The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-09-06
stevenson and Hs. Policy

high standing in Greenbrier county, az
undoubted Union man and member OF
the Republican party, is the author Of
the statement, elsewhere printed in this
paper, concerning the registration out
RACES in his county. While some may
question the taste of a paragraph
or two at the opening, the vigoI
Of which is to be attributed to the
natural Indignation of q deeply
injured man, this statement will
command attention for its clear and for
chile recital of facts and for its searching
exposure of stupendous villainies. The
reader will be struck with the consist
ency of the. whole narrative, with it'
intern AZ evidence of truth and its thor
ough corroboration of the grave accu
satioDs so generally brought against
BoRENiAN's administration of the regis
tIation law.
We had hoped that the discussion
which this publication will revive
might die out with BoRAMAN's exodus
from the Executive Chair. II
was our sincere hope that with
the satisfaction of his ambition
would cease the exercise of those
foul means by which be entered
the Senate of the United States. With
the accomplishment of his purposes, we
trusted the tools he had used would be
cast aside, and the registration law be
administered in such spirit of justice
and liberality as would put at rest all
question of the fairness of the Execu-
tive and of the moral and mental fit
ness of his subordinates. We confess
that our confidence was sadly shaken
when Governor STEVENSON, with
scarcely single exception, re-appointed
the worst, the most malignant and the
most unscrupulous of the registrars
through whose disgraceful euormities
FOREMAN was enabled to reach the Sen
atorship. Still We formed no prccipi-
tate Judgment. Although Governor
STEVENSON had outraged the people of
the State by continuing the creatures
of FOREMAN in their places, we were
glad to hear from some of the warm
friends of the present Executive that
lie was willing and anxious to correct
any errors that might be found in his
appointments, and that it was his ear-
nest desire to execute the law in the
interests of the whole people and not to
further the purposes of any party or the
ambition of any individual.
For this reason, among others, the
publication of this WALKER paper has
beeR delayed for nearly month, and
tie criticism which Governor STEVEN.
SONS re. appoin ;ment of BoREMAN' : reg
istrars fairly merited, has been suspend
el for twice that length of time. But this
paper has bueu submitted to Governor
STEVENSON. He has had IL his posses
sion tor weeks the most ample aud
indiSputaJic evidence confirming its
statements. O,her disgraceful cases
and grievous complaints have been pre-
sented to him from different parts of the
State. In no instance has a single reno
val been made. Oar conviction is as firm
as conviction can be, that thepresent Ex-
ecutive contemplates no improvement
upon the registration policy of his pre-
decessor-a policy which has harassed
our people, degraded our State, and,
while securing for its author the dar-
ling object of his ambition, has made
his preferment the evidence of his Off
cial turpitude, and embittered the pos
session of his Senatorial laurels with
the reflection that they were won by
knavery and are now worn in disgrace.
When Governor STEVENSON was in
he very well knew the dis
content which fraudulent disfranchise-
ment had produced throughout West
Virginia. The address lately issued by
the Republicans of this city, in which
the abuses of the registration power are
pointedly discussed, shows that those
abuses have long been familiar to the
minds of all intelligent Republicans.
The subject had been thoroughly pre-
sented by the newspapers; it had been
discussed upon the stump; it had
formed prominent topic of discourse
in the streets and all public places, prior
to the late election and if Governor
STEVENSON had needed any advice
upon the matter, which these sources
and the popular clamor occasioned by
the late Senatorial election did not fur.
nish, recollection of the size of his
majority, if not the fact of his election
must have supplied the want.
With the facts before him he re-
appointed the registrars of Governor
FOREMAN. He Te-appointed DR.. CALD
WELL, of Greenbrier, whom even BORE
MAN, as We are informed, had removed
no less than four times in obedienc,
to the demands of the people, ant
re-appeinted as often to meet the
wishes of NAT HARRISON and prowott
his own interests. Governor STEVEN
son continued the Jefferson county
Board-a Board that FOREMAN had Sc
lected under the advice of JOE CHAP
LINE last Fall, because their predeces
sors were trying to make an honest
registration a Board that disfranchised
by wholesale, without evidence, charg,
or trial, in order to elect from tha,
county two delegates pledged to BORE
MAN for the United States Senate. II,
re-appointed CRAVEN BERRY to coatro
the Braxton county Board, when ht
must have known that BERRY was {
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