Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-26
THE REPUBLICAN Way
THEY CRY FRAUD TO COVER UP THEIR OWN
MlSDEEDS.
The Scheme They Have Conceded TO Garry Nc
DOwal COunty-Hundreds Of Illegal
Voters Listed Over the Head Of
the Democratic Assessor.

Governor Fleming and staff passed
through the city yesterday on their re-
turn from the dedicatory ceremonies at
Chicago, last week. A reporter for the
REGISTER met the Governor, and after
. brief conversation about the sig hts
seen in the metropolis of the West, re-
ferred to matter of more local interest,
and Asked
Governor, In the IllteLligenCer OF this
morning, appears what purports TO be
special from WEIGH, the county seat OF
Nc DOwell county, pretending to show
up Democratic frauds in the listing Of
voters in that county. 1t has been but
two weeks since you canvassed that
county. What do you know or believe
about the situation there?"
"This claim of the Republican party
is nothing new. The same thing was
published week ago in a Cincinnati
paper. 1t is simply the old, old story
of the thief crying stop, thief! The
Republican managers have planned
Stupendous fraud TO be perpetrated in
Nc Dowell county. They are aiming to
repeat the rascality of 1888, and think
10 make it more successful and more
plausible by listing the illegal vo-
tiers. AS is usual when the
Republicans contemplate something
that will shock the moral sense OF the
people of our State, they first make
charges of fraud against the Democrats
so as detract attention from their own
course CT conduct. Now l will give
statement OF what has occurred and is
occurring in that county, as learned 1t
from reliable sources while in the county.
''The Assessor Of Mcdowell county is
a Democrat, and listed all the voters,
including all the qualified colored vOt-
ers. He returned his list to the clerks
Office of the County Court, and the Re-
publicans at once began their charges
of fraud, because he had not listed from
500 20 ZOO cOlered men working in and
about the mines, and who are not en-
titled to votes at the coming election.
Many OF these negroes came to Elkhorn
in the past summer from the Pocahon-
tas region in Virginia where a strike
had existed for short time. The Re-
publicans made these charges the pre-
text for converting the Republican
County Court in special session and with
out the knowledge or consent of the
Democratic Assessor, appointed for him
a Republican assistant or deputy. They
then sent for Dan Cunningham, menu
Der of the Eureka Detective Agency
and deputy United States Marshal,
and United States Davis, known so well
in the Second Congressional district.
These three have made, or are making,
a new list which purports to contain
the names Of the voters in Elkhorh dis
trict This list will contain the names
of all these Illegal colored voters. OF
course it is part of the plan when this
list is returned to the clerks Office
of the County Court, the Clerk,
Mr.. Payne, the candidate on the
Republican State ticket for Treasurer,
will copy it instead of the original list
made by the Assessor, and send it out
to the election precincts as the lists of
legal voters. 1t is also expected that
the election officers, two out OF the
three at each precinct being Republi-
cans, Will recognize and act upon this
list. Indeed, no other will be used, for
it is supposed that the list made out
by the Assessor will be suppressed.
Now, have given you the scheme OF
the people who are bowling Democratic
fraud, in order to justify as far as pos
sibie their own nefarious schemes"