The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-17

liked itor not h was not afraid but that
b could d elected two years hence, as
9 Peoples candidate. in spite. Of the
organization. 1t was then, Ia Nay,
| 1871, that bis most extraordinary action
was first referred to in the S,sday Ne'os,
in mild article which | did not write
but for which he has always held me
responsible.
vi. With characteristic incon>
sistency, ). these persons who are 30
full OF charges spd barren Of proof in
the next breath charge that the refusal
Of Governor JAOoB 10 pass somezex-
orbitant printing bill rendered by Mr..
WALrKR, is at the bottom Of my OPP
position to His Excellency. But it
is a fact that the first published
article of which he complains
appeared in the Sunday Ne'0s in
May, 1871, while the Cow
ernor endorsed and. ordered the pay.
ment of every bill presented to him by
Mr.. WALKER, as the public records will
SHOW, up to about January l, 1872.
At that time he only withheld bis
signature from q bill, the correctness Of
which was not disputed, but only
doubted. In his message transmitted
to the Legislature on the 10th day
of January. 1872, we find no express
sion of even doubt as to the honesty
and propriety Of all the proceedings
and bills of the Public Printer. Nor
do We find, during the entire session OF
that body, which did not adjourn until
the first of March last, any special
message from the Governor, warning
the representatives Of the people that
their treasury was in danger of being
robbed by the person whose duty il
was to do the printing ordered by the
officers OF the State. Not only
80, but we find, by an exam
nation of the public records,
that the Public Printer has gone
on all this time, presenting his bills,
receiving the endorsement of Gov
ernor JACOB upon them, and drawing
his money with proper punctuality,
while the Governors dupes are crying
printing frauds| to make capital for
his election. And right here the query
naturally presents itself, How can the
Public Printer have swindled the
State out Of $4,000 during the time in
which the public records show that but
$4,000 in all was drawn from the
Treasury by that officerY'
| AS to when first made up my mind
that Governor JACOB did not intend to
act squarely with the party that placed
him in power, but that he intended to
so strengthen himself with our enemies
that he might 60 to them as soon as
he could no longer use US for bis selfish
purposes, / win say frankly it was on
the night oflhe I'd Of March, 1871,
when he read to me, for criticism as he
suggested, his then forthcoming Inau-
sural Address. When / ventured to
, suggest that his address contained NO
I cougratulation to the people Of the
: State, on the repeal, by the Democratic
Legislature, of the registration law, the
most Ubiquitous, inquisitorial and dis
graceful statute. as administered by
FOREMAN and STEVENSON, that ever
marred code Of laws; no congratula-
ton to the people on the repeal, by the
Democratic Legislature, of the whole
brood Of malignant, oppressive and un'
constitutional test oaths; no con.
graduation to the people on the
Inauguration, by the Democratic
Legislature, of measures to reform
their present crude, passion-begot
and hate-born Constitutions move
ment first set on loot and brought be.
fore the public by that distinguished
conservative citizen, Mr.. DANIEL LAMB
in q communication prepared by him
and published in the Democratic pa pers
of the State, in the shape Of a congrat.
ulatory address, Immediately after the
election which brought Governor JACOB
into power; when, l say, l ventured to
express this mild criticism on the Gov
ernor's address, l discovered it was not
criticism but praise that his Excellency
desired. From that moment his
friendly bearing toward me was changed
to chilliness. He received from the
IntelGgeneer and the Radical press what
he coveted. That determined his
course, and he has pursued it with
fidelity TO this moment He cast his
fortunes with his flatterers. The fly
walked into the spiders parlor. 1t is
an old story the Governor is repeating.
| VII. The insinustion that l have
any special interest in the selection OF
members Of the Legislature, is both alb.
surd and untrue. My interest in hav-
ing the first city Of the State creditably
represented in the law-making branch