Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-07

yesterday morning exhausted his vo-
cabulary OF vituperation against the
Register, the Democracy OF the city
and the independent Republicans, in a
last and desperate effort to save the
day for the ring. The writer of that
diatribe takes the defeat OF the ring
as a personal matter, and, ignoring the
great majority Of his party. satisfied
with the situation and with the selec-
ton Of a majority of Republicans for
Office by the coalition, presumes to
speak with owl-like gravity and circular
authority against that predominating
element of the Republican party in the
city of Wheeling which, manifestly dis
gusted with the conduct Of city affairs
in recent years, have hailed with a
modicum of joy and a measurable de-
gree of satisfaction, the changed con-
ditions about to obtain. The vindic-
tiveness of the young man OF the In
telligencer is as manifest as his i'll
humor is uncongenial to the majority
of his party, yet his irritation provokes
more smiles than seriousness and more
profanity than appreciation. His lucu-
brations are generally estimated at
their worth-which is nothing; and his
displays of i'll temper and of impotent
disappointment merge into municipal
wide smiles, with which are mingled
just appropriations of a ~pertinacity for
holding on to a lost cause, the legiti-
mate result of which will be a political
house divided against itself, with the
Fourteenth street Grandmother left
holding the bag while the procession
passes on. The plain truth of the mat
ter is, that the old Wheeling ring is not
only dead, but calls with a vociferous-
ness patent even to not over sensitive
nostrils for the services of an under
taker, and yet the Intelligencer, In it's
local department, with that abstruse-
ness for which it is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
the best judgment of the best element
of it's party, and in defiance alike Of
decency and of policy, either cannot or
will not realize conditions perfectly OBJ
vious to all men. The crop was ripe
for the reaper long ago, and the sickle
has been used. Decapitation once ac-
complished, the corpse should be re-
moved from view as soon as possible,
for as things are, the remains encum-
1no A. Aa~A1 fnry W. 1nrf1 ~
fresh soil, and a liberal use of a COM
petent deodorizer will remove the last
traces of the offal. and those fttest to
survive can turn their faces toward the
ever-brightening rays of the new or
der of things, with profit to parties and
distinct advantage to citizens. For the
Intelligencer, on its city side, to con-
tinue to delay the interment of that
no longer in the flesh is the refinement
Of foolishneSS and the acme of acute
disappointment. The Intelligencer'S
studied use of opprobrious observa-
tons and inherently impotent invic-
tive will avail nothing either for itself
or it's faction. The handwriting Is on
the wall and the ring, Notwithstanding
its dying grasp upon floating straws,
must gu uoWu III lNe mIuSt OIL the
rising waters. The Intelligencer mis-
represents the majority Of its party as
it misrepresents the facts. 1t is sim
ply the organ of a clique, the passing
of which will bring smiles rather than
tears, and more rejoicing and jublia-
ton than remorse. There will be
neither sympathy o sorrow for either
despairing officials or discordant organ.
1t is fitting that both he drowned in the
depths of bhe sea of public opinion.
1t is announced in political circles
that Health Officer Jepson will not
tender his resignation at the coming
session OF Council, but will continue
to hold Office until his successor quail
f1es and assumes charge.