The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-27
Governor Fleming's Fraud Cry.

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print and further famed the flames Of
partisan hate and passion by declaring
that the Republicans have planned q
stupendous fraud in Mcdowell county
that they propose voting illegal voters
and have endeavored to list such.
What are the facts?
The census OF 1890 showed 7sl colored
voters in Mcdowell and 1,549 white
voters. That was over two years ago.
Since then the Norfolk & Western
railroad has been pushed through the
county, the county seat changed to the
new town of WEIGH, mines have been
opened, new towns created and the
population OF the county greatly in.
creased. The Democratic assessor
listed only about 800 colored voters in
that county. A deputy assessor found
over GOO voters who had not been
listed, and who had been residents OF
the county for over q year. and from
that up to four years. The Democratic
assessors list is SO illiterate and illegi-
BILE as to be nearly worthless for the
uses OF the election officers.
All this cry of colonization in Nc
Dowell county by the Democratic lead
ers is a bare faced lie and emanates
from their chagrin at being found out
at their tricks.
They cannot show a single illegal
voter listed by the deputy assessor.
They know that the men listed are
legal voters. The Republicans simply
insist on their rights and that is the
occasion OF all this cutlery. It is fact
that the Democrats are desperate and
alarmed and ii bull.dozing threats, and
obstruction of the ballot will avail any
thing in keeping down the Republican
tidal wave, they propose to resort to
these practices.
Mcdowell county is as strongly Re-
publican as Monongalia and should
have as large a majority. The only
hope OF the Democracy ia by the repres-
sion OF the Republican votes in Nc
Dowell, Wyoming, Mercer and Fayette
counties to reduce the Republican ma
jority in the state. Shall such practices
be- tolerated2 Will the Republicans
submit?
Governor Fleming states an unquali-
fed untruth when he says that two out
of the three election officers at each
precinct in Mcdowell will be Republi-
can. The Democrats have obtained con-
troll of the court and at every precinct
in Mcdowell county where there are
colored voters the Democrats will have
two out OF the three commissioners;
just as they had in 1881 The governor
and his party should be ashamed Of
themselves.
The whole Democratic campaign in
this state is one of passion and preiu-
dice. There is no discussion OF economic
or state issues, but an appeal to race
prejudice and the bugaboo of "foace
bill" The burden of their song is
"nigger," and in their state organ, the
Charleston Gazette, they call their party
the white mans party" In billing
speakers through some of the interior
counties they display an eagle with a
motto in his beak reading, "for free
silver" and "nigger never" This is the
burden OF their song and passion con-
trolls their judgment Isitany wonder,
then, that with their campaign pitched
on this low plane their plans are
equally despicable? If the respectable
Democrats of the state knew what was
being done in the name OF their party
and to foist MacCorkle upon them they
would revolt
The Republicans are conducting a
campaign of principle, believing that
their success is for the best interests OF
the whole people. They appeal to no
passions or prejudices. They simply
ask for free ballot and a fair count,
and may the people rule.