Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-06

QUE FRI SID PRESLEY AGAIN.
Hon. PRESLEY W. MORRIS, statesman,
editor and politician, acknowledges in the
following language, in 8 special dispatch
to the Iltsligeaoer from Terra Alta, thai he
hss been iacaishisg the Iats1igenssr with
it's anonymous and dirty screeds agaiast
nis brother members Of the committee.
Says he:
ls lo Che REGISTER, ins.uuatious about who
tac correspondent exposing DC and overthrow
ing schemes SIR Norris 20 ues,s ,he n',--
H.lr l0s-lte ODD Che REa ,rEs chat So is none of
business whether hs is the man or not Tie
..g. Chat when he gets ready 90 confess le VIII
rr. 6don. tnc Wheeling Ees.,rEE as his col-
0.0r Is would mo-. grstify the Wheeling kEG-
.r.. Hy either admitting OBJ deny I'm prva.e
Iur..UcIll. DE c,sins chat be has done
as l.r as Dbl. i- able ID discern Do. in all his
action. asa u. mhcr no tls committee lrerF
.0.. ou every question E appro, ca oy his con
science I... should exercise h.s privilege ot
u-tnrn1 ar-.cI, for amy newspaper or furnish
.ref.s or one. Dee would ty OBJ ten the truth
T..f..'ia. nr Che truth would NOT afrc. hi, de
This is sufficiently frank confession,
bat PRESLEY might have been a little
more pleasant sb)nt i.. However, being
buuJ on. % she the practice Of suc5 dis
reputable methods. whilst q member Of
the committee, doubtless relied ths sur
ncs G. PgEsLEYs ordinarily placid ard
genial nature. PRESLEY says that be
"lls done justice a5 far 50 be is able to
discern &C. Justice is SO shining an OBJ
.-,. chat it has evidently blinded the
Richie county statesman throughout
tbe contest 10 hes also, 10 ia plainly to
be seen, colo7-biudei bis inward monitor,
a1 be says every vote on every question
ia approved by his conscience. IL
hal made chat stil small voice con.
uai and husky. Aud PRESLEY drown.
tlai poor little voice altogether by loudly
declaring that although the Virginia Poll
books slog .ha. the fraudulent voters had
at least registered, if not voted, in Virginia
as well as West Virginia, that the photo
gspbs of the fraudulent voters did not ac-
company the charges TO prove 10 his so It's
faction tha. they are the came men. It is
rema- liable the number Of colored gentle
men in that circumscribsd section Of c0un-
try which tie amiable PRESLEY is able "a
convince bi3 conscience are named alike
The men who fraudulentiy voted in Msr
cen and Mcdowell counties. West Virginia
and were enlarged with being uon-residents
were iientf fed by the Registrar OF Pooa
hoatls. Va, and other cit ans Of Virginia
as be.1gctzans Of Virginia st the tiue.
lite. furthermore, remarkable how east
ly AIr. MosRls' conscience took il when
day before ycsfsrd1y, twenty votes wer,
gained for Corr in Beaxlon county
on the lmisiet kind Of technicslity
when that same conscience
stood up on its hind leg
and paved The heavens when votes were
on much stronger grounds, thrown out TO
Judge FLsNNG in Brooke county. Thu
Baxion c,anty business is all right an'
proper. bat IN Brooke county it was
"s,e3l."
The less PRESLEY says about Justice
ami bis conscience the better. Ii would
hive beel still better fer him had he neve
compromised himself az a member Of th'
Committee by descending to the level C
an anonymous BLACKBOARD to throw mu'
at bis brother committeeman through thl
Lat1qncsr. ii, woald have been bette
for the Intelligence, also, for, although
PRESLEY is very entertaining when writ
ing on abstract subjects, when he writes OF
politics from a partisan standpoint be i
tnds silly.