Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-16
THE INTELLIGENCER'S EXTREM-
ITY

than there would be without the lessons
OF the late campaign.
THE INTELLIGENCER'S EXTREM-
ITY.
The LaielligencCr accuses us OF an at
teu,pf' to throw discredit upon the pur-
ported endorsement of the VOORHEES,
libel, which it obtained from Sullivan,
Ind, and forthwith presents another
double loaded dispatch from the same
quarter, signed by two doctors OF medi-
cine and two diyines who have not yet
reached the dignity OF doctors of divini-
ty, and who are even more obscure and
unknown to professional fame than the
peanut merchants it trotted out, are to
mercantile fame, and all this is offered
as settling the fact that the "VOuchers
are vouched for" and that the REGIS
TER's "dtiempp to throw discredit upon
them is failure.
Verify the editor of the InieLligmcr is
in the last ditch.
Does he indeed presume upon public
stupidity to such a degree as to hope
that the most unsophisticated readed OF
its columns does not see that in the at
tempt to justify its libel against NooR-
HE'S, it has not procured the name OF 4
single responsible party, so far as this
community can Judge, who is willing to
youch for it; that while by its (the In
teliigeHcer's) own showing, the same men
who signed the libel are now living, not
one OF them has been induced to re-
affirm it, but on the contrary all have
dexterously avoided confirming it; and
that in fine, it has utterly and shameful
~ failed to justify or offer any palliation
Of its gross aspersion upon Mr.. NOOR
HE'S character, that an intelligent pub
lie can accept.
On the other hand, in the "dttenpt'
we have made to discredit the Mteliigea-
GERS canard, we have shown conclusive
ly that it was trumped up some sixteen
years ago when Mr.. VOORHEES, was
candidate for Congress; that it was not
signed by the parties whose signatures
are attached until three years after the
speech was delivered; that they then re-
fused to make affidavit to it; that they
are now living and within reach,
but fail to reailirm it; and that at the
time the story was first published an
affidavit was signed and sworn to by
fifty respectable citizens of Indiana who
heard the speech and contradict
the statement published by the htelii-
gs1,cer; and that there are now 500 more
citizens OF Indiana who are represented
as ready to repeat that affidavit at this
time.
Moreover, in a further "attempt" to
discredit the Intelligcncr'S little job, We
furnished it, day or two since, with
the following dispatch from Sullivan,
signed by a number of public officials
and prominent citizens whose very
positions entitle them them to credit,
and which we reproduce now, that the
h,iiiigrRoer may be impressed with its
point and Importance:
SULLIVAN, I'D, October IL.
To Frank Mckinney, Chairman Demo-
cratic Sdte Central Committee:
1t is rumored that certain Radicals of
/ this place haye sent a statement TO the
/ Radicals of Ohio that Mr.. Voorhees,
/ stated i'm speech i'm Sullivan county
/ during the war that the Union soldiers
were Lincoln dogs. Over fifty of the best
/ citizens of Sullivan county who attended
/ the meeting and heard the speech re-
/ ierred to have made affidavit that the
above charge is false in every particu-
lar, and no responsible Republican has
ever dared to atlix his signature to the
affidavit in support of the charge, al
| though frequently requested TO 10 so.
/ The whole charge is false and disrepu-
table, and only made by bitter and vim
/ dictiye partisans.
| ID. Crowley, Ex-COuntv Treasurer
and Auditor-elect; Ed. Price, Ex-Clerk;
Josh Ernest; John G.. Briggs, Represen-
| tativc; G.. W. Baston, editor True DcWO-
crai; j. Mann, Clerk-elect.
Furthermore, We have reason to sus-
pect, and so charge, that the editor of
the IaieHig7ccr has made one or more
attempts, through kilograms sent to In
diana, to procure the Reimbursement of
the published canard, by some OF the
original signers and other citizens Of
that State, and that they have one and
all refused to do more than certify to
the character OF some of those who
signed the original.
Ii the editor of the Htelligncer denies
this let him produce and publish copies
oil the kilograms he sent to Indiana in
advance OF receiving the dispatch which
he publishes in his issue of the 18th
inst, and which he has thus far failed
10 give the public. Certainly they are
a part, and an essential part, OF the cor
respOndence, to which the public is en-
titled in order that it may be under
stood how and ny what means the
reply published was obtained.
The path of the Pathfinder" is not
yet found, and the fate of the lost
aeronauts remains a melancholy
mystery.