Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-02-05
J,s lie NAILED AND cLlNcHEO.
apy Further Apology BY Its Author,
,h,, h,,.lnreIlixencer," Il Unnecessary.

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m. ,...lntrlltxencer," Il Unnecessary.
III i, but common justice to admit that
or c,;srrued nsighbOr, the REGISTER, Keeps
4 wy straight face while il takes its
tpsci-I dispatches from the New York
korlu sDd calls them kEGIsrER specials
az the mau-woman case. 1t requires a
fcud deal Of nerve to do this day after
~ Tbs editorial paragraph, which We have
alrssGy denounced and do again denounce,
ss 3 rslicious, bald-headed lie, conceived
Sin spite and written in spleen, appeared in
the latelligencer of last Wednesdays issue
and the charge was repeated yesterday.
That the lntelligencer in its laundering
bliuCntSs, missed "the man-Woman case"
Is, Of course, known to all its readers and
now its weak attempt TO bshttle the RsGIs-
rER's enterprise and its lying effort to
eredit the article to the New York World
are simply characteristic of its enyious and
embittrred nature. Pushed to the proof
md Gtfsd to offer to pay either telegraph
toll or correspondent bill for the articles,
Il squirms from beneath both and takes
Nfuge behind puny, sickly effort to rid
ikelf oi the charge of stealing Washington
Recisls from the Rochester Herald.
ITO Y rify the REGITEs's position snd
't1pos, he Intsll:gaucer's lie in all its v'0-
onoua im2eCiliIy il : only necessary to
print he following:
Dir. Dana l.. Hubbard, the RsaIsrEE's
Washington correspondent, to whose en-
terprise the scoop is attributable, aeut
ne following, which appeared in the sCS-
,DAT EruI>TER:
"Sp' aking Of MartinSburg, | notice that
acue attempt has been made 10 discredit
ne H. >TERs enterprise in gathering in
ne first account Of the recent curious mar
riage in that vicinity. AS that news was
I'll ga ned through your Washington bu-
yeau tSrnty. four hours ahead OF the pub
iicat.Cn Of the eastern press the scoop
.cpgl o. stand for what 1t IS worth.
Th, following correspondence AMI co.
tifce, hurl back the Iatel!iSeacer lie w..a
Or qu. oaal force:
NJ. T. x Tracy, Manager W. l. Tel. Co.,
" b. cling:
.4pEAH Sls-Will you be kind enough 20
rsrll,, whether or not the diSpaich from
Me- rstOD, concerning the hermaphTodite
wsGulEg near Martinsburg, published Ia
C T.,..rEz Of January p, came over Y )ur
No. - il 80, at what time aid Ia ho"
~. Ho:ds. TIE E"'"sr"H.
To ;... Welding Rr.lsrES.
& certify that the dispatch in relation 10
The L,Imaphrodite marriage near Martins
bnrg. come 0y our wires from Washington
Friday morning, January p, at 2:O5
o'clO, 4; also that 1t came special TO the
REGl>rEs and contained SjS words, as APP
peeIsG in the RESI~TEE on Friday morning.
Yours truly,
c. r. TRACY, Manager.
So much for the original Intelligencer
lie. Now for that amusingly egotistical
lstter sent in good faith" from the Junior
Great Am Of the Intelligeucer cOck-loft
to its wonderfully ubiquitous, but three
dny-lster.in-good-faith correspondent At
Washington. As We stated before, and
speakius stEI5Lly IN the interest vi to
readers, we commend the s'eaIlng OF those
Washing specials as infinitely prefera-
ble reading matter TO any thing that could
possibly originate in the aforesaid cock
loft. Even il three days late it IS still
preferable, and further apology in that di.
rectio0, by our csnting contemporary, is
useless. The Intelligencer has character
% lose" Yes, it has builded itself famous
character, for lying as the above will show,
bat there is no occasion for alarm, for there
Ii nc prospec. OF losing it. rhe only dan
ger within which the Inteliigencer stands
Is the danger OF the combination cutting
it OF from their exchange list.
ABut cannot understand why this mat
ter shcnld reach Wheeling two days later
thar Rochester" Clear as mud. Matter
By nail to Wheeling, via Rochester, is al
ways two days later than kilograms from
Washington to the Rochester Herald.
In conclusion, little piece Of advice,
eiyen before, might be repeated here. Ii
fhat surplus energy of the Intslligencer,
instead OF being devoted to its neighbors,
sVsre given to gathering news, how much
bstter it would be. Ii that venerable sheet
had given its readers an account OF the
Nsrtinsburg case by first hands, instead OF
Vaiting and clipping it from local eH-
change if it had done the same with the
torpirg Of the mother and child near Bsy-
ely; if II had only had the Riverside fur
rifnre cgmpsny's assignment, the Arbenz
bleze, the Clouston burglary, and dozens OF
-0ther things upon which the REGISTER
scoopsd il, with how much better grace its
present strictures would have come? In
that Case the envy and malice would not
have been so apparent.