Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-16
THE POLITICAL LIAR LOOSE AGAIN.

THE POLITICAL LIAR LOOSE AGAIN.
The campaign Of falSehood and Wilt
/ ication has already been inaugurated
by the Republican organs in West Nir-
ginia. That delectablc journal. the
Wheeling Intelligence, seems bent on
destroying what little reputation for
honesty and dccency il has yet remain
ing. In It's iSSueo OF Saturday it succeed
ed i'm surprising all its previous efforts
fm scurrility and SANDER. In lengthy
article, concerning interesting devel-
ments," it makes an attack upon eN-
GOV WILSON, Congressman ALpERSoN.
and incidentally upon Congressman
lPENDLEroN.
The attack upon Mr.. PENDLEroN is
entirely gratutOuS, for ii has no con-
nection whatever with the alleged lin
teresting developments" but such a it
is. il is based upon a lie made out Of the
whole cloth. There never was and
never will Dee amy proof that the bal
lots Of Wetzcl county were
tempered with after they were deposit
ed In the court house at New Martins
willie. The Democratic members of the
House Committee ON Elections inycSti-
gated the ease. and TO man. reported
that Mr.. PENpLEroN was honestly elect
ed and entitled TO his seat. Yet in the
teeth OF this record which is known To
the world, the Htciigcnccr has the of-
frontery TO declare:
The Democratic members of the Con-
rressional Committee on Elections rebuked
this outrage after hearing the evidence, but
10 is not chronicled that Gov. Wilson hid
his face i'm shame, rs he should have done |
on hearing the news.
The IHtcUDcnccr knew that the /
above sentence was false, and vet it is /
given circulation in the hope of delud- 1
ing the voters aud injuring the cause OF /
Mr.. PENpLEroN. The people of the /
First District know the facts of the /
case. They know that Mr.. PENpLEToN /
was unSeated nj the dictate of an ire /
sponSiblc caucus: and his Democratic /.
colleagues. so far from making them /
selves a party 10 the theft OF his seat, /
fought il at every point, and Were only |
beaten by unprecedented uSurpation of
authority. An outrage will be re-
buked at the polls next November, but
10 will be a rebuke of an outrage per-
petrated by a Republican House, and
not the rebuke Of fraud which the dire
necessity of scant Republican majority /
i'm the House conjured into imaginary /
being
But the In'ciiNcnccriS bent on sound
ing the depths of fal>chood. On the |
authority of an alleged prominent |
Democrat" Of the Third district, whose
name is unknown and will remain SO
until the end of time. it gives the de-
tails OF an imaginary compact, by which |
Congressman ADDISON was granted a /
certificate Of election one year ago, and |
is i'm return to withdraw from the Con-
grcssional fight i'm the interests Of !
Ex-Goy WILSON. The slanderer and |
thc BLACKBOARD always hide behind the
veil of anonymity The HicUigcnccr |
did not dare To charge such a compact
ou its own authority for it knew that
il was not true. II could not put it in the
mouth OF a respectable man, because no
respectable man would father it. "A
prominent Democrat residing in the
Third district" was therefore manufac-
turcd for the occasion, and the story
credited to him.
The people Of West Virginia, who
know COY. WILSON and Congressman
AIpERSoN. will not for u moment at
tach crcdcnce to a canard cmanating
from such source. At the time when
Mr.. AIpEE>oN was granted his certih
cate of election, the Kanawha county
returns were Initiated by action of the
COURTS anu lNf NilAluidtfN III 'hN. ~ IT,
SONS hands showed Mr.. ALDEESoN to
have over LOO majority. Under his
oath, the Governor could not have done
otherwise than hc did That certificate
stands to-day. After years effort,
Republican majority bound by no law
but party necessity, has been unable to
show that il was not legally granted.
II Congressman ALpEESoN was not le-
gally elected. why has he not been un-
seated? Aud il ne was legally elected,
where is the basis for the htcUqcnccr'S
malicious falSchood? The secret Of the
htcUigcpccr'S activity in political inyen-
tionS may Doe that it is fast losing stand
ing ia its own party 1t pays high
compliment 10 the good sense of its
readers when it attempts To deceive
them with tissue OF lies which it does
not father itself.