The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-31

another man with doing It. It is in ev
dence that tho hunchback was seen o
nn eventtul night TO touch those ballot
It Is proved that there was a change {
fourteen ballots against Golf and ioul
teen in favor OF Fleming. What c
Mercer and Mcdowell counties. Ho,
the State has suffered because ccrtail
100 negro voters voted in these counties
How the State has been maligned an
slandered. Interviewed mt Oakland b,
Baltimore S1n reporter, St. Clair SAT-
there had "been no fraud" When
asked him II those were his views, Ii,
said they were. Yet he stands her
and laments the frauds in Gor's inter
est.
TIE rEERY BOTTOM sENsATIoN.
General Golf discussed thirty.si,
Votes, not as any means constitutin,
the whole case, but merely as samples
Yet Colonel st. Clair and a newspapei
pick this up TO thrown on 1t "a great
white light" ! want to refer 10 thu
great sensation" about the Peery Bot.
tom voting list, for which General GOT
is attacked, charged with deliberate ly
Ing. This list was not before the com
mittee in time; 1t got in three or four
months after, and l can't learn how il
got in. 1t is the most mysterious thing
iii this case. St. Clair claims one wit
ness, Frank johnson, swcars that the
list he filed twas correct copy" and
here is the poll list sworn to by John.
son with ninety.one names on it, as GOT
said, and not one more. This is part ol
the evidence in this cause. 1t is in the
printed testimony. st. Clair says it was
typographical error. The witness is
made to contradict himself. Com.
pare bis statement under oath, as
You find it in this testimony
with that which bears his official seal.
Now, what have We here? Anything to
show that this was in the case, or in
GoG's hands? This same witness, John.
son, in two hand-writings, flies into the
room OF the committee at Terre Alta, af.
ter July l2, 1889, the time for its adnis.
sion having expired May 10, 1889. This
is the truth about the Peery Bottom
voting list. This paper makes it appear
that the voting list has been tampered
with. Aud this is what there is in the
Peery Bottom sensation. A man who
casts that ut General Goff is coward or
fool.
Mr.. Price-1 find in the minority re.
port twenty names which the minority
state voted at Simmons Creek, in Mer.
Ger. In the majority report these names
ate stricken OFT as being voted ut Peery
Bottom: What are the facts?
Mr.. Morris-1 don't see the relevancy
Of your Question. These men voted at
Peery Bottom. A transportation has oc-
Cured III the printing, or possibly in
the writing.
On motion of Col. Chew, Mr.. Morris
was allowed an additional half hour in
consideration OF his hard work on the
committee, his ill-health and Interrupt
tions.
Continuing Mr.. Morris said: In
Brooke, kanawha, Mercer and Nc
Dowell there is disagreement concern
ing 70, Is and 100 votes, and on these
hangs this contest. Judge Fleming's
friends would have done we'll to drop
the charge OF fraud here, for there is not
q line OF evidence to show it. Cooper 4
Co. had on their pay rolls November 6,
1888, 4Sl men, mostly negroes, perhaps
all. II fraud was stalking, why were not
these men rushed in and voted? Why
only 100? St. Clair said they would
have been prosecuted il they had not
left the State. Well, after the Prose-
cutting Attorney had failed to convict in
the cases tried, the others were dis
missed. It is nothing that large mum.
Der were indicted, as we have a right to
think, to affect this contest. Mr., Morris
went on at length in the Mercer and
Mcdowell vote and in conclusion said:
SENATOR NORRIS CONCLUDES
To the Gentlemen Of this Court, SO far
as this contest is concerned, the sun ia
now low in the west. The shadows are
long upon the earth. The sky, we may
suppose is glowing in colors Of crimson,
of purple, Of pink, Of blue, Of sapphire,
and OF gold. A castle Of clouds rises
rapidly, but 10! moat and turret and bat
tlement and tower are illuminated by a
hood of glorious light. The light is
Gods sunlight May all mists and
doubts and difficulties melt away in its
glory and its glow. If this case is with
Nathan Gof, or if it is with A. B. Flem-
ing, hesitate long before you reverse the
decision Of the people at the polls.
Trample not. upon justice end and strike
not at and crush to earth pale faced
truth, who, though she may rise again,
as rise she will, for the eternal glory OF
God are hers, must rist, wan and hag-
gard and woetul, would you have a
wrongful decision cling, like that hid
eous bat, or thing OF horror, described
as clinging to the skin OF Cleopatra's
dead and bloody eunich. Does any one
imagine that this party may be hurt by
what ls done? Is the hand of the sur.
geon, n,who lops away deformed and dis.
eased member Of the body, cruel or is it
klpd? He serves his party best in this
cause who is Just. He who prevents a
political crime Or outrage to be commit
ted or perpetuated in the name of the
party is indeed the true and sincere
friend Of his party. The pilot in the
house Of burning steamboat, or who
rush down before foods and storms to
save their fellows, or, who seek renown
and iind a death fighting beneath their
country's flag-it has never seemed to me
anything but glorious thing, vet, ,withal
thing not hard for any man Of courage
to do, to rush on to battle amid the blow
OF trumpets and the thrilling strains Of
music, to die, if need be amid the roar
and din and shock OF war; and bu. few
men fail Of their duty under such cir.
cnmstances. But hard and difficult, in.
deed, it is for man to rise above his
surroundings, and il needs be bear on.
probrium and shame for his devotion to
the right. Aye, he who rises amidst the
humble surroundings of his death to
every duty 10 the greatest hero of all he.
roes.. O, who is there here to rise and
touch the stars2 It is but seldom that
such an opportunity comes to any man.
It is here; it is at home; but in few
days, with the rolling wheels Of time, It
will begin. 5-y 5flS.33.5I'2,. -, :.
MIR. Morris concluded at 4;30 and the
Joint Assembly adjourned to tomorrow
at ten o'clock. or.
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