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

GLIDING little IFOm west virginia.
toward which the eyes Of half the
working men in the country were
turned, another column Of Scovel,
more rehash from Eastern Ohio. but
no enterprise and no expenditure OF
money for the benefit of the readers.
There was a long editorial on Debs,
and his visit to West Virginia, how
ever.
On the 18th, ditto.
On the 18th the same large display
Of cheap news, and more Scovel, this
time in the editorial columns.
On the goth, a couple of hundred
words of special from Fairmont, and
twice as much from the same town by
the Associated Press, all the general
news sent by the Press. and a column
and a half of Eastern Ohio sensational
ism, including false statement that
spikes had been driven into frogs on
the line of the Wheeling and Lake
Erie, west Of Dillonvale. The Reg
lister denied this report, the same morn
ing. but the Intelligencer thought it
was a First Shadow of Trouble" ard
said so. In fact it had been indussri-
ously looking for trouble" all the
time, without expense to itself, and
was getting tired.
On the 10Th the Intelligencer at last
awakened to the fact that the Register
was beating it cruelty every day on
West Virginia news, sent its editor to
FairI1ont, and he sent in rehash Of
the situation, while the boys at home
threshed over the old straw again for
a column and half.
Thursday morning the editor did a
column more from Fairmont, gotten up
from the standpoint of the operators,
and for writing which he probably got
a really good cigar or patronizing pat
on the back. Here at home the local
end was again written threadbare
Yesterday morning, the editor hav-
ing come home, he turned in two
thirds of a column of Associated Press
stuff, dated at Fairmont, but sent out
from the Intelligencer Office or by In
telligencer men, which told about Rolf
Hite "and his faithful Winchester" a
desperate man with pick being stood
off at the point Of a revolver, the
throwing Of stones, etc. In fact, it was
quite sensational, and had the editor
rot been under the eyes of the opera
tors, it would probably have taken the
form of a special with &C. A. D." at
the bottom of it, and had the incident
occurred at Dillon, or somewhere
else in Ohio the able Belmont county
fakir would have made column Of it,
at least. At Fairmont, however, an
Associated Press disguise was in or
der
The fact is, in its cheap and picayun-
ish way, the Intelligencer has been
ultra sensational in handling the
strike. 1t has worked the Ohio and
local end of the affair to death, print
ing rot by the column when there
was really nothing here to print, yet
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has daily sent out to the Associated
Press. for dissemination over the
country, everything it could hnd IN
this vicinity. and generally has played
the part Of cheap sensationallsm'
while practicing its usual deception
upon its readers.
The Register has printed the news
whenever it was worth printing, at
very considerable expense, and VIII
keen it up. We have been condemned
by both operators and miners, which Is
a good sign we have chronicled events
honestly. The people take newspa-
pers to the end that they may be In
formed of what is going on, and par
ticularly have West Virginians been
taking the Register, knowing well from
experience that in its columns the news
of the State is always fully set torth'
The Registers policy was inaugurated
long ago. and the gathering OF west
Virginia news over the head OF the In
te,ligencer, has become habit requir-
ing no conscious effort, but good deal
If money. We have our reward in the