The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-01-19
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last we made the following remarks in
regard to the man who manipulates the
personal machine on Marketstreet known
a, the Wheeling Register:
aLewis Baker would LIKE to manipu.
late the appointments Of the Executive
oi We.t Virginia in the interest Of his
priyate purposes, either to gratify bis
personal malice or facilitate his merce'
nary intrigues. He has no other nor
higher idea Of publishing newspaper
,hsn 10 make Il his personal instrument
for gratifying his malice or accomplish
iny his yenal motives. Vengeance on
sonebody or spoliStion upon the party is
hi. game under all circumstances"
In order to break the force OF these
remarks, which, as Baker knows, only
very mildly set forth bis accepted char.
uc.er wherever he Is known, he addresses
note to Gov. Mathews to ask whether
he, Baker, ever sought TO control his
executive appointments, just as II that
was the point or issue in our remarks.
We did not charge that Baker had ever
approached Gov. Mathews on that or any
other subject. In fact our impression
has been and is now that Gov. Mathews
and himself have very little 10 do with
eaCh other. Baker has no use for any
man, or any mans society, whom he can
not use to accomplish, some selfish or sim
i.!er purpose. II Gov. Mathews enter
tsins the general estimate Of Baker that
leading Democrats OF this community
hold in regard to him, he has, we doubt
not, is little us possible to do with him.
Our point against the old trickster and
iubber was and is that he would "like" to
manipulate the appointments oil the
Executive, II there was the least chance in
the world for him to do SO, in order TO put
up or put down those upon whom he has
designs either Of vengeance orspoliation
We particularly alluded to his hyPOcriti-
cal whine over the Governors failure to
appoint Faulkner as one OF the West Vir.
ginia Commissioners to Paris. Every.
body knows that. Baker has no love what
ever for Mr.. Faulkner, and that he did
everything in his power to defeat him for
the United States Senate last winter. And
yet il he could at this present time make
itappear TO Faulkner's paper at Martin.
burg or TO his friends there and else.
where that the Governor had put slight
upon the ex.minister TO 81. Cloud, he
could hope, Iugo like, TO stir them up TO
mutiny against the Governor, and thus
deal ont to him as he did to the late Gen.
Pannell, a Characteristic stab by cowardly
indirecLiOn.
10 order to further cover up the point
Of our remarks, Baker resorts to one oil
his old whines about the poor and the
rich, which he uses as he does every arti-
fee that he can play in discussion, TO
raise false issue and II possible add a
subscriber or two 10 his list by an ap'
peal to prejudice. He says that we
@beslobber the rich with praise" Posi-
bly, we do, and yet We are notaware OF
having ever trotted around at any rich
m,n,s heels like a seryile dog with q
collar on, as Lewis Baker has done at the
heels Of Henry G. Davis for years past.
We defy this vennl intriguer to show
that he ever had any other motive
for becoming the henchman Of Davis
except that the latter was a rich
man, and that by bending his willing and
supple knees to him "thriit would follow
iawning." We repeat that Lewis Baker
has no use for any man whom he cannot
use for his selfish purposes. For this
reason he is to-day social pariah even
in his own party. A regular oriental
leper would hardly create more general
shrinkuge in a Democratic convention
than does his presence. The general
estimate that is entertained OF him by
leading Democrats was well expressed by
the resolutions Of investigation intro.
duced into the last Congressional Con.
vention by Major Sweeney. We may
add also, that the late verdict Of $4,000
against the Wheeling Register ia another
indication OF the view taken by the pub
lie as 10 The base uses to which Baker has
been in the habit Of prostituting the col.
umns Of his newspaper. Itwas meant as
deserved rebuke to his propensity for
brutal defamation and malicious lying
In the course Of his remarks yesterday
the old ttickster seeks to still further OBJ
scure the point between us and at the
same time relieve his superGuous bile
by referring to the ISTEILloEScER as 4
spawned and decaying" newspaper
This means, we presume, that as com
pared with his paper We are in the 'sere
and yellow leai.D Our readers can bear
witness that we are not in the habit oI
parading the business Of this paper in it'
columns. But since Baker parades us
tins gratuitously in his paper, we have q
little proposition to make him. Itis OF
this wise: That committee shall re-
port upon the relative daily circulation
Of the two papers for the year 1877
and il that Of the ISTELIIoEScER wa
not equal to that Of the Register ther
We shall pay $50, for the benefit o
the Children's Home, and a second S5t
itit was not 90 per cent greater, and .
thWd S5Oif 1t was not SO per cent greater
On the other hand, in case the circula'
ton Of the IsrELIIoESoER was equal Il
that Of the Register, or in case 1t exceeded
itin the ratios named, then, in that event
the Register is to pay $50 in each case Il
the Children's Home.
Now II Boxer wants to show that III,
ISTELLloENCER is spawned and de
esying" newspaper, let him come for
ward and make good his statement L