The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-02


OF f.hate and talsehood in this state this
year has scarcely ever been equalled in
any state in tho Union. The legitimate
issues OF the presidential canvass have
been almost wholly ignored by the
managers, who have seen West Vir-
ginia slipping away from them through
discussion Of the tariff and currency
questions, and to divert the attention OF
the people from the real issues, have
raised false issues, issues that never had
any existence or have been long since
dead, to create partisan and race hatred
and prejudice for the purpose Of hold
ing in line old.time Democrats who
have studied the economic questions
involved in the canvass. and are on the
point OF breaking away from the old
moss.back Democratic doctrines; who
have witnessed the industrial develop
ment Of the county in general, and OF
West Virginia in particular, under the
Republican American policy OF protec-
ton. and are about to vote for contin-
uance Of that policy.
Failing by argument and a fair dis
cussion OF these questions to hold the
state in line, the Democratic managers,
speakers and newspapers have appeal
ed to these old time preiudices, with
what success will be determined next
Tuesday.
But the managers, those who run the
campaign from the Democratic head
quarters at Charleston, have gone
further than this. The 'force" bill
and negro domination" bugaboos to
irighten the $4,000 white voters into
thinking they would be dominated by
5000 colored voters in the event OF Re-
publican success; the "miXed school,
lie, perpetrated by William MacCorkle,
who is the Democratic candidate for
governor, and echoed by every school
house stumper in the back districts
the negro colonization" boomerang,
for which Senator Faulkner is RESPONSE
BILE, have all served their purpose. The
managers, however, those who are en-
gineering the inside OF tho Democratic
campaign, tho part OF 1t that the hon
est voters OF West Virginia do not see,
are resorting to more deapicable meas
ures to keep tho state in the Democratic
campaign. Theirs is not campaign
OF education, but ono OF Doodle, OF
schemes that would mako an honest
man blush for shame, of methods so
dishonorable that if done openly and
above board would cause the decent
element OF the party to rise in their in
dignation and rebuke tho men who are
50 lpst to political respectability as to
adopt them.
THE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN.
The ISrELLIeENcER has already shown
how Senator Faulkner bargained with
one Lindsey to entrap leading Republt-
cans into endorsing legitimate coloni-
zation scheme that he might afterward
make it appear that they were engaged
in plan to africanize tho state for
political purposes. This was part OF
the campaign OF hatred and prejudice
to divert the attention OF voters from
the vital principles OF governmental
policy, on which he know West vit-
Ginia was Republican. Mr.. MacCorkle's
mixed school" cry has also been shown
M. II has been told how he was tell
ing the people that il the Republicans
get in power colored and whito children
will sit side by sidc in tho public schools,
when he knsw he was uttering dema-
gogic talsehood, since such thing as n
mixed school is impossible in this state
under the constitution, and no man,
white or black, ia in favor OF such an
educational policy. This also was part
OF the campaign Of hatred and prejudice.
Then there is also the "bayonets at
tho polls cry-a cry without q particle
ottoundation; the calamity howl, by
which 1t issought to array labor against
capital, and convince honest working
men that they are tho most oppressed,
God-torsaken people on earth, and that
the country is on tho verge OF ruin. All
these are part OF that peculiar plan
OF detracting the attention OF the un-
thinking masses from the real issues OF
the canvass.
SECRET PLANS,
These things the IxTRLLIGEScER has
kept constantly before its readers. It
has had little to say concerning tho Sc
crot plans of the desperate Democratic
managers-the methods OF deception, oi
fraud, OF dishonest efforts to cheat for
4 second time the majority Of the voters
Of West Virginia out Of the fruits oi
victory.
So skiliully have the conspirators
worked that, until the plans began to
develop themselves to the eyes oi
Republicans who have been placed on
guard in the southern portion Of the