The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-20
CONTEST COMMITIBH
All on the Ground for the Final
Struggle at Terra Alta
THE INVESTIGATION so FAR
Shows There Was No Fraud Except
on tho Democratic sIde-Thc
Bad Break Made by the Or
gan of the Democracy.

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TERRA ALTA, August l0,-The contesi
committee are all here, excepting ont
member, who will probably arrive to
night, 1t goes without saying that Mer
Ger and Mcdowell counties will not be
read until the last moment, so that al
that the committee eau now do Is to
commence tomorrow to pass upon the
counties already read.
The Register Is still llmping around,
The dear old lady has the backachel
awiully, over the complete exposure ol
her pet scheme to preiudge matters be-
fore the contest committee, This un'
scrupulous female person accuses the
INTgLLIaENcER correspondent Of not
having read a word Of the evidence.
Pray, who has been reading 1t to the
Regller's correspondent This imagina'
tive creature seems 10 be obliVlous To
the sublime righteousness Of the charge
made. 1t is the usual failure TO make
the connection between the RegiSter's
condition aud common sense. The Reg
ister has the right to decide the contest
without reading, but no one else has or
the Register has the right 10 read, and no
one else has. She is caught, no diGer-
ence which horn Of tue dilema she takes,
Yes; it was boldly proclaimed and i
Is as boldly repeated that the invests
CATION 80 far shows that there was no
fraud anywhere In the State Of West
Virginia, excepting tho little proved
against Democrats, The public VIII
observe that tho loud claims by
Democratic leaders and newspapers are
all on tho bag.ofgold.at.the
rain.bow.style. The crop oi wheat, forty
bushels to the acre, Is in the next county.
Here, depositions In the hands Of some
clerk disclose fraud in Summers county,
How delightfully."- indefinite the the term
clerk Is. To what clerk does the Register
correspondent refer and TO what depo-
sitions? No such depositions are before
the contest committee and there will
not be twenty-five votes, aud probably
not half the number, rejected in Sum-
mers county.
1t Is true that there was shameless
outrage perpetratedin Kanawha county.
One witness does not hesitate to say
that he 10 confident a prominent official
scratched the ballots, taking oil Coils
name aud substituting the other mans.
But as the Registers correspondent did
not read the proof he failed 10 see
this, Still the ballot, as cast, was pure.
II was not till schemer In the interest
OF wild, wicked and woody Democracy
got to work, that 1t became clouded.
No wonder, that with evidences Of man.
ipulation right under their noses, the
Kanawha county Commissioners took
tho original count.
And has not the technlcallty stuff been
hashed and rehashed enough? Poor
Fleming! The other boy made faces at
him and lie must make faces back .=Goti
got majority OF the honest votes Of the
State, but Fleming started out to get the
Goyernorship, and II he can't get II one
way he will have 1t another. So, then,
II nothing else will do, technicality Is the
game.
DogeIlI Alb, sweet one, It will take an
awful strain 10 make the rifle In these
two counties. Some one has read the
proof, and authorizes the INTgLLIGES-
CIR correspondent to say that 1t Is ter
ribly fragile. 1t won't prove five thous-
and votes, or three hundred. Mercer
and Mcdowell may serve as a pretext
for finishing IN ugly job, as II was In.
tended by the Democratic State ExeCu-
tive Committe it should be finished, as
the Wheeling Register has shrieked II
would be, but before many more days
the proof from these counties will be
accessible TO the public, and then II will
be seen who Is right aboutit. R.N,E.