The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-05-20
PAINFUL REVELATIONS.
True and Vcritablo History OF a
Wheeling "Child Of Charity"
How the Wheeling Register has been
Kept Alive.

How thE Wheeling Register has been
Kept Alive.
From tie K0nar0hG Republican Gr I4M.
Some Of our friends (?) arc talking loud
" about the KHnGsrhn Republican "at-
tempting to make u split in the Demo.
cratic parly. We will merely remark,
that the gentlemen referred to, are either,
through Ignorance or willGul pCrvcrsencss,
misreprcScnting matters.
We will also state, in this connection,
that neither Of the editors Of this paper
llns ever travelled over the State Of West
Virginia tor the purpose Of persuading
Democrats to elect Radicals to office. But
we have ClCHr and vivid recollection OF
u wOWld.bG leUding Democrat who has
done this thing; and these simon pure
friends, who affect such deep concern for
our future, never charged that gentleman
with attempting to split" Neither lIas
the Democratic State Executive Commit
tee ever employed an agent to canvass Tor
our paper. ..,
When We speak Of little things going
wrong, We know whereof We speak. And
while we acknowledge That VIC are iHr
from perfection, We CAn not consistently
expose corruption in the Radical camp,
and conceal II in our OWL
We desire peace. harmony, unity, and
the success Ortruc DcmOcntiC principles,
and to this end we shall earnestly labor;
and so long as We publish paper, 1t shall
be INDEPENDENTLY DemOerdtic, ifit takes the
last Crumb from our SCHnty table, md the
Iost ,,,,,,,,,t fr0,O .,nr 1,,irln
From lie &ahas.
The Wheeling Register trusts that we
will withdraw our charge against tho
State Executive Committee, made in the
ReJniJltMM of April 30tll, Ms we were
"evidently misint0rmcl." Were we salts.
fed that such is the case, nothing would
givO us greater pleasure than 10 set the
matter right. But, perhaps unfortunately,
our thoughts revert 10 the meeting Of the
Executive Committee in May, 1860, when
they appropriated 1000 to assist In sIls-
tanning the Wheeling Rgistcr!'
Further, that this same Executive Com
mittcc has, ut the present time, ono man
tIlat we kR0a0 Of, and probably many others
Ofwhom We know nothing, travelling about
the country at the expense Of the party,
to solicit subscriptions TO the proposed
IItM Virginia Courier, an oashOot from
that notorious child Of charity, the Wheel.
ing Register,
We Hrc also satisfied Of tho fact before
mentioned, that Ind It not been the pleas
l,rc Of fcHrt:rin parties in Wheeling, mem:
hers Of the Executive Committee, toclect
u pct-Rn cX.cditor Of the RegiStcr-to
Congress from the First District, regard
less Of the interests Of the party In the
other parts OF the State, there would have
been a much more equal distribution Of
the means Of waging the war against
RaliCallsm.
The fact Of the matter is, in those Sec
tions tllat have done the wOrk-whcrc
nearly all the Democratic gOinS hnTC been
nade-wc have had to "go 1t alone" be.
sides having TO contribute to the campaign
expenses Of men who, If they did not nc.
tually run behind the ticket, only kept up
with II by calling 10 their support sOme-
thing more than their own ability, pOpu'
larity or means.