The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-03
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How the Radicals Propose
Y Carrying West Virginia.
Proceedings OF the Board of
Registration ia Writ
r...- County, 4'.a no q 4
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The Board of Registration for Writ
county. ut their meeting held Septem'
Der 81 for the purpose of issuiRg notices
to persons to appear before them tc
prove themselves to be qualified voters
was held at the Court House with clos
ed doors, and did not allow any person
outside of the Board, except few Re-
publicans, to enter until some time after
dinner, when Mr.. J. Hosey, chairman OF
q committee sent by the Democrats of
Burning Springs township, to prefer
charges against certain Republicans in
said township, was admitted, through
the request Of S. C. Rogers, Registrar
of said township.
When admitted, Mr.. Hosey gave the
Chairman of the Board list of the
names of said Republicans, with the
charges against them, and the Chair
man promised him that they should be
summoned. But they were not sum-
mOned.
Mr.. Stewart, our representative, asked
to be admitted, with five of his friends,
and the following conversation was had
between them at the door.
Mr.. S.-Are you holding secret ses-
siOni
Chino, sir, but we have great
deal of writing t. do, and cannot be
annoyed by outsiders.
Mr.. Swell. l have four or five
friends here who wish simply to look on
and | will vouch for their good be-
havior and their remaining perfectly
quiet and orderly.
Ch'n.-It is just so secret you can't
come in. And he shut the door in their
faces.
Mr.. Lount, from BHrning Springs, went
in just after dinner, before the Board
was in session and requested one of the
members of the Board who was present
to give him the names of the persons
registered in said township after the
day on which the registrar sat in public
to correct the roll.
He was proceeding to do so when the
Chairman and other members came i'll
and prohibited him from doing so.
There was not at any time during
the session of the Board twenty stran-
gers in Elizabeth, and never to exceed
ten or twelve in the court house yard or
vicinity, and they were at all times
perfectly quiet and orderly.
One hundred and eighty-three have
been summoned altogether, and some Of
them are Union soldiers who fought all
through the war and were honorably
discharged.
What makes US feel the injustice of
these proceedings the more keenly is
the fact that the registration law as
amended in 1865, permits the Board to
do this with impunity.
Persons charged with being illegal
voters must file an affidavit before the
Clerk of the Board of Registration, be-
fore the first Mo.day in October, that
they have material witnesses in their
favor; when the clerk will issue sub
pUnas for said witnesses upon the re-
ceipt If all lawful fees.
No witnesses will be recognized by
the Board of Registration who arc not
subpenaed rs aforesaid.
The affidavit of the person charged
with disloyalty, non-residence or non
citizenship will not be received as evil
dence.
Counsel will not be allowed on either
side.
Persons summoned to appear before
the Board will not be informed as to
what charges are preferred against
them until they appear before said
Board rs aforesaid, and they will then
be required to prove themselves legal
voters in every respect before witnesses
will be examined against them.
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the Board of Registration of Writ
county at their meeting on the third
Monday of September, 1868, according
to the best recollection of the Clerk of
the Board.
The above statement was made by
Enoch S. Lockhart, Clerk of the Board
of Regi stratiOn for Writ county, West
| Virginia, and reduced to writing in his
presence by Samuel ID. Lount, one OF
the signers hereunto, and read to him
by said Lount on the 2Sth day of Sep
| tember, 1865, in the court house of Writ
county, and it was then and there &C
knOwledged BY said EnOch S. Lockhart
to be q correct statement as made by
! him in our presence,
SAM'L. ID. LoUNT;
G.. S. LowTHER;
J. w. DEEvER;
VIM. GIBSON.
Sworn and subscribed to before me
this 25th day of September, 1868.
+. T. LoCKHART,
Com. C.. C.. of Writ Co., w. Va.