Year: 1869

even improved upon FOREMAN, for he
appointed JAMES NJ. CoRLEY and his
son-in-la1, CONRAD, to places upon the
county Board, thus putting the fran
chises of Lewis county within the con-
! troll Of enc family, the head OF which
is we'll known aspirant to office.
These instances will do for samples IN
this department of Executive political
management. In general it may be
said that wherever a FOREMAN Board
was specially vindictive and unscrupu


lous, Governor STEVENSON has con-
tinued it. The curious investigator by
examining the list will find examples ad
nauseam. " .-E. ..


The improperly of the Governors
course is brought still more clearly to
light when we consider that he has
taken no steps to correct the errors into
which he fell by continuing these worth
less Boards. The Intelligeacer, it is true,
attempts defense of Governor STEVEN
SONS failure to improve the Greenbrier
Board. Saturday that paper said:


Indeed we are assured that the ad-
ministration of this Board, or this man
(CaldwelD perhaps we should say, has
been so obnoxious to the Union people
there that Governor STEVENSON, desir-
ing to improve on the material left in
the place by his predecessor, has, we are
informed, found it so far practically i'm
possible to get anybody TT for the place
to accept it,"


In this the Inteiligencer is greatly in
error. The Governor may have prcfessed
to desire this Improvement, but he has
not embodied that desire in act, nor has
he found it practically impossible to get
anybody fit for the place to accept it,"
The corrupt character of CALDWELL. has
long been familiar to him. Statements
substantially the same in many respects
with the WALKER letter, and from
equally reliable sources, have long been
in his possession. Honest and capable
men have been recommended to succeed
the CALDWELL clique. The Governors
friends cannot, therefore, plead for him
ignorance of the facts or the impossibil-
ity of finding proper persons for ap-
pointment. We submit single fact as
full of suggestion here
The epeople of Greenkrier are Informed
By Reverend CARPENTER, who repre-
sented that county in the last House of
Delegates, that GOranor STEVENSON is
pledged not TO remOre CALDWELL without
his (CAEPENTER's) consent We give the
statement as CARPENTER, well-known
satellite of FOREMAN, made it.


The stationng of troops in Monroe
county was part and parcel of the reg
istratiJn villainy epncOcted by BORE
MAN, CALDWELL and Nat. HARRISON.
| HARRISON and CALDWELL vouched for
their necessity. FOREMAN procured
! them. Is Governor STEVENSON, like
his predecessor, so far infatuated with
"Old Scratch and the hero of the "Black
Crook" that he panders to their desire
to needlessly and causelessly harass and
bedevil the people of the Greenbrier
valley1 His course in continuing the
military feature of the HARRIsoN-BoRE-
MAN-CALDwELL registration policy is
susceptible of no other Interpretation.
We are enabled partly to anticipate
the defense which the Governors friends
will set up. 1t is mainly that of ig-
norance. To this we have already al
luded. Let us dispose of it by remind
ing our readers that it is the business of
an Executive officer to know the evils
of his Administration and to correct
them. 1t would be poor excuse for the
manager of a commercial establishment
TO plead, in case of embezzlement by an
employe, that he was not aware his
subordinates would steal. 1t is his
business to employ none but honest
men. In like manner it is the business
of the head of a State Government to
select none but Just and capable men
to aid him in administering the laws.
Want of information only aggravates
his fault. This is especially true in q
State like ours, where large majority
of the people arc excluded from the con-
fdence of the Government, and where
their complaints, when made, are settled
with the prompt response, "Copperhead,
Rebel, Traitor


We have seen no evidence of Cover
nor STEvENsoNS disposition to make
these registration matters satisfactory
to the great body of the people. His
professions are quite plausible, but
when closely considered have nothing
tangible about them. He would re-
move registrar who is candidate for
Office" it is claimed. Many of his reg
istrarS are now candidates for office, or
will be this Fall, but we seriously doubt
whether any reasonable amount OF
proof could convince him of the fact.
He agrees in the main with Judge FER
GUsoN'S construction of the registration
law, as embodied in his recent charge
to Wayne county Grand Jury. Yet
Governor STEVENSON will not take the
parts of that charge which he approves
and submit them as instructions to his
registrars. Why' Because, in his
view, he ought net to interfere with the
ryopfars in their execution of plain
law. But suppose they were register
ing every man who could take the oath
How long would it be before a Guber-
Material mandate would disperse them
and remind us Of the autocracy of
BoREMAN' In many counties the req.
istrars are in the habit of recurring
men to prove their 'loyalty" by direct
evidence. They say, according to judge
ErpEr-SnE ESTa