Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-16
A WORD To RESPECTABLE KEPUBLl'

WORD TO RESPECTABLE KEPUBLl-
CANS.
What do honorable and lawabiding
members of the Republican party think
of the revolutionary attitude and the
infiammatory utterances Of the men
they have helped place in high office
in this State-the Governor, the Attor-
ney General, the Secretary of State and
their political aids partners and organs
throughout the State?
The people of West Virginia have
elected a Democratic majority to the
Legislature and this majority hold
their legal certificates of election, yet
what do law-abiding Republicans con-
cerned in upholding the law and main
tanning the good name of the State
utterances as the following from the
two leading officers of the State ad-
ministration:
The Governor said:
"While in Washington j laid the matter
before the President and he told me that il
we had any law to Justify us in organizing
the House of Delegates and getting control
of the Legislature on joint ballot to GO
AHEAD AND HE WOULD BACK US UP."
Attorney General Rucker said con-
corning Logan, Democrat elected from
Monroe, and holding his legal certifi-
cate:
"IfI were Governor L would not permit
Logan to take IA seat in the Legislature,
even if it should become necessary to use
military force to prevent him entering the
capitol. IWOULD PREFER CIVIL WAR
to such an outrageous steal"
What do respectable, abiding
Republicans who have business inter-
ests at stake in this State think Of
such inflammatory and revolutionary
utterances from those highest in official
authority at the State capital?.
Isn't it time to call a halt on the
rabid mouthings of these revolution
lists and their irresponsible organs
throughout the State, beginning with
the Wheeling Intelligencer, organs that
daily encourage disorder by false
charges against Democrats and by
openly declaring, as one of the most
influential of them persistently does,
that THE FORM OF LAW" MUST
NOT BE ADHERED TO by those in
authority lest the scheme to keep a
majority of legally elected Democrats
from taking their seats fail,
Not one honest Republican in thou
sand in this State will subscribe to
these anarchistic sentiments, we feel
assured, and it is the duty of the law
abiding members of that party to call
halt on them. 1t is the duty of Re-
publican business men of influence,
whose word will have weight even with
the conspirators at Charleston. to in
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tude of these political buccaneers.
They owe that much to the State and
to their own private business interests
which are bound to suffer with the
general reputation of the State abroad
in view of this revolutionary attitude
of its public officials.
Let us hear no more inflammatory
buster from the State administration
concerning the use of troops to keep
legally elected Democrats out of their
rights. If any force be used let it be
applied now in the interest of the good
name of the State in gagging the wide
mouths of the anarchistic organs of the
Charleston conspirators, who by wav-
ing their red rags, and for base parti-
san purposes, are trying to incite the
people to disorder
Why doesn't the organ Of Fourteenth
street fire some of the vituperation it