Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-30
WHO is THE "IfAR.-

Run TO earth the yellow Republican
organs which essayed to exploit the
assassination of a President and use
nations and a widows tears to
Intricate rotten political machine,
are fighting back-like the cornered
rat
Listen to this defense made by the
frightened Fourteenth street Echo of
the New York Sun:
knowing the Registers record was sec
ond only to that OF the New York Jour
nal. the Intelligencer in a kindly spirit
hoped to draw attention from It, and in
Charitable spirit the other day penned the
following;
1t must not be forgotten that the yell
low press continued their assault on Pres
ident Mckinley after he WAS elected, and
inaugnrated the chief executive of the
nation. Much can be forgiven for cam
paign hot-headednesS. but to ridcule and
hold up tho President of the whole Coun-
try to the contempt of the people is quite
another thing.
We find. however, that ctr consideration
was wasted upon an unappreeiative OBJ
ject, Tor taking this as a text the Regis
ter prints long screed Of extraneous
matter by which it affects TO show that
the Intelligeneer 'eondones yellow Journal
ism" Owing to the delicate situation we
are thereby placed in. as the friend of an
erring brother We must say with the
softest aspiration that We can give to a
denial sfthis malicious charge that the
Register LIES"
There is the answer of a yellow
sheet that dare not stand by its own
record and has no other plea to hide
behind than that of the guilty coward
who shouts as he runs: You're a
LIAR"
Let us see who is the LIAR" in
this case.
The Fourteenth street sheet says
the Register LIES in charging that
it ever ridiculed or held up to the con-
tempt Of The country President of the
United States.
Does the truthful Fourteenth street
sheet wish the Register to overhaul
its files covering the eight years from
1884 to 1885 and from 1892 to 1896
when Grover Cleveland was President
OF the United States when it almost
daily maligned, blackguarded and held
up to ridicule and contempt the Presi-
dent of the United States7
In denying this charge who LIES:
The Inteligencer which attempts
to turn a nations sorrow and indigna-
a.
arehist to dirty partisan political ac-
count by bowling at yellow journalism
as if it were Q purely Democratic insti-
tuition, would like 10 have us forget
that of all the deep saffron sheets pub
lished there is none so yellow in hue
as those from which the Wheeling In
telligencer daily draws its political in
spiration-the New York Sun and the
Press-both owned and run by and for
private Wall street interests.
The jaundiced Fourteenth street echo
OF these journalistic thugs. which de-
MES that it ever ridiculed President
OF the United States would have us
forget the eight years during which
it almost daily referred to President
Cleveland-copying that yellowest of
the yellows, the New York Sun-as
the Stuffed Prophet"
I'm denying this who LIES. Whose
files prove that it LIES:
The same Wheeling Intelligencer
used to delight to refer to President
Cleveland as putting on his collar over
his head.
In denying that it ever ridiculed a
President OF the United States who
LIES:
The same sheet daily held up Presi-
dent Cleveland in its editorial columns
and in insulting cartoons as a fool, a
traitor to his country, who robbed the
treasury for the benefit of Wall street
interests 1t spoke habtually of the
President as a charlatan and pictured
him as clownish knave.
When the Intelligeneer denies that it
ever thus blackguarded President Of
the United States while in Office, when
this organ of dirty politics, whose
methods are offensive to decent Repub-
llcans. says the Register LIES" in
charging it with these things, familiar
TO its readers, who is the foolish
LIARs In its trembling denial in the
face of the consequences Of it's own