The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-04-04
HJJBBA Ard LIES TOLD.
congressman's Own Paper
Keeps Up Its Bitter TRADE
Against Republican Party.
vILLlFIEs THE PARTY.
Candidate for Nomination
Through Henchmen Resort
to Strong Arm Methods.

i The trust organ in Wheeling. own-
led and controlled by Hubbard. and
edited by his Democratic henchmap,
Ogden, was not satisfied with print-
ling under the head OF correspondence
from clarksburg the sIlly faisehoods
charging the Repu6iicans Of Harri-
son county With frsndu,ently padding
the voting lists In this caunty for the
purpose OF defeating Mr.. Hubbard by
unfair methods, but the disreputabie
sheet in yesterdays edition contained
the same silly falsehood. with figures
Slightly changed and dished up as
leading editorial Republicans should
always welcome the opposition OF the
Wheeling 1ntelllgencer The fact
that the Inteliigencer opposes any
man for once ought to be consider
ed certificate Of good character and
party regularity in that mans favor.
But even that shameless sheet ought
to ind limit to It's nisrepresehta-
tion.
The charge is made that In regis
tration now being made OF the yot-
ers OF Harrison county seven hund-
red persons have qualified in one
precinct where at the last election the
Republican who led the ticket polled
less than six hundred votes. This
statement Is given the place OF honor,
or rather Of dishonor. in the Wheel
ing Intelligencer, as Il is at the top
OF the column on the editorial page.
The man who wrote that editorial, II :
he has sufficient sense to wash his
face without biting his iihgers. knows
that the statement isfalse. It con-
victs its author and its publisher Of
being either a fool or a falsiher, or.
to be more accurate, perhaps, of be-
ing a fool falsiner; because an in
telligent one would mot have pub
lished such an inexcusable state
ment.
Every Republican in Harrison
county knows that there Is now be-
Ing no registration OF the voters in
Harrison county made at all, that the
law requires that the registration be
made sixty days preceding the cleo
tion, and that It be made by the
county assessors, who are officers un-
der oath. charged With duties Of
making this registration. The yot-
ing precincts in the state and county
do not correspond at all with the
wards in the city. ana no registration
could be meant or referred to. The
city wards do not conform to the
magisterial district lines, parts Of the
same ward being in two magisterial
districts. And the voting places in
the city take in large districts OF sur
rounding territory and populous
suburbs not within the city limits.
No registration being made and no
poll being taken to determine the
number of Republican voters in any
voting precinct, what excuse can the
IntelIigeneer give for It's persistent
falsifcatlon in order to abuse and
villify the Republicans of Harrison
countya 1Elsa
II the story had been true and
seven hundred persons had qualified
to vote In a precinct that cast only
six hundred Republican votes last
election. these facts would not cast
reflection upon any one, or be rea-
sonable ground for even the IntellI-
gencer to bombard the Republicans
in Harrison county with It's false
hoods. All registrations that we
ever heard of, when made and taken,
include both Democrats and Repub-
licans. and every election precinct in
Harrison county in which six hund-
red Republican votes were east at
the last election necessarily contains
many more than seven hundred quaii-
fed voters. There must be haif as
many Democrats In Harrison county.
not even counting the Hubbard sup
porters, as there are Republicans. and
II six hundred Republicans voted IN
one precinct last election surely three
hundred Democrats voted there. and
that would make nine hundtsd quail
fed voters in that precinct At The last
election II a registration officer
should find seven hundred qualified
voters in that precinct. does MI. og-s
den. the Democratic editor Of tie IN
teilIeencer believe that II furnishes