The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-02-12
And Justice Triumphs
at Last!
The Contest Investigation Showed up
the Damnable Frauds of the
Republicans Upon the
Ballot BOxl
JUDGE A. Il. FLEMING DE-
CLARED ELECTED.

After about year spent by the
contest committee in investigating
the case of Fleming VS.. GoR, the
most damnable and glaring frauds
on the ballot box on the part of the
Republicans, We're revealed.
In the counties bordering on Vir-
ginia. the Republicans had run in
hundreds of negroes from that
State and voted them for Golf.
The Democrats knew, from the
returns. that something was wrong
in those counties, and they demand
ed an investigation.
This was resisted by the Republi-
cans, but the Legislature so ordered,
in spite of Republican protest.
The investigation was had, and
the rascals defeated in their base at
tempt to steal the State for Goff.
A majority and minority report
from the contest committee, was
submitted to the Joint Assembly.
Able Counsel, on both sides, holly
contested every inch of ground;
and Golf spoke in his own behalf.
a vote was finally reached at
noon, February 4th, which resulted
Fleming 43, Golf 40. Every Demo-
crat and Senator Carr. voted for
Judge Fleming
Senator Carr President of the
Joint Assembly. announced the re-
suit of the vote; and declared A. b.
Fleming elected Governor of West
Virginia.
1t is just and honest verdict.
Judge Fleming is now Governor
by the will of a majority of the hon
est votes east at the election in No
vember, 1888.
He is Governor, in the language
of an exchange, against the most
determined conspiracy to defeat an
honest ballot that was ever attempt
cd in this State"
Every honest man, who has read
the arguments and the evidence,
and watched the contest, has not the
least doubt but that it was daring
and brazen attempt, on the part of
the Republican managers to rob the
honest voters of the State, and to
seat Golf.
Governor Fleming is an honest,
upright man, will make an excel
lent Governor, and will give the
people of the State clean admins
tration.
He was inaugurated at noon, last
Thursday, and the oath of Office ad-
ministered to him by Judge John
w. English, of the Supreme Court
of Appeals.
The inaugural proceedings and
the Governors inaugural address, is
printed in another part of this pa
per, and to which we ask the espec-
ial attention of our readers.
AS a matter of fact, the man most
injured in this fight, is, General Ma
than Golf While he has not yet been
directly connected with any of the
frauds perpetrated by his party, in
this State, yet he was willing and
anxious to profit by the fraud. 1t
is nonsense to suppose or to believe
that he was entirely innocent or ig-
norant of what his party friends
were doing in the campaign of 1888.
He must at least have winked at the
plans arranged by his party leaders
TO defraud the honest voter, by the
importation of negroes from Vir-
ginia, and voting them in Mercer
and Mcdowell counties.
The Republicans can console
themselves over the failure of their
plan to capture the State for Goff,
by turning their eyes toward the Ma
TONS capital. where Republican
Congress, through the arbitrary and
unheard of rulings of Autocrat Reed,
has just nnseatcd Judge Jackson, u
Democrat, without even hear
ing any evidence or going into the
merits of the case.