Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-19
Continued from last week.
Papers Resume.

EdPefS Resume.
\ "As to the Socialist papers that had
been suppressed the governor seemed
to- realize the gravity of his injustice
Whine he said these papers could re
sumo publication any time they wish
ed toNdo so.
This in brief was the substance OF
the first interview, in the course Oh
which Debs asked the governor to
meet the entire committee which he
readily agreed to do.
''On the same afternoon the entire
committee met the governor in his
office by appointment. The ground
was again covered in detail and the
same statements by the governor were
to the commtite The gov
ernor informed us that we were at
liberty to go anywhere we pleased in
the pursuit of our mission and assurs
ed us that he was not opposed to the
impending senatorial investigation.
Hatfield Not Exculpated-
eve have no desire to exculpate
Governor Hatfield for any act he is
justly responsible tsf, but it is I'M
doubted1y true that he has been accus-
ed of wrongs which were committed
under the administration of Governor
Glasscock, his predecessor, to whose
official spinelessness and subserviency
to the mine owners are mainly due
the outrages which so long disgraced
West Virginia in the eyes of the ma
ton.
"It was under the administration OF
Glasseock and not Hatfield that mar
tial law was declared; that the mill
tary commission was created; that
Mother Jones, John Brown, G. H.
Boswell and numerous others were
court martialed and convicted; and ii
was also under the Glasscock admin
istration that an arInored train, in the
name of law and order, shot up the
cabins and tents Of the miners, dealing
out death and destruction under cover
of darkness, an outrage so infamous
that it will remain forever as foul
and indelible blot upon the state in
which it was perpetrated.
Governor Hatfeld's administration
is not free from censure, but the ter
rible condition which prevailed wher
he came into Office should be taken in
to account when his acts are consider
ed. Beat upon every side with hos
tile elements and in the center O.
fercely contending factions, it would
have been a miracle it he had escaped
without bitter condemnatio.n The ont
act of his administration which stands
out as utterly without warrant and
subject to the severest censure is the
suppression of the two Socialist, pa
pers, the Star and the Argus, both
outside of martial law zone, and the
of their editors and at
tachess For this arbitrary and despo-
tic act there is. no warrant in justice
or under the law, and it becomes espe
cially odious and reprehensible when
it is considered that the Office of the
Star was demolished, its forms, ready
to go to press, battered up and its
destroyed and scattered in
all directions, and as if this had not
been sufficiently outrageous, the home
of the editor, Thompson, after he had
been seized and removed, entered,
searched and burglarized, to which all
i'll and terrified wife was compelled to
bear witness, after the hour of mid
night and under the protest of the
sheriff and local authorities. This
dastardly crime cannot be too severely
and complete financial re-
would be the very least