Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-01-25

boldsr efforts to deceive and Risreprsssni
tue issue, than was the Joint assembly to
day. Facts we're boldly assumed where
there were no iscss. Sweeping statements
were based on
SHADOW OF TRUTH,
and where assumption snd exaRgsrasiou
we're rot sufficient, bombaslic OratOry
made up the rest.
An analysis # the address shows frs;
that il, attacked the maj lrity report in no
vital point. The minority report was
never reiarred TO. TIE EXTREMIST believer
in JGdge Fiening's case could admit all
that Goff charged sgsinst The tsenty isl-
lated and individual cases which he pick
ed cut in Mercer and Mcdowell, snd so
Fleming would have a cafe plurality Of
over 200
The next point which an analysis Sug-
gests is that every grave instance of Re
publican fraud was passed by without 50
much as word Of reference No defense
WAS made for the outrageous robbery OF
Judge Fleming by the Kanswha county
court. So far as Gen. Goff can effect il,
the public aud the Joiet Assembly will re-
main IN benightsd iguorance concerning
this bold and
DIsGRACEFUL STEAL.
Not one Of the hOnisd words which cane
from the Republican candidates. lips was
devoted to an explanation or defense Of
the 21 fraudulent Republican votes proven
to have been cast in Kanawha county
The Republican orator had floods of elo-
quence to waste on the Yates OF William
Anthony and Wyatt Anthony aud few
other Virginia negrOes, OF whose cases he
appeared the especial champion. but theTe
was no thought in bis five hours' speech for
the 2l Virginia negroes employed on the o.
& 0 railroad who voted for Harrison, Gofi
and Protec ion in Summers county. Why
we're they so cruelty snubbed By this, their
Cesar Had be no defense to make for
them9 In the eloquent words Of the elO-
quent General himself, Echo only sn-
swersn
The third important point diselO;ed by
a study Of this Il ,od Of oratofy lie the insig-
nidcauce cf the argument compared with
the magnitude Of tie cause. OF near Y 500
Republican votes rejected 10 the whole
State, and OF 2c5 nj c,ed Ia Mercer and
Mcdowell COUNTIES, twenty sre selected,
and elcquence prsvsricAting and psthOs
wasted on them for hours st time. the
case Of Wm Brown, on which Gen. Got
strove to make a speeisl point, can he
taken as
A FAIR SAMPLE
Of his method Of procedure.
It will be seen from the ideas that
Browns vote wss rejected and q vote
stricken from
THE GOFF AGGREGATE
on his account Bat Goff tGrnsd over
the testimony, and 10, be found a shadow
Of a fact. On ii he Immediately on
uouncsd that Brown wRs Democrat and
voted the Democratic ticket Then De
opeDed the Walls OF dsnuncistioD, and "a
an uniuitiated observer the majority Of
the committee appears slightly dishgured
when there comes ont OF the contest con
cerning Mr.. Browns vote. The truth oi
the matter ia tha. there is absolutely Eo
testimony to show that Brown WAS q
Democrat. and General Goff knew it when
be declared that he was Democrat TO-
day.
John Cooper, a notorious partisan, tes-
titles that be had heard that Brown voted
the Democratic ticket. Against this Is the
general evidence OF = hundred witnesses
that Brown and every other negro in the
region, with a single exception, we're R.
/ puhlicans. On that evidence the commits
/ ZION ustly decidei that Brown was Re
publican, aud deducted his vote from tht
COT column. The case of VIM. Brown i:
sufficient 70 indicate The baseness Of the
character Of every assertion, and the false
conclusions in every argument Stripped
Of its cheap orsiOrie8l tOggsry the address
is only q grinniog skeleton. There IL nc
flssh on its bones to hidethe brand behind
il. There is no strength in it to support
the losing case OF a candidate whom the
voters Of the State rejected.