Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-14
THE SCHEME OF REVOLUTION.

Under the very appropriate caption
1.-THE Climax of Falsehood,' the parti-
san hypocrite Of Fourteenth street
turns loose his always loaded batteries
of blackguardism on the Register for
publishing and commenting upon
known facts concerning the attempt of
the State bosses to steal the LegiSla-
ture from the people and the revolu
tionary utterances of those bosses
who threaten that majority of duly
elected Democrats will be prevented
from taking their seats in that body
as they are entitled to do under the
law and Constitution.
The Intelligencer's assumption Of
outraged virtue over what it has the
impudent effrontery to call the Reg
listers 'infammatory" utterances is a
gauzy veil of hypocrisy that does not
conceal the subserviency Of the organ
to the revolutionary purposes of it's
masters, the lawless politicians at
Charleston.
This deceitful organ, whose every
breath is partisan, knows probably
better than anyone else that it is the
present intention of its masters, the
Charleston gang, to use military force
to steal the Legislature if they can
accomplish the damnable conspiracy
against law and order and the rights
of a free people in no other way.
THEY KNOW THAT A DEMO
CRATIC LEGISLATURE MEANS
THE OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF
CERTAIN OF THEIR DOINGS IN
THE PAST AND THIS THEY WOULD
FOR OBVIOUS REASONS PREVENT
AT ALL HAZARD.
AS to "inflammatory" and 'incend-
larry" utterances, instead of deliber
ately classifying the Registers state
ments, why does not the Intelligencer
quote some of the utterances on the
subject of it's Charleston masters?-
the following, for instance. from At
torney General Rucker, which is a
very mild specimen, indeed, compared
to some:
"If were Governor 1 would not permit
Logan to take a seat in the Legislature,
even If it should become necessary to use
military force to prevent him entering the
capitol. WOULD PREFER CIVIL WAR
tn such an Outra veOus steal"
If this is not inflammatory and revo-
lutionary will the Intelligencer which
has the impudence to criticise the Reg
lister for printing the truth, please tell
us what it is?
And, as we have said that utterance
of the Republican Attorney General of
this State is mild indeed, compared to
some of the revolutionary threats of
the arrogant bosses at Charleston and
has been openly threatened and there
is no question that troops will be used,
PROVIDING the revolutionists shall
have the nerve to thus carry out their
nefarious purpose of robbing the people
of this State of their Legislature.
And if it shall be discovered that the
State troops will refuse to engage in
this damnable conspiracy against pop
ular government it is, evidently, the
purpose to call on the President for
federal troops to back the conspiracy.
What does the organ of the Charles
ton freebooters mean by its impudent
denial that this is contemplated by the
Governor?
What was the meaning of the secret
meeting between the State bosses. In
Guiding the commander of the State
militia, and the boss of them all, SEN
ator Elkins, at Washington the other
day, after which Gov. Atkinson, who
participated in it. declared that THE
PRESIDENT WOULD BACK Him
UP" IN THIS NATTER?
How will the President back him up
how CAN the President back him up with
the power of the federal government,
unless at the call of the Governor he