The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-14
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when it was too late the effect that all
this would have, not only politically, but
in business way. The hundreds OF in
dignant men in the Whitaker mill, and
Mr.. Whitaker's hundreds OF friends in
the community outside OF the mill,
must be pacified. So the Register hit
upon the plan OF stultifying itself by
irving to kill the effec: OF its own course.
In apparent disregard OF its attempt to
show that Mr.. Whitaker was unfit to
be a state senator, it began to boom
him for United States senator, a posi-
ton, as I have said, for which he has
never announced his candidacy. And
this is why Mr.. Whitaker and all the
Republicans OF the state are laughing
at the ridiculous figure the Register is
making OF ITSELF 1t cannot recover its
lost prestige with the Democratic en-
ployes OF the Whitaker mill by such q
course.
Another echo Of the campaign--a case
OF a campaign liar trying to undo the
effect of his work-comes all the way
from St. Louis, and has n local interest.
The circumstances connected with a
brutal assault made on young Tom
O'Brien. Of this city, during the cam.
paign are still fresh in the minds OF the
readers OF the IHTELbiGESCER. II will
be remembered that while on a rail-
road train leaving the city, just across
the Marshall county line, he was set
upon by two or three men and badly
beaten. 0'Briea was on his way to the
Second district on a political mission.
lie had been Democrat, and like many
others this year, declared that he could
no longer vote the Democratic ticket
Tho assault on him had to do with a
personal incident OF the campaign. The
Democratic papers, fearing that the
affair would make Republican capital.
distorted the facts, and told unblnshlng
falsehoods regarding O'Brien's mission
at the time OF the assault, and other
dizzy stories about money furnished
him by the Republicans. About that
time 0'Brien Moore, the Washington
correspondent of the ST. Louis Repub-
lie, was over in The Second district
writing up the Wilson-Dayton cam
paign for his paper. He fell in with
two or three Wheeling politicians, who
gave him an UNANIMOUSLY untruthtul ac-
count of the 0'Brien assault, and he tel
egraphed column OF it to the st. Louis
paper. The article was so outrageous,
so libellous in its character. as well as
so grossly untruthful, that but one
Democratic paper in West Virginia, the
Clarksburg News, had the courage to
reproduce it. 1t was shocking story
and held young o'Brien up as an out
cast from home, reflected upon his fam
lily relations, and alleged many other
things that caused tho righteous indig-
nation oil all who knew the real circum-
stances, and especially OF O'Brien's
father, Col. Thomas O'Brien, than
whom West Virginia has no more re-
spected and honored citizen.
The object of the use OF the incident
by the St. Louis Republic in such way
was to cast a reflection on a distin.
guished Republican citizen OF tina: city,
the Hon. r. G. Kerens, whom the ar
tic!e charged with being engaged in
"boodleizIng" West Virginia, citing
young O'Brien as one OF his agents. OF
course the whole matter was absurdly
untrue, but it was good story for the
Democratic paper at Mr.. kerens' home
and was published with faring head.
lines. Now, mark what has followed:
The St. Louis Republic has been in hot
water ever since. The article was 80
criminally libellous in its nature that
there was no way to get out OF it. In
last Sundays Republic the Washington
correspondent attempts to apologize Tor
it, and thus paliate the aggravation OF
the offense. Having heard from the
home Office TINT something was threat
ening to drop, he wires his paper that
after making inquiries he finds that the
story he wrote about young O'Brien was
not true, and that he was misinformed
as TO the facts OF the assault. He fur
ther says that young Tom OBrien is
mot as black US he was painted
to him." etc, ETC., and concludes
as follows: of any OF the read.
ers of the Republic remember
the incidents narrated in my dis
patch frem Berkeley Springs, w. Va,
they are hereby requested to moderate
their opinions OF him" The cores
pondent gives MS his informants,
friends OF o. Brien and his father, but
who were bitter at the time against the
young man because OF his political con-
duct" II would beintereating to know