Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-07
AN UNBALANCED ORGAN

organ Is making itself extremely
ridiculous these days even in the eyes
of Republicans by its wild, ill-judged
ard Incorporate defense of the con-
spirators at Charleston in their at
tempt to steal the Legislature. 1t
wildly brands as "a villainous false
hood the charge that it is proposed
to subvert the peoples Will at the
point of the bayonet, by which method,
it is said, Democrats with certificates
of election are to be kept out of their
seats, although the crazy organ pre-
sents no shadow of evidence that such
infamy is not contemplated, while
there is every reason to believe that
it is. Certainly no one knowing their
utterly INSCRIPTIONS character will
put such a revolutionary proceeding
beyond the gang of politicians VINO
run the affairs of the Republican
party and are now in complete control
OF the State government and its
IOICSS. L uSlc 10 CFCly lCooch w w
lieve that these desperate politicians
do not propose to let go of the public
teat and good thing they now have,
so long as they can hold on by any
measure no matter how revolutionary.
Although the Governor has pub
lished a lengthy communication on the
subject in the organ of the cOnspira-
tors, he did not deny the truth of the
grave charge regarding his intentions.
On the contrary, his bombastic utter
ances and obscure threats Of what he
is going to do, ETC., would seem to
be fairly good evidence of the truth
of said charge, else, as we have said,
the Governors utterances are point
less.
AS for the rawlings of the Fourteenth
street organ, they actually SAVIOR OF in
cipient paresis, as witness its positive
statement in one portion of an edi-
torial article that the editor of the
Register had evidently not read AGj.-
Gen. Appletons statement in the Reg
listers news columns before making
the editorial charge concerning the
use of troops at the opening of the
Legislature, and it's other statement
Immediately following and in the very
same article to the effect that the
Register
attempts to excuse itself from the odium
of a maliciously false publication, by say
ing that Adjutant General Appletons de-
NAL while it must be accepted so far as
he is concerned is unauthorized by the
governor, and intimates that the governor
will issue an order for troops which the
adjutant general will have to obey
Here we have in the same article in
our neighbours editorial columns, the
one Immediately following the other,
two fatty contradictory statements,
the first to the effect that the editor
of the Register had not read Gen. APP
pleton's denial and the other admit
ting that he had not only read but COM
mented upon it.
Verify the strain appears to be tell
ing on our neighbours mind. This
thing of fabricating columns of false
hood and vituperation daily in defense
and in aid of the lawless and revolu-
tionary schemes of the gang of politi-
cal pirates at Charleston is we'll cal
culated to so strain the faculties and
worry the conscience as to produce
mental arrangement We would seri-
ously advise our neighbor to rest
from its partisan labors, especially
since it is working to no purpose and
is not deceiving intelligent people even
in its own party, the better and con-
sentative element of which the Reg
lister has reason to know looks with
very decided disfavor on the scandal
Gus and revolutionary methods of the
political bandits at Charleston, meth
DDS not only subversive of popular
government but seriously injurious to
the standing of the State abroad.
The publications now going the
rounds OF the Republican organs in
this State, who take their cue from
the Charleston gang, when quoted
abroad are calculated to do West vir-