The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-15
SOME CHARTER rINkgReRs AT WORK.

A moderate capacity or accurate statement would be a decided acquist
mn to a number Of prominent individuals busiy engaged in the advocacy of
tn socailed commission form of government for the City of Wheeling At
a uoh meeting supposed to have beer held in the Social Center at the
PAUL. John Wallace and c b Taylor Quoting frm the the re ey T Of b "a meet "
Ing appearing in a Wheeling paper, we find the following:
II tr PaunD stated that H c Ogden and DR. I. NJ. Hakins had
framed u a charter of their W which they would K to Charleston. not
with any idea of passing 1t, ut in order o defeat the commission charter"
II Mr. PAUL made the above statement he made IT either in ignorance or
ns.ra N Nn n n : Usoen Dr. Dr :: NJ Haskfn a framed u any
them 10 To- e% T9yf r%S9sS Vas ;os %Giy T az Ss5 te to aG f%slG a s%F% as not s' as; ann. and . ss,as
the IiessIataTe Sts dT %tS " MONO mort " in S' ae% e sHs to Ts tS%s& s he s1 %ts b.
While the above is 10 rue. it might be pertinent to ask. when did Mr.
A W PAUL become such a distinguished nonpartsan that he acquired a
In Ohio county particularly noted for blind. unreasoning and prejudiced par
tsanship. combined with many goo Qualities. it s Mr. 4 w paul and for
him ito pose AZ a special advocacy If nonparisanship mv amuse h ancy
but certainly does not deceive. Nor is it true that the gentlemen referred
10 o not raj any change in the. present charter. DIR. Haskns and the
editor of The lnteligencer have pointed out a number of things in which
they thought the presentc charter could be improved. M have suggested that
,sinad wt,,om, d,.rnn,,nr ,n o. 49,. rm "n " es t"Ner"men ~ouH De ID
John Wallace. another of h speakers. made TIL assertion that under
present conditions tn Board OF Control held daily sessions of only one
lou" The present members Of the Board Of Control are doubtless able to
anS~e fT themselves b" MI Wallace nus know that the meetings Of
the Board CT Control last nor Otter two and three hours than fall short Of
that time Nobody n the City Of Wheeling works more faithfully nd more
regularly than the present city Board If Control 1t meets promptly at
eight O'Clock in the morning, long before either Mr. Wallace or Mr. PAUL
Following that, each member Of the BOARD of Control has a fixed place of
business. and is called up mar times a day. 1t is n OF too much to say that
DR. IIaskns and the other member of tbs Board of Control ire on duty. so
la al complaints are concerned, and 80 far IS public service is concerned.
at all hours Of the day and night.
Mr.. Taylor. according to the veradous chronicer Of the meeting added
TO the gaie'y Of the situation by making complaints against the present form
Ought 70 h tora us ,Sn L"o ON ," rHsa .'e n ' peer 'n5 men ne mnks
large sums IF money nave been wasted on the es works and water works
and that ST II the typhoid in Wheeling is due to impure drinking water.
a u OF which may orr ma lot 70 true; but the facts are that without increas-
ing taxation the present Board Of Control has given tn CITY Of Wheeling
more miles Of goo streets than 1t ever. had before, and has kept the streets
OF NJ city Tar cleaner than they eve we're before. II n money has been
wasted on he gas works or water works. Mr. Taylor has discovered some
thing tina n no else has discovered. The citizens OF Wheeling voted 4
bond issue for the improvement OF both the sas works and the water works
and every dollar voted by them has been carefully and honestly expended
AS 70 Ephod ana the possibilities 81 q filtration plant. II need only be said
ina a filtration plant alone would cost nearly as much as The entire bond
issue voted a ieN years ao. Even the sevorcst critics of the poarI Of Con.
ol would hardly expect IL TO provide a filtration plant out Of its " rock
Ct or to eNpend several hundred thousand dollars FOR such "a plant when tho
citizens neither by taxation or by a bond issue have enabled them to do So
II me 'ocat II The commission form Of government rave no stronger
arguments or more accurate statements Ia make iu favor Of their plan than
III hodeeroGSe Of accGracie and personal ms~tatements reg rcd from
the Union school meeting. they are certainly in desperate strait.