Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-05
Tnr Editor Of the Times came out yesterday


TIE Editor Of the Times came out yesterday
in his paper with another article, upon the au-
thorship Of "WheeIing," in which he proves
himself as little of gentleman as he is Of a To-
gician. 1t Is merely our purpose in this short
notice, to show that, despite our oft repeated as
surance, he has persisted in a course of willful
falsehood The facts of the caseare these: In the
IntelEigeneer of January 22d, there appeared an
article under the signature of *, in which
some of the attacks of the Times on the City
Council were taken up and considered. In this
article occurred this passage: 81 was present
in the Council Chamber on the night of the 18th
inst, and my recollection is distinct that the ac-
ton of Council, as regards the publication OF
the annual financial statement, was not as rep
resented by the Times of the goth inst"
Now. why was not this answered or even mo-
ticed by the 1Tmes2 He did not notice line
of the communication. The public will judge
in this matter if he is the earnest expounder and
advocate of truth, to which he has been making
pretensions. After few days followed the
communication of "wheeling," being com
mentary upon the crow of the Times over the
election and in which the question was asked,
whether the policy of the Council of 1856 was
to be upset and the policy of 1855 substituted
therefor? For what was all the growing, without
some principle or set of principles were gaineds
No, the truth of the whole matter ia, that this
Editor of the Tines has been, since his recall to
this city, trying to institute sort of repu-
tation for brilliant displays of New York Herald
ism, and make people have prodigious idea of
him. One of his first attempts after landing here,
off tale
matter, and putting it under the head of stand
ing falsehoodi in his paper, viz: that twas report
cd erpreasIyfo for the Times" The publicwill recol-
lect that we convicted him Of this attempt, and
they will also recollect his idle, disingenious at
tempt to parry it off. Then again they will re-
collect how he came out on tho morning of the
9th of November; and blackguarded a number
of respectable gentlemen who had seen fit, in
the undoubted use of their elective franchise, to
vote the Democratic ticket. How he hurled
from his conceited vatican the infamy of Arnold
at them Then the public will also recollect,
in tho recent Mayorality matter, how he
took up the name of a private, unoffen
ding citizen, and dragged it forth and made his
great attempt at New York Heraldisu'. 1t
would have taken very little then tohave brought
duly appreciated. eH
The public will also recollect how he came out
and stated that he had information that the
strike in his office by his compositors was but
the precursor of one in each of the others The
employees of this establishment pinned the
falsehood right down on him. We let all
these things pass at the time, not wishing to go
into ncyer-euding dispute with him, knowing,
as we did, thathe would write on as long as any
one would notice him.
We have thus briefly noticed the course of
the Editor of the Times, since his return to
Wheeling 1t is no choice of ours SO to do, and
we would much rather have treated him with
respect.
In reference to the controversy going on be-
tween him and "Wheeling,' We but merely mem
toned our reasons for admitting the correspon-
dence to our paper and we supposed that much
was due the public. 1t was because the authors
of the several communications had felt them
selves aggrieved by the attacks of the Times,
and wished to explain what was the true state
of the facts under discussion. When the first
of wheeling :" articles appeared, the Editor
of tho Tines called upon us to learn the nameof
our correspondent. We refused him, as mat
ter of course we would, with this proviso-and
we call the attention of the public to tho proviso
that the name should be forthcoming if the
Editor of the Times wished to make personal
matter of it AS he would not say he did, we
withheld the name, as is always the rule in such
cases. We assured him that he was a respec-
table gentleman, and that he need not hesitate,
on that account, to answer him. He still kept
on, however, insinuating about our convenient
correspondents" until, at last, he made the di-
rect charge that they were written by the Edit
ors Of this paper, which charge is absolutely
false.
We deem this much due ourselves.
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