Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-04
MISS LIyIA SIMPSON,
One Of West Virginia. Brightest and Fair
est Young LadieE.

one OF West virginia. brfSutost anu u hir'
est Young LadieE.
Pr. PLEASANT, Septembsr 2.
TO tie Editor Of ne Register:
SIR: Those who were present at the las;
Democratic State Convention at Hunting
ton, will remember lady whS sal AZ sshhS
reporters table, &nd whose enthusiasm
was exhibited when Hon. John W. Eng
lish received the nomination for supreme
Judge. That lady was Miss Livia Simp'
son, of Point Pleasant, W. Va.
Since then il has pleased the Republican
press, both in and ont of the State, to de.
clare that she had no business in that Con-
vention. Why not? She is one of the
foremost reporters in this State and for
years has, in addition to filling the posi-
tion as local editor of the State Gazette, held
q position on the Cincinnati Enquirer and
other leading papers Then, as the repre-
sentative of such, had she no business in
that Convention?
But verse still. We are told that she
gained her first notoriety by defeating her
father in an effort to obtain q saloonkeep-
ar's license. Why such falsehood? At
the time the license incident occurred, l
telegraphed the facts to the REGISTER,
which published them correctly. They
were simply these: Her father, as an at
torney and not as q saloon keeper, made
application to the County Court for license
for one John Mason, of Clifton, in this
Mason) county, and received fee of s.
for his service. Miss Livis, hearing OF the
application, went before the Court as q
representative of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union, and succeeded In hav-
ing that tribunal refuse the license. Such
were the facts, md as such telegraphed
them to the REGISTER, but great was my
surprise two days later, to find that the re-
porter of the Pittsburg Commercial. Gazette
at Parkersburg, had gsrbled my dispatch
aud after emitting the facts, made it ap-
pear that the lady's father was the appli-
cant for tine license. Why such state.
ment? There is not q man 10 the State
who is conversant with the public men OF
West Virginia, who does not know that
Hon. G. p. Simpson, father Of Miss Livis,
is one OF the foremost lawyers and orators
Of the State, and farther, that he is not
now, and never has been saloon keeper,
ne having devoted his entire life to the
practice of the law.
Now word as to the lady whose name
certain news (?) papers choose to handy
about as disturber of the Convention.
Miss Livia Simpson is a granddaughter OF
Judge Nathan Simpson, whose name was
for half century prominent in the annals
Of Ohio jurisprudence, and the daughter
of Hon. G.. P. Simpson, well-known
throughout the State as the law partner OF
Hon. H. r. Howard, late a prominent
candidate for gubsrnatorial honors. She
has been for several years and is now one
Of the fayorite teachers in the Point Pleas
AIT schools. She is member of the Wo-
mems Christian Temperance Union, in the
interest of which she hes for more than
year controlled q column in one of our To-
cal papers. She is an earnest and faithful
Christian lady, and her very name
is a synonym for industry. She is
never idle, but during vacation fnds
to do. Since her school closed
last spring she has earned about three hun
bred dollars by indexing the county rec
ords. In addition, she does an amount of
literary work, often burning the midnight
oil" while thus engaged. Born of Demo
cratic parentage she inherited love of
those principles whose foundation ia HUI
man rights. But because OF this, she has
become the object against whom are di-
rected the philipics of certain would-be
editors. To whom l have only to say,
that the name of Livia Simpson will long
remain upon the records of the moral and
development in West Virginia
after theirs has been lost in oblivion.
TUCEAHOE.