West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-12-22
THE LAST DITCH,
or fhe Desperate Journal and the
Jim damned" BADLY Jam.
med Chairman

OF ~ party organ and 1t would
really seem TO be true. For in
stance. when TIVE ARGUS took up
he fight for The honor aud good
name Of the people Of the count,
irrespective OF party or position
aud published - long denial OF the
base charges u5!ished broadcast
about alleged frauds and corrup-
ton and even subjected itself to
criticism IN its own pIrty for so
doing. the Journal never hint.d nj
IT even. Other Republican papers
IN various parts of the State pub
hShed u whole article, with very
~Hhtering comments. But rot sc
ttc Journal. 1t over looked the
whole matter md waitsl TIL IT, got
holt Ola lying article from the
Wheeling Register. written by All
imported j'ehass from Baltimore,
Who was here and sent ia all or
nearly all the rot to the Register
that we were kicking about, and
who wrote the stuff published by
the Journal,in reply to us and try
ing to back up his lying statmepts
that we were calling him down on.
The Journal published this card of
q. II. Peyton's last week with big
dou ole column head lines which we
quote as follows:
"Flynn's Charges sustained.
An Expert Democratic Authority
Endorses the Uhairman's Charge
that Slidell Brown Was the First
Man to Yell Fraud aud Corrup-
ton at the Honest Voters and
Election Officials of Preston
County lie Was Urgent in His
Request for an Investigation of the
Election on the Grounds of Groos
Frauds, Says the Hon. c.. r. Pey-
ton, McGraw's Expert Accountant
a. ANlO1 AVA audkCIs
Ordinarily the Journal would
not accept democratic Authority"
on anything, but this time 1t is in
such u hole that it gladly avails
itself OF anything to help out the
Chalrmln OF the "Jim Committee"
who had been driven from mis- last
ditch and instead OF backing up
and helping The ARGUS in it's
light for the fair name of the
county, allies itself with the
Wheeling Register and its I'm
ported liai from Baltimore to try
to down THE ARGUS and Islander
its editor.
D, the Journal is u belut and it's
readers must be proud Of it. It's
editor can have no excuse what.
ever for publishing this lying at
tack from Q. r. Peyton, because
we discussed the article with
him Immediately after 1T ap-
peared in the Register and sew
eral days before it was published in
the Journal and we told White
then that it was q lie out OF the
whole cloth. but it seems that he
prefers to believe this stranger who
he knows nothing about. to one he
has known for years. We 60 into
details about this because wo want
the people to know just how des.
perats and lo~w-dowD, and mean
and little and narrow minded and
foolish and asinIne the journal
can be sometimes.
We arc willing to leave the matter
to the County Court, who are all
staumc h Republicans and who we're
in y position to know whether or not
we were yelling and fraud cor
ruptlon and urgent in our requests
for an Investigation Of the election
on the ground Of gross frauds etc"
Will the Journal interview the
Court about it and publish the re-
suit? Wouldn't that be better
aptboyity than this unknown
writer from another State? The
Journal knew that this same fellow
was the man who came here and
sent IN TO The Register 8ll that ~
ing stun about gross Republican
frauds IN Preston" because VIZ told
White ourself about 10. and still he
takes up some more VI the fellows
lyiHg rot md rrpublishcs in the
journal when be knew IL to be false,
simply 10 got = whack 1T rs and
Try 10 let bis jim and baily Jam
mcd Chairmab out Of the traps Of
HE own setting that he got eanght
co.. WHAT 10 the Republicans Of
this county blink OF the Journal
anyhow 4?