The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-04-12
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The tReglster' aud the LINCOLN Club.
Editors lntelllEencer
For low, and scurrilous attacklh,
article in Saturdays RtgiaEr exceis any
thing which our citizens have lately read
The proprietors Of that paper, II they have
q spark Of deceReyleit In their meagte souls
should have had some regard for theii
readers, and repressed, or at any rate greatly
modified, an article which presumed be
Yond measure on tho decencles due by IN
editor to the people who read his paper
The writer gets his inspiration ina saloon
he sAya It seems erninenty fitting that
such offensive stuff should come up from
such quarter-where muddled heads and
viper tongues, losing alldlstlHctioR between
right and wrong, hold high carnival.
In tue article referred 10 there Is a base
and unworthy purpose exhibited through
out. The boy, or man, who wrote II Is do.
ing honest work for his master-Satan.
Wherever you sec the clergy deCried, and
u staggering effort 10 make sport Of them;
wherever the guzzlet OF beer and whisky
is extolled as the noblest attribute Of man;
wherever you see wrong set for right, and
the "base for the true" you will see and
hear just such sentiments expressed as APP
peareil In the RSgi&ter. One Of the most
disgusting features Of the article was It's
coarse personalities In regard to persons
named rs prominent members Of the Lin
coin Club. The unwarranted liberty taken
with their names is simply IN outrage, for
which tue editor deserves the strongest re.
buke from this community. fshRii for the
present only refer TO onegentleman named
"a gentleman who needs no endorsement
from me or from my fellow.citizeRs. His
brain and his honest heart and hands
have been devoted for quarter century
to almost every commenda6le and worthy
enterprise which has been organized in
our city; and not only in this city but
Throughout the State. Wherever noble
manhood is reckoned ut It's true value,
there DR.. Logan Is highly esteemed. His
quick perceptive faculty, his sound and
conservative judgment, his faculty for or
sanization and execution are well known
10 this section OF the State. He has
guarded the interests Of this cltywith care.
full eye-guarded 1t when this tritling pen.
ny.a.liner was n baby and when his mus
ter oil the Rcgister was all unknown on our
busy streets. The other gentlemen who
come in for the regards Of this cheap pen
cIl driver are too well and favorably known
to need any vindication ut my hands.
Where the fellow, who attended this
saloon Glove feast" finds the superdas gen.
tlemen with white ReCk-ties, swall0w.tailed
coats and tour-button kids, do not know.
Butd do know where to fluid u lot Of sensi-
bic, practical men, good citizens, working
men OF every degree, and that place is the
Lincoln Club room. They 60 there to
read aud hear the latest news. They fiud
newspapers, magazines, books, intelligent
companionship, harmless games Of amuse-
ments, and elevating entertainments.
They do not meet bummers and loafers
there, and such "Col. DIS" us the Register
man congenially sought and found in the
saloon referred to. There is wide differ
ence between the associations found at the
Lincoln Club and those of the fellow who
does the dirty work for the Register.
Rock BORON.