Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-11-27
TIE WHEELING REGISTER WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER ~
THE-LAND oFWETZEL.

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Dialogue Nit Won Israelite-
What Judge Lynch Has Don
for Wetxel-And Her Demo
cratic Fidelity, tOo-But Wet
eel Still Lives.
Correspondence OF the Register.
| November %, 1873.
A few days since / was on board tn
steamer Courier, journeying homewar'
to this goodly land. / there met q wan
dering 1sraelite from the City of Broth
erly Love. The somewhat gigantic pro
portions have lately assumed excite'
the curiosity of this descendent o
Abraham. #a.ae
"Mister," said he to me, Hwhere diC
you grow, anywhay?"
81 grew" said l, ''in West Virginia.
"In Vest Virginny, Ell? In vo
COUNTY"
In the county OF Wetzel."
"Vhat!" exclaimed he, with unaffected
horror, 'in dot county of VhetsellH
! you ought to have heard him pro
nounce that word Wetzel.) "Migott! do
was tam pat county, dot was. Did yor
| always grow tare?"
"My curious friend" said I, "thert
grew the immortal sunfower of m!
youth; there my graceful elongation anC
rotundity OF form were fashioned, ant
there my giant head swelled to its pre-
sent vast proportions"
"Vell, Ply jimmy! tink it is tan
strange you wasn't hangt, for dot Is al
vot tey dy in Vhetsell COUNTY
| tey hang everybody. Stranger, l bu!
goonskins, for dot is my business, and
dere is lots of dem in Wetsell. But
wouldn't stop Won night in dot dam
country for more as five tousand COON
skins"
NY Hebrew friend then vanished. He
was evidently as much Disguised as
Moses, "Mister Moses" will be when
he catches the first glimpse Of Pagan
Bob.t
But I was left to chew something
stronger than Wetzel county tobacco.
Now / ask, what has Wetzel county
done that evil reports of her people
should be heralded New York Heralded)
far beyond our State lines, even unto
the borders of the sea?
ut is because Judge Lynch has hon
ored us with certain midnight sessions
of his terrible court. Why his jurisdic-
ton extends over the entire and mighty
West. His courts are regularly called
in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and in the
Dark and Bloody Ground, to say moth
ing of extra sessions in Texas and Kan
sas."
"Nay, this is not why SANDERS have
furnished the once fair name of Wetzel.
1t is because of her fidelity to the Dem
ocratic party. Alone of all the counties
of this State, Wetzel has never been
subjugated. During many dark years
here rested the Ark Of the Democratic
Covenant. Here was the one
green spot in the desert
where it was both safe and respectable
to be Democrat. In the days of those
well remembered years, the voice OF
Wetzel was like the Slogan at Lucknow.
"Wait till you hear from Wetzel." This
was the cry Of Democratic hope and
Radical despair.
For this cause the Radicals have hated
us. This is why their newspapers have
lied about us. And at each succeeding
election they continue to shower upon
us the epithets of their impotcnt rage.
Wetzel, like the South, is "solid." Like
the South, solid she will remain as long
as there is "Stalwart" Republican
in the land or a bloody
shirt to flutter in the breeze.
Many strangers have been deceived
and believed evil stories OF our people.
To them Wetzel is but synonym for
ignorance, brutality, lawlessness and
crime. They would almost rs soon
trust their persons and their property
with the wild Cheyennes of our West
ern plains. Lord help the dear inno-
cents.
Wetzel wouldn't hurt a hair Of their
precious heads. "Come and see us and
we will make it pleasant for you" We
will show you "a land of corn and wine"
Wine did / say, yes, and by Saint Anne,
apple brandy, that will be hot in the
mouth, too, in spite of Uncle
Sam. We will lead your trembling
form to the top OF yondcr hill. Don't
imagine for an instant that it would be
the devil taking you to the top of an ok
c,eding high mountain. We would
take you safely to the very spot where
the robber Jennings lived and died.
And standing on that very spot we
would point you to tens OF thousands OF
fertile acres, reclaimed from mountain
wilderness. We would show YOU neat
farm houses dotting the hillsides; well
stored barns; school houses full Of
blooming children, and "the cattleupOn
a thousand hills"
If you sould chance to be in New
Martinsville on such a day as this, wet
and disagreeable as it is, YOU
would see our creek and its shores, lined
with valuable timber, the product OF our
inexhaustible forests, walnut and pop
lar and magnificent oak. You will see
hundreds of active, industrious men en-
gagged in storing it away. You would
hear the clang and clatter of a hundred
hammers, the whirl and buzz OF busy
saws. You would find our stores filled
with customers and our streets crowded
with heavy laden wagons. You would
behold a peaceful hard working people
among whom are neither grinding rich
nor starving poor, every mothers son
of whom can afford some sort OF
Thanksgiving turkey. Then if You have
believed our slanderers, wouldn't you
feel little bit ashamed of yourself, and
wouldn't you take it all back, and
wouldn't you swear by the great horn
spoon that it was all a lie about