Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-07-28
The Register win Not be Put Down.

Richmond DLspdteh, eDeDIl
The division in the ranks of the Demo.
cratic party of West Virginia is to be de-
plored, but will result, we guess, only in in
creasing Clevelands majority in that State,
whatever may be It's effect upon the local
elections.
The trouble is owing to the fact that
Governor jackson has taken too much in
terest in the scheme of Mr.. Mason (who
spent so large part of last winter in Rich
mond) to settle the debt of West Virginia
(after fixing the amount that was to be paid
by that State). We always thought that
the quasi endorsement Governor Jackson
gave to Masons scheme was not at all to
the Governors credit.
The Supreme Court Of Appeal of West
Virginia some time ago decided certain
exemption law to be unconstitutional. Gov
ernor Jackson and the Auditor thereupen
ordered all the property thus decided to be
liable to taxation to be listed by the COM
missioners of the revenue for that purpose.
This order caused much excitement in the
Slate. The Faulkner men, Of whom the
Wheeling REGISTER is charged with being
the organ, denounced Governor Jack
sons policy, and let loose upon
the Supreme Court of Appeals the
walls Of its wrath, expecting thereby to Sc
cure the nomination Of Mr. Faulkner mot
the father but the sony for Governor. The
Baltimore Suns correspondent supposes
thatsit was the decision of the Court Of APP
peals in the contempt case OF the Wheeling
lntelligencer that was used against Judge
Wook and Snyder. Whilst this decision
may have been alluded to also, the decision
mat caused so much dissatisfaction was the
one declaring the State law uneonstitution-
al which exempted certain property from
taxation.
The Wheeling REGISTER has been very
lavish in its denunciations of the State gov
ernment-the Governor, Auditor, Court Of
Appeals, and all. Our good friend George
H. Moffett, once Speaker Of the West Vir-
ginia House of Delegates, is the principal
writing editor of the REGISTER. When the
Committee on Permanent Organization
proposed him for chairman of the State
Convention, Bedlam broke loose. Kenna,
Jackson, Lucas, etc, all made, red-hot
speeches for and against Moffett, who fin
ally withdrew his name, saying, however,
that he knew he would be elected, and only
withdrew in the interest of harmony. John
Brannon was recommended for chairman
instead of Moffett. Every old Virginian
knows the noble Brannon-more than
twenty-five years ago chairman of the,
Finance Committee Of the Virginia Senate
We take it that Wilson was nominated
for Governor as a compromise candidate.
There is in West Virginia ex-Congress-
men Ben. Wilson, of Harrison county; the
present Congressman Wilson, from Jefferson
county, and the new nominee for Governor,
Mr.. Wilson, of Kanawha county, which last
is also Jefferson county man.
The reader will see that Faulkner was
ahead when the balloiing begun. The Wheel
ing REGISTER will not oe put down by the
action Of the Convention, though It was i'm
prudent in some of its utterances and may
have consulted other interests than those of
the Democratic party.
The REGISTER had no other interest at
heart except that Of the Democratic party
and can afford to await the vindication that
tine and its developments will bring of the
wisdom of its utterances. TED. REGISTER ]