The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-21
REVOLUTIONARY PROCEEDINGS.
Tho Scheme at Charleston to defeat tho will
20 ofth0 p.oplo Of west ylrgInla.

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The ISTELMdEScER's kilograms from
day to day have kept the public in
formed Of the present revolutionary con
dition of things at the Capital OF thil
State, We use the word revolutionary
as expressing tho animus and reckless
purpose Of those who arc determined Ia
reverse the verdict ofthe people at the
polls last November and substitute there
for a verdict Of their own,
In order to understand Just what has
been done in this direction and what Is
intended to be done further along it is
necessary to refer briefly to the history
Of the situation as it has progressed thus
far.
AS soon as the Democratic leaders dis
covered that the result OF Noyember's
election could probably be made TO turn
on tho vote OF Kanawha county, they be-
gan to scheme for pretexts to invalidate
that vote and thus count in the candidate
orGoyernor whom the people hadreleC
ed at the polls. It was all the more I'M
portant to do this inasmuch as there
was a United States Senator to elect, and
inasmuCh as the pre.arranged plan oil
trade and decker by which that county
was to have been handed over to SEN
ator Kenna had entirely miscarried.
Contrary TO that programme General
Golf came out Of Kanawha with mu.
jority Of 1911, In other words, the Re-
publicans succeeded in carrying a strong
Republican county for their own ticket
and in defeating the scheme OF Demo
Gratis to capture Republican votes. Blaine
had 1,4l4 majority in Kanawha in 1884,
and Goil Is majority Of 1911 in Novem'
Der last certainly represented nothing
more than the natural growth ofthc Re-
publican vote.
In pursuance Of the Democratic pro-
grammo to count Fleming in and defeat
the will Of the people a judge was
found in an outside circuit willing to
issue writ Of prohibition to preventive
Secretary Of State from sending in to the
Legislature the returns Of Kanawha
county as he is required to do under the
constitution.
The object Of this movement was to
hold the returns Of Kanawha dead in
the hands Of the Secretary Of State, get
rid of Colts l,5ll majority, and declare
Fleming elected before the joint assem-
bly, ofthe two houses Of the Legislature
on the face Of the returns received from
the other counties.
The Republicans met this bold rcvolu-
tionary assault upon the will Of the peo-
pic by procuring from the regular judge
Of the Circuit writ Of mandamusissued
to the Secretary Of State ordering him to
send in all the returns Of all the counties
otthe State, as directed under the Con-
stltution,
This was counter check that set
the Democratic reYolutionlsts clear back,
and so they were neCcssitated to apply
to the Court Of Appeals, then in session,
for an order to SGT aside the writ Of man.
damus. But they were disappointed in
their effort to ally that court with their
revolutionary scheme. The Court de-
cided that the returns were not under
tho control Of the Courts at all, and that
all the returns from all the Courts must
20 before the Legislature.
Accordingly tho returns arc all to come
before tho Legislature, and as this will
elect Gofr tho next step is to find some
new way to defeat the will Of the people
and count Fleming in. ThorevolutIou.
lists began to search tho Constitution for
technical prctcxts for Withholding a
declaration Of the result when the vote
should come tobo opened In the pres.
cnco Of the two houses In joint asSOmb-
", Tho Constitution requires the
Speaker Of the House in the presence
oithe tho two houses, sitting In joint
assembly, to "open and publish" tho
vote, after which tho person haVingtho
highest vote Is to DO declared" elected
Governor Tho scheme now Matching
al Charleston Is to refuse TO declare The
result on tho protcxt Of l'lemlns's con-
test, and titus mako IL pOsslblO for Gov
OrnOr Wilson to hold over after the lth
oiAlafcli next and keep the seat warm
for Fleming until after he shall have
been declared, Ra soon as may be, by a
partisan majority, entitled to tue place.
The tevolutiOnlSts profess to ilndi In
sections End and Cd Of Article 7lh, Of The