The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-12-13
M'GRANCRILTON


The PartoTsburg State journal Tx
plains a Little Matter That Has
Perplexed the Market Street 1[is-
tnformsr.
Parkersburg State Journal: The
wheeling Register having had a
hayaeed experience some time back. in
which It shed more straw and fodder
than & perhaps bargained for, has
fought shy in this direction ever since.
it, inability 70 tackle a real warm,
cycionic Richie county haystacs,
ought not to make 1t too cowardly,
however. It Is scarcely excusable for
Jumping on to Its amiable neighbor.
the 1ntslligencer in the violent and
hysterical way It does this morning.
for a. thing for which the State Journal
Is originally solely responsible, the In
telligenceF only making Its utterance
from Information IN this paper. It was
the State Journal that unearthed the
AGcGraw- Chiffon combination and not
the 1ntelligencer, and the Register, IL
reads the prominent papers Of the
country, or rather Of the world, ought
to know this. Here il the attempt to
hold the Intelllgencer responsible for
the guilt OF the State journal.
''In another column viii be found O
communication calling attention to an
editorial article in the Intelligencer re-
gardlng an alleged conference between
Colonel John \. McGraw and the Chill
tons, In Parkersburg. on Sunday week.
Our esteemed correspondent thinks
the Register should call attention to the
fact that no such conference occurred
and could not have occurred, since Mr..
McGraW on the date named was in
Washington. D. c. Our correspondent
mentions other facts In this connection
showing the manifest untruthfulneBs
and absurdity Of the Fourteenth street
organs comments on this alleged con-
ference.
II our correspondent we're regular
reader OF the Intelligencer he would
not take the matter 80 seriously. This
bit Of Misrepresentation. bald and made
out Of the whole cloth as II Is, IL but q
sample Of our neighbours political news.
II the Register attempted to correct
every mlsstAtement the organ made
about Democrats and the Democracy,
VIC M00A4 AGANG 9PtANG AQA AAAbAG g4A@s VIZ
fail TO recall Just how old the organ Is,
but 1t Is fact that Il hasn't told the
truth about a Democrat for over forty
years, and i is rather late TO break the
habits now
The Register may not know anything
about the important political matters
transptring IN this state. for II takes a
live newspaper like the State Journal to
keep up with them, and may not be-
lieve. Of course. that the ChIltons and
McGraw have Joined forces, but this
paper has been in possession Of the
facts for some time. The date of a
conference Is not the main question,
and to attempt to discredit the real
fact because Of discrepancy in the
time OF Its occurring, II there was any
looks like dodge to evade the real is
sue. In fact the whole article Of the
Register on this important subject, Is
IN evasion of the situation as 1t Is
known to exist. and as 1t has existed
for some months
Col. MoGraw and the Chiltons made
their alliance some time back, and have
held a number Of conferences since.
The combination intends to direct
Democratic politics in West Virginia or
know the reason why. 1t was matter
OF surprise when the alliance was
made that these two hostile forces
should join hands. but ali the same
they did.
This combination does not intend that
either of the Davlses-the Democratic
Davlses-shall be governor Of West
Virginia. What means the withdrawal
Of both from the contest, as was the
case at the time OF the Parkersburg
conference, II this was not true? They
were asked to pull out in favor OF Judge
Bennett. of Weston.
The Register can not evade the facts
In the case by throwing around lot Of
froth It shows by its own article 1t
knew nothing. It cannot in this way
dtscredIt those who do.