The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-07-30
OUR WINDY GOVERNOR
Tells What He Don't Know
About tho Contest, in an
INTERVIEW AT WASHINGTON.
uc Tell. Cncsruuls That We're EH'
plodrd Long Ago, and Frankly
SAY. How the PIor to steal tho
state will he Carried Out

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W,,nlSoroN, D, G., July 90'-Goy
ornor Wilson, Of West Virginia, was II
,L,rity last night and interviewed re
,nr,ijug the tiubrrnatorial contest, Herr
ia what the Governor is quoted US hay
i'm, ,dd: "rhn Legislative Committee,
soiI Governor Wilson, "is still In scssior
nj Terra ALA, in the northern part th'
sy,r. ItIssIuwly wAding through somt
lgoo dppositions concerning tho illegal
Ivof anont 1850 votes challenged BY
,i,l,r.ilr. According TO law each con
.pslant 1. piycn sixty days in which tc
oomrstbr votes which they declare II
,pyaI, the witnesses by whom 1t Is pro
po,ej 10 prove the iIIrgality and 10 take
Iercs,imony, The other side Is allow
cl thirty days in which to file
a ,c,l, The votes challenged by Mr.,
C;olT are mainly on mere technicalltiesr
willie lIr votes challenged by Mr., Flem'
inv ARE generally on the ground that
,Ley were not by men who were
irv3l voters So far Mr.. Fleming has
,minpd neatly 100 votes on the ITO which
~ MIR. GoA's plurality on the face Of the
returns. The contest has been slow
and Inc prmorrats have not made their
hpst ease, but before long they will reach
line cases IN Mercrrand Mcdowell Coun'
,rs These counties are IN the PoCa'
Lonlqs district on the Virginia line,
Here negroes were imported from Vir,
ginia by the hundreds. That section oil
the state was coloni1ed by the Republl'
Can managers
HE KNOWS THE PLOT.
"In these two counties the Democrats
will make their fight. Eight hundred
votes have been protested by them In
these two counties and when the COM
millpe gets to them the fight will be
over. Fleming will win, mind you,
Thr limited time in which the contest
could be made and the cost Of the con-
lost hgs preyented the Democrats from
making AZ extended Il showing as they
might have done, i,ut from the evidence
Tlich they lmye submitted It will be
plain tn every ono that the State was
roIoniaed by the oppOsitioni that
probably from four to six thousand
yoters were imported, aud that more
vicious attempt was made to debauCh
tho state than was made 10 debauCll
Indiana itself. AssO0n as theGOmmittee
is ready to report shall convene the
Legislature in special session and Mr..
Fleming will bc declared entitled 10 the
seat which now hold.
u was ready and anxious 10 retire
aud had made preparations 10 resume the
practice Of my profession when The fall
ilre OF the Legislature to declare the
election Of my successor compelled me
to remain in office.
a LONG EXPLODED cHRTSpT.
"IAt inc call your attention to o re-
markaide fact. The vote which was cas-
let NoyembCr would indicate a popula
ton Of 100000 in West Virginia. Ac
corling to the returns OF the assessors
West Virginia Inns not over 100000. Ny
own election was one Of the mo0t hotly
contested in the history Of the State, y0!
the total vote then was only 1000 in ex
cess OF the assessors returns. Yet las
November the vote was 2l,O00 in excess
Ofthe assessors rCturns--a plain proc
oitle colonization Of the State, Why
one dBtrietin Kanawha county doubled
iByOte, though there had been no de
yclopmcnt Of industries whatever 10 in
crease its population"
Mr., W, p, Hubbard, Of Wheeling, Ii
registered at the Ebbit.