The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-25

t lists. He worked November and D.
Y cember, 1857 aid 10 November, iSSs
Q worked every month, yet lie Is stricke
;: oil against the majority's own rule an
I test. Why7
DUMB As OYSTERS.
Tho men who did this arc as dumb 4
!, oysters. II any man was entitled to
vote 1t WIS John Lock. But he is gon
to Join TINT great company swept Off /
Mercer md Mcdowell. How long ca
this last2 Not long. They will com
, nome TO plague you. It will not be,
is not SO much to me, It is upon GU
laws and our Constitution. No body O
men, no party composed as our two grea
parties are, will do these things. Their
are some whose interest Is 30 bound will
what they attempt that they will carry t
through; but you will not do It, 70,
Will see that right and justice shall pre-
vnit. John Lock will come back, Til,
others will come back. You will rcstor,
them. ~
6, Frank Lucky, charged with voting n,
Simmons. Witness Young says he Is {
young married nian. Witness Smith
says Lucky had not been in Merce,
twelve months. The pay roll shows he
worked In October, November and De.
cember, 1887, from january to Nav,
1888, leaving out April, and. SO on con
iinuously to November, wherl-lle voted.
He was there fourteen montlis-the nav
rolls show II. "Move you take vote oil
Gotl.r AYE, aye, aye," and poor
FRANK Joins the crowd, swept away by
the law and logic OF the Contest Com.
lnittee, not by the facts. They ought to
come back. win somebody tell the why
they were stricken of? E'TB'
FLEMING HAS no CASE.
You will see now what weight to give
TO this report, which Judge johnson
asks you to confirm. Here arc more
cases: General GoE then went on with
MS discussion at length, taking up case
by case. Nr ''''0
II have shown there is not a case for
contestant, do unto me Ms YOU would be
done by. But simple justice is all l ask.
Less you would not give, more we would
not have. l ask you each and every one
TO make this analysis or to take mine,
Take this long list OF men who have
worked for twelve months, some for
fourteen months, toilins for bread Tor
those they love, protected by the laws OF
your country, ask from you for them
the protection they have a right to ex.
pect from this court. :
l ind here that twelve certain men
named are stricken from me and do
not tind that any OF them voted in the
county OF Mcdowell. There is nothing
here to show that they did. If there is,
who will point to it? | viii. thank anv.
BODY who will: Yet every one hns been
stricken from Gotl's vote.
AN ArrEAL FOR rRoor.
Let me have this last opportunity to
know where the proof is that iustiGes
this course. implore you for it, but it
comes not. It is unreasonable, most
unfair.
Many other names are stricken from
the list in these counties, ali Of the same
character: do not wish to say there
are no bad votes in Mercer, but there are
not more than two in other counties,
Nay, not so many. You find isolated
votes as you find elsewhere; have always
and always will everywhere, and in
every election. Time iorbids me to talk
about other counties. Analyze this tes-
tlmony in kanawha. Ii l should lose
these twenty.eight votes in Kanawha
county let them 70, butif they be covered
with fraud. then take the original count
as given by the minority aud by men
who swore they would conduct an hon
est election. Give me back the twenty
eight votes because they belong to me.
A PLEA FOR BROOKE COUNTY VOTERS,
Do not cause the State to hang its
head in shame by taking seventy votes
from the county OF Brooke. Oh, how
dire must be the necessity which com
pels this cause. Do not strike these men
down. They had nowhere else to vote,
Do not take from them that which YOU
hold so dear for Yourself, and when You
have done for these counties as you
would by your own, you will find that
when you started it with me | had ITO
plurality and when you left me had
more than l50. l ask for Justice only.
And now, gentlemen, 80 far as i am
concerned, the case is with you. 1 think
yon will find from it that am not so
black as am painted, that my friends
have done no wrong-that our people
have committed no fraud. You will set
down naught in malice-nor will you
show favoritism, nor give allowance for
extenuating circumstances.
FAINT HIM AS HE IS.
Take,lt, take M. us it is, rs l am.
Cromwell said to the artist Seby: "paint
ne as am, omit no scar, leave off no
blemlsh." Take my case rs it is-all the
record shows-ail that niun can find
and il it condemns me, L am here to bow
to your judgment and hear your sen.
tence. II it places my opponent in the
chair | think the people intended for
me, ! will be with him, If he permit it,
to wish him God.specd and the State a
glorious era Of prosperity from his ad-
ministratiun. IT. you find for me, my
every endeavor shuil be for you, for
yours, for West Virginia. I love her
with aa intensity oil devotion that is now
OF my nature, with nn ardor that has
grown with all the years OF my man
hood from that hour Of my boyhood and
her infancy when offered my life that
! she might live and sworo allegiance TO
and faithfulness to her people.
GLORIOUS FUTURE.
Elected by the people, I shall be their
Governor, and we will 60 on together,
hand in hand to the great destiny that
is ours. The waste places will be built
up, the wilderness will give forth from
its hidden recess wealth that will
shame the Indies; the mountains shall
coue down our valleys and 20 out to the
sea; our prosperity will DO equalled
only by our happiness. We will sec our
way from the valley ofthc Ohio, through
the mountains OF the interior, by the
leapins flames OF 10000 ovens-lhc iron
walls OF our hill sides will pour tile
waters Of commercial prosperity over all
our people, and our public activity, long
sleeping, will spring to its feet, impress
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