Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-08-09
THEY THROW MUD.
Nh. YOSF SUBJECTED TOA VOLLBY OF PER-
S0NAL ABUSE.
The Man Who Objects 10 Being Called Hopper TO
be Covered With Dlrt--A Review Of the
madagascar Little List"

Since the REGISTERS expose Of the
EateIligeReer's new tangled, copyrighted
plan of making political converts. the
Fourteenth street organ has been more
than usually idiotic in its wild maunder-
ings. Yesterday the superintendent of its
topper factory wrote about column and
little else in answer to Mr.. Yost's manly
and straightforward statement. The srti-
Gle might have been composed in an inc
briate asylum or q modern Bedlam, but
hardly in the Office of q newspaper that
made pretenses to decent journalism. This
Columbus of the field of political discovery
attempts to pull himself out of very
deep hole by showing Mr.. Yost in. He
attacks Mr.. Yost personally and impeaches
his statement. Mr.. Yost is reputable
gentleman. His card in Tuesdays
REGISTER was sufficiently explicit. 1t
makes the exact facts known. He
was not interviewed as a political
convert, and never signitied
his intention to vote for Harrison and
Morton. What conversation there was On
any political subject was of an insignif-
can't character and in q vein of jest. These
we're the simple facts: The Doy-evangelist
of the Intelligeneer Office, was so anxious
to get another real live convert to add to
that famous list which even he had begun
to see was rather ''mottled in spots" that
he was wilfully misled and imposed q
fslsehoOd upon his readers. This Is the
most charitable construction that can be
put on the IateligReer's course. What
ever was this little scheme it didn't WORK,
hence all these weeps and vain impreea-
tons.
The attempt to sssail Mr.. Yost's state
ments is too contemplate to notice. On
a question of veracity between himself
and the assinine prevarieator who dishes
up political chesnuts and so-ealled inter
views for the hteiiigeReer, Mr.. Iost mas
nothing to fear. The emphatic card below
will cause that enterprising Journalist to
wish that he had never discovered flop
per. II after il he wishes to continue the
controversy, it will be because he Is IN
too desperate q situation to fear public dis
grace, or has skin too thick to feel public
contempt.
Mr.. Yost's Card.
To TIE Editor Of TIE Register:
SIR:-I regret exceedingly that cireum-
stances render it necessary for me to de-
nouuce the Iatelligeaeer in language more
forcible than elegant, for its willful and
malicious misstatement in its issue OF this
morning, of the fact concerning my al
legged Hopping" Their first article was
so purely of an imaginative and presump-
tive nature that had hoped my mild cor
rection in the REGISTER Of yesterday
morning would be final and sufficient,
without exposing its very original and
Characteristic methods of gaining sccessions
to the Republican ranks. But ALAS!
poor foolish thing" that it should accuse
me of working to gain the notoriety which
il seems already to have acquired-tailiug
70 adhere to the principles of truth.
Be il known, now and for al time, tnat
in my conversation with the InteltIgeneer
representative the question OF my voting
for Harrison and Morton was not asked,
nor did ever state that such were my in
tentions to any living mortal. To the
truthfulness of these facts am ready at
any time to make affidavit, and the gentle
man who accompanied me to the iHtettI-
geacer office when / subscribed for that pa
per will bear me out in the former; and,
further, that since am in no sense respon-
sponsible for the differences Of that paper, L
shall not again expect to be placed in the
''unenViable position" mentioned in their
article of this morning. u. F. YosT.
Wheeling, W. Va, August 8, 1888.