The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-30
Mr.. Gibson and "Sisscr saootln'" Cam.

Mr.. Gibson and "Sisser saootln'" Cam.
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Tho able and always welcome Richmond
Dispatch returns TO the matter Of Congress.
man Eustacc Gibson and his remarks about
colored voters in West Virginia:
We fear the ISrELLlGrscER ovcrlooks
the facts to which we especially call its
at.ention-namcly, first, that Mr.. Gibson
was not charged by the Washington Star
with having threatened TO prevent negro
rO!crs from voting, but negro non-roters
and, second, that the ISTrLLIGENcEI and
ths Cincinnati Commercial Gazette charged
him with having threatened to prevent
negro ,ot.rs from voting. The lSrELLiGES.
GER will surely let its readers know the
truth in regard to this matter.
With respect to the Digpa'ch, readers Of
the lSrELLIGE%cEr already know the truth
Ii Mr.. Gibson was correctly reported in
the interview taken from the Pittsburgh
Dispatch, which interview originally APP
peared in the Washington Star. Mr.. Glib.
Eoa WIS in Washington to get speakers
Nh other "help' for his campaign. he
fell to denouncing "Blaincs managers"
for what he declared they were doing and
intended to do in West Virginiu, and he
declared that they had aroused every
one" He told some things about the
Deer Park conference which the IxrElLi-
GEScER knows to be untrue. He said "thc
feeling against Ellins is SO great that il
would probably be unsafe for him to show
him ,cli in the Statc"-an absurd Islander
Oh the people OF West Virginia. lie tool;
up the sill story about colonizins negroes
in this State and this is the way he ap.
pears in the report:
ut is said that negroes are being i'm
ported to the State" suggested the re-
porter" Il
'rhat is true" was the reply. They
nrc being brought in by the car load, and
will probably try to vote, rs there is no
registration law in the State. But il they
do, tic result will be that not negro in
tho Stale will be allowed to vote. In the
absence OF the registration law, there is no
way OF telling who are and who arc not
citizens OF the State and the people will
beso incensed at such anattclnpt OF fraud
that they will resort to radical means OF
Eclt-dcfersc. Thepeoplc OF West Virginia
are the most law-abidins people in the
world, probably, but the any attempt to
force such i fraud upon them might result
in a great deal OF killing"
Tho Dispatch will note that it is untrue
that colorcd men were being brought in
by tho car load" The Register, in
which tho report was first published, ex-
plains and contradicts it. The Dispatch
will also observe that Mr.. Gibson said that
II imported negroes tried to vote the re-
suit will be that not u negro in tho State
will be allowed to vote"
Thus it appcars that Mr.. Gibson did
threaten ito prevent negro voters from
roting'-hc did up voters and non-vo.crs
in one batch, assigning as 4 reason the alb.
scnce OF i registration law. Then followed
tho opera bouile remark about great
deal Of killing. Mr.. Gibson has since said
that the word was Kicking" not "kill.
ing," bntehc word used in the original is
more in harmony with the context.
The ISTEl.lIGESCgn desires to call
special attention to the TACT that it gave to
its readers tho interview Us reported in
reputable newspapers, the Democratic
Cincinnati Enquirer being among them.
Mr.. Gibson is just the kind OF q man to
talk rs he is reported TO- have talked; but
W. don't think he will keep any consider
able number OF voters, white or black,
from depositin- their ballots, He is only
n braggart. @ a2