The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-08-13
ANOTHER LIE NAILED!
The lntelligencer Ronsied.
MoOREFIELD, W. VA. !
August I, le6S. i,

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Editors of the Register:
Having been appointed with other
gentlemen by Convention Of the peo-
pie of this county, to represent them in
the late Democratic State Convention,
held at Grafton, and having been honor
ed by the delegation from this county
with the position of chairman thereof, /
deem it my duty in general to those
who sent rs to that Convention, in JUS
tice to myself and the rest of the gentle
men composing the delegation from this
county, in justice to truth, to brand as
they deserve the ISLANDERS of the Radical
organ of this State, heaped upon gentle
men who composed this great and glo-
rious Convention.
In an article which appeared in'that
paper few days since, it was said that
the eastern bound train from Grafton,
ON the night after the Convention ad-
journed, was loaded with such a set of
drunken rewdy delegates, as made it
difficult for the conductor to ran his
train. | do not know that l use the
language employed by the Radical or
gan in the article referred to, (not
having the paper before me) but l give
the substance thereof and the idea
meant to be conveyed By it. Now, l
siBply desire to say, through the col
umns of your paper that a baser lie
was never printed in Radical paper
before. l, in company with tho rest
of the gentlemen comprising the dele
CATION from this county, together with
the delegations from some eight or ten
counties in this section of the State,
left Grafton on that train, and | assert
it without the fear of even an attempt
at contradiction, By any man who has
the lIghtest regard for truth, that there
was not one single intoxicated individ-
ual on that train. The whole story is
an outrageous falsehood frem beginning
to end, and the man, or thing, who
wrote it knew it was when lie did it.
| was present during the whole time
the Convention was in session, from its
temporary organization, to its final ad
iournment, | heard both the able
speeches delivered before the Couven-
tion, and the man who says the name
of jeff Davis was either mentioned, or
cheered, during the delivery ofeither of
the speeches, or ut any other time dur
ing the session of the Convention, by
either the delegates or the immense
crowd in attendance, or that that Con
vention was composed of drunken row
dies and rebels, pronounce a liar, COW
ard aud scoumdrel. In my Judgment
the time has gone by, when Democrats
should stand quietly by and allow
Radical editors 10 spread broadcast over
the State and country, the most infa-
nous falSehoods and ISLANDERS. There
is only one mode of dealing with such
fellows. If the Radicals expect TO car
~ this State by such wholesale and out
rageous slanders as those, they must
indeed have poor opinion of the in
telligcncc of the people. If base and
infamous ISLANDERS are the only matter
they can go before the people with and
ask them for support they must he hard
up indeed. They will find the people
are not to be deceived in this way. The
people desire them to meet us fairly and
squarcly upon the issues-the real is
sues involved in the campaign. They
cannot be made believe such things of
the gentlemen who composed that Con
vention, especially coming from such
source. Their characters for integrity,
sobriety aud genuine patriotism are too
well known to be injured by the vile
ISLANDERS of the Radical organ.
For thu truth Of my statement, in re-
gard to there not being an intoxicated
individual on tho eastern bound train
from Graftsn on the night after the adj
iournment of the Convention, | refer
t. Capt. Trench who had charge of the
train, and to Judge Kennedy of Jeffer-
sox, Col. David Gibson, John J. Jacobs
and r. l. Gilkeson of Hampshire, II. G..
and T. B. Davis of Mineral, Thomas
Maslin and Col. X. B. Sherrard of this
county all of whom were delegates to
tho Convention, all of whom the Radi-
cal organ denounces as drunken, rcwdy
rebels.
Yours with respect,