Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-12-03
business will be regarded as felony
and treated accordingly.
SMALLPOX IN HARRISON.

to tell the truth in matters affecting
lished, denounce in unmeasured terms
the efforts of the Clarksburg Telegram
and of correspondent of the Wheeling
Intelligencer to show that the present
outbreak of smallpox in Harrison
county was not due to the lifting OF
the quarantine at Wallace for political
purposes, and present facts which con-
clusively prove that Republican poll
ticians were at the bottom of the whole
trouble, through their determination. to
cast fraudulent negro votes for the
party ticket, no matter what harm
might come to the community at large.
The County Mail says:
'Dr. Morgans statement laid bare one
of the most atrocious crimes ana out
rageous acts of malfeasance set or OIL
ficials could be guilty OF. This statement
was unsought by us and Morrison. the
paid hireling of the Court House Ting,
knew this to be the fact when ms mas
tiers told him to make the statement that
we took advantage of DIR. Morgan
weakness and obtained an interview. Our
chief object in publishing that interview
was to protect a warm personal IfleHu
from unjust co1umny; our second, was 10
expose crime. and we didn't care damn
who it hit. To suppress crime, Morrison
on salary makes a personal attack on US,
but he had to lie to do so.
Now, the cold facts are as follows:
DIR. Morgan, as county health officer,
quarantined the infected district.
THE quarantine was lifted just before
the election
So hot M
Tom Plat of the Court House Ring, and
Frank Shuttleworth lost their vote here
and went on election day to wallace,
where neither of them had any legu-
"On his return Shuttleworth said he
had been to the smallpox country, and
smallpox or no smallpox, they had got
ten the votes
Quinn Minter, a member of the county
court, made the statement the day the
quarantine was lifted that the County
Court intended to lift the d quaran-
tine, that they did not intend to vote to
bring any such unnecessary expense on
the taxpayers.
After the quarantine was lifted Short
Line negroes tlocked to ClarksburS. ana
two weeks later smallpox broke out IN
seven different sections of the city. DR..
Bartlett, the present health officer, says
every case, with one exception, in the
city, can be traced directly 10 the infec-
ton by the Short Line negroes.
ITO sum up Clarksburg had escaped
smallpox until the Wallace quarantine
was lifted; two weeks after it was lifted
Clarksburg had seven cases N seven an
ferent sections of the city. Dr.. Morgan,
who, in his professional capacity, had
been working earnestly for the safety or
the people, says the quarantine was lift
ed just before the election by the Court
House Ring against his earnest protest.
and he resigned his office. The chief OF
the Court House Ring spent election day
among the negroes in the quarantined
district.
THE editor of the Telegram, paid by
the Court House Ring, says. in effect,
that Dr. Morgan lies. There is the case,
and there is plenty of god reading be-
And the News says:
Through political trickery this town is
heavily Smitten with the awful conta-
gion, smallpox. The indignant people are
pointing the finger Of scorn at the IN
famous political tricksterS who unlooS-
ened and scattered the infectious disease
among them. In response 10 the censure
of the enraged people, these guilty fell
ons are yepIng like sick dogs retreating
from SWarning humble bees nest. Just
before the election these politicians walk
ed the streets with ;pen mouths and
brazoned fronts, Doast.nS OF IneIr boIu
political trick in raising the, quarantine,
and stoutly declaring that there was no
smallpox in the Short Line camps 1t
took less than two weeks for the disease
to develop, and citizens began to clamor
0O, DClliS COllN lilCGQ ludl tilGE COulu DdHl-
boozle the people no longer, this gang Of
corruption:sts rubbed their heads to-
gether to devise some nefariouS scheme
by which they could clear themselves of
their criminal conduct. Consequently the
Telegram, which is owned ana controlled
by the gang who raised the smallpox
quarantine, gave lengthy editorial last
week devoid of truth and reason, in de-
tense OF Its guilty owners. TO offset the
statement that County Health On-cer DR..
Morgan made Camden SOmmers, editor
Of the County Mail, the Telegram brand
ed Dr. Morgan as being an imtecie and
that no creGence Wndteyer should be
given to his statements. The Telegram
knew too Wen that II WoUId b. an utter
lmpoSSlDiIity TO convince the people that
DR.. Morgan had lied, so if tney could
suddenly deranged they might then have
at least sun ent grounds 10 make a de-
Tense against the accusations of the en-
ragged public. The object OF this scheme
could easily be discerned II IN the read
ing of the editorial and it only tended
10 make matters worse Tor the guilty
parties. These political trickSters, learn
ing that decent people had lost all con-
faence in the.r toul sheetA trieu new
plan OF deception. Cnder tie signature
OF John b. Smith, business manager OF
the Telegram, and an empl Jye OF the
Court House Ring, tor they own the
sheet, there appeared a lenG rs article
in Monday Wheeling Intelligencer head
ed, History OF smallpox III HARRISON
opuLAtS <AlHlOSl the 6ntlre aftlcle is
gross misrepresentation of the introduce
uon or smallpox into the town. That
Buck DieSOn, the first to take the disease
contracted it from being in contact with
MdNWti, OF NllSonburg, may be true,
but the doctors and even tie infected
negroes admit that the disease was
brought here by Short Line nt,rocs imme-
diateiy after the election, ana was scat
tered at Tom Scctts crap Jom- Oh Main
street. The ring deemed :. best to omit
this historical tact IN compiling their ms
tory. The impre sSiOn is made that The
article Sp"aks the sentiments Of the lead
ing business men OF This ciTy. il the gang
VINO gave birth 10 the article will go Der>
sonaliy ~ the Representative uustness men
OF the Town ana test their opinion as to
where tie proper bfUne shcut rest for
me paI&iyzed cGhd'uon ot business Laused
by the llNaSl ou OF small o.. thcY VIII be
convinced tl:at the Condemnation rests
upon Iii )Se Mo 1!l!ns 500 til. scourgs
ana NOT the newspapers thai are exposing
me me lhE!moCs conduct OF Ina thlul pub
nc servants. After leopard zing the
health OF the repTie and | hra!yzIng the
business of the town these political
scoundrels would now fee to he arms of
the business men for pl OBJECTION against
the r-ghte 1us condemnation 81 A misused
people. These political lrirIisters NAV
howl for .1ercy like whipped ours. and
their mouta organ may coax with the
polluted pool. but the people Of this coun-
~ have fixed day OF leckun:..y for he
men who Wllfulty uucUsened contaeion
among them"
The fact is that the Harrison county
ring was willing ard actually did in
feet Clarksburg, Harrison county. and
the entire State of West Virginia for
the sake of fraudulent votes. cast for
the Republican ticket from President
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