Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-01-13
steubenville. O.. 1910.


and justice is melted out in our city
and county, which would bear inves-
tigation and as the two daily papers
published here are both prejudiced
against giving the public any news
whore the workingman' interests are
at stake, would ask you to give a
few remarks space in your newspaper
and as it has fair circulation in this
city, perhaps this article may come
to the notice of the officials who have
or should have an interest in dealing
justice as the law requires them upon
their oath of Office. Our citizens are
taxed to pay the expenses of the legis-
lature to meet and make laws as re-
quired to govern our state. But these
laws seem-to only be in force in GER
tain cases, of which / will speak Of
aand which l would like to ask the
officers who have been interested in
these cases to explain why they allow
SUCH things to go unnoticed, and in
rider to. make these cases plain will
state: To be citizen of this state a
native born is required to be Fl years
of age, to reside in the state one year,
and before he can vote, he has to give
his residence in the county and town
ship, and in cities he is required to
register or he cannot vote.
To become an officer he has to be
an elector in the county, township OF
city. In order to be eligible and to
serve as special officer in any court
Of justice his duties are only for the
purpose for which he was sworn in tc
obey. And when a special officer is
asked to act as a protection for prop
erty, the person at whose instigation
the officer is appointed, is required to
pay said officers for their duties per-
formed and the official who swears
such officer in is required to make a
memorandum in his docket of such
appointment and the duties required
of said special officer to perform, and
the special officers term shall not ex-
tend for more than one year. And
the official making such appointment
and swearing such special officer in,
can at any time discharge such special
officer from the duties for which he
was appointed.
Now. believe these are the laws in
| this state. Now, what would like
for these officials to answer, Is where
they get the law to swear in special
officers. In our city. who are nom
residents OF the city, county and the
state and allow them to patrol our
streets as such officers, when sworn In
for a special dutya Are these special
officers empowered under the laws OF
our state to arrest citizens? If not,
why do the city officials allow them to
patrol our streets. And does not any
officer appointed by the city authori-
ties have to be paid out of the city's
funds, and are under bond to dis
charge their duties. Does special
constable sworn in to serve writ,
have the power to make an arrest
when not III conjunction with his du-
ties in serving said writ. In order to
explain why the above Information Is
desired, / will state thecases that
have led me to ask why some laws
are executed against a certain class
and greater crimes are ignored owing
to the class who Nigh receive just
punishment who would use their po-
litical forces against the Official for
honestly discharging his duty.
The Board of Safety. as it is called,
were called upon by the Mill Company
and claimed protection. Did the
Board Of Safety inform the Mill Com
pany to go to the mayor or the sheriff
for protection. Why, no. They said,
we will. protect you. Did they ap-
point citizens as officers Why, no.
They supposed that there was not a
man in the State of Ohio WHO would
act. as an officer to protect the mills.
Mr.. Safety Board told them they had
better import some men to act as
special officers. This theys did and
the only place such men could be
found were in the low districts OF
Pittsburg. detective agent who ad-
yertises as all kinds of legitimate de-
tective work. This agent arrived
with his hirelings and were taken
before the mayor by this Safety
Board and required to swear them in.
Now the Mill Company and this Safety
Board had reason. As this was done
Just before the election. and they ex-
pected to in1ure the mayors chances
for reelection. But this failed, as
the mayor was elected just the same.
and had not the union working class