Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-11-01

lO-MOnE -siHtefilsenctf.
This is the best answer of the In
telligencer to the specific charge of
the Register that 1t failed to publish
the fact in its account of the session
of the Ohio Valley Trades and Labor
Assembly last Sunday, that the Demo-
cratic candidate for county commits.
sioner in Centre district had been en-.
dorsed. why don't tho Intelligcncer
say that it deliberately suppressed
the news from a political motive?
That is the fact.
THE BOARD Ot' COMMISSIONERS.
The Registers publication OF prop
er and just criticism of the late pre-
tended financial statement" of Ohio
county, published by authority of the
present Board, appears to have stirred
up the people up at the Court House,
and the Intelligeneer of yesterday
morning, after consultation with Of
by them, broke out into fine frenzy, in
which capital letters were conspicuous
and numerous. The publication was,
perhaps, the ablest effort possible under
the circumstances, yet 1t didn't amount
to much, but such as it was, We pro-
pose to make some remarks about it.
After some political generalities.
which are aside from the question un-
der consideration, and which carry
their own refutation, the Intelligencer
asks:
DO the voters think their interests will
be best subserved by defeating such men
II. T. McGregor. Andrew s. Hare. B. F.
Higgins, Charles Moore and the other Re-
publican candidates, and electing in their
places George Robinson, Bearly, Stevens.
ct al.?"
Most decidedly, YES. The men the
Intelligencer names as present members
of the Board and candidates for re-
election are the men who coached the
revaluation assessors to increase the
valuation of property for taxation in
Ohio county, who refused to use their
offices and influence to afford relief,
who thus increased the burden of tax
alton upon the people Of Ohio county,
to run for the next ten years, If they
remain in control, and certainly for
the next two years if the present Re-
Publican candidates are reelected, and
who used their utmost endeavors to
fasten upon the people of Ohio coun-
ty, within the past four months, a
debt of half a million dollars, which
would have cost the people million
before it was paid. do the voters
think their interests will be best sub
served by defeating these candidates
for reelection" Well, rather.
The Intelligencer passes to the Reg
ister's criticism of the Boards financial
statement and says:
1.-The Register crticizes the item of $780,
G10 Wheeling Bridge & Teri inal Railway
Company stock in the Statement: of assets
saying it ought to be put in at market
If So. WHY WHY poEsNT 1sq THE II R RI 9TsEfi
ALSO ENTER THE CLAIM THAT THE
BOARD SHOULD SWELL THE 100000
H9ED sgSn Con OF PEWIKBR sT9GS It, TO
SWELL THE COUNTY'S ASSETS s10O,-
0oo BUT THE BOARD DID NOTHING
OF THE SORT. MERELY ENTERING
THE STOCK AT IT'S FACE VALUE,
JUST AS THE TERMINAL STOCK WAS
ENTERED"
We thank the Intelligencer for the
suggestion contained in the second
sentence of the above quoted para
graph. Why did not the statement
say: ''P. w. & KY. stock, par value
100000; market value s20O,OOO?" That
would have been fair and honest. Why
wasn't it done, for public information?
But it was listed at half it's value,
while the Terminal stock was listed at
| 100000, when it has no value at all.
These two things, if we inspect moth
ing else, carries out the Registers as
sertion that it was a false, imperfect
and misleading statement of the finan-
cial condition Of Ohio county. Why
not charge off The worthless stock. and
list the good at it's cash value in the
open market? No good and sufficient
reason can be given, and yet the Of
fetal publication was one purporting
to give the true financial standing of
Ohio county, for the information of
the taxpayers thereof. 1t was false
statement, know to be such.
| The Intelligencer says the Register
knew what the item OF bills payable
| $4,000" meant Well, If we do know
what it means, we didn't get the in
! formation from the Official statement
of the Board of Commissioners of Ohio
county. And the Intelligencer we'll
knows that the people do not know
what the item means. 1t wasn't intend
| ed that they should know, and they
don't know to this day, and they never
will know under Republican county
government what this particular item
| has cost, any more than they will
know what the members of the Board
get for their services under the head
of per diem The official financial
statement stated a falsehood when it
gave the amount of per diem at less
than s3.000-AND THE INTELLI-
GENCER KNOWS TT, the members Of
/ tho BOARD I-pou II opd itS officials