Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-01-19

Not to get ahead of the story, we will
at once state that the calm, easy, vir-
tuous fashion in which the esteemed
Intelligencer coolly and with apparent
religious feeling misrepresented the Sit
uation with regard to Mr.. Faulkner
in it's alleged Washington special
and that specials" very marked sim
ilarity to the good and lovely-al-
though quite false--edltorials on the
subject in the same pure and holy or
gan of Mark Hannaism, leads us to
the inevitable conclusion that both ed
itorials and Washington special were
composed in that religious sane
tum sanctorum, the cockloft of Editor
Pecksniff, Of Fourteenth street.
The facts in connection with the
subject were published in the Register
yesterday in special dispatch from
Washington. There is nothing re-
markable in Senator Faulkner's resig-
nation, especially in view of the fact
that campaign is approaching in his
own State which will require the very
careful attention of all West Virgin
ians, not only Democrats but Repub-
licans, Republicans who now hold Of
fees they will never hold again
The remarkable absurdities of the
Intelligencer's Washington special
lead one to believe that it certainly
never emanated from any sane Wash
ington correspondent. If we are wrong
in thinking it did not come
from Washington, then there is
dangerous lunatic at the
Washington end of Editor Peck
shifts wire, who should be looked after
and guarded against.
Among the astounding reasons for
Senator Faulkners resignation from
the ngressional committee chair
manship given in our neighbor is the
"Chilton shortage!"
1t would be no less absurd to claim
that Senator Elkins ought to resign
from the Senate because of the Bur-
dette shortage, which is of much long
er standing than the Chiffon short
age"
But that is not the funniest part of
this Intelligencer special" 1t goes on
to say that to bridge matters over
King Dick Croker, Of Greater New
York, was approached by Mr.. Faulkner,
or his friends, and the effort made to
take up a subscription among the Tam
many braves to pay off what remains
of the shortage.
This is real humor. Real uncon-
scious, Pecksniffian humor. How the
good editor got it or came to evolve it
out of his own immaculate inner con-
seriousness is a mystery that possibly
may be solved only by prayer, unless
Pecksniff will volunteer to break his
record and tell the truth about it.
And, too, this train of thought leads
us to wonder if Senator Marcus Aure-
Illus Hanna can be prevailed upon to
pay from his plethoric. but CT late
much bled, bank account, the shortage
of certain Republican contemporary
of Mr.. Chiffon and now Republican
federal officeholder at Charleston I'M
der the present administration, who
has robbed the school fund of the
State of thousands of dollars This
form Of peculation used to be~preva-
lent among Republican off0lals in
West Virginia, and not dollar of this
wholesale robbery Of the people has
ever been recovered to the State In
fact, Republican legislatures have in
many instances actually voted not only
not to require restitution of the peo-
pies stolen money, but to relieve the
guilty official of the stigma and the
obligation to pay.
OF these things, however, we hear
nothing from good Mr.. Pecksniff, of
Fourteenth street.