The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-12-07
WHY NOT INVESTIGATES


Our city contemporary Is either mad
or nervous, or both, over the fate Of the
resolution of Mr.. CAMPBELL, OF Han
cock, regarding that investigating COM
mittcc, and makes desperate effort
to do what the gentleman from Hancock
wanted to do, viz: put bold front on
that $SS,O 900 Radical deficit, and thereby
destroy, Ms far as possible, its effect
upon the people Of West Virginia. To
this end, il is confidently asserted
and attempted to be shown that be
cause Democratic House voted
down the resolution of the gentle
man from Hancock, Democrats are un-
willing to permit this investigation to
proceed. Indeed our neighbor even SO
far forgets his accustomed prudence as to
rccklessly say TO Democrats, 'without
fear of successful contradiction, that
they dare not Investigate this deficit be-
cause they know its 'alsity.
Now let us look little out on these
positions. In the first place that resolu-
ton was voted down for the reason stated
in the REGISTER of Saturday, that
already the Democrats OF the House
had taken the lead in the
investigating bIsiness and had adopted
resolution amply providing tor full,
thorough and complete searching INTO
the record of Radical msdeeds in West
Virginia. The committee appointed
under the resolution, propose to unearth
and expose that delightful system of Rad
zeal book keeping by which books were
called balanced, and yet, upon careful
scrutiny, are even now shown to be far
from being so actually; but that a new
STYLE of arithmetic was adopted by
which. for instance, five hundred could
be- made to foot up nine hundred,
and rice rerSa, as convenience
demanded. and by this means
the balances were preserved. This is a
fact which can he demonstrated at any
time. and under such system, it is no
wonder that the $4,000 was found to
have mysteriously disappeared. y hun
dred thousand might have disappeared
in the same way, and 1t would not be
wonderful if it really turned out rs Mr..
SSIDER, of Monongalia, said, that perhaps
the deficiency will prove to DO $4,000
instead of 5000. This Is one of the
many things this investigating commit
tee can and will dare to do, and the reSo-
luton empowering it to do SO was passed
long before the gentleman from Han
cock thought of trying his little piece of
diplomacv. In this Instance,
Mt least the Democratic major
itv have declared their ability 10
net outside the leadership Of The Radical!
minority.
Our neichbor then in the course of
time will no doubt have its full of the in
vcstigation it so recklessly, and with well
assumed boldness, courts. And before 1t Is
finished, we dare say that it will find out
that Democrats not only dare examine
into that $4,000 matter, but that they
dare do great many other things
20 the discontinue of the former OPP
pressors and prosecutors Of West Viz
pinias citizens, the result of which will
be. perhaps, that boastings Of mo fear OF
successful contradiction" will no longer
be INDUCED in, or such questions as
"Why not investigated" ever again be
propounded from the same source. As
it Is, the question even now sounds very
like nervous appeal intended 10 express