Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-17
SAFE.
West Virginia is Demo-
cratic.
JUDGE FLEMING IS ELECTED
And the Desperate Schemes of
the TrickSterS
WHO CONSPIRE TO DEFEAT HIN
And Defeat the Honest Will Of the
People,
WILL BE TRIUMPHANTLY FOILED.
The Only Danger to Democratic Victory is
Fraud, and It Cannot Prsvail-LataSt
Returns Elect Judge Fleming Be-
yund Shadow Of Doubt.

Yesterdays news brought JOY and glad
ness to the Democratic he5rE 1t settles
that Judge Fleming has been elected Gov
ernor, and takes away the remotest posi-
bility OF Democratic defeat. For two days.
all has hung on the returns from Fayette,
Mcdowell and Wyoming. Hope has risen
and fallen as Iumor after Iunor has been
put iu circulation. The REGISTER has re-
Trained from publishing these unsounded
reports aud quietly awaited until tome
information could be obtained from author
itatiye sources. 1t has left the work OF
manufacturing msjOrities to a contempo-
rary more experienced in this particular
field of journalistic labor, and thus Gen.
Goff's msj ority hAs grown apace.
T5-day official and semi official returns
are at hand from these counties, aud Gen.
G0tf7s padded pluralities sink out of sight
under the wave of triumphant Democracy.
Fayette county gives Republican mPjori-
ty of 132 instead of 907. Mcdowell gives
81 instead Of 141, and Wyoming fills the
cup of Democratic JOY By holding Goff's
boodlers down to 35 instead of rs, as the
Republican organ has claimed. This is q
net gain of 299 over the padded R'publi7
can figures Numerous other reports re-
eeived yesterday make up a. much more.
Glorious little Calhoun proves equal to the
emergency aud comes up with 800 majority
for Fleming sn1 honest government in
stead Ct 2s2, as it has been previously esti1
mated. Greepbrier's majority for Flem-
ing is increased by the full returns from;
SOB to 729. Writ county's official report
gave Fleming an increased vote Of S8 more,
making it 14O instead of 1O2, and thus
Judgs Flemiug's majority looms up into
he hundreds.
The table by which it was ever made to
appear that Gen. Goff had even q shadow
of plurality was full of inaccuracies and
willful m sreprese atstions. Nothing more
or less than dsliberate flsehoOd repre-
sented Judge Fleming's majority in Bar
bOus AZ l8 in.tssd of 80. the same tao
tics wiIfulIy misrepre:euted Democratic
nnjorities in every Democratic county.
II was part of the despiCable scheme Of
the Republican tricksterJ 10 steal the
State from Democratic ccnt:oL They
hope by audacious claims to conceal the
weakness oftheir own case. Bat it will
not avail. Democracy hiss triumphsd IN
West VugiriL Tne figures given above
are reliable. They make our victory
sure. Judge Fleming has been elected
Governor by q majority that does not sd'
nit of doubt, and he will not be cheated
out Of his victory.
But tie triumphant election Of the
State ticket does not alone represent the
fullness of Democratic victory. The re-
turns now show Judge Jackson's election
in the Fourth District by close vote, but
il will be sufficient to hold. Roane gives
him II msiority, aud with the official
counts and recOunts complete, Judge
Jackson has plurality of four. The fig
ures will not be changed, unless by pllpa-
bic error or fraud.
Anderson is still ahead in the Third,
though the contest is close. Wilson has
353 majority in the Second, aud Pendle,
toms chances are brighter than ever in the
First district.
The Legislature is our by a majority o.
at least one on joint ballot and possibly
thres. The election of a Democratic U. S
Senator is assured, and Democratic Leg
islasure will see to it that no fraud Iob'
Judgs Fleming or the State officials o
their .hard-earned triumph.