Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-09-01
THE SUNDAY LETTER BOX.
REGISTER READERS WRITE EN-
TEBTAISINGLY ON TOPICS OF
GENERAL INTEREST.
PERTINENT QUERIES
Propounded, and Some Answers
Made TO Questions Heretofore
Asised-PeopIe Who Kick and the
Things They Kick About-Nat-
ters of General Interest.
"Fairness" Replies.
To tho Editor of the Register.

To tho Editor of the Register
Sir:-A correspondent in the Intelli-
gencer of August 9th, signing himself
III. c." in reply to article written by
Fairness in the issue of the Register
of August 18th, does not, by any
means, relish straight, truthful ques-
tions.
1t is amusing how this critic squirms
when he gets a prod in a vital spot
Here is what he says:
There appeared in the Sunday Reg
lister an article that embodies so many
misstatements and unintelligible
phrases that the nom de plume Fair
ness, is absurdly inapplicable, view it
as You may. It's purport is to reply to
an article published in the Intelligencer
over the initials II. c., and, character
istic of any weak minded man, he COM
mences by calling H. c. and his col
leagues the Republicans, vulgar and
low minded. Fairness next attempts
to show contradictory statements made
by II. c. in regard to the small APP
preparation secured by Triadelphia dis
trict for the establishment of the
roads. and shoots wide of bis mark"
Being surprised after observing this
rhetorical spasm of intellectual great
ness, | am pleased indeed to admit that
this defender of our honorable Board of
County Commissioners, knows good
deal more than what he really thinks
he does. He vainly tries to impress on
the minds of the readers of the Intel
ligencer that Fairness" writes unin-
telllgible phrases that cannot be UNDER
stood Here is where he surprises his
own ability. What he thinks the pub
lie does not understand, he does, and
gives v-~- strong evidence of it in his
article. No man in Ohio county COM
prehends the questions put to him by
Fairness better than he does, and no
man knows better than he that those
questions tickled his Uranium with
more force than feather would tickle
his face. Yes, he was tiekled so tor
mentingly that he had to vince with a
vindictive grin and replied that unin-
telligible phrases are absurdly inapplic-
able to his proper understanding of
newspaper interrogatories
What luminous light shines in that
august body, The technical intrigues
of the political ringster made him deny
of Triadelphla district eleeting a Demo-
cratic commissioner last fall that it got
such a miserable portion of the county
appropriations, but that the chief rea-
son was that the commissioner from
Triadelphia was so absorbed by his one
and only hobby-the reduction of taxa
ton. that he could not spare time and
energy to look after the needs of his
constituents in regard to highways.
Republican and Democratic taxpay-
ers, is it safe to have commissioners of
this fellows mental calibre at the head
of our county affairs? On the one
hand, they voted against Triadelphia
district on account of electing Demo-
cratic commissioner, and on the other
hand, as H. c. tells you very plainly,
they voted against it because it is this
commissioners hobby to keep down
taxation. Nevertheless the first cause
is the true one, as there is proof at
hand that will substantiate it that
Triadelphia was deprived of her rights
because she went Democratic last fall.
H. c., don't you now think, since you
made your brutal blunder, that it is
characteristic in a weak mind to make
such a silly and ignorant statement to
the public that your Board would vote
against Triadelphia getting what be-
longed to her? H. c.. according to his
information to the readers of the In
telligencer, is not in favor of economy
in the peoples taxes. He no doubt
was one of the commissioners who ex-
pended from five hundred TO a thous-
and dollars on the Hubbard road on
Chapline hill, that the first heavy
shower of rain knocked into a cooked
hat all semblance of the good done by
the taxpayers thousand dollars appro-
priation. Was it for the general good
of the taxpayers that this thousand
dollars was put on the side of the hill
to be washed into the creek or was it
to strengthen the chances of re-elect-
ing a few of the ring commissioners?
H. c., no doubt, will be kind enough to
enlighten the taxpayers about those lit
tie matters and also tell them that this
kind of legislation is more preferable
to the Board than giving Triadelphia
district her proper share of the county
appropriation to keep the roads and
bridges in good order for her poor
farmers. FAIRNESS.