The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-12-05
LETTER FROM CHARLESTON.

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A Brace orRadIeal Lies-Prospeets
OF the Normal Schools
Special Correspondence Of the Register.
CHARLESTON, Nov. 80, 1873.
Itappears impossible for our Repub'
licsn friends to tell the truth, and to
contradict all the lies they send 10 your
ueighbor of the IntslGgeneer, would re-
quire ones constant attention. To help
the cause along, they have sent foI
Scofeld, of the Psrkersburg Jorrna!
and you may expect to see Radicslism
in all its glory painted in big head lines
as coon as "Scofe." gets time to collect
his ideas and write letter. ("Scofe.
and our Democratic Governor had q
long confidential chat Immediately up
on the formers arrival here.) As 8
sample OF the truthful assertions ei
these Radical scribblers, l mention the
following:
BRACE OF LIES.
Walker secured the printing from
the Legislature, after the Governor had
removed him for fraud and malfeas-
ance in office. Yet q partisan Legisla'
ture, in the face OF that removal, pass
ed a resolution giving him the printing
-Correspondence OF the Ints9hgencer
When o man lies, he may find de'
tenders if there is sense or wit in his
false declarations, but when the lie pos
sesees neither OF these mitigating Cir
Cumstances, the liar should and will re-
ceive the contempt Of all decent people,
The fact i., in relation to the para'
graph quoted above, that the Legislature
did not give the printing to Mr.. Walker
either by resolution or otherwise but
simply instructed the clerks OF the re-
spective Houses to have the necessary
printing done, ct the lowest possible
rates. After the passage Of this resolu-
ton, Mr. Walker offered TO do the
printing at much lower rates than any
other bidder, and hence it was awarded
to him; but the legislature, as the In
te!igcncer correspondent and every sem
sible man in the State knows full well
had no agency in the matter Of the con-
tract at all.
Another sample OF the pious ideas oI
this moral correspondent is given in
the statement which he makes when
he says that the legislature
refused to have the Governors special
message printed. and did not wish to
have it read. When the message was
sent to the Senate, and had been partly
read, Mr.. Grantham, q friend OF Gov
ernor Jacob, moved to dispense with
it's reading and lay the message on the
table, as it would then be read by the
members. Mr.. Sherrard, the Cover
nor's right bower, moved to amend the
motion. by adding that 500 extra
copies be printed for circulation. Mr..
Camden objected to suspending the
reading, and insisted that it should
be read through, before he should be
called upon TO vote for its being printed;
stating that alter hearing it read, II II
was proper to have it printed, be would
vote for it, but that he could not vote
Tor it until he knew what It contained
Mr.. Bennett also stated that he could
not vote for the printing OF extra copies
until be knew the contents o'
the message; and remarked
that after hearing it read,
if it was proper, he would vote
for such printing. Mr.. Sherrard very
earnestly and excItedly urged the print
ing OF extra copies Of the message before
it was read. Mr.. Camden again insist
ed upon the reading OF the message.
The question being called upon Mr..
Sherrard's motion, it was lost, and the
motion OF Mr.. Granthsm, dispensing
with the reading OF the message, and
tolay it upon the table (Which carried
With it, under the rules Of the Senate,
the printing OF the message in the
JournsD was carried. On the next day
after the printed Journals, containing
the message, were cent TO the Senate,
the Journal was read (including the
message) whereupon Mr.. Bennett moved
that FIVE hundred extra copies be print
ed for the use OF the Senate. Mr..
Camden suggested as an amendment
that said five hundred copies be "ior the
use OF the legislature" 60 as to save the
expense of another printing OF it by the
House OF Delegates. This suggestion
was accepted, and the motion OF Mr..
Bennett va. adopted. So that you see,
in this instance, az In the previous one,
this ,high!aluitn correspondent has
proved that while be is very willing
liar, he is incompetent to the task Of
covering up his tracks.
NORMAL ecHooLs.
As the session draws 10 close, con-
siderable talk occurs concerning the
Normal Schools, and appropriations to
carry them on. Patrouizing as the Re-
publicans were when in power TO those
institutions, they are now the greatest
enemies they have. and this enmIty
arises mainly from the disposition to OPP
pose the Democracy that now rules the
State, and engender an hatred to the
schools themselvea The only real op-
position to the Normal Schools comes
from the Republicans, headed by
Col. Spates, OF Harrison, and men of
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