The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-27
WHO TELLS FALSEHOOD:

WHO TELLS 4 FALSEHOOD:
In the grand, eloquent &C. perora-
ton of Mr.. HUTCHINSON, Of Wood, (who'
with Mr.. STUART, of Doddridge, forms
the leadership in the prosecution of the
State officials charged with certain Of
fences, the gentleman said that he be-
lirvcd that whoever asserted that polti-
cal capital out Of the Impeachment trial
was the object in view of the Radical
party in this State, was, IN the depths OF
his heart. guilty of a falsehood. Now
we will not say, III retaliation, that We
believe Though we do that any mem
Der Of the Republican minority in the
Legislature who asserts that in
he depth of his heart he does not hope
that political capital for ms party will
result from TIN. trial, is guilty of Il false
hood. We forbear to do this, because 1t
would be dsc9urteous to IL member, who
because he is prominent lawyer
could not be guilty of asubteriugc. But
we do assert that such a charge as the
gentleman made Is certainly reckless and
improper. For let Us recall certain facts,
some of which, though they have been
enumerated before, will bear rccapitula-
ton. In the first place the gentleman
and the public know that from the very
start while Democratic papers generally
said Ii the investigation proves that these
officials hare been guilty Of high crimes
and mrdemcanors let them be
punished, bat, at the same time,
demanded that they have fair
play, the Republican press Of the
State, We believe unanimously and with
out exception, So wrote 81 to make it ap-
pear that these crimes We're even more
heiuous than Wa, charged. No opportu-
nrty to brig railing accusationi TO turn
those accused into ridicule; to ventilatc at
rocious efforts at wit, or to make the
people believe that these men were absO-
Iutcly guilty, was allowed to pass unim-
proved. Now viii any one presume to
say that these efforts TO prejudice the
public, and produce II popular sentiment
aqdi,,t Democratic officials were not in
uuIged n 10y tho Radical press
and Radical teachers for the
sole purpose of cndeavoring
to make political capital? If there is
any one To say otherwise, then he must
either be idiotic or member of that
hopclcssly blind class who can never be
cured, because they ictH not see. Again:
why was it that, in this city, our Repub-
lican contemporary published that series
Of garbled extracts of the testimony taken
before the committee and dubbed the ma
jority report, without comments; while
hardly had the ink dried on the minority
report. when in somewhat lengthy ar.
ticle (which not few shrewdly suspect
emanated from the pen Of the gentleman
from Wood himself) attempted to tear
that report in pieces, and declare that the
minority had no ground upon which to
stand? What was this done for, but to
attempt to throw discredit upon that Dem
ocratiC minority and COuutcraCt any
effect its arguments may have pro-
duccd upon tho members of the House?
If that was not done for the purpose Of
clinching the case against Democratic
officials, and with manifest desire to
see them removed from office, and
through this the Democratic party
brought into disreputc, we would like to
know what IT was? And If this effort was
not brought about through hope of max
ing political capital, what other sensible
reason can be given for it? And still
cnce more, how happens it that every
single Republican and Independent
every member opposed in any
degree to the Democratic party,
have ranged themselves, without
exception, on the side Of the
prosecution? We are no prophet
nor the son of a prophet, but we venture
to predict that when the vote on the
question of postponing further consider
alton ct these articles is taken IN the
House, there will not be one single one
of these gentlemen but who will be found
to vote no and that, if the case does
90 to the Senate, when the vote guilty or
not guilty is taken, not one of the same
party there, but who will be found to
vote aye. OF course we do not, for one
Instant, mean to intimate that these gen.
tlemen will not vote with due regard to
the oaths they may have taken; but we
do mean to say that let them try as hard
ms they may, their political prejudiccs
will so influence them that even unforc-
seen to themselves, they will allow these
prejudiccs to so far toward governing
their Judgment
These are some of the reasons which
we advance To show that there is ground
for the belief that Republican capital Is
looked forward 10 a the result of this
impeachment trial, and that II man has a
perfect and just right to conclude that
such hope exists. We also believe that
we have made out stronger case for our
belief, than has been made against the
officials.
1t is only necessary to say further that
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