certainty that the meas
| ure would be defeated or that it would
carry.
| About the worst knock the ordinance
| has so far received was the signed
card published in the evening paper
of last night, and which will doubtless
be reproduced in the Intelligencer this
morning. The attempted argument in
! favor Of the loan was really one against
| 1t, particularly as to the last para
| graph, while the concluding statement
| that if the loan did not carry taxation
would necessarily be increased was
| universally recognized as a last threat
| 10 property owners that if they had the
temerity to vote against the ordinance
| they would be made to pay for their
action out of revenge. This club will
! rebound on the heads of the loan
boomers, and many man will drop a
silent but effective ballot into the box
to-day against the ordinance solely be-
cause of that card. Bluffing and bull
doing won't go in this matter.
| There is another item of news for
voters of like tenor. 1t is to the effect
and the statement comes personally
from leading members of the majority
in Council-that if the ordinance is de-
feated to-day they will never prepare
another of any tenor or effect what
ever, and that they will allow the city
to default on the compromise loan the
| first of July. In other words, if these
| gentlemen cannot have things their
own way they will take their doll rags
| and go home. There are methods,
however, Of putting stop to that sort
of Stiffness.
| Last night 1t was generally report
ed and believed that the loan people
had hired from ten to twenty men in
every ward to work to carry the cleo
ton, and it was even stated that many
OF the special police would be retained
on the pay roll over to-day for work in
that direction Who is putting up this
money, and why this interest? Some
body must see fat thing in the ordi-
nance, and if there is any grease in it,
the people, it can be depended upon,
will settle the bill in the end
The polls will open this morning at
| s o'clock, and will close at 7 this even
ing. The returns will oe received at
the office of City Clerk Thomas
O'Brien, Jr., at the City Hall. The
voting places in the several wards are
as follows: ~
! First-Seventh and Main streets.
| Second-No. /, Market hall; No. 2,
| lib McColloch street.
! Third-Police Court room.
| Fourth-Bearsley's hall.
| Fifth-Hook and Ladder house.
Sixth-No. 26O5 Chapline street.
Seventh-Engine house.
| Eighth-No. 1, Asmus' livery stable;
No. 2, corner Forty-third and Jacob
streets.
The official ticket is as follows:
| ELECTION
| Saturday, February Gath, 1900.