Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-03-01
THE rHUNDERER IN THE SOUP.

Albany Argus No newspaper ev,r &C.
cupisd a more disgraceiul position than
the London Times does to-day. its wit
nesses before the Parnell commission are
sufficient to cover it with infamy forever.
Philadelphia Record: But for the extra
ordinary stupidity displayed by it's con-
ductoTs, the position of the London Times,
in view OF the collapse of its case against
Psrnell and Egan, might be regarded as
pitiable II Is not often that blind folly
i5 thus enabled to destroy at ore stroke
the pSestigs and authority eff great news
paper.
Meaphis appeal. The suit of the London
Times 0gsinst Parnell has collapsed, az ell
the isl leaders predicted and assured Mr.
Glads ons it would Il was founded on
forgery aud perjury, and it fslls back upon
these who proposed to profit by Il with the
weight of a pile driver, crushing them TO
the aaith The Times IL covered with con
fusion ard shame and Lord Salisbury e
government is panic-stricSeu.
PHILADELPHIA Press: The London Times
case against Mr.. Parneli hgs collapled 20
absolutely that about the only thing lett
| 10 be decided seems to be the costs which
the newspaper viii pay by way OF nae,
and there still remains the libel suit which
Mr.. Paruell hiss brought in Eagland.
Taken all in all the Times has done more
TO advance Irish home rule in the last year
than have all the Irish members put tc-
geiher
Washington Post, We commend to our
esteemed contemporary, the London Times,
the journalistiDg pTOpriety OF reprlntlng
The Vicar OF Wakefield" In It ls the
affecting Incl ent Of Moses trading Of his
horse for a dozen gross of green goggles.
The Times managers, having inherited
those historic blunders, can institute re-
markably interesting parallels between
the bargain of the verdant Moses ard its
own purchase of a pig in a poke.
Little Rock Gazette. So foul plot as
this reveals to ruin so good a cause hes
rarely been known in the worlds history.
If the Times did not know at the begin
ming that these letters were forgeries 1t
was both easily and eagerly imposed upon.
That il has known this more recently has
been proven beyond question. Spy after
sly, psriurer after peIjuTer, have passed
in review before the commission and been
unmasked, until the case has broken
down on the hands of those who have I'M
dertaken to ruin the Irish cause. It Is a
fit ending to conspiracy and will result
in immense benefit to the Irish people.
Rochester Post Express: The London
Times is rot TO be pihed. Through It's
agents, Macdonald aud Houston, it delib-
eTately tempted the poor sdventurer, Pig
oft, 10 forgery and perjury, and paid him
his price without asking any questions.
It brought to the witness stand every
species OF scOur drel that Ireland could fur
nish, from the convicted assassin Delaney
upward-and downward. It took this
course in order TO make good b. fake wit
nesses q ssries Of vile FLANDERS upOn pure
and patriotic mea and destroy a noble
cause. is purpose Wss bad and it's meth
DDS were infamous. Pigott is a scOundrel
to be sure, but he ID poor, ccntemptible,
vicious, and probably irresponsible Great
ore; while the men that hired him, like
walter, Macdonald, Houston AID Soames,
are conscious, malicious and deliberate
villains