The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-10-13
More Registration Villainy
The Greenbrier Board not
Removed.
The Last Appointments Re.
called.
Caldwell and Thatcher Retained
Contemplate Trickery Of the
Governor.

Registration for Greenbrier. We mad
the announcement upon informatio
furnished by the State Honse. W
stated that CALDWELL ("Old Scratch
and THATCHER, his tool, had been turr
ed out and Messrs CALLIsON and SNEI
EGAR put in their places. We regret t
confess that the story was "a delusio
and a snare" which the Governor mad
the city papers here the medium of i'm
posing upon the public. 1t is true tina
the removals were ordered as stated
but as soon as the public was assure
of this, aud the Governor had receive
the small credit due him for an act c
Justice which came too late to be c
benefit, the old Board received private
advice from the Governor not to racate
We take the following account of tn
transaction from the Phenir, an ultra
proscriptive paper, the organ of Ma
HARRISON, published at Lewisburg
Greenbrier county, where the dirt.
work was done. Our readers may there
fore rest assured that the facts ar
toned down as much as possible:
From the Phoenix, Oct. l..
THE BOARD OF REGISTRATION.
We mentioned in last weeks pape
the rumor that a new Board of Regis
tration, for this county, had been ap
pointed by the Governor, consisting o
Madison Callison, John l.. Snedegar
and John NJ. Williams. On Monday
lasr, Messrs. Callison and Snedegar cam,
to Lewisburg and the former qualified
as President of the Board, intending tt
have a meeting for the transaction o
business on that day. Mr.. Callison de
manded the papers of the old Board
when he was told by DR.. Caldwell, thu
former President, that he Caldwell
had advices from the Governor subse
quent to the date of Callison's commits
sion, ,iustructing the old Board to retair
their places until further orders. DR.
Thatcher also said that he had in hi.
own possession letter from the Gov
ernor, telling him not to vacate his po
sitiDn until he received instructions
from Wheeling to do 50.
Mr.. Snedegar hearing these state
ments, refused TO quality, and went
home. Mr.. Williams, the third member
of the new Board, (also a member OF
the old Oue.) then said, that should DR..
Caldwell DO removed, that he (Wil'
liams) would resign. So the matter
stands now, and will so remain uatil
the Governor can be heard from.
The case here set forth merits the con.
sideratiou of the public. Here are
these GrCenbrier registrars whom the
respectable people of all parties, in all
sections of the State, united in de
nouncing as corrupt aud unscru
pulous. 4 demand for their re-
moval was made, land made from
such sources as compelled the Governor
to entertain it. He evaded, delayed
teuporized. The demand was renewed
The best meu and the best papers OF his
own party joined in asking this act OF
Justice at his hands. After two months
of pitiable and unjustifable dodging,
when the Fall registration, or proscrlp'
ton rather, was so far advanced as tc
render it almost impossible to repair
the damages for the coming election
he gives out that CALDWELL aud
THATCHER have been removed. Every,
body said that the delay in the removal
had put it beyond possibility for the
new registrars to get up anything like
q fair registration in Greenbrier for this
year. But still it was some satisfaction
to know that the power for evil had
been taken out of the hands of CALD.
WELL, aud there were some journals, the
Greenbrier Independent among others,
which gave the Governor more credit
than his tardy action was entitled to-
Now, it appears, ho never even con-
templated a change. For the sake OF
stopping popular clamor, he has de-
sceudcd to tie low trick of imposing
upon the public false information with
regard to the CALDWELL removal, not
strictly false at the time, it may be, but
yet intended to deceive, e(and in this
consists the essence of falsehood) for
almost immediately he falsified his own
statements by quietly ordering CALD'
WELL and THATCHER to hold on to their
places.
We imagine the "liberal" Republican
leaders of Ohio county must be quite
proud of their Governor by this time.
Doubtless it was in Difference to his
wishes they refused to commit them
selves to the repeal, or even the amend,
meut, of the registration law. We here
notify them that they may as well
abandon such subterfuges. They can.
not humbug the people by pretending
to favor the repeal of the Oaths fol
Suitors, Teachers and Lawyers, while
they stand up for the registration law
and in effect endorse the oatrages it en-
ables the Governor to perpetrate.