The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-03-28
SPICY PARAGRAPHS.
Stevenson, Farnsworth and the
Intelligencer.

From the Charleston Courier.
1t is consoling to reflect that Satan
is becoming sanctified. Stevenson
wants the State printer impeached, and
Farnsworth arraigns the State Superln-
tendent for the improper use OF money
that never came into his hands.
The Intsligencer is reluctant to con-
fess that it was mot very smart to
revoke an investigation, which was sure
to bring all the printing accounts
before a committee" That's the view
taken in these parts, exactly.
In the Convention, on Monday, Dan
Farnsworth arraigned our worthy State
Superintendent for improperly disposing
of school monies which Radical school
officers had failed to account Tor: why
do the heather rage and the hog
thieves imagine 30 vain thing!
FELL AT THE FIRST FIRE.-The
pirates of the htsMgenesr. Vide their
kilograms all over the country IN re-
sponse to an article they hadn't SEEN
conscience makes towards.
In the Executive journal for October
1869, will be found forged aud fraudu'
lent entry with which William Z.
Stevenson tried to cover up pretty
piece ofregistratiou villainy, to-wit: the
issuing of two blank registration COM
missions. That individual now pro.
poses to have the State printer removed
for improper practices. He IS ably
seconded by a Radical editor, who
narrowly escaped the penitenliary for
forging witness tickets few years ago.
is rapidly improving when its
forgers and thieves become the cham
pions Of public morality.
We are pained to observe that the
IntslIgeacer regards the C0ur'ers
charges against Mr.. Frew as mali
cious." "On the contrary quite the
reverse" We can sincerely say with
Mr.. Sturgiss that we are "actuated
solely by a grave sense OF public duty,
Or as The IntsNi9encer would put 1t
the time has come when the facts dis
slosed belong to the public, and we
have no right longer to conceal them.
The Wheeling Intsllgecer tele-
yraphed all over the country testi
monial Of the integrity OF the gilt
edged rascals who run it. John Frew,s
certificate should have been appended.
We look for it quite naturally IN con-
nection with the false vouchers OF that
paper.
If thirty quires OF book paper at
,eventy-fve cents per quire cost forty
two dollars, as per John Frews ac-
count and certificate, what is the
market value of the Wheeling MteIh-
gsncer's certificate to its own integrity :
I'VE submit this as proper subject OF
inquiry by the printing commission
The State printer is accused of gross
wickedness in rendering bond to the
to pay the costs Of the
against him, in case he
should be convicted, and asking the
Legislature TO demand like bond OF
the prosecution in case his accusers
should not otherwise appear to be
worthy OF attention. 1t is worth while
lust now to look at possible results.
The State has been put to an actual ex-
pense OF over one thousand dollars.
Legislation was delayed for two weeks.
and the committee reported not a
single charge sustained. Would the
State have been worse off mad this loss
fallen upon Tom Swami and his crowd
rather than upon itself2
Farnsworth has turned detective.
Without having previously distin-
guished himself by personal adherence
Of petit larceny, without indeed having
been wholly disconnected with some
historic exploits in which was Involved
the surreptitious appropriation OF
svine-we find him springing to
emipence in the Convention as the
great enemy of corruption. Monday
last IN his raid upon the State Superln-
tendent for failing to account for money
that never came into his hands, ne
reached the sublimest climax Of idiocy.
He slaughtered syntax until the mutila-
ted parts OF speech, like the victims
slain by Sampson with a similar
weapon, lay around him in heaps; be
murdered facts as he murdered
English, with startling ferocity, and he
limbed, skinned and jawhawked the
four rules OF arithmetic until the alr
was vocal with the walls Of mangled
mathematics. 1t is a pity that bis
furious defamation outlived the
patience Of his hearers and that the
Convention was forced to choose
between snuffing him out and kicking
him out. Let his righteous wrath be
re kindled. Let him be encouraged to
Investigate" Let the result Of hi;
labors be given to the world; let tht
product OF bis parturi,ion be entitled
'The Revelations Of a Reformer; ol
What / Know about Thieving." De.
pend upon it, what Dan Farnswortt