The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-11-23
FIGURES THAT Do LIE.
The Democratic Attempt. tc
Count in Judge Fleming,
By PRINTING BOGUS RETURNS,
s,nply Nislcuds the Reader, and the
omcial Returns will Knock them
ont-rhc Democrats Dying
Hard, but They Must Die.

voie for Governor. Inc OIHClhl TeCuTuhi
ce,,ilied, from Brooke county increase
Jennings majority there from 3 to 8.
Official returns from Nicholas county,
however, reduce Fleming's majority, rs
ar., reported, from 2SG to 2lO, which
giyes GoiF net increase in the table OF
Is and makes his majority 135, us now
reported
The reconnts asked for by Judge
Fleming are not all completed, but it is
not thought they will materially change
tbe general result. The Democrats con-
tinue to allcge fraud in certain back
counties, forgetting they themselves have
tbc election machinery in their own
hands in these very counties. It is only |
todiyertattcntion from their own frantic
enlcayors to count out honestly elected
Republicans.
The Democratic organ published yes
terlay morning, for the first time, atable
ot,hc uajoritics upon which it has based
its claim OF Fleming's election.
It's understood that the figures are
also those OF the State Committee, and
upon them they have based their claims.
The organ, in connection with this
publication undertook to make it ap-
pear that the INTELLloENcER's figures
were "doctorcd," aud that they were
entirely unreliable. Just what object
the ISrRLMGENcEE could possibly have
in publishing i%se returns when it
knew that its mere assertion would not
elect Golf unless backed by the ballots,
the organ did not make clear.
The INrELuGENCER never claimed
that all its figures were official. 1t
does claim, however, that ma
jOrity Of them are official, and that
in nearly every instance they have
been received direct from the counties,
either through the newspapers published
at the county seats, or through reliable
correspondents. When taken from
newspapers, Democratic papers, when
possible, werepreferred, and where there
were two papers published in the same
county the returns as published in both
were compared and verified. In almost
every case the tables were marked otli-
Cial. In several instances during the
past week it has been necessary to
change the figures from certain counties,
errors having been discovered in the
first count by tho Boards OF Commis-
sioners when making the final canvass.
Other corrections have been necessary,
owing to u change on the face of the re-
turns being made after a recount. Each
day the table has been carefully revised,
according to the best information at
hand, and the INTELLldENcER now be-
leves that the majorityit gives for Gen.
Goir is only subject to change Wien the
results OF the recounts shall be known.
A glance at the Registers figures satis-
lies one that they are fixed" for the pur.
pose OF deceiving the reader into the be-
lief that there really is majority for
Fleming on the face OF the returns, and
in order to make good its assertions that
Fleming has "a safe majority"
For instance, the Register ought to
know that GofI's official majority in
Mason county is 500 instead of S5S as
appears in its table. The INTELLrdEScER's
telegraph columns have contained that
information, and the Point Pleasant Reg
istr lDemocratic) Of this week, publishes
the same news. In Randolph county
Fleming's official majority is G47 instead
Of Gto as the Register has it. The Regis
itr' errors in giving these two coun-
ties wipe out its net plurality of 8 for
Fleming in the State providing Nc
Dowell has given Ia for Gofrl. Again
the official majority for Fleming in Gil
mer county, certified by the Gilmer
County Court, and so published in the
lNrELLIGENcER's news columns, is S27
instead OF 333 as the Register has it, n
difference Of six votes. According to the
Greenbrier Independent (Democratic)
Flcming's majority in that county is 727,
instead OF 720, as in the Registers table.
According to the Doddridge county
papers land they ought to know, Gof's
majority in that county is 9G6. The Rcy-
i'ter has it25s. InMercer county, where
the Democrats made strenuous efforts to
wipe out Coils majority altogether, they
only succeeded in reducing the original
figures to 80. The Regiaer says SO. In
Putnam county there was u recount, and
GotT gained 8 votes over the first count.
This the Register fails to note and prints
the first figures, 03. In Wayne county
the Register gives Fleming GAG majority,
The lSrRLLI0ENcER's figures, which, ac-
cotdtng to its dispatches, are official, are
G42. nLogan county, Fleming's official
majority is LAO. The Register publishes
Cleveland's majority of 1853, as the
majority given for Fleming.
The above are but few OF the dis
crepancics in the Registers table, which
it claims is, in the main, official. It is
apparent that in most instances it has
given the maionties OF the head Of the
Democratic ticket, Mr. Cleveland, for
those Of Fleming. 1t should be borne
in mind that Fleming ran behind Cleve.
land in large number of the counties.
In number Of other counties the Regis
ter's figures vary from one to ten from
those given by the INTELLioRScER, but
in some cases the figures are unofficial
or subject to change after the recounts
now in progress.
The INTEuMoRScER has no object in
"doctoring" the returns to deceive it