Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-23
HOW 1T WORKS.
A Bright Particular Star of the Republican
Literary Bureau.

A Bright Particular Star of the Republican
Literary Bureau.
Of all the lies which are bring worked
off on the press of the county by the Re.
publican literary bureau, organized ia this
city since the election, the rsnBest csme
from the agile pen and fertile Imagination
of A. p. Moore, imported, presumably
at the usual great expense" stars figure
At, to pour a daily tale Of woe into the col
umns Of the PittsburE Chronicle Chestnut
AS a writer Of penny dradfuls Mr..
Moore would bss conspicuous suCcas9, bot
telling the truth in compact form for
newspaper consumption does not seem to
be he his forte
As Artemus Weird said Of tie monkey,
Moore is IAN amusin' little cuss."
Tbs yarns be daily spins would be un-
worthy of notice, were th,y only circulated
here in West Virginia, for every citizen Of
the Stats apprecist the conditions under
which they are ground ont, and at the
same time knows that all bat an inf Mites.
imal portion Of his alleged facts are the
mott pllpa6!e untruths or the groEs s. ex'
aggerations-but as lhs rot is extensively
circulated in Pittsburg and surrounding
territory in Ohio and Pennsylvania, it is
proper that the public should have an op'
p~ortunity to get a peep at the literary
bureau ard its methods Of working.
Take yesterday evenings edition Of the
Chronicle. Chestnut az an example. II con.
taintd two letters from the pen Of Mr..
Moore, one labeled Fairmont and the other
Warrington, and both dated the 221. In
his effusions Moore several times uses the
words to-day" in jcttirgdown what pur.
prrts to be intervie Ts with people in both
towns.
The fact il, that Moore was not ont Of
the city yesterday. lie was at the Mcclure
House Wednesday evening, at the Court
House yeste-d day morning, and at the Nc
Lure again last night, making it impoesi-
BILE for him to have visited either Man
niugton or Fsirmont, gathered up his al
legged data, wired bis rubbish to bis piper,
and still re about the city on the coca.
siors noted.
Instead of bling out ire B & 0. yester.
day. as Mr.. Moo.e woDli have the public
believe, be was mole probably in consulta.
ton with the local Republican bcs es, as he
was the evst lug b STORE, loading up his note.
bpok with q fresh batch If I facts" intend
ed 10 form the framework Of another letter
setting forth the horrors of election timst
in West Virginia, aud to be dated, Pow,
depc, only knows where. This Suspicion
is strengthened by the fact that about ten
o'clock last night Mr.. Moore bad the front
counter of the Mcclure Home Office covered
with sheets of manuscript, and was prepar
ing tbs helpless clerk for an acute attick
nf the horrors by reading him choice eI,
trscs from HE stuff.
The clerk had the sympathy Of every
holy whose attention was called TO the in
cident.
1t was one of the s,ddsst sights incident
to the election.
But to return to his Fsirmont and Man
uiugton correspondence. 1t was composed
Of what ~purpoitd 10 be interviews really
cribbed from the prpers and books Of tb'
republican State Committee, or in lieu &
this, invented outright, aud these wer,
strung tagtther by q thin thread of com
ment. The whcls thing wss q nauseatint
mass of liea well calculated 10 arouse thu
indignation OF every citizsn Of the State