Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-09-29
THE DIRTY CHARGE
MADE BY THE REPUBLICANS AGAINST THE
POsTOPPICB AUTHORITIES.
Mr.. Simpson Will Demand An Iuvssiigaton-kr.
King Feels Pang Of Rsgrst-Sdll in Line
To-Nighfs Meeting.


TO-Nighfs Meeting.
There is such q thing as smartnsss being
too smart. The InteiliSeneer and the saint-
" Mr.. Cowdea are bright and shining ex-
smples. The esteemed organ and the
esteemed political trickster have attempted
to make political football of the record
OF an honest and efficient. public servant,
aud they have got themselves into large
sized hole thereby. There will be some
squirming before the matter Is settled, and
it is cafe to say Mr.. Simpson won't be the
man to squirm. A reporter Of the REGIS
TER called on the Postmaster yesterday.
He said: 'The charges mode by the
Inteligeneer are falsehoods Of the deepest
dye. 1 am surprised that Mr.. Cowden has
lent himself to such attacks upon me.
Immediately after the charges appeared,
steps were taken looking to full and
thorough Investigation and before many
DAYS, these entsrprising gentlemen will
have an opportunity to make good their
statements.
81 have sent to the Chief Inspector Of
the Postofice Department, marked copies
of the InteHigencer of the 26 and 81 insts.,
calling his attention to the attacks made
upon my management OF the postoftice,
and requesting that he Immediately send
an officer, who will be empowered to probe
the whole matter to the bottom. intend
to compel these men to verify their asser-
tions or stand convicted as public falsi-
fiers"
''Mr. Simpson, was it possible for your
subordinatss to mistake Mr.. Cowdsn's
Sunday scbool papers for political docu-
ments ?'
mo, it was not. Those papers have
been coming to Mr.. Cowden regularly for
months, and for sught know, for years
Their appearance is well known to every
official who has handled them, and If l
remember correctly the package hears the
stamp of the United Presbyterian Board OF
Publication, and any mistake as to its
contents was practically impossible.
What Mr.. Cowden expects to gain
by charging that would delay
the receipt of documents, which
knew and everyone else knew to be Sun
day School papers, sm at a loss to see.
Mr.. Cowden was repeatedly informed that
these packages awaited him at the post
Office, and he has himself to blame for not
receiving them. Now, don't intend that
Republican psrtisans shall smirch my Of
fetal record. If they want party capital
they will have to make it off of some one
else. They have preferred charges against
me and they will have II prove them, or
the public will know the reason Why"
The people of Wheeling have been made
well acquainted with the charges against
the present management of the postoffice.
It appears that Mr.. Cowden, who has
charge of the Golf campaign, is a very YER
sstile man. Six days out Of the week
he can give to the circulation Of par
tisan falsehoods and partisan Doodle;
on the seventh he runs q Sunday
school--a sort of DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hide.
As superintendent of the Sunday school.
he has been receiving certain packages OF
papers for years. But good Sunday school
suparintendents have been known to fall.
Mr. Cowden's is a case In point. His
duties have pressed too hard on the dis
tinguished double. Mr.. Hide got the up
per hand completely. The Sunday school
duties were neglected, and Mr.. Cowden
didn't call for his papers. They were
missing, 1t was called to his attention.
And then filled with sense of his su blime
Importance as Chairman of the Rspubh-
can Committee he jumped to the conclu-
sion that his papers we're purposely de-
Iayed By the postoffics officials. He rushed
into print. The Fourteenth street purveyor
of political driyel and Geo. Wesley Atkln-
son's speeches" eagerly abetted him.
They made public charges that Postmaster
Simpson had wilfully aud msliciously
tampered with the mails. The abls-bodied
liars of the Iatetiigencer telegrsphed the
fslsehood all over the country, and Republic
can editors have commented on il and
have torn their hair in frantic JOY ct the
prospect of disgraciDg a Democratic official.
But now stop is TO be ordered. Post
master Simpson denies these charges, and
it devolves upon the Republican falsifiers
to prove them. They cannot prove them.
They haven't shadow to base their sus'
picions upon. To all who know him Mr..
simpsons denial itself is sufficient to
clinch the falsehood.
Mr.. Cowden has had reputation al a
fairly honest man. He is a George Wes-
lev Atkinson sort of politician, and is
probably just as honest as that bright
Republican light
OF his supporter and abettor in the as
sault upon Postmaster Simpson it is
scarcely necessary to speak. An organ
that has been convicted 80 often of false
hood, out of its own mouth, cannos be ex-
pected to scruple at lie when its advant-
age is thus served. That that lie might
do almost incalsulsbls injury to the fair
reputation OF an honorabls man would not
be- consideration to paper that has 80
little reputation of its own to sustain.