Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-21
THE AFFLICTED ORGANS SAD CASE

THE AFFLICTED ORGANS SAD CASE.
The Fourteenth street organ tells its
readers the Register misrepresented
Attorney General Rucker in the matter
of his statement concerning what he
would do IF he were Governor" toward
keeping Logan, the regularly elected
Democrat from Monroe. from taking
his seat at the opening of the Legisla-
ture. Although the organ is loud in
charging the Register with misrepre-
senting Mr.. Rucker, it is very careful,
as usual, not to quote the language OF
the Register which not only did not
misrepresent him in any particular, but
did him the courtesy to voluntarily re-
produce his communication on the sub
ject.
Briefly, the case is this: In an in
terview in the Republican organ at
Charleston, the Herald, Attorney Gen
eral Rucker was quoted as follows:
IF were Governor L would not permit
Logan to take seat in the Legislature,
even if it should become necessary to use
military force to prevent him entering the
capitol WOULD PREFER CIVIL WAR
to such an outrageous steal"
Mr.. Rucker in his communication de-
clares he did not say this and lex
plains" what he did" say as follows:
Il did say, however, and 1 repeat it now.
that if | were Governor of the State, JOS
eph D. Logan, who was not elected from
the county of Monroe, should not take a
seat as member of the Legislature of
West Virginia until the matter was test
ed by the proper authorities.
Now, in the name of reason and COM
mon sense, what does Attorney General
Rucker mean by this if not substan-
TALLY what he was originally quoted
as saying in his own party organ?
What is the constitutional authority
In this case which shall decide whether
Logan is entitled to his seat or not if
not the House of Delegates, ITSELF
which the constitution says shall be the
judge of the qualifications of its mem
bers?
And how would the Governor pre-
vent Logan from taking his seat unless
he used force? And what force is
there at the command of the Governor
in such a case but the militia?
Figured down to a common sense
basis Attorney General Rucker does
not succeed in explaining that he meant
anything substantially different from
what he was quoted as saying in the
first place by his own party organ at
Charleston, as above quoted.
The afflicted organ of Fourteenth
street knows these things and that the
Register has not misrepresented Attor-
ney General Rucker, but on the con-
trary has voluntarily published his own
communication on the subject in order
that he might have full and fair hear
ing and to do him all possible Justice
All Of which the organ in a similar
case was never known to do for our
contemporary is sadly afflicted with
mental and moral strabismus compl-
Gated with paretic symptoms which
prevents it from making truthful obser-
vations concerning any subject that
has a partisan political bearing and
causes it to labor under the insane de-
fusion that none Of its readers ever
read the Register. The fact is, this sad
affection of the organ has had the effect
of making the Register more than ever
popular among common sense Republic
cans who desire to form their own
opinions from the facts.