Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-11-05
LED.
A Republican Lie Stamped
to Death.
4 TISSUE or FALSEHOODs
About Judge Fleming'S Canvass
Denied on Oath.
,,cioi rs,,ro,u 10 tht s,udav R,ciser.

Special Telegram 10 TIE Sunday RecisI.
FAIRMoNT, November 3.-Ths dispatch
in this mornings InteligeHccr concerning
the movements of some mythical mintr
representa- as having rolls Of money to
spend in Judge Fleming's behalf, caused
unbourded Indignation here where Judge
fleming is known. II was an Infamous
false hood, wbicl no one hssitahd to deny
on SIGHT. Following is the affidavit OF
Charles W. Bro vn, the man referred to in
the Iateuigenccr's article, and he cIushes
the life out of this Republican rcorback.
1t is published in order to prevent tie de-
ception of honest voters throughout tie
State. No one believes in the LHtoligen
GERS silly tissue of lies:
THE AFFIDAVIT.
Personally appeared before me, A. s.
Hay den, a Notary Public within and for
the county Of Mar'oD, State Of West Viz
GINA, Cha.lss w. Browa, q cit zsn and
resident of Msri,n county, who, sitter
being duly sworn, ssys that be is q miner
in the employ of the Carton mines at Fair
mont, West Virginls, and has heretofore
voted with the Re publican party that on
or about October 81, 1S3S. he went from
Fairmont to Newburg Of his W v~olition
aud without bang collected to do 20
by any one in the Interest CT
Judge Fleming, the Democrat C candidate
for Governor of the Sta'e of West Virginia;
that he desired to 20 to Newburg because
bis sense Of Justice was Outraged at the
notorious lies which we're being put in cir
culatiol against Judge Fleming by the
West Tirginian ne newspaper published at
Fairmont and copied in tie Wheeling
Iaeligeacer ard othe. IapHs concerriOg
the treatment of the miners at the mires,
with which he is connected, and desired
to sst the mirers in that section right on
this subject and show them that Judge
Fleming il, as afiant verify believes and
has reson to bel'cvs,
A TRUE FRIEND OF THE MINERS
and oil other laboIi,g men an1 fully &C.
of their support fo: any public
office.
Afiant further ssys that with this viEw
he Voluntarily went to the Chairman OF
the Democratic Executive Committee OF
county and conferred with him in
regard to II e matt IT, and the cad Chair
man gave him SIS as expense money TO
make thu trip usoa; aliiint says that he
went to Preston county, which wac his
home, and conferred with mary Of
his old acquaintauces END friends on this
subject; that SIS was 81 the MOI ey fur
him | V any cn.fDr or on Behalf Ct
judge T'HpIpg, and that be only ip:It
ST. of that, ana rsS,rnel the balance to
said chairn on his etutnEGHsE
THE LIE NAILED.
Afiant farther saJ that hs has every
rsa Oh to Relieve that h. is the individual
alluded to in a special dispatch to the
Wheeling MtdiqcHccr, dated N3wburE,
November ,, 1873, as having visited that
in the interett OF Judec Fitm ny,
and brands the sia'emeTtsi in Tint di'patch
that he had rolls u money TO u1e in Flem-
irp's behalf, ss an unqualified lie. 10
facs sfiant says that the wfo'e dispitCh,
except the mtre fac that he was in New
burg and lookir & IF err Judge FiemirS's
interests among tire miners in a Legitimate
way, is an unqualified lie.
CHAs. W. BROWN.
Sworn to ard sub.c;itel By Charles w.
Brown before me, the Undersigned, a no.
tary public in and for The county OF Ma.
rion and state of West VirgiuiI, this Sd
day of November, 1883.
A. S. HAYDEN, Notary Public.