The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-23
Astonishing
Facts ABOUT The ATTEMPT
TO Unsoat the Republican Mem
ber of the Legislature from
Mercer County.
Tho I'rumped up Indictments
and Prosecutions Of Illegal
Voters by the Con-
spiratOrs.
SOME STARTLING TRUTHS.
SOME STARTLING TRUTHS,
THE Senatorial Fight is on and
Kenna Seems to be Beaten
Dark Horses Appear.
The liorernorshlp-The Democrats will
Refuse TO Obey The Constitution,
which says they shall Declare
tho neutrality-suspicious.
on Top So Far.

S,tal DigaieH 10 he IatclliONer.
Cu,RlEsroS, W. YAr Jan. %. - A
sDecisl effort is being made to unseat
Delegate Nleadcr, Republican, Of Mercer
county. So much may turn on this case
tbpt the facts should be known in every
corner Of this State. Much stress Is laid
on indictments in Mercer county. About
e75 indictments were found in Mercer
county for illegal voting, and there have
been two convictions. In both cases the
persons were Democrats, and were con-
ylcteA on their own confession, The
Republicans under indictment have not
been allowed to 90 to trial. The evident
desire oitho Democrats has been to give
no Republican a chance to prove his
innocence, because that would weaken
the case Of the Democratic contestant
before the Legislature. Two hundred
and sixty Of these indictments were
nadeunderaspecial charge Of the Judge
before the grand jury. The Judges
charge recommended that in Simmons
Creek and Mill Creek precincts, both
mining precincts, and the two leading
Republican precincts in the county, the
assessors books should be compared with
the poll books and the pay rolls Of the
coal operators, and that the names found
on the poll books aud not on the asses
sOr's books should be taken us prima
jacie evidence that the persons bearing
these names were not entitled to vote,
and therefore had voted illegally.
A GROSS OUTRAGE.
Under this charge POO indictments
were found. This rule did not apply TO
the other districts Of the county, for in
Plymouth district, there were 20 more
votes than on the assessors books. AT
East River district there WIS 90 more
votes than names on the assessors
books. In Beaver Pond, which gave
Cleveland $50 majority, there was cast
1877 more votes than there were names
on the assessors books. The explain
alton is that the assessor did not per.
form his duty anywhere in tho county,
especially in these mining districts. 1r
one case a coal operator furnished the
assessor with 100 names that belonged
on the assessors books. These names
did not appear and the assessor said that
helost them. 1t is therefore manifestly
unfair to accept the assessors list as q
guide,
According to the report Of the assessor
Of Mercer county for 1883, the county
has lost, since 1857, something over 200
voters, whereas it Is a well.known fact
that by reason OF tue rapid development
Ot this county it should bo 300Ior 400
molO in 1883 than 1t was In 1887. In
Mill Creek and Simmons Creek pre-.
Glncls there were not more than 400
Republican miners who had voted,
while the pay roll Of the coal operators
showed about $500 miners In these pre-.
cihcts, The Democrats have charged
that miners from Elkhorn, In Mcdowell,
and poCahOntas, over tho line In Old
virginia, voted at Mill Creek and Sim.
mon Creek precincts, but there Is nc
WHulll IN this charge rs will be shown al
The proper time.
NOT THE ONLY COUNTY.
Mercer is byno means the only county
IN the State in which the vote exceeded
the assessors poll books. There was In
barbour county an excess Of l72, In
biefEley 6!1, in Boone GS, in Braxton lis,
~ Brooke l0G, and 80 on through
I9e whole list, The whole vote
o tne' State exceeds the capitation, as
saoSn ~ nSi by tue assessors books, about
ivy but nobody has set up the claim
MaI SHaI these 1900 votes were fraudulent,
iae almSlhess OF tho Democratic claim
~ lutlher shown by comparison Of fig.
TIyS' "a; 10 lMCleveland pollcd SO7, Blaine
WI, !nH Democratic vote being nearly
slCe Ue That Of the Republican, In The
congressional contest Of 1880 SNYDER
pe'iG9,ctat poIlcd S7l, IN increase oveI
IVY VlevtIand vote Of two ypars before
iua' votes Brown polled 737 votes on
i,VStrasc ,lSo Of so Republican votes, Ii
iI iiIoo inc Democratic nominees Tor the
mTu'g ~, Of Delegates had a majority q
NJ ~, ~ lSSS, 1874 votes were caSt fol
S'V,GIIahG ,I aud l,4O2 for Harrison, show,
S !na' We gain as compared with 1881
; H. n9I al been on the Republican side
iuo.lS iuUuSn lhe Republicans By reason Of tht
II,vAseu "sI"aS Industrial development have
e""Vu ''Ote than the Democrats.
T.lE sEcnRr oF IT.
NV ,"V Vnahge Is not alone 10 be aItribu
% @u'O the newcomers employed In The
Voa' ~ mines, but the general settling o
uIS, ,RS county and tho very marked ilop
mSOl n Ihe old residents, Tho truth 3
"oli,IaltC %G matter is that d few Democrat,
',ls ls,ans s,Ians u Mercer county, pafllCu
iny ,iny tho;c known rs tho Court Hons,
ib and who by no means repreSen
Ibo,. ~ Democratic sentiment, tried 10 S6a
SyI, ,b1,y SyeS to the logical course Of event
sbo"Va,t SV,t county, and when Tho return
So soOgel Ti That they were Loaf tIc%y % wOr
n, disappointed That nothing WA Iei
i6o "iS.ll "iuut Gut to question thO validity a
saIs y election, which charged a TIolS
c,iwi, I Importation Of voters and tle InIlI
pl'll'Io plovnll' \, voting Of noh.FeSIdebls 5 an
Cyoq 6o,V u the mines, who lad nol Iva
'"''V lOhg enough to bO entitled Ia y Vol N
| C,B, II,
h,,,, n, Why They ArS Happy,
VIVA Uttpllth 10 ths I.ltt,-...'Fs'