The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-09-29
Ihe Quincy street ColIap.e.

Inc quincy Strces SO
The Mtelzigenc1 creeps down from
its manly denunciation of the wrongs
perpetrated under the registration law,
in a very shameful and humiliating
manner. The same causes for com.
plant that stirred the indignation of
our neighbor one year ago, still exist.
The Boards of Registration are still the
creatures of the Governor, are still CON-
posed Of irresponsible and unscru-
pulous' men, and are still striking
from the registry the names ofhundreds
of legally qualified white voters. The
acknowledgements for opinions sake are
even more numerous and indefensible
this fall than they were one year ago,
because the Governor is himself can
didate, and because the election this
year is of much more importance in
many respects than that of last Octo-
Der
The Boards ofRegistration are largely
composed of the same men who have
heretofore, ito crafty personal dislikes
or mercenary ends, deprived of the bal
lot men of their own political faith,
who have right to vote under the
law" and this they are doing again in
Barbour, Braxton, Berkeley, and 9TH
er counties in this State And yet the
MtelHgcnccr hasn't the sand to oppose
these infamies, or lift its voice in their
denunciation. 1t "backs down" from
its former position, and, in the face of
the fact that nearly all OF
its West Virginia exchanges, states
that dozens of Union men in their
respective counties have been sum-
moned for disfranchisement, it aban
dons its former outspoken opposition
to these things, and says, 1--WE do not
find any evidence in this 70 believe that
the same state of facts exists now.
Last year we had only members o.
the Legislature to elect If the tools
Of the Governor were active then ir
DISTINGUISHING legal voters, how unreas
enable is it for the Intelligencer to dis
believe that they are now violating thu
law and outraging decency and right
when we have full board Of State
officers to elect, members of Congress t.
be chosen,a Legislature that will choos,
an United States Senator, and in ever,
county in the State a full ticket 0
county officer The inducements t.
, villainy year ago were not nearly al
} strong as they are now, and the fact
prove that the Boards Of Registration
are gauging their rascality by the in
creased importance Of the election.
Our neighbors allusion to the course
pursued by the Democrats in the las
Legislature, is unfortunate for its con
sistency. The bill which passed TIT
House(the WELL S substituted continued
in the hands OF the Governor the powe,
: OF appointing the Boards OF Registra
ton who should make up the lists o
, voters at the ensuing election. Tn,
MtelEgoccr still asserts that "The prin.
ciplc is wrong" Upon this account
the Democrats opposed its passage ii
, the House, but will the MtclEgencG
, inform us why the Radical Senate at
forwards refused to pass the bill, ant
give to the people even the poor boon o.
choosing their registrars in 1871? VIII
it also explain why, Notwithstanding
the htelEgencer's former opposition to
the iniquities of the registration
system, it failed to support and
its friends in the Legislature refused to
pass the original bill for the prevention
Of these outrages, or the bill introduced
by Mr.. DAVIS requiring proof of disloy-
atty before Acknowledgement, and max
ing Registrars responsible in damages
to those whom they illegally deprived Of
their right to vote9 These needed re-
forms received the support of the RE-
GISTER and the solid Democratic vote of
the members Of the House. but the
Mtslligncer and its friends stood in the
way and prevented the repeal of the
Identical features OF the law which a
few months before it had so eloGuently
denounced. "Now these are facts which
we cannot ignore