The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-11-24
| BIG GAME OF BLUFF.
How Judge Fleming is the Vic
tim Of a Conspiracy
BY DESPERATE DEMOCRATS
coc. i. Elected, and the Democratic
Monagcrs and Newspapers Know
1.-THE Huc and Cry is for
Very Suspicious Purpose.

Very Suspicious Purpose
Gradually the majority for Goff il
.h,ninr itself into something definite
The IyTglLIeExcER's figures still show
him electcd-this morning by greater
minority than yesterday. The arrival o.
newspapers from county seats remote
from telegraph stations, containing OIL
ciaI figures, call for changes in the first
r,oor,s. These changes are made alter
,bc County Commissioners have can
vos.cd the vote and in most cases dis
coyerdcrrors, which slightly changesthe
G,ares sent out by correspondents after
the count made Immediately upon the
close Of the polls. For instance, the
official canvass in Braxton county shows
Fleming's majority to be $50 instead OF
M as in the INTELNGENcER yesterday,
while in Pendleton county where the
IyrELtlGgxcER had been publishing his
majority at 2S5, the official canvass by
thc Commissioners shows it to be $50
only. The Register prints it at 2S9. This
is another correction (by Democratic
board, by the way) which will wipe out
the Registers 0 plurality for Fleming
The Raleigh county Inder, OF this week,
puLlishes the certified returns OF that
county. 1t gave Fleming's majority at
ll5 instead of III, as both of the Wheel
ingpapcrs have had it. The Roane coun'
tyR,cord, published at Spencer, comes
al.o, showing FIcming's majority to be
40 in that county. The Register insists
that it is 1856, with nothing to base the
claim ON. The fNrELLGENcgE, rs it has
done daily, carefully makes these cor.
re,tions, and will continue to do so until
alltI interior counties are heard from
definitely. Colts majority still remains
above the 100 mark, and is liable to re.
main there.
The IxrELIGENcER's dispatch from
Charleston this morning, sent by its cor
respondent, who is conservative man,
con,radicts flatIy the ridiculous false
hood purporting to come from that city,
and which appeared in yesterdays Regis-
Ter, regarding the count in Kanawha
county and the alleged conduct OF the
county commissioners. There appears,
indeed, to have been no foundation for
the story. The only motive possible for
the publication Of such an ill-adyised
canard, was to divert attention from the
very suspicious state of affairs in Wet
eel county, which is a little nearer home
and to manufacture public sentiment in
iayoroi Judge Fleming's baselcss claims,
with view to the hopeless contest
the Democratic managers and news
paper men, who have n large amount oi
money bet on the result, are persuading
him he must make. Judge Fleming evil
IDENTIFY is not aware OF the trap unscrupu'
lous politicians and gamblers are setting
10 involve him, as au innocent party, in
conspiracy to steal the State, in order
that they may make good the money
they lost on Cleveland.
The Registers Charleston Especial" al
leg'ng Irregularities in Kanawha, bears
the imprint of falsGhood on its face
Itsays, for instance, that but one mem
bCr Of the court was present; that tht
others were staying away, evidently TN
der instructions from headquarters
Only day previous n dispatch in th'
same papcr from the same place de
sCribed the court as being in session
The ballots in Kanawha county are il
charge OF the clerk. This clerk is Bill
Dave Gosorn. the fellow conspirator o
Senator Kenna in the matter OF torminI
the fusion between the Democratic an'
the Union Labor parties atthe late elec
ton. Mr.. Gosorn supported the Demo
cratic ticket in KanawhG and is no NOR
in sympathy with the Republican part
than Senator Kenna himself. As clerk
he has access to the ballots. Nobod,
has thought OF accusing him, or anyon
else, of tampering with them, saw
she Wheeling Register in its endeavo
to manufacture sentiment, and it stray
IRON the path of truth to say the "cler
lisa Republican"
The people at large are satisfied tha
General Golf has been honestly eIecte
Governor Of West Virginia. 1t is eve
possible that the Harrison electors
ticket has pulled through. The Whee
ing organ and the Democratic Commit
tee know it. Hon. John L. Kenn
comedies it. Hon. John ]. Davis hi
conceded it. AS the days wear ava
another motive for the perpetual cry
''irand, besides that stated above, bt
comes more and more apparent. a la
dying struggle is being made to Great
capital for the next campaign. As il
tclligcnt men the Democratic manage
know that the cry OF "fraud' as to Me
Ger, Mcdowell, W yoming and othercou
ties which have flo pped to the Repn
lican column is as empty as air. 1.-THE
has been fraud in those counties, Der
Ocats alone are responsible for 1t, for Il
election machinery in every one OF the
was in the hands OF the Democrats.
illegal votes were cast Democratic ele
ton officials received them and COUNT
them. The people are not fools N
they know this. GoT is elected, III
willtake his seat peaceably. The blust
OF the Democratic press will stop VIII
the official returns are in, unless, US ST