The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-04

ernor never heard until weeks after tbt
election &as over, and that then the en-
tries were made and dated bacl
in the Executive Journal to con
ceal the awkward facts. The
issuing Of this blank commission has
been frankly admitted by clerk in the
office of the Secretary of the State, and
the only excuse we have yet heard of
fered i, that Messrs KooNcE and CHAP
LINE, Of Jefferson county, would dc
nothing with a blank commission
which the Governor would not approve
| Let us admit that. Then the Governor
approves the appointment of HEz ROD
ERICK, one of the veriest vagabonds and
"dead bsats" in the State. Approving
that, he approves the consequences
among which migbrbe named the seiz
ure of the completed books by UNDER
DoNE, who served eighteen months in
the rebel army, but whose rebel sins
have become white as wool, by reaso9
of later ''loyal' services in disfranchisI
ing his neighbors. Another result of
this blank commission business, was the
alteration of the books which the Board
had completed and sealed, the erasure
of names therefrom and the defeat of
BILLMYER and KITCHEN for the State
Senate.
No doubt this matter will appear all
right to these whose ideas of Repub-
lican Governor are limited to the belief
that he can do no wrong. Nevertheless
this thing of governing by deputy does
not strike the common mind as the most
decent and appropriate style Of running
the machine. Was it not enough thal
Governor STEVENSON went to Jefferson
and selected Board that suited him 7
Was he go badly disappointed in that
Board that he must needs allow its COM
plexion to be changed by others after
its duties were done and en- the very
eve of the electioni Did it display an
expected honestyi Is honesty dis
qualification in the Gabernatorial eyei
Aud does the Governor SO far distIu't
his own ability to select a salts
factory set of rascals for regis
trars that he must delegate that
duty to GEORGE KoONCE and JOE
CHAPLINEi We don't expect the Ex-
ecutive to answer these questions, but
we mean his apologists to understand
that the system they would perpetuate
is thoroughly understood.
They talk of more of these blank
commissions in Greenbrier county.
When ex.Auditor MCWHoRTER went
over there last Summer to look into
registration rascalities over which the
whole State was Indignant, he alss was
furnished with such documents to
enable him to play deputy-Governor.
Having tried his hand on Old JOE
CALDWELL, whose removal nearly
every respectable man acquainted
with his career demanded, the
deputy Governor retired discom.
fitted. Old JOE still reigns. The
Governor says he removed him. But
after the Governor had publicly an.
nouDced that removal the jolly JOSEPH
continued in his position, the Governor
acqujosciug not conniviDg. CAEPEN-
TER was elected under CALDwELL's well
trimmed lists. HARRISON has first
class tool upon the floor of the House.
In other words the Executive power of
has been used to defeat
NAT HARRIsoN's impeachment.
: There are merely few features of
the present registration system that
have forced themselves to light. How
much more rottenuess lies behind, we
can only conjecture. Let the Legisla'
ture reform that system aud putan end
to it's corrpptions.