Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-10-25

and recites the connection Of Qcay, Hus-
ton and other Republican leaders had WITH
it. In the letter of March Slst lie speaks
of the fact that
Mr.. GEORGE W. ATKINSON,
Congressman from the First West Vir-
ginia district, thinks il is the very thing
TO save the State in 1891 We also find
in the same letter the following: Mr. c:
B. Smith. from the Fourth district OF
West Virginia, says he will make inquiries
among his frisnds in the interest OF the
work. He does not think that many could
be placed in this district.' Also the follow
ing: Mr.. j. H. McGinnis, contestant from
the Third district of West Virginia, with
whom / have had interviews in relation 10
the work, says he will render any assist
ance he can, that he is in hearty accord and
thinks five thousand can be placed in his
section of the State [Southern.
unfortunately also, for Mr.. Lindsey,
under date of Nav 6, 1850, ]. y. Huston,
then treasurer Of the United States, wrote
that he was heartily in favor Of the scheme
Senator NJ S. Quay, under date OF May 81,
1889, writes Mr.. Lindsey that he would
submit his Nin6sey's) proposition TO the
committee. Under date OF August ~, leSy'
Mr.. Quay also writes, i am perfectly Will
ing TO give my time 10 the cause put can
not afford topay the expenses OF tue COM
mittee'
Unfortunately, also, for the notorious
Lindsey, Col. Mclean. of West Virginia,
under date of March 20, 1890, says: i am
heartily in sympathy with the work In
which you are engaged, and if | can fnd
any way to do so will most cordially CO.
operate with you.
Bearing in mind that Gil OF these letters
antedate the time when Lindsay now
swears he first met Senator Faulkner
some being dated nearly year before his
meeting with the Senator, If anyone can
explain TO US how il would be possible Tor
Senator Faulkner to engage Lindsey on or
about May lst, 1890, TO entrap Quay,
Huston and other Republican leaders into
a scheme in which they had already been
engaged for year we will be willing TO de-
vote some serious thought TO this last ema'
nation from this noted character.
''The whole thing falls of its own weight.
The Republicans in 1889 and 1890 were en-
gagged in a scheme to colonize negroes In
West Virginia for the purpose OF controll-
ing our elections.
THEY WE'RE CAUGHT IN THE TRAP,
and West Virginia registered her condem-
nation of the scheme. Anyone who knows
the people of West Virginia has but TO go
TO three or four centres in the State 10 see
that the Republican leaders are even now
engaged in the self same scheme and have
West Virginia colonized with negroes for
the purpose OF voting them, and their Of
ficals are registering these illegal voters In
several counties in West Virginia.
"It is true we have these illegal voters
listed. 1t is true that the people OF this
State intend TO see that they do not vote,
and IL is also true that we have laws 10
punish these conspirators and that they
will be enforced 10 the very letter, but
these considerations do not detract from
the enormty Of the scheme and from this
confirmation of the Democratic charges
published in 1890. This last attempt oil
Lindsey and the Republicans is a bold but
fimsy effort TO counteract the effect or the
damaging letters which were published by
the Democrats two years ago.
"Let it not be forgotten that the genu.
ineness Of the letters referred TO has never
been questioned; that on the contrary most
of the writers Of these letters nave admit
ted the same to be genuine and the records
of the United States Senate show that
Senator Voorhees, in speech in that body
read these same letters, including the ones
from Senator Quay, and the latter gentle
man was on the floor OF the Senate at the
time aud did not raise his voice In denial
either of the genuiness of the letters or the
truthfulness of the allegations contained In
them. Moreover, the original letters are
in existance and can be produced.
"Of course we shall expect the Republi-
cans to do everything that money and pow
er can accomplish 10 counteract the effect
of the exposure of that terrible and cruel
scheme but their only misfortune Is that
they are Just two years too late In their
countermove, and the AFFIDAVIT upon which
IL is based is self condemned by previous
correspondence admitted by all to be gen
uine.
ave ask again will ex-United States Sen
ator Quay, ex-United States Treasurer
Huston, William Seymour Edwards,
George Wesley Atkinson, Chas. Is. Smith
and the notorious Lindsey even now say
that any of the letters published in 1890
are not genuine. This is the meat OF the
whole situation. II is immaterial TO in
ou1re how the letters were obtained. The
letters were genuine and were published.
They tell their own story which shows
that Lindsey and his co-conspirators were
trying to colonize the State OF West Vir.
ginia with an ignorant degraded and de-
based class of illegal voters in order that
her ballot might be debauched and the
chains of Republican misrule fastened Sc
curely upon her,"