Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-13
CAMPBELL VS.. VOORHEES,.


character OF Senator VOORHEES,, has sent
out to Indiana, the place from which the
libel originated, with view of having II
endorsed by residents OF that locality.
He receives voucher from twelve, real
or imaginary persons, not one OF whom
is known in this city, and whose per
sonal and political characters are lett
entirely in doubt,whO, in effect say that
they know six out of the eighteen per
sons who signed the original libel, or
rather that they know persons whose
names are somewhat similar, but OF the
other twelve, they do not know where
they are, and do not know that they are
not in the penitentiary. But OF the SIX
whom they profess to know, and say
are living there, not one makes
sion. or comes to the rescue, by way oil
endorsing the libel that is published
over their signatures. The htelig,Hcer
parades these facts as conclusive proof
that the libel is sustained. But a curl
Gus public will want TO know who en-
dorses the endOrsers. This Is pertinent
from the fact that the commercial
agencies fail to give the desired inior-
nation about those merchants 1t Is
to he hoped that they are not pea nut
merchants, or curbstone dealers IN APP
ples and oranges, or that they are
dead beat Republican johbcrs, who have
sold their names for a drink.
Now. il strikes us, that the real issue
between the editor oi tine h,irliy'I'rtr
and Mr.. VOORHEES, is, whether ar not
the latter is man Of such reputable
personal and political standing as would
entitle him In a hearing from the hust-
ines bv respectable public audience.
For. the effect Of the htfiiig.Hoer, by
which he put his foot in It, was To ere
ATE the IMPRESSION that he was not. To
accomplish this, it published, just ON
the eve OF Mr.. VOORHEES, arrival, two
canards. one protesting to come from
Delaware, Ohio, in which it was charged
that an audience at that place had been
turned away in disgust 10y the profanity
Of which Mr.. V. was guilty in thecourse
of his speech at that place.
Now, the editor OF the hifllge"orr
does not telegraph to Delaware in order
10 verify this charge, although tits some
fifteen or twenty years Younger than
the other one he is trying 10 run down.
But Mr.. VOORHEES, met il Squarely IN
his address at Bellaire, as appears from
the following report OF his speech:
Some one in the audience here caused
a DEPRESSION by referring To an Item IN
the IntsHaFHcToi yesterday, to the elect
that at his Delaware meeting senator
Voorhees, hal INDUCED in profanity.
The speaker sail he had seen the article
referred 10. TWAS lie from beginning
To end. never swear, not even IN re-
heating the oaths of others. / have
never used word in my speeches which
woull not use before
my wife or daughters. There
is no greater liar iueNiStence than
the man that wrote that paragraph,
excepting some that | shall refer to
shortly.
The other libel published by thc In
tHip1,crl was one impeaching his po-
litical record, by what Mr.. Y. terms a
roorback that was trumped up against
him in his Congressional district some
seventeen years ago. Mr.. Voorhees,
reply 10 il, which the htsiiigsncer has
not vet published, is exactly this, as
reported in his speech:
lie said that seventeen years ago, in
n heated Congressional campaign, this
dirty little ruorbark vas trumpet mp
against him. l never knew whether
one of the signatures tO II wHs genu-
inc name Of a real person or not. III SO,
he is i'm the penitentiary long ago. The
story was SD ridiculous that alter the
publication of this certificate | was tour
times reelected to Congress, three times
after the soldiers hal returned from the
army, and they voted, and 1t was by
their votes | was elected. Three oil
these times, also, were after the Repub-
lean legislature hal gerrymandered me
into a district with 100 Republican
majority. Last year | was chosen Sen
ator from Indiana by a majority OF .
on Joint ballot. OF these 53, IL were ex-
soldiers of the Union army. Can be
such a terribly bad fellow is this paper
over ut Wheeling would have you to be-
lieve?
Now it strikes us that no more COM
plete reiutation Of the canard could be
made than is contained in the above
paragraph. No man could stand higher
at home, right among the people where
this canard originated, and among the
federal soldiers whom he is charged with
calling Lincoln Dogs than does Mr..
VOORHEES,, the subject OF the libel. Had
not the InisiigsDccr better telegraph to
Mr.. VOORHEES, district, and ascertain
whether the above record of his politi-
cal successes are true OF not? Certainly
the Iatslligucrr would not have given
circulation to the Iibcls in question ii it
had known Mr. NooEHEE's standing at
home.
TuE editor of the Cincinnati EHglliTti |