The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-11-18

Collector A. b. White nails a fslsehold
concerning an alleged defalcahon in the
collectors ofiee during his former term,
and he does It in a way that the party In
dulging In the insinuatlon must admit
leaves NO doubt as TO the falsity of the
charge. The Parkersburg Sentinel has
hoped to offset the political effect of the
Chiffon shortage by the publication Of
the following, which 1t is probably now
sorry 1t perpetrated:
The State Journal, whose editor is col
lector OF internal revenue FOR west viz
gtnia, has q severe attack OF bad gram
mar, and a regular lumbago OF adiectiYes
in discussing the alleged shortage OF en-
Secretary OF State Chiffon. The state
journal in its indignant wrath az official
WRONG doing calls for the penalty OF the
law In such cases made and provided.
We do not care to be impertinently In
quisitiye, but we would like TO inquire
solely for the purpose OF information. u,
when the aforesaid editor was once before
collector, u certain stamp deputy of his
was not a defaulter. short In his cash, or
something OF that kind, and II the, matter
was not hushed up, Ignored. settled, ar
ask for information. And II 80, how about
eliminating the personal beam before look
ing after the neighbours mote?
II the Sentinel was possessed of any
information on which 1t could base the
allegation, or rather the intimatlon that
a Republican deputy collector was a de-
taulter during Collector Whites former
term, II kept 1t to itself for a long while
before sprtnging 1t on the public, for
nearly FIVE years have passed since the
Collectors first term expired. The State
Journal, however, u~nequivocally, and
specifically shows the why of the delay
in the following language:
AS 10 the question or insinuation that a
deputy collector was short In his accounts,
when Collector White was in the service
before. Mr.. White authorizes us TO say
thai no deputy collector, stamp deputy
or other officer during his first admins
tration was short in his accounts a cent
or any other amount. The records VIII
speak for themselves. Nothing was hush
ed up, ignored, settled or arranged By
him or anyone else for any deputy coll
lector or other revenue official, involving
n shortage OF any kind, Collector White
did remove three deputy collectors for va
but In no instance was there 0 shortage
Of any kind, directly or Indirectly, that he
knows OF, or that was ever shown.
The Sentinel Is talking through Its hat
about the collector. II II wishes to defend
the Chiffon Shortage" that is It's pleas
ure. We do not defend II, nor any other
mans shortage, be he in the u. S. gov
rnmen or state service.
The Intelllgencer Is as glad as the
State Journal is that this opportunity
was afforded to nail an i%nsInuation
which the Democratic press did not dare
make before, and would not dare make
now, were 1t not for the desire to, in some
way. attract attention from q shortage
under the late Democratic state admin
istratlon. 1t is always best for the pub
lie to know the truth about these things,
and 1t is fortunate that the Democracy
has at least one organ in the state that
rushed in where angels fear to tread"
Just in time to give Mr.. White the ops
p~ortunity he wanted.