Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-16
ISLANDER NAILED.
Vsrtas Replies 70 One Of the Intelligancer's Num-
erous FalsehOOdS-The First Dis
trict Contest.

WHEELING, w. VA, June II, ls9o-
TO he Editor ofne Register:
SIR-The HatcUigenccr of to-day has
thu following attack upon Gov. Wilson:
in the First district he gave his APP
proval to one of the most daStardly out
RACES ever perpetrated on the ballot
box (thc Wetzel County Court House
having been broken open and ballots
changed pending recount, so as TO
give the Democratic candidate for
Congress an apparent majority and
granted to Mr.. Pendleton the certificate
of election. The Democratic members
of the Congressional Committee on
Elections rcbuked this outrage after
hearing the evidence, but it is not
chronicled that Gov. Wilson hid his
face in shame as he should have done
ON hearing the news"
Gov Wilson has never heard such
news. In all the wide world such news
has never been heard anywhere outside
of the columns of the MtcUigcHcer,
The young editor of that paper, who
has of late been trying to be somewhat
fair, has probably been deceived by its
Washington correspondent, who is no.
toriouS liar and utterly unworthy Of
confidence. If the editor has not been
so deceived, he must be held response
Bile for uttering cditorially, wilfully and
deliberately. manufactured falSchood.
He should not allow himself to be
caught in any such predicament.
The Democratic members Of the Com
mttce on Elections never ''rebuked this
outrage" because there was no outrage
TO rebukc. Three Republicans in Wet
gel manufactured an outrage in their
own minds, to which they dared not
swear, and of which they never pro-
duced any proof whatever. Nine-tcnthS
of the Republicans of that county would
not regard either of these men as fit to
be dog PETERS. and would not believe
either of them ON oath.
The Democratic members OF the
Committee read all the evidence in the
contest case after the Republican mem
bcrS refused to go over the evidence
with them.
As to WctZel county and the two
places in dispute there they reported in
writing as follows: 1--WE believe the
Judges Of the election at Martins
school house and Archcr's Fork pre-
cinctS in Wctzcl county made mistakes
in counting the ballots and that the re-
count subsequently made by the County
Commissioners was correct and truly
represented the actual vote east at these
precincts" After reviewing the evil
dcncc as to illegal votes. the same gen
tlcmcn reported that ''thcy were of the
opinion that in any aspect of the case.
the cOntestcc John q. PcndlctOn) was
duly elected"
Since the House met the Republicans
have been steadily engaged in stealing
Democratic seats The HttcligcHccr has
enough to do in defending them. 1t
should not try to make Democrats re-
Sponsible for Republican thcfts they
have labored to prevent.
Charles f. Crisp, Of Georgia; ChaS.
O'Ferrall. of Virginia; Levi Maish, Of
Pennsylvania; Joseph II. Outhwaitc, Of
Ohio: l. w. Moore, of Texas, and Rob
crt =. Wilson, of Missouri, are the Dem
ocratic members of the Committee on
Elections. If the htctigenccr be anX-
iouS for truth it can write to them and
it will find out that what they rebukcd
was the "dastardly" steal Of Pendleton'S
seat for the Republican party. The IN
tclligcnccr should take time to explain TO
its readers the nine theftS already per
petratcd by.thc Republican members Of
that committee, and not SANDER the
Democratic members by trying to make
them participatOrs in crimes against
which they have fought ever since the
session began. The last Democratic
House did not take the seat
of a single Republican. The pres
ent Republican House has already
through its committee robbed nine
Democrats of their seats, to give them
to Republicans, and is preparing for
several more burglarieS of similar
character These crimes will he re-
buked by the people, and the htcliigcn-
Ger had better stand from under. II
that paper desires To tell its readers the
truth. it can tell them that the nine Re
publican members of the committee took
Pcndleton'S seat to make Republican
working majority, and that while they
were engaged in so doing. the six Demo-
Gratis denounced the taking as coward
~ outrage, a wilful and deliberate steal,
and as high-handcd piece Of political
raScality as ever diSgraced the party oil
Quay, Dudly and Reed. NEElTAS.