Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-02-01
THE ORGAN

THE ORGAN C0RNERED.
In another column will be found an
other open letter from Hon. A. $.
Johnston, Of Monroe county, to the
Intelligencer, concerning the ill-con-
sidered charges uttered by that organ
against the County Court Of Monroe
in regard to the recount of ballots
cast at the last election. Mr..
Johnston's second letter is a high
ly interesting and conclusive though
brief answer to the organs unsup-
ported charges against the County
Court of Monroe of "atrocious corrup-
tion," which the organ repeats, par
rot-like, though it fails to give the
proof for which Mr.. Johnston asked.
The In~telligencer, in it's tardy reply
to Mr.. Johnston, claims that the
County Court of Monroe changed the
rule" in the recount to favor the
Democratic candidate. Mr.. Johnston
shows this is untrue. The County
Court did not change the rule, and
hence could not have favored the
Democratic candidate, as charged. But
Mr.. Johnston shows that the Circuit
Court, to which the recount was TAX
en-, a court presided by Judge
McWhorter, a Republican, DID change
the rule consistently followed in count
ing all but the last district and there,
under the change, counted for the
Republican candidate ballots which
gave him a bare plurality of four.
1t was not the County Court of
Monroe, but the Republican circuit
Judge who changed the rule" Which
shows that the organ is either DELHI
erately untruthful or ignorant of the
facts.
No Democrat has accused Judge
McWhorter of ~''atrocious corruption"
or averred that he was improperly in
fiuenced, and Mr.. Johnston again
calls upon the organ to withdraw its
infamous and unsupported charge of
s~'atrocious corruption" against the
Monroe court. 1t remains to be seen
if our neighbor will voluntarily Go
this simple act of justice to honorable
officials whom it has %viciously bounded
for purposes made plain by Mr..
Johnston, and with which the people
were made acquainted during the last
session of the Legislature.
Mr.. Johnston follows the last to
the Supreme Court and shows the in
sincerity and sharp practice of the Re-
publican attorneys and leaders to serve
their Interior purpose. All of which
was confessed by the final DISPOSE
ton of the Monroe case, which, as
Mr.. Johnston says, was trumped up
solely for temporary stage effect in
order to carry out the theft of the
s%enatorship. Indeed, it was acknowl-
edged by the Republicans themselves
that there was neither fraud nor ir-
regularity in the Monroe court.
The Intelligencer is simply far be-
hind the case, and seems utterly ig-
norant of the facts. And having
started wrong, for dishonest parti-
san purposes, it refuses to get right Or
to do justice in its columns to Demo-
Gratis, although they have been Off
cially indicated in the courts and by
the Republican members Of the Legis-
lature.
The organ is now given another
opportunity to publish the truth,
and it remains to be seen if it is
capable of doing this act of simple
justice which common decency should
dictate, and if it has the manhood to
voluntarily withdraw it's absurd, I'M
supported and slanderous charge of
"atrocious corruption against the
County Court Of Monroe.