Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-18
STOP pEFAMINe THe STATE.

The REGISTER frequently has taken oc'
casion to call attention to the peculiar de-
light ihs InteIigencer seems to take in
slardering this State, which it does
on every pretext The reason of this
We have heretofore completely been
at loss to discover. IL has been |
attributed 70 various causes not COM
plimsntary to the State pride of the Intel
Hgencey, which gained crsdeace from the
fact the editor OF the HatelliQeHeer Is not a
native of West Virginia and seemed
inclined to look eontemptuOusly on
the State of his adoption ard
its people. However, this may be, il is
beside the question since it is now pretty
pretty plain that the main spring of the
IatelligeReer's animOsity is the fact that
the State is DsmceTatic. More especially
since the last campaign the IRteltgeReer
has taken every occasion to send out over
the country gross falsehOOds about State
Government Of West Virginia. It hiss
Systematically libelled and slandered the
GubernatOrial Contest Committee, not
only in its own columns, but in the col
umns of every outside paper of any
importance. II has never let pass
an opportunity to libel this city
or the Slate Yesterday it capped the
climax by Publishing an alleged record of
crime in the State" 1t declares that 81
murders have bsen committed here since
January, which is false, and dWells with
peculiar relish and emphasis upon the
'laWlessness" Of the State, and that Flaw
abiding citizens are looking on the record
with horror" etc. The IRtelligeHeer takes
particular care not to compare the record
of crime in West Virginia with that Of
other States. That would not
suit its partisan, slanderOus pur-
pose, because it would show
that in this respect West Virginia COM
psres iayorably with any other State in the
Union and that order is as well preserved,
and the law held in as much respect, by
the citizens of West Virginia as by the citi-
Gems of any other State or section Of the
country. We will 90 further and state
without fear of successful contradiction
that the amount of crime and disorder in
West Virginia is below the average in the
Il nited States.
The Iatel6geHeer cites few instances Of
these. alleged crimes to back up its lying
slanders-16 in number. We shall show
at leas. ten of these to be false.
SAYS that veracious sheet:
On Fdday. August g. widow named GILLIs
and her two grown daughters, were assaulted
and murdered In their cabin in a lonely part Of
Mcdowell county. Two brothers named HOLLIS
were suspected Of the crime, and a mob strung
them up 70 a tree BY the heels and shot them to
death
Il is sufficient to say of the above that
it is lie manufactured out Of the whole
cloth. Il was spun in the bloody imsgina-
ton Of the Catlettsburg correspondent Of
the Cincinnati papers. Licking positive
information to the contrary, the Wheeling
papers were compelled to give it certain
degreee of eredence, but citizsns Of Nc
DoSell county and the Mcdowell county
papers empha.ically deny that there was
any outrage, any murder or any lynching,
and the whole fabrication is clAssed with
the rest of the Mulhattan yarns which
the Iatelligeseer has so greedily and eager
IL gulped down. Here is another;
Ichabod Ssyre and James Dixon Qusrreled
over the division of crop In Tyler county on
the i2th. Dixon split Sayre's head open with
an AK killing him almost instantly. Dixon
made his escape.
This has one merit that the Mcdowell
county fAlsehoOd lacked. There is a
shadow of foundation for it, bat shadow
only. IcHABOD SAYRE and JAMES DIXON
did quarrel in Jackson county. not Tyler,
and the pugnsciOus JAMES struck the
oesirepeTOus ICHABoD with an sxe handle.
ICHAB0D, however, was not killed. In
stsntly, Is not LOW dead. The next two
gems Of prevarica;iOn can be linked to-
gether. The inventive genius continues
as follows:
The next murder OF the month was in Kama.
VIVA county, where Mrs. Julia Holstein h al
legged to have poisoned her son-in-lsw.
On the liih William Thompson, the county