Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-03-15

tion to the Public Business, md
For All the Trouble That Has So
Far Resulted.
There has never been a parallel in
this city, in any matter, public or
| private, for the studied and persistent,
infamous, malignant and malevolent
efforts of the local department of the
| Wheeling Intelligencer to mis%represent
facts, and poison the public mind re-
| garding the situation of affairs and the
! course Of the Democrats and indepen-
dent and anti-ring Republicans at the
City Hall. Day after day there are
columns of mingled falsehood and
froth, of rage and of subseryient COM
pliance with the dictation Of the late
ring and its management, and the .aa-
jectives of inyictive are worked double
time in the effort to create among at
least the element Of the community
obtaining its supposed knowledge OF
current events from the Fourteenth
| street paper, an opinion not at all war
ranted by the facts.
Yesterday mornings issue of this
d~electable journal afforded an instance
of both its persistency in a bad cause
| and of its talent for prevarication. It's
bilious screed was headed "Outrages
iHeaped IN Outrages," and the same
index of what was to follow stated in
large type that Public Offices had
been Broken Into in the Dead of
Night" and asserted that '"Brandished
Clubs are Held in the Faces of Law
full Officers" In the subsequent alleg-
ed account oftthe happenings of We'd
nesday there were such expressions as
the trump Council" the fantastic as
sertion that the scenes hat were en-
acted at the city building during the
morning and afternoon are without
| precedent in this broad land" that the
officers elected by Council in joint ses-
sion were "usurpers," that policemen
refused admittance to citizens calling.
at offices on business, that business
was held up" that Mayor Sweeney and
Chief Ritz have acted without a par
allel in political history" that Dem
ocratic outrages" were denounced by
the people, and that People Stand
Aghast and Amazed" etc.
All of which is very laughable, and
reminds one forcfbly of an extract
from one of George AIDES Fables.
Doubtless, to the Intelligencer and
It's small faction, the dispos-
session of the late ring is a
Burning Shame and a Hard Thing
to Bear, but nobody else Minds it
Much, and SO far from anybody Stand
ing Aghast and Being Amazed and
Having Fits, and Things Like That
there a public placidity of temper indi-
eating entire acquiescence in and ap-
prevail of the changed conditions, and
a profound wish that the remnants of
the old gang would retire into the pit
they insisted upon digging for them
selves and thus be forgotten.
1t is scarcely necessary to point out
in detail the manifold falsehoods and
exaggerations of the Intelligencer. No
Office was broken open, either in the
dead of night or at any other time,
and the police have perpetrated no out
RACES o have they threatened peace
able citizens by brandishing clubs.
The police were put in charge of pub
lie offices by direction of Boards chosen
by Council, with instructions from
those Boards, equally divided as a
whole between Democrats and Repub-
licans, to see that those whose terms
had expired no longer interfered with
or attempted to do business therein,
and had it not been for ring resis-
lance there would never have been one
moments interference with public
business or the conduct of public af-
fairs. All that has happened OF an
unpleasant nature has been solely and
directly the result of the late rings
intention of holding on to the offices
to the last moment, and to pre-
vent the transaction of business to the
last ditch, taking shelter in the mean
time behind the false clamor raised by
the I~ntelligencer with intent to de-
ceive. The ring and the ring organ
are the obstruetionists at the City
Hall, and in carrying out their joint
programme these two elements not
only antagonize a majority of the vot-
ers of the city, but are without either
the support or sympathy of the largest
and best element in their own party.
There can be no mistake about this