Year: 1869




some malicious or mercenary
purpose" Now if our cotemporary
is prepared to make this admission
ought not the Governor to be prepared
to act The evidence that could extort
that confession from partisan paper
ought certainly to have impelled any
body but a partisan and proscriptive
Governor TO the removal of few rotten
registrars.


Governor STEVENSON has long known
Doctor CALDWELL, of Greenbrier, to be
an unmitigated scOundrel. He viii
hardly controvert that propositi' N.
Would a fair minded and independent
Executive continue such a man in posi-
tionf According to the IRtelligencer he
keeps that man in place because he
cannot reconcile the factions and
cliques of Greenbrier to any other ap-
pointment. Then he must hold the
harmony of these factionists as of far
higher Importance than the honest and
impartial administration of the regis
tIation law. This is the logical result
of his defense as made by the IEtelligea-
cer, AID is an indirect but forcible con-
tirmation of the hardest things yet said
of the Governor by the REGISTER.


But our contemporary thinks great al
lowance should be made for the Difficult
ties surrounding the Executive in this
delicate matter. Certainly it cannot
be complained that allowance has not
been made. The Governor has pursued
bis own course, in his own time, without
a public murmur from any Democratic
source until last Monday. He has been
in otlice six months. Now if in that
time he has not remedied single wrong
of the manifold wrongs of registration
in this State, how long at a moderate
calculation, will it take him TO work
out that thorough publication all over
the State" which the IRtetHgeRGer pro
fesseS to wanti VIII it be next week,
or next month, or next year, By re-
appointing the FOREMAN Boards he al
lowed his best opportunity for good to
pass by, if indeed he did not improve his
finest opportunity for evil. Since those
re-appointments weeks and menths have
gone by, with no perceptible change.
The Fall registration by the township
registrars has been completed. The
victims of BoREMAN's unjust proscrip-
tion are victims still, and at Governor
STEvENsON's rate of reformation are
likely to remain so until other men
selected by another party restore to
them the rights of which the present
Administration deprives them. Under
what circumstances does the remissuess
of an Executive officer become proper
subject for discussion, if not under
these


We have stated that the township
registrars have completed their lists.
How does Governor STEVENSON propose
to correct the existing abuses in time
for the October electioni How does he
propose to enroll men who are now un-
Justly disfranchised ? If at all, it must
be through the appointment of new
county Boards, with instructions TO de
part from the usual practice and regis
ter all legal voters who may apply at
the sessions of the Board. Otherwise,
the performance of the Executive would
be as fruitless as his professions have so
far been empty. Will the MteIHgencr
say that he will pursue this or any sim
liar line of conduct. If so, the Execu'
tive office will be supplied again,
as it has already been, with plen'
ty of grievances i'll tangible
and authentic shape" backed by
representatives who "may be relied on
to state the actual facts fairly" and we
may be allowed to add, whose state.
ments would be received outside the
State House with as much credit as thos
of any man in it.


The Intdligencr is willing that
the minority should be represent
ed in the registration Boards. We
cannot question the fairness of this
proposition, but we believe it TO be i'm.
possible under The present Administra-
ton, and therefore do not ask it. The
Democratic party will be perfectly
satisfied to see the registration
Boards filled by Republicans of
moral, mental and pecuniary re
sponsibility. But they cannot bC
satisfied with the appointment o
men whom Governor STEVENSON would
not trust in his own hen-roost or with
the custody of his purse. When he de
sires to select representatives for tR'
State abroad, at Commercial Con
veutions and the like, he has NJ
difficulty" in naming men of &C
knowledged character, ability ane
influence for the purpose. Are tht
political rights of our citizens less vain
\ able than contingent commercial con
nections and interests If not, let hin
adopt an equally high standard in tht
appointment of his registrars. Tht
FOREMAN practice of selecting men foI
their subserviency and e1pertness il
corruption was too vicious and abomin
able to be continued. Why, then, doe
Governor STEVENSON perpetuate it'
We sympathize with our cotemporar!
lin its distress. Governor STEVENSON