The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-08-17
MONONGALIA COUNTY.
Dem orratic Meettne In MOPgAnfOW
-Rxaical FaisehOOds Exposed.


Dem oeratic Meeting In MersanfOw w n
| --Rsaicai faisehOOds Exposed.
MoRGANrowN, August Is, 1872,
Editors OF the Register:
We had an old fashioned political
meeting here to-day, marked by great
enthusiasm. The attendance Of the
people was so large that platform had
to be erected in front of the Cour,
House. Speeches were made in the
Glowing order: by Hon. Chas. j.
JrauGkner, COZ. Samuel Woods, Col
Benz. F. Martin aud General Samuel F.
Carey. No doubt a full account Of this
most interesting meeting will be fur
nished to you.
NV only object in addressing to you
this brief sketch OF it is to relate an in
cident which 80 effectually exposed the
MISREPRESENTATION and falsehoods OF
the Radical press here, that the same
exposure may be beneficial in other
parts of the State. Mr.. Faulkner, in
the course OF his remarks, took up a
COPY OF the Morgantown Post which
had been issued. that morning, and
| which had been handed to him shortly
before be took the stand. He quoted
from it the following paragraph:
"The present Constitution allows no
extra pay to Circuit Court Judges for
holding special terms OF the Court, 30
none are held. The ne,o Lawyers
Constitution makes provision for
judges to receive SIS per day for bold
ing special terms of Court" &c.
Mr.. Faulkner denounced the state
ment as false, and offered to pay the
editor of that paper or to any other
Radical in the crowd, 500 before he
lett town, if they would point out or
show any such provision in this new
Constitution.
Henext quoted another article headed
"Tar PAYERS ! how do you ike It, Your
uife is IN be ared.". Never in the his
tory of America has sny State levied a
capitation tax upon soomsn; never was
it attempted until the forty lawyers
assembled in Charleston last winter.
We have q pamphlet copy Of the pro-
posed new Constitution, which was
printed officially for general circulation,
from which we copy the following
r6rbatim.
Mr.. Faulker denounced this citation
from the Constitution as false, and
offered TO give to these editors 500 on
sight, if they would produce before that
crowd an official copy of the constitution
containing any such section as they
hav. quoted.
So with two or three other quotations
from the paper. The exposure here be-
came terrible and had a most striking
effect upon the crowd. After the Close
of Mr.. Faulkner's remarks, one OF th'
editors, Mr.. Hoffman, asked for az op
portunity to make an explanation. Thi
was granted. He then SAID he hat
lived from boyhood in that place anC
was well.known to the people, and the.
knew be would not willingly make 1
false statement in his paper. He thel
produced q pamphlet copy Of the Con
stitution, from which he read the sec
ton as it appeared in the paper. Her
the hurrahs Of the Radicals were deal
euipg. Mr.. Faulkner asked him Il
show him bis copy. and, upon lookint
at it, demonstrated it was not an otfciu
COPY of the CoDstitution-that it aa'
been printed at Wheeling, not at tn
seat OF government-and that it wa
without the authentic seal Of the Gov
| eruor of the State, which accompauie'
| all the official copies, and that there wa
no such section in the official copy
Here the hurrahs were overwhelming
against the editor.
At strikes me il the public speaker
would take occas on to notice ties
misreprese utations which are circulated
through the local press, and call al
tention to them, that it would correc
many false impressions and check tn
license which 80 much prevails 10 on
country papers to publish any falsehoot
that may suit their present purposes.
MoNoNGALIA.
The inadvertent omission Of the WOE
male" from the second section OF Arti
Gle 10 of the edition of the Constitution
printed in this Office has already beeI
alluded to in the REoIsrER, and th'
error corrected 90 far As it was possibl
to correct it. The editor Of the Pos
can scarcely have tailed to see that cor
rection and is not such an isnoram,4s q
not to know that the copy of the Con
stituton from which he quoted was il
no sense "offcial."