The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-24

West Virginia. The story had about
1t the earmarks OF a ''putup job" The
question was, who put up the lob and
how was it worked2 1t has taken some
time to got at the bottom of this BUSH
ness, but the I%NrELLIeENcEa has at last
sounded that depth and in its news
column to-day will be found some Of
the most interesting reading ever sub
mitted to the people OF West Virginia,
for that matter to any community.
Here We have a distinguished West
Yirginian, senator of the United States,
interested most of all in the election of
a legislature that will continue him in
the United States senate, and incident
ally interested in his party's success,
conspiring to create the semblance of a
state OF affairs which in his W good
time he would denounce as a monstrous
assault on the people of West Virginia.
In letters to Senator Faulkner Mr..
Lindsey reminds him of his contract to
pay in cash and in Office for a service
rendered, which service was to entrap
Republicans in the enterprise. Lind
sey reminds Senator Faulkner of the
scheme OF deception they were both
playing on the people of West Virginia,
quoting Senator Faulkner as admitting
that he, Lindsey, had performed his
part Of the contract and asks Mr..
Faulkner whether he will, as a United
States senator, do less. Cooperating
with Senator Faulkner were other
Democrats including Phil Thompson,
at that time secretary Of the Demo-
cratic Congressional committee, through
whom Lindsey received part OF his pay.
1t is significant that there are no let
tiers from Senator Faulkner. He was
too shrewd afox for that. He operated
through Thompson, through syme, his
private secretary, and with Lindsey in
person, by. word of mouth. This left
him free to deny anything he ever said
to Lindsey and to repudiate the terms
and payments made by Thompson and
his own private secretary. The evident
ease with which Senator Faulkner and
his friends obtained the Republican
letters, the whole story of tho alleged
Republican scheme, was at the time ex-
tremely suspicious. Suspicion now
gives way to the complete and convinc-
ing statement of fact.
If Senator Faulkner had acted in all
faith with Lindsey to the end, had paid
him all the money he had promised to
pay him and made the appointment
which he promised to make for him, so
that Lindsey might derive 5000 a
month through it; or II he had compro-
missed as Lindsey had proposed for SO
much in cash and the employment OF
two horses and carts under the govern
ment of the District OF Columbia, he
might have secured from Lindsey all
evidence OF the deal, closed his mouth
and kept the people of West Virginia.
for ever in ignorance OF the plot in
which he was engaged to deceive them.
Senator Faulkner has the reputation
of being a shrewd politician. In this
case it will be plain to the dullest COM
prehension that he has overreached
himself. The people of West Virginia
will now see that Senator Faulkner first
conspired to invent an issue and then
went on the stump to meet thisissue of
his own manufacture, and Candidate
McCorkle and the rest of them are try
ingto profit by the same scurvy device.
A more shameless trick has ave
been resorted to by any politician of
any grade in this country.