The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-02-01
HE WHEELING DAILY INTELGENCER
The Register and the LeEislaturs-Tl
Temn.rnnea gTeetinR ON sunday.

The Register and the LeGislRtuFe-The
Temperance Meeting on Sunday.
Editors Intslligsneer.
By your kind permission l shall call the
attention Of your lively contemporary, the
Register, and Of the public to foW things,
which l, with some regret, have observed
regarding the course recently pursued by
said Register,
Like your 1NTELLIGENcER, 1t is Q good
and newsy paper, but of late it has become
careless or cratic to such an extent that
it is losing the, respect, not to say arous-
ing the hostility, OF many OF the Demo-
Gratis both in and out Of the Legislature,
A certain venerable Senator was talking
seriously Of offering q resolution directing
some committee to enquire into the
cause Of certain filings" made by the
Registers Senate reporter at that
body and also into the reason
why the reports OF proceeding are
not nearer correct, and asking the com.
mittee to report remedy. The feeling in
the House is more general and deeper
than in the Senate, though no one has
proposed that he would offer any resolu-
ton in the matter, but thought somebody
ought to do 1t, or that the reporters ought
be excluded unless they could do better,
Practically, members bought lNTELLIdEN.
GERS on Saturday to send to their Demo-
cratic constituents, and complained bitter
ly that they had to do so because the Regis.
ter's report, besides being incomplete, was
full OF mistakes as to which member had
done this or that, and also as to what had
been done. They do not wish to be mis-
represented to their people, and cursed for
that OF which they are not guilty.
Some oil the temperance people, too,
seem to feel hurt over the action OF the
RrgiSler, and say that 1t looks ga though
there was an underhand attempt to put
them and their movement In a bad light
before the public, or to ignore them alto
gether, II possible. They do not seem to
be inclined to resent 1t, but speak Of 1t
with good deal Of feeling, and say that a
newspaper has q right to do as 1t chooses,
but that 1t Is very strange that q paper
claiming to give all the news should treat
their work before the Legislature inso light
a manner, and should utterly neglect the
smallest mention of the great and enthusi.
astiC meeting at the Academy Of Music on
Sunday afternoon,
A number OF the loadngmen OF Wheel
ing say that there will be an opportunity
afforded the Register to retraCt, II 1t shall
volunteer to correct it's errors, the state.
ment implying that no prominent mems
names are to the temperance petitions
from the Pan Handle. | hope that the
Register will at least do itself justice in the
matter, even II 1t has no regard for the
moral standing Of Pan Handle citizens.
In speaking Of the temperance mem.
orials 1t says they reCite at length the
woes OF intemperance, thus showing that
the reporter never seen one, or that he
deliberately lied to create a lalse im.
pression.
Trusting that these remarks, written in
all kindness by one Of the best friends that
the Register has, will serve to correct the
abuses spoken Of, and that they will be
received in the same kindly spirit In
which they are rendered, | remain as
ever a TRMPGRAECE DEMOCRAT.