The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-03-03
Concerning tho DoctorIng of Now,

Concerning tho Doctorlng of Ncws.
In n lengthy letter, which ho has
printed in tho Register as an interview,
Mr.. John o. Pcndlcton accuses the H.
%TELLIeENCER OF doctoring the Associated
Press report OF last Fridays proceedings
OF Congress, as follows:
The Associated Press report In the ISTELIt.
GESCER says that Mr.. PcndletOn was called -
the chnir amid mCrriment." No such report
Wns sent from Washington by the Associated
lIcss; Inc words 'Anid merriment' were in.
serted IN the report by some Scoundrel In the
mira story Of the lSTEiIIGESCER building,
whose chief distinction Is his ability TO deceive
me tre'luious readers OF that piper and 10 garblc
The Associated Press report sent TO that paper.
Iherc was no merrincnt on the part Of the
house md none WIS exhibited.
acknowledgements desires 10 be charit-
able to Mr.. Pcndlcton, and will do him
, the Kindness to shy that it believes no
wrote the above under n misapprehen-
sion, created by reading the Associated
Press report as it appeared inthe Register.
1t is 4 serious matter to make such 4
charge as that Mr.. Pcndlcton makes,
because it reflects upon the integrity OF
the newspaper against which it is made.
The l~SrELLIGENCER takes this oppor-
= tunity to inform Mr.. Pendleton and the
public that if there was any doctoring
OF the report referred to it was done by
tho paper which Mr.. Pendleton com.
pared with the lNTELLIGENcER before he
made the accusation. We have taken
some pains to look the matter I'm and
find that the report was printed in this
newspaper precisely as it cameto Wheel
ing over tho wires; that not a word was
stricken out or inserted; and that in the
Wheeling Register Office alone, OF all the
newspaper offices handling the matter,
was it deemed advisable to strike out
the words "amid merriment," which
Mr.. Pendleton declares were not sent
out from Washington.
Whether this was done in tho Register
office accidentally, or through Il desire
10 suppress the fact that Mr.. Pcndleton's
puerile action in seeking the pleasure OF
presiding while n Republican member
was unseated createdamuscment among
his colleagues, we do not undertake TO
say. Certain it is that the INTELLlGES-
GER published tho dispatch as it came
and the Register did not. This We are
prepared to prove by what all reasonable
persons will agree is excellent circum-
stantial evidence. Will Mr.. Pendleton
and his friends who believe, as the Reg
lister editorially says, that 'the INrELLI-
SCI took the unwarranted liberty OF
intcrpolating in the Associated Press re-
port certain passages which said report
did not Contain" do themselves the ia.
o OF consulting the columns OF the
Western Associated Pres, papers of last
Saturday morning, and witness that in
all OF them the words which it is alleged
were i%nterpolated, appear Just rs
they did in the lNTELLIGEScER? They
will not have to 20 further than the
nearest news stand 10 satisfy themselves
on that point. .
Here, for example, is tho corrobora-
tive part OF the dispatch rs it appeared
last Saturday morning in the Demo-
cratic St. Paul Globe, conducted by Mr..
Lewis !iaker formerly OF Wheeling and
the Register, who knows whether Mr..
Pendleton is capable OF presiding amid
mcrrimcnt:"
To-day, while the house was cons Ill erlng tho
Pennsylvania contested election case OF Craig
Is. Stewart, Mr.. Pendleton was called 10 The
chair amid mcrriment, aad welded the gavcl
during the discussion.
1t would appear that tho St. Paul
Globe also keeps an able "scoundrel in
the third story" OF its building, pre-
sumablY for the special purpose OF tor.
turing Mr.. PendIcton.
We. have consulted both Eastern and
Western papers. The latter, with the
exception Of tho Register, so far rs we
have noticed, used tho dispatch rs the
lNrELLIGESCER used it. In the Register
tlS NVluS aiulu luCIElIlleuL uO not up
pear.
Mr.. Pcndleton will observe, also, that
even tho registers report states that
the incident OF which he was the "hcro'
occasioncd much humorous comment"
among the members OF the house.
Before Mr.. Pendleton and the Register
charge tho ISTELLlGEScER with so seri-
Gus an imposition on its readers as the
doctorins OF an impartial dis patch for
political effect, they should know wha,
they are talking about. The Register,
particularly, will do well to keep an eye
upon its own telegraph desk. lest it
fall under the suspicion OF being used
Tor an unworthy purpose.
Hon. JOHN AMID MERmMESr PESDLE.
Ton and tho Register should make haste