The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-14
For State Senator-First District,
OLIVER P. MARSHALL.
OF Hancock County.
labelling Sound Money Democrats.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has q sensa-
tional dispatch from Charleston, this
state. the top line OF the heading of
which Is the word Shameful" It is an
appropriate heading, for the dispatch is
: the most shameful falsehood that has
appeared recently in this campaign. 1t
concerns the Palmer and Buckner Dem
ocratic organization In West Virginia,
and is a libel upon every honest Demo-,
crat who is standing by the traditional
principles OF true Democracy and
against the, heresies advocated by the
Organizes. II the SOUND money Demo-
Gratis desire to see how they are being
abused and misreprcsented by: the tools
OF the state Popocrahc machine they
need not so farther than yesterdays
Enquirer
The Charleston dispatch in question
charges that the National Democracy of
this state have spent thousands of doll
liars OF Mark Hanna s;money" in the ef-i
j fort to bride voters to sign their electoral
petition and even after all this extrava-
giant expenditure they failed to secure
the requisite number, OF signatures. In
Z making this startling statement, which
\ is a lie on Its face. the Enquirer applies
more than one eplthet to the gentlemen
who comprise the; National Democracy
sof West Virginia. The entire oreanisa-
4 tIon, !. says, Is composed OF corporation
attorneys, their claim OF being true
Democrats Is sneered at and they are
dubbed "Boltocrats.
But the feature OF the dispatch is one
which shows plainly that It Is inspired
I; by the Watts ring managers at Charles
ton. II charges that z. T. Vinson. one
OF the leaders OF the sound money Dem.
ocrats, approached General ]. W. st.
Clair at Huntington with the electoral
! petition, stated to him that 1t lacked
1 25o names Of having thc,1,0OO signatures
\ required and offered to pay one-half of
the campaign expenses OF the Demo-
cratic state ticket IL the state committee
4 would secure enough siCners for the
Palmer and Buckncr' ticket.
General st. Clair Is chronlcled as de-
cllning this entlcing offer and Chair
man Edmiston and manager Chiffon.
are quoted as saying that while. they,
! would like to have the "thousands. OF,
dollars" the Palmer men were willing to
4 pay for $50 slgners to a petition they
I were too virtuous to secure Watts cleo
ton In such amanner!
II there was ever a more absurd cam
Z 5palgn story concocted than this weahave
}sneyer read 1t. As we have snid, It bears
"a lie on: its face. II the sound money
Democratic cause is so weak that 1t cam
not secure n thousand names for its petit
4 ton, why would It's leaders want to pay
"th5uaands OF dollars" to secure Its in
Il scrtIon on the ballot, and what would
be gained for anybody to pay thou
sands OF dollars" for signatures to n
petition when all that were needed could
& be gotten for nothing? Il,
The popocratic machine at Charles-
tim Will have to coneoct a story that
Z mon with ordinary intelligence will be-
i leye IL 1t expects to carry on an effective
lslylng bureau. Meantime what do tho
! sound money Democrats think OF the
/ manner in which they are being libeled
\ by the Watts supporters and the Bry-
antics? 81