Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-07-24

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devilish"-if it didn't cost so much.
This conclusion is deliberately form
ed, after going through its columns for
the period covered by the coal strike.
Yesterday the paper in question in
dulged in one of its quarterly assump-
tions of virtue, and attacked the Reg
lister with a charge of melting riot and
bloodshed, because this paper, not car
ing to follow the example of the In
telligencer, and believing the public
has a right to know what is going on,
! especially in our own State, has given
the fullest possible intelligence from
the mining regions 81 West Virginia,
without fear or favor from either side.
The Inteliigencer did not do this, be-
cause il could not be done for nothing;
but it has been ultra sensational in a
| cheap way, printing everything and
anything that could be written in its
Office, clipped from other papers, or
obtained from the Associated Press,
while it has sent out from Wheeling to
the Associated Press the most sensa-
tional stuff sent from this State
Let's see just how the sanity Intelli-
gencer has been handling this unhappy
condition of affairs
The strike of the miners was order
ed July 5th, and that morning the In
telligencer printed everything 1t could
find about it, to the extent of a col
umn and half.
July 9Th the paper had but two
thirds of column of Associated Press
news, the 9Th having been holiday
and a quiet day, but it had leading
editorial to help out with, in the course
of which it said the condition of the
miners was bad, that they would have
the sympathy of the entire country,
etc.
On the 7th the Intelligencer had very
nearly two columns of Associated Press
kilograms on the strike, and locally,
under the head Trouble is Feared"
recounted the military operations in
Ohio and West Virginia three years
ago-a thing which a paper like the
done, lest it provoke trouble. 1t was
pure sensational rot.
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two columns and quarter OF Associat-
ed Press kilograms, double leading the
announcement that United States Mar
shals were to go to Dillonvale. said,
in the editors headlines, that trouble
was threatened over the river" and
locally began its sensational and exag-
gerated review of the Eastern Ohio
situation, which it has continued to
the present day, writing and rewriting
against space, and under big heads.
This stuff came cheap-that is to say,
II cost nothing-and there was nobody
particularly on the Ohio side to truckle
to.
On the 9th the Intelligencer publish
ed everything the Associated Press
sent out, two columns in extent, and
locally worked out column and three
quarters from Belmont county, out OF
nothing. and announced in big head
that a crisis had arrived over there. 1t
has not come yet.
On the 10th it printed three columns
and a half of Associated Press stur'
and chewed over the Dillonvale situa-
ton for another column, although there
was really nothing of moment happen
ing there beyond the fact that the men
were out and peacefully minding their
own business. The Intelligencer, in
head lines and text, put the worst
nhase on the situation, however.
Monday, the 18th, it did the same
thing. and added half a column OF edi-
torial for good measure.
On the 18th it printed three columns
NJ Associated Press news and. nearly
two columns of local about the strike
with head lines about the storm cen
ire" at Schick's mine, on the news o.
which they were beaten the day before
bv the Register. They also had al
editorial. and in general made all tha
was possible out of the strike without
spending any money.
On the 14th, the editor thought there
was IAN ominous calm" which pre-
saged a coming storm, and he printed
three columns and a half Of mine stuf
all he could get-as means OF al
LAYING The threatened danger.
On the 18th the Intelligencer kept /
nm in the same way, printing all tn
news which could be had without ex
pense. which means that he got NJ
exclusive information from West Vir
ginia. and that West virginians looke'
in vain in that paper for what was go
ing on in this State.
But on the 10Th the intelligence
found a new and cheap way OF gettin
sensational news. and it quickly avail
Cd itself of the chance. Sylvester SEQ
vel had been sent out to this neighboI
hood by the ultra sensational Ne'
York World, and the editor OF the In
telligencer, alert for this sort Of stu
the World delights in printing, clippe
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