Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-03-02
MORE LIES NAILED.
HON JOHN 0. PENDLETON TAXES THE
sNTELLIGENCER" TO TASK
For Some Of the Glaring ki'statemsntS 1t Has
Recently Published About Him-The AssOcia-
ted Report "DoctOred'-NO COllOquy
Between Pendleton and Reed.
Special telegram to the Be0tster-

Special telegram to the Re0ister-
WASHINGTON, d. c., March LIN
an interview with Congressman Pendle-
ton this evening, that gentleman SAID:
"My attention was called tonight to
the Associated Press report of the pro-
ceedings in Congress and special dis
patch appearing in the Wheeling IN
feLIiqeacer. The paper contained
five or six wiliull and genuine
falsehoods. The first falsehood or l
NAV say deliberate lie was found in the
Associated Press report. The Assocl-
ated Press report in the IntetttgellceT
saws that Mr.. PendletOn was called 10
the chair "amid merriment." No such
report was sent from Washington by the
Associated Press. The words "amld
merriment" were inserted in the report
bv some scoundrel in the third story OF
the Intelligeneer building, whose chief
distinction is his ability TO deceive the
credulous readers of that paper and 10
garble the Associated Press report sent
to that paper. There was no merriment
on the part of the House and none was
exhibited.
There may have been plenty of it
among the Illtelligencer staff, but 1t
was probably of the kind exhibited by
a lot of Williams when their rascalitles
are detected and defeated. 1t was the
merriment of chagrin and defeated
spite. The special dispatche from
Washington also bristles with manu-
featured falsehoods. When Mr..
Pendleton took the Chair. "He did"
NOT waive his hand in exultation," or
in any way toward ex-Speaker Reed"
nor did he do so at any time. The
''ex-Speaker did not recognize the ges-
ture and waive his hand in return and
reply" ooh, that's all right" The eX-
Speaker waived nothing and said moth
ing. The HntelligeHcer did the whole OF
it for its own sweet self and for the eX-
Speaker. THE House did not break
into laugh" lat the expense OF the
West Virginan," or at the expense OF
any one. The whole thing occurred in
the Wheeling HlteiligGncCr, and no
where else under the shining sun. A
Democratic House don't laugh at the
expense of Democratic presiding Of
fcer, every Democratic member OF
which believed their Speaker pro tenn
pore to have been Swindled out of his
seat by the fiity-frst Congress. Had the
InteuigenCer have interviewed the pres
ent House upon that occasion it would
have found that 235 members (about
three-quarters of the House,, thought
that they were witnessing an hour OF
retribution.
"The laugh was in the top loft OF the
IntelligeRcer building, aud Democrats
and fair-minded Republicans can I'M
agine the kind of a laugh it was, the
crashing of teeth that accompanied 1t
and the wailing of a malignant spite
that was crushed at the polls in Novem-
Der, 1890. In paying any attention to
these not unintentional but wllful and
deliberate falsehOOdS, l simply desire 10
call TO the notice OF the Democratic and
Republican voters OF the First Congress
sional District that the IHteliigCncer
recognizes the most easily detected and
refuted lies as the basis OF its amDaign
against me. 1t began that kind Of q
campaign three years ago and 10 its ut
ter horror has twice lied me into Con-
gress.
II sincerely hope that it will do so
for the third time. Ii always tells such
plain lies that it costs me no trouble 60
refute them. You may say for me that
l will cheerfully make the Iuteltigcnccr
present of fifty dollars for any charity
it may designate, if it can persuade ex-
Speaker Reed 10 say, under his own sig
nature, that in response TO any waving
of the hand on my part, or to any ges-
ture from me, he shouted oh, that's
all right.-or shouted anything. The
eX-Speaker is not such an ass as to have
said any such thing, and ne probably
would not thank the InteJiigeHcGr for
telling its Republican readers he was
such a fool"