Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-16
WHFEIING W. VA, FRIDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 1885,
at hand and the men who committed them
will bs called to account.
An Attempt to Skeal the State.

will bs called to account.
An Attemps to Steal the State.
When this conspiracy was first unesrthi
ed, the REGISTER pointed it ont and
warned Democrats Of the danger. To-day
these msn are pursuing the same tacilcssl
They see that tteir corrupt plans have not
carried the State. They know that west
Virginia is Democratic. Tbey have Dougat
votes wherever NOR e7 could tempt and II
was not enough; they have coerced and IN
timidatGd Democratic voters and II ID not
enough; they have colonizsd illegal votes
and brought paupers and non-residents to
the polls by the dczea, and it Is not
enough. Now driven 10 the last resort
they are preparing the way for crime
fouler than any other they have yet COM
mitted-to defeat the expressed will OF the
pecple and steal the State from Democratic
control. \
The first stap is to fIlsify the rssurns,
and it has been done p'rsistent'y and
msliciousIy. The Republican State Com
mitt,e and their organs have worked on
the principls of claim everything and
concede nothing. Ih4y have misrepre-
sented the facts in almost every county,
Republican mejoyities have been rsised to
an extraordinary figure in their estimates,
aad Democratic maj critics decreased every
where. Their claims are almost entirely
confined to general statements, and the
few complete tables they have dared to
give out are full OF inaccuracies. Even
then q Republican mi >rity Of 75 Is all
that can be obtained, while misre presents-
t'ons in four counties alone, OF which the
R,publican Committee must have definite
information, make up more than IoO et
Gof~s padded pluralitifs. -
That the public msy know the exact
value of the table thIt has appeared 80
prominently lin a Wheeliog paper, the
REGISTER will give TIE official fgure' on
two counties. lTney a c sufficient. 10 the
,unty cf Fayette GCff's majority is made
sO7 by this table. The official returns
certified by the Board Of County Commis-
sioners, give Goff plurality Of only 732-'
a difference of rs. The table gives Gof
msiority Of 81 in Mercer. Ths official re-
turns from this county makes Gen. GOT y
majority of 34-a loss of SO. In these
two counties alone err Or5 exist more than
sufficient to overcome the slender msJorlty
accredited to the Republican candidate
There are numerous o:her cares Of inaccur-
scies. TIE REGISTER has not published a
comparative table of the counties within
the last two days because 1t ls Informed
that its tables have been made use Of to.
Judge FlemiDg's detriment Tbey have
been made the instrument Of Republican
fraud. In nearly every county where
liberal estimate had been made o! Rspnb-
can m.jorities, q Republican returning
board has been found to increase that ma
iority on ths official count, any number OF
votes that has tesn desired. -
But the cases given above are fair SAM
pies of the stuff that constitutes the Intel
T1eacer's tables, and by which it hopes 10
lesd the psop!e of West Virginia into the
belief that General GOf has been
elected Governor. 1t hss published
and repeated these false statements.
Throaeh tbe medium Of special CORES
D p,ndents they have been sprfai abroad.
Every effort has bean msde to manuiGctale
public sentiment
WHAT REPUBLICANS ARE PLANNING.
INDIE Fleming has been denounced be-
cause he a,ked for recount 10 lew
counties in which fraud was stamped on
the face of the returns, while Gen. Con
has demanded r:coaDt5 in nearly every
county Of the Stats, where there is no sus-
p;cion of wrong doing. His emissaries
nave attempted 10 dislranchise voters in
Democratic preeircta, and not man has
opeued his mouth to condemn it. They
have resorsed 10 every technicality to de-
feat the intentions Cf the people. In WeU-
zel aud othsr Democratic COlnties bills OF
excepsion have been filed to the vote IN
the hope that some weak kueed county
board may be driven into throwing cut
Democratic precinct.
In Republican counties recounts have
been demand, d by every man on the ,cket,
in order to keep the contest open and give
chance to manipulate the returns. In
other Republican counties the canvass OF
the votes by the Board Of Commissioners
has already developed some startling ln-
creass 5 in Gen. GOif's msjorities, increases
which were not looked for and which were
more than eye1 Mr.. Cowden's COmmittea
claimed. In ore county at least Demo-
Gratis were denied ac'e3s TO the official re-
turrs. and after these returDs had bsfn
manipulated hy solid Republican Board,
Gen. COTS maj ority was increased IL votes
over the highest estimate.
THE CRY OF STOP THIEF.
This is spec man of the work that has
al. eldy baen GO-e Nov we are intorme1
that Matt Quay is to take hand in the
plot and superintsGd the conspiratoss in
person. To cover all the details o. the
scheme, the mouth piece of the R-pubh-
csn State COMMITTEES sgaiu raises the cry
of fraud. Its double-lsaded columns are
loaded with bold assertions that Democrats
are preparing to cheat the voters Of the
State. The democracy Of West Virginia
have no reason to attempt fraud upon
the ptop,e. The State is theirs. Judge
Fleming is elected & overnor. The R9pub-
Iican committee is only raising the old cry
OF stop thief ever again. 1t is usirg it ts
a mask to its own nefIiioas plot. 1t thus
set ks to cover up the tracks of its ennis
ssries, who are now at work in every
county.
Let the p,ople of West Virginia be
warned. They have elected Democratic
Governor. Tbey have defeated Gotiism.
They have proclaimed their faith in the
principles Of Democracy. Will they be
robhei of this triumph by the men who are
now conspiring to defeat their will?