Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-08-31
MORE PROOF OF GUILT.

When the Republican leaders of this
State start to bunco the people they
do not let truth stand in tA way. They
are willing to risk all o. ~ posed
short Aemories oiuthS
ed Vigil street whenever opportunity
offered in the Virginia debt matter, and
are preparing at the instance of Wall
street to foist this fraud upon the peo-
pie again at the next session of the
Legislature. PROVIDED, that legisla-
ture shall have a majority subject to
their control, do not hesitate not only
to deny all that part of the Republican
program secretly considered by the Re-
. publican State Executive Committee at
Parkersburg last Wednesday, but act
Ually to attempt to break the force of
the grave charges against themselves
by making similar accusations against
the Democrats. This artful dodger
howl of stop thief" is, as we have
ouOW Ii, d loilulIldi NlOdh III liC SSSiCt
work of the Republican bosses, but
in this case is so bald and ridiculous
as to be worthy of notice only as show
ing the desperation of the Republican
debt ringsters whose scheme the Reg
lister exposed to the light of day long
before they were ready for it, with the
result that they are panic stricken lest
the exposure defeat them horse, foot
and dragons at the polls next NOvem-
Der. as it should and doubtless will.
So great is their distress that the Par
kersburg organ has become frantic in
its effort to counteract the effect of the
Registers expose of the game, and if
further proof were wanted of that
game it is found in the crude and
laundering falsehoods Collector White s
organ is guilty of in its effort to extri-
cate the bosses from the net of their
own weaving. The Journal does its
best to garble the Register and distort
the discriminating record. 1t quotes
tHS Register DIS lOiiOWo tIOlO 4to 1At0i
poIation in parenthesis):
cat the legislative session following
(meaning the last session. Wall street
Charleston. and the honest Democratic
minority alone prevented the taxpayers OF
this State being saddled with a debt of
millions they do not owe"
Now, the Journal knew, for the
context plainly showed. the Reg
lister did not refer to the last session,
but the session of 1895, or the notori-
Gus first. Republican legislature in
West Virginia in twenty-five years,
when the Wall street crowd swooped
down in force and captured the hun
Ivy Republican majority for the debt
enc, which would have succeeded
for the determined opposition of the
ocratic minority. But this fact
mpudent Parkersburg falsifer de-
ately puts behind him, claiming
ice of the specific statement to the
entrary that the Register referred to
the session of 1897, as witness the
| above garbled extract and the follow
ing, the Journals comment thereon:
The truth of the matter is this; the rec
rds will prove 1t and the Register knows
the only vote~cast in favor of recogniZ-
the debt question was cast by one of
honest Democratic minority" If
Democrats had been in the majority
last session the Virginia debt
have been paid out of our treasury.
ley carry the Legislature this fall
debt will come out of the State
sury
ave as this matter is and import
it is to the future welfare of the