The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-01-16

Governor from taking bis seat, as well as
10 counteract1 the effect o. their own
high-handcd outrages upon the law and
the constitution, and their conspiracy
to overthrow the will Of the people. NM
But this dispatch. which has been
sent from Charleston, presumably at the
dlctation Of the Democratic bosses, and
for the purpose OF misleading the coun.,
try as to the true state Of the guber.
Material contest, reprcsentsthat the legis-
latiye committee in It's report, sustains
charges against GOT and the Republican
party which the bitterest partizan Of
Judge Fleming never dreamed Of, and
which Judge Fleming himself never
thought OF alleging In his notice oil cor
test. It represents that the gressest
cases Of fraud, bribery, bulldozing and
various kinds Of corruption were proved
against the Republicans before the CON.
mittee, and that the evidence Is ill in
their report. Negroes, says tho cores.
pondent, went before the contest com.
miltee and testified that they we're per.
suadcd against their villa to vote the
Republican ticket, and that Republican
judges received their ballots in spite Of
Democratic protests. When did any
negroes, or anybody else, 80 before the
contest committee with such testimony
This Is news t6>the people OF WestiVir.
glnia "a well as to the members Of the
committee, whose report the correspond.
ent says lie is quoting from.
Even more narrowing tales are told,
Among others, one 10 the effect that the
committee found that train loads OF vir-
ginia Republicans went to Elkhorn,
West Virginia, where, crazy with drink,
and brandishing clubs and revolvers to
terrily Democrats, they voted for tlarri,
son and Golf. In one county the com.
mittee found that 800 votes had thus
been cast, aud they. threw out l75 OF
them. The dispatch DOESN'T say what
the committee was about. that II didn't
throw out the remaining l25.
In Mercer county, according to this
dispatch, the report says 1,2oo negroes
were voted illegally, but, strange to say,
1t does not recommend that the votes be
thrown out. The report also finds that
Mi. Quay sent $4,000 into the State to
corrupt Democrats, and the result Of the
election shows how willtngthey. were to
be corrupted. 81
The dispatch closes as iollows:l
Tho above are only few Of the facts presented
10 the committees report. The ntiredocument
- startling expose OF haad and ttiekery. AS
campaign document 1t Will prove the most
powerful Instrument which tho Democrats Of
Already the tide Of public sentiment has been
strongly affected by IT, q wv,
Since when has the tide Of public
sentiment been strongly affected by the
committees report? How long since was
1t given 10 the public The only intima:.
ton Of its contents appeared in tho IN
rELL1dEScEn aud there was nothing that
would affect public sentiment in any
way except to disgust it with the poor
excuse for legal document which the
Democrats OF the committee arc pleased
to call a report, and which sustains no
charges OF corruption and frand, simply
seeking to seat the Democratic contest
ant on ilimsy technical grounds, grounds
that he, as a lawyer Of reputation, should
be ashamed to take advantage OF.
Honest Democrats Of the Legislature,
decent Democratic citizens Of the State,
citizens of every race and condition,
your attention is called to the fact that
the desperate politicians who have
determined to leave no sione unturned
to consummate the theft Of the governor
ship, are seeking to create sentiment
in their favor outside Of the State BY
circulating broadcast over the country
false reports such as the one referred to
above. The most they can accomplish
is to utter a Islander upon the State. 10 II;