Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-05-15
FusIoN INDICTMENT AGAINST
WEST VIRGINIA.


time past been editing and distributing,
Nv the aid aud Inspiration Of the fusion
bari, large increase over is srbscrip-
! ton list, Of copies filed With matter de-
signed to depreciate, defameand cripple
the Industries and standiuso of our state,
and eiectuslly deter immigrants
from settling among US, ii not TO dis
courage and deplste the present popu'
htion.
These extra copies Of the fusion organ
seem to have been scattered without
stint not onlY within the State. but
through adjoining States, and have been
copied extensively by neighborhood
journals, and commented uponin a man
ner very humilisting to any citizen who
has a spark OF pride or ambition for the
good name and fameoi West Virginia.
These articles oi the Post publish and
declare 10 the world that West Virginia
is practically wilderness. With "less
than forty per cent OF her lands cleared
cher mines unworked;" 'her choice
limbers unwrought;" "her water powers
un~improyed; cher building and man-
u~iacturing materials undeyeloped;
her strains seldom plowed by the
commerce that should benefit the pro-
ducer, the shipper and the purchaser"
that ''she has little wealth." "a sparse
populations" imperfect intellectual
| culture " ~ small share OF influence
with her sister States" LEV attractions
for the stranger or even for her own
children" mo great manufacturing
c~ities;" mo large railway towns; n
great publishing houses mo dist'ns-
uished men OF leiters;' "iew newsPa-
pers, and those poorly patronized;'
capital is high priced 1.-The products
OF labor, Of the soil and the stock-iarm,
low /" and "the services OF the skilled
mechanic OF the learned professional
an made qustely rewarded"
This is the indictment which this iu-
sion organ and agency makes sgainst It's
adopted home.
This is the character OF the inlorma-
ton that il Is scattering abroad Tor the
encouragement OF our people and the
building up Of the interests Vi the State,
IL there is any citizen OF West Nr-
ginia who reads the above portrayal OF
his own State and believes it, he cannot
in Justice remain here.
II this picture as painted by the PoS,
reaches the eve Of any nan outside OF
the State who is hooking for a home, aud
he does not. on the moment, conclude
to steer clear OF West Virginia, he Is
either a fool or a tramp.
Ii there is = citizen oi the State who
| does not blush at this indictment-thh
| defamation of his home,-ls is un-
worthy the citizenship of a state that
gives him as free aud prosperous and At
t~racliye n habitatlon ~ any other IN the
Union.
Ii there is any political party, or tao
tioa, or fusion, that endorses this in
/ dictmeut of the State; and that circu'
lates these deiamatory documents; aud
thus ruthlessly and maliciouSly, aud
with deliberate design, proposes to de-
stroy the prospects and present prosper
ity OF the State; the intelligent citizen
ship Of the State, Independent of party.
should rise up aud crush 1t out.
IL is scarcely conceivable that there is
any political party, faction or fusion, in
the State with a political greed so re-
morseless, or a State pride SO utterly dead
or drprayed, that it would willingly ride
into place and position over the wreck
aud ruin OF the States industries, good
name, and the individual prosperity OF
its every citizen.
BIT no other lar Interpretation: no
other motive, can consistently explain
the conduct and character of this faction
of so-called 'iusionistS' who have late
" got their fingers into the swag-tuo ct
the political corruptionistS at Washing
toa, aud have thus opened their cam
paign against the good name and mate
rial interests Of this State.
Ifit were worth while To reiute the
conclusion which these fusion deIamers
| desire to be drawn against the dominant
party OF the State, We might point 10 the
hct that in all the localities ut the State,
where business is prosperous; where en-
terpriss and progress are manifest;
where the wealth OF the State is invest
Ell; and where the progressive anu cnte'-
prisiug elements most abound-in such
localities, what are styled by them "the
Bourbons ri the State are always aud
largely in the ascendency.
The Morgantown POS is publish
Ell in a county that has been
in the entire control ut the Re-
publican party since 1860, and is
vet. There has not been, until s'nce
the last county election, a single Demo-
cratic office holder in that county. There
has not been until within the last two
or three years any other newspaper
published in that eounty except the
Norgantown Pcs. The >talwar,s OF the
Republican party have had their policy,
their principles and their absolute will
triumphant and supreme in all the at
fairs of that county since 1860
Now il there is any county within the
borders Of West Virginia tn which the
Pos's defamatory description couhi be
truthiully spplied-und We don't admit
that thero Is one-that county is the m
whose policy apd development has
been under the supervision and control
! of the PoS and its party.
Ii is naturally one ri the richest and
best located counties in the State, Out
th.n. - nj a Eoof Of railroad in N