Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-02-01
FLOURNOY, PRICE AND KEE.
The splendid aud Convincing Addresses
Yesterday.

FLOURNOY, PRICE AND KEE.
The splendid and Convincing Addsessss
Yesterday.
srecial Telegram to the Register.
CHARLESTON, January 3l.-The joint
assembly ban was filled this morning with
.bs largest audiencs sisee Gen. Sprigg
smoke on Tuesday. The nine days debate
was about to close; aad both members and
visitors displayed unusual inteTeat in the
argument which wss relied Upon TO drive
home and clinch and clineh again the
proofs Of Republican fraud in the State.
Very Unexpectedly Senators Flonrnoy
aud Pnce expressed a desire to speak, and
Mr.. Kee yielded one hour Of his time
70 them. Immediately after tue cOnclu-
sion Of routine business Mr.. Kse stated
this arrangement, snd Mr. FlOaInoy took
the floor and began a short bat remarkably
forcible argument. In the few words that
he had to say he desired TO address him
self to the question on which be believed
THIS ENTIRE CONTEST
turned. I. was whether General Gof OF
Judge Fleming bad received majority OF
the qualified votes in November, lsSS.
This question could be best Diseased Ia
its bearing on two countiss-MeIcsr and
McDowsn. What was the situation IN
these couuties? We hsd been told thai
there were 800 negroes at DO;k in the
Mercer colleries.
Ia 1ss3. prior to tbs begiruisg CT de
velopment In that county, IL had only IL
regfo residents. Up TO 1887 there Wa
onlv one negro resident IN Mcdowell
county. lie commenced then with the
facts existiog prior 10 the election OF 1855
and when be found charge 10 the coar'
actar Of the p-p1lation ike this The
unesiion of prtslEptiOn became yeiy
different thing from wtat It would
IA under ether circumstances.
Where did these negroes come iIomt Not
one of them from the STATE OF West Viz
ginia. All agree that the great msJority
came from VifAiaia aud North Cernhaa.
Fur,her, the testimony shoEed TIA, thes'
negroes were not permanent Inhabitants
The minority report said
THEY WE'RE MIGRATORY
in their hahits. Mine owners had testi
isd that hundred oew negroes would h'
e,pploved in 1nins in a moath, and prob
ably ten would work continuously dutlnI
the moath. The gentlemen on the oihel
side had pointed cut that not more thaE
one.third of these negroes voted. To bis
mind. this as much ss anything else
showed that they we're not voters.
TwOthirds Of them knew AID contesse,
that they were not legal residents, AID thu
prssuuption was twO 60 O1e o2aiust tn
other third beiug legal residents. Gsnera
God and bis able Coansel had SAID that Il
id not devolve on them to prove thst these
men we're good 70 ers, and therefore they
had not dor IT, Now, look Al that a.
reasonable IT position
General GCf claimed that be had in hii
hsni p-oof tia. vooli put his case beyond
5oubt. b. had j, 10 lis power g. bring eyt
deree shoEipg that al tie negroes Wh'
voted fer him were good citizans. aud
YEr HE REFUSED
TO do it, Gentlemen, that was fsllaeioui
proposition.
The presentation was against the legali
~ of these votes. They were assailed by
strong evidence, ard in view OF this fac
,be f,ilnre of Gen. Gof or LIS counsel u
b-inr p,ocf that ttcs5 regcoes we're eoof
voters sgeaks ID t,uu@tf .cnsJ asa'hs
;ha.r ballots.
But that was not all
Gen. Gon a1d bis counsel have attempt
ed 10 prove that these negroes were Il 81
dents. ard they failed. They .risd 1t Ter .
few hours only, and then gave mp the at
tampt When a ship steaming IA cur
rsnt tnrns and tacks in aso,her direction
n h n-etty good evidence that there is
snse or suuken reef there aud II can
gst homo that way. 50 Il. was With Geu
COTS counsel
WHEN THEY ATTEMPTED
IN defsnd these Illegal votes. The as
ser,blv conld take the evidence and e
,bro7gb II. Here wss the testimony oI
ID. ID. Young. The Deputy Sheriu OF ASi Si
car co.nty. lie was an ardent kepuoll
c,a aod ha5 been pat en- tas ''anu u
nrove thai the votes challenged by rem
mo were good. A list Of names was
sbown him. He sFoie that large nun,
her of The list we're leEsl residents, sno
everyone as to whom he sTore with
A SINGLE EXCEPTION
Was LEFT on by ihs msjority Of the com
,,;ttss Here wss tke testimony OF J. u
Esvett a member OF ihe Republican
&C. Frfcutiye Committee. he swors
that 81 Of these negroes had been 10 TIE
state a wear: sud the votes OF 90 OF III m
.vare allowed 10 stand by the Democratic
msiori;y. ,;.A ,..-,
repeateds ifit wee possible to prove tns' l,
tbs men who cast tkeu had heen in tns
state a wear. wouldn't Mr.. heWets OF MI
yonrg or s,me one else, who knew ihem
have beep on ta7d toprove up Where was
Tobn Coopsr. that great Republican s.S'es-
men of Mercer county, when this evidence
was b.;pg taken John Cooper wss among
tbs irst of The 2epubliCaa mine owners
that came into thst county. lie 'es'iueu
that be made a canvass OF his 0"H neetosS
A. Mn creek and was intimately AGA osio-
tss wi,h them. II anyone could TESTIFY
that they bad been in this state yes, {,
Tobp Cooper could. His pay rolls Woutu
nave shoFn ita.d yet IS snEions AZ ns
vss 40 defsnd his friend Gen. John
Cooper nsver ofFsrsd to testify aud
NEVER WAS CALLED
on to testify By the Republican couossl
that one Of the negroes who worked iof
hic, ard was challenged by Fleming was
legal vo.s. n West Virginia. The oniy
fair cor clusion A. tast John Cooper eou q
not DO Il. No man il lis S0u-A Ary could
40 H. and 80 to-day when every one OF ne
men eo-ld have been easily p-cven legal
voters il they had been. there vas net q
lot or title Of evidence q their favor. No
.-..so,sbls man c,nld lock over tHa' record
an5 fsil 10 10 convinced hy this fact
Nor was this ali .,-,
He would take ID the minority report
IA Was more in love With 1t than any