The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-09-24
Tbe GOSPEL OF Hate.

The Wheeling Register Of yesterday takes.
h, its text the quotation from Jake Jack
an, speech that stands at the head Of our
,Iitotsl columns, aud seeks to convey the
impression, without daring to say 50 in so
many words, that It is the Intelliga,eer and
no. the great aud good Jackson that
ysa:bes the gospel of hate. 4ls
Nov We have a very brief answer to
make to this barsngus Of the Regitsr;
Fifs. We desire to inquire Of that paper IL
l,vishes to be understood as seeking to
suysy the impression that Jake jackson
id not really make the remark attributed
ahin' Come out and cay yes or no on
III. point, and not skulk behind an in
u.udo. He either expressed his hatred
brthe Republican party or he did not.
Dahs 50 express himself7 Ii he didnot,
ny %. Iihs did, either endorse him OF
rpudiIts him.
Why did Jake Jackson feel called upon
t,opsu this canvass with declaration Of
sanL, nndying and hereditary hatred to
he Rspublican:party2 What harm had
b. Republican party d me to him that he
.sould declare that he intended to teach
ksehildren to bate it? He voted for the
ordnance Of Secession-voted to dismem-
W the Uuion-yoted to substitute the,
E1u and bars for tie stars and stripes
n!ti to convert the South into a great
tirs empire and cut 1t loose from the
American Rspublic-yoted to line the
0aIo river with custom houses, and to
s,ks West Virginia, which is geographi.
ally identified with the North, part Of
GsSohdSOuth. All this he did as n States
Rights Democrat, Just as in the name Of
sats Rights Democracy he set out to
Fssch in this canvass eternal hatred to.
Tltds the party that prevented the con.
Summation Of his reasonable intentions.
Because his uncalled ior-or, to quote
sshuguags Of the Wheeling Register, be-
asss bis unjust, unkind,- unconscien-
Saus, uuchristian and ungentlemanly'
tstlation OF hate aud enmity to the Re-
nHiean party, is quoted by the IsrgtLI.
ascER, and placed where all the people
dhs state can see and understand the
s,,usr Of spirit that actaates the man
roMpires to rule over them, the Register
Ii the earontery to quote his language
Hae text for partisan and personal at
aaou this paper.
ne Register cannot draw attention from
I&.Jlckson's language by attempting to
ne personal issue with the editor Of
Siaper. The people OF West Virginia
hN something Of the records oi
Sh Jake Jackson and the editor
d this paper. They know that
u htter never proclaimed the gos.
hdhsts to any portion OF the people Of
De state, but, on the contrary, that
AEu among the first who moved in the
asous ''let up" movement, aSd was the
taAot the address issued to the Re;
HSiaus OIthis state on behalf Of the
Acknowledgement Of the disfranchised
lthel element @
We do not propose that the narrow
n0lsd individual who runs the Wheel.
hsR@EsT, and with whom politics and
Rundsr are synonymous terms, and who is
ninaPable Of dealing fairly with a politi-
aOpPOnsnt as he is OF dealing honestly
VIII his political allies, shall pervert the
record Otthe past, or change an issue at the
aPta's OI truth made by Jake Jackson,
saaoEn free will and choice, at the out
1dthis canvass.
he editor OF the Register does well in /.
essd to speak Of "littleness." In all that
Slis man little in the sense Of a total
40l common decency in the columns
y As paper. or OF common honesty IN
eyes othis fellow citizens, he Ia the
s,s't c pignY that ever crawled over old
eHlivsts body.