The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-22
YHB GREAT BIG FARCE.
The Three-to-Two Committee
at Terra Alta Fails to Find
EVIDENCE OF CORRUPTION
In tho West Virginia Election or In
tcAtiouaI Fraud, hut Sanctions q
Post-Eleotion Fraud In Itana-
wha-Ycsterlay's Session.
Special Dipuish 10 he InitRisaler,

Special Dtpdieh 10 hs IHltHgelleH'
TERRA ALTA, August 81, Out Of sixty,
two votes assailed by Judge Fleming in
Kanawha county the challenges were
sustained in twenty-five. Gen, GofF as
sailed fifteen and one was rejected,
OF the twenty-five votes assailed by
Fleming as those Of paupers, the charges
were sustained in the cases OF Moses
Roy, Ed Jones, Lewis Allen, William
jackson, Asa Vaudale, 7, ]. Slater, Alex
Corncross, Samuel Morton, WA, Bur.
dett, and James Kidd, 4
In several Of these the evidence was
very slight, For instance, only one
man said that Burdett was pauper, and
is still so, not giving a single fact as to
why lie made up a legal opinion, while
several said he Is a pensioner and was
not a pauper. The deputy clerk, Mr.,
White, stated that he examined the re.
cords OF allowance to the poor in
Kanawha county, and there was nothing
to show that Burdett received aid.
The other votes were rejected mainly
on the grounds OF non.residence aud
misunderstanding about county lines.
In several cases the members OF the
committee differed, and votes were re.
iee.ed by three to two.
In all the proof there was not q sylla.
BILE to show any Intentional fraud by
any one. The cases were exactly like
those through all the rest OF the State.
What the ISTRLLIaEEcRR and It's cores
pondent have said all the time, namely
that the proof disclosed that the election
held lust November was as fair on our
part as 1t could well be, Is still man.
tanned as true.
REPUBLICAN, VICTORY.
No matter who Is seated as Governor,
the Republicans have triumphed in this
contest. Democratic leaders and news
papers charged that there were from five
to fifteen thousand fraudulent votes cast
in tho State; that all law and Justice
had been outraged in the election; that
there was open fraud and corruption,
&c. After the most extraordinary effort,
all this Is proven false. and that honesty
prevailed.at the last West Virginia eleC.
tion, Otthis all decent people should
be proud.
The fact is this is the death struggle OF
the Solid South, and she dies hard.
This contest was lnaugurated by @ set OF
demagoguesi who care nothing about the
right or wrong. What they desire Is TO
prevail and they care not how much the
lair fame Of the State Is injured In the
struggle.
AS late as this morning, the Register
reports It's threadbare lnisrepresenta.
tions. Yet what a fall, from 5000 votes
TO paltry twenty in Kanawha county,
over which 1t gloats. In its usual greedy
manner itoyerlooks and eyades tho issue
between II and the INTgLLIdRNcRR's cor.
respondent. No claim has been made in
theif dispatches as TO what the Contest
Committee would or would not do. The
Register knew, probably. For 1t 10 claim
80, Is q severe reflection on the commit
tee. II the committee can stand 1t to
have It's decisions indicated In advance
by the ReyiG,er, then this correspondent
IL willing TO permit the Register CORES.
pondentto gloat over hisgiitof prophecy.
1t has been tho object Of the lNTELLi.
uESCER to state the simple truth to pre-.
sent the facts Us they have been dis.
closed. That they are creditable to the
State, is a matter Of qualification.
Whoever may be Governor, the ballot
box in West Virginia Is yindicated.
The committee is considering the ques.
ton Of the original count, and the re.
count In the precincts Of Charleston and
st, Albans In Kanawha county. This
affects thirty.two votes, The county
court took tho original count on the
ground that the ballot box had been
tampGred with.