Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-17
ENrERPRIsE IN LYING.

EMERY
The hatslliqsncer attempts to offset the
enterprise of the REoIsTER by the most
bare-iaced and baseless misrepresenta-
tons. In this it has shown an aptness
and recklessness that entities it to the
championship.
Wincing under the enforced expendi-
ture which il has been compelled to
make in order to follow the lead OF the
REGISTER, it has become envious and
Grabbed and sonred, and resorts to lying
10 depreciate our efforts to furnish the
public with live paper,
The proverbial meanness OF the Intel
Hgencer establishment IN the use OF
money, and its well known disposition
to follow the policy OF killing the goose,
or extracting everything from the public
with one hand and holding on to it with
the other, has been followed for so
many years that any forced relaxation
of its miserly policy in the way OF enter
prise is like pulling its teeth.
Hence, when the REGISTER compelled
it to run a wire into its office to receive
the returns from the Ohio election;
when il was compelled to duplicate It's
dispatches over the river; when, in fact,
the REGISTER has, of late, by adopting
numerous improvements and enter
prises in harmony with the times and
demanded by the progress OF the age,
compelled the LatelligeT'oer to put It's
hand in its pocket, the squirming and
writing in that establishment has been
pitiable to contemplate.
We did not anticipate that the unhap-
piness we have caused it, would break
out in the form of unblushing, and de-
liberate Justification, but that is its first
manifestation.
Cd. 1t says we heralded our arrange
ments for receiving the election news as
"stupendous enterprise, very costly,
&C."
(2). That the attempt to redeem our
pretensiOnS was pretty much OF farce.
(3). "The people had to depend on
the hielligencSr at last for their news"
(4). That without any ado about it
the Iii,Rg,ncer opened branch offices at
Bellaire and Martins Ferry.
The above four statements are speci-
mems Of the hteliigencer's utter disregard
for truth. The citizens OF Bellaire and
Martins Ferry who paid the rent for the
mtelliJsncer's "branch Offices" will be
somewhat surprised, ii not indignant, at
this statement.
Those who had the opportunity to
compare the news received at the branch
offices of the REGISTER and that furnish
ed by the LntsHjgsacer will also be sur
prised to learn that the "people had to
depend on the Lte'iigeRcer for news"
The editor OF the HteHigeHcer knew when
he wrote that statement for the public
that one and the same wire conveyed
the Identical news to both the office Of
the REGISTER and Hteiiigencer. 1t was
put in both offices by the same man,
and operated by the same company.
But beside the wire from the Western
Union which was used by both offices
in Wheeling, the REGISTER ran wire
from the Atlantic and Pacific Company
into its branch office at Bellaire, giving
the people of that city the benefit OF
both the Western Union and Atlantic
and Pacific lines-nevertheless "he peO-
plehad 10 d,pead on the hteiliyeacer for their
uslrs -
1t is true we did not have whooping
and bowling crowds, or bands, or fog
horns making night hideous, around
our headquarters. There was nothing
i'm the news from Ohio that would in
spire such conduct at the office of a
Democratic journal. We admit that
our quarters were quiet, but the news
was just as fresh and full, for the Demo-
cracy rs for Republicans, although it did
not produce the same results.
In conclusion We desire here and now
to notify the Iaieiiigucrr, however pain
iul the information may be, that we ex-
pect to continue progressive policy in
the conduct of the REGISTER; we will
continue to extend. enlarge and inn
prove it i'm every direction, and keep it
always abreast of the times. We will
add 10 it from time to time all the latest
and most approved appointments OF the
metropolitan journals. We will shortly
be connected with neiehboring points
by telephone communication. We
will give not only the citizens OF Wheel
ing, but our patrons i'm the neighbor-
hood, virtual access to our office, and all
the conveniences of 4 newspaper pub
lishcd at their doors. In short, we pro
pose to continue to publish live paper,
and il the H,teHign,cer follows in our
wake it will have to spend some money.
That much is due as kind OF reciprocal
contract with the public upon which it
lives. Lying will not make up for lack
of enterprise.
FREE LABOR AND CHEAP COTTON
A New England man of some dis
tinctiOn, Mr.. EDWARD ATKINSON, has
inst nublisbeI a worry tbou0htful and