The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-30
The Gubernntorial Game.

FOREMAN, as Governor, was one OF
the most savage of small despots. His
career was full of official iniquity. Few
men have managed An Executive office
with a uore perfect disregard of public
law and private right. BRowNLow
was one of his few competitors in that
line, and was almost the only man who
surpassed him. But BRowNLow had
brains. Had FOREMAN possessed that
article, the Tennessee parson would not
have excelled him in enormity. But
with all his outrages FOREMAN had one
trait that produced an impression dis
tantly related to respect. He was per-
fectly candid in his corruptions. He
was bent upon using the power which
circumstances had placed in his hands,
for the achievement of his own ends
and those of his partisan supporters,
but he never professed anything else.
He never in his whole career as Govern
or attempted to make the public be-
lieve that there was any fairness or
honesty in his proceedings.
In one respect, at least, we regret TO
say the present Executive differs from
his predecessor. He processes a desire
to administer the registration law in
Just and impartial manner. But unhap-
PLY his acts don't travel in the same
direction with his professions. ASK
him whether Board Of registration
should be controlled entirely by single
family and he will heartily coincide
with YOU that such monopoly ought not
TO be tolerated. Ask him whether can
didates for office should be allowed to
act as registrars, and he will confess as
candidly as any one the improperly OF
such proceedings. He will even assert
his willingness to make removals IN all
such cases. But Just here the Guberna-
torisl fairness and justice come to q
full stop. They find no expression In
act.
We have heretofore mentioned sever
al instances illustrating the marked
disagreement between the Governors
practice and his professions. We have
mentioned several cases in which he
failed to make the removals to which
BY his own declared policy he was
pledged, but We have found none more
apt than that presented by the Web
ster county registrars. The Weston
Democrat says:
The Board of Registration for Web
ster county consists OF two brothers ana
a brother-in-law. They have stricken
off half the remaining voters, and now
want to go to the Legislature-all OF
them. In order to avoid q difficulty
thew are to meet shortly at the house OF
relative and "drsw CUTS to settle
who shall have the "posish."
The above statement is corroborated
by private information from another
source. The condition of affairs which
it discloses is fair and forcible COM
Nment upon the registration system in
general, and upon the STEVENSON pol
icy in particular. We have not the
slightest idea that any change will be
made in the Webster county Board or in
any other, similarly situated. A fair
administration of the law is no part of
the game. That was made fully mani
fest in the cases of Greenbrier and JEFF
ferson. In the former, the Governor has
retained CALDWELL in position until his
deviltry has all been completed and no
change can remedy his rascality. In
the latter, he has re-appointed two men
who resigned with the avowed purpose