Wheeling Register

THAT OMISSION.

A Rather Startling Display of Cheek on the Part of the Intelligencer.

Under the head of "A Significant Omission," Saturday's Intelligencer contained the following paragraph: "The Register yesterday, in its report of the testimony at the previous night's session of the committee, made no mention of the fact there brought out, that the petition for the release of William Henry from the city workhouse was written by Clerk Barney Galligan. Considering that one of the charges against the Mayor is based, in part at least, on this release, and that Clerk Galligan is recognized as one of the prosecutors, this fact was very significant: its omission from the Register report is equally significant."

The gall of some people passes human understanding. If the Register has aimed to do anything in this matter, it has been to give a faithful, unbiased, and uncolored report of the proceedings before the investigating committee. In carrying out this desire it has uniformly given more space to the testimony adduced than any other paper in the city, and such testimony has been unaccompanied by anything which would, in the slightest degree, tend to prejudge the matter at issue. What has been the course of the Intelligencer? Always printing less testimony than the Register, it has accompanied what it has printed with running comments, criticisms, suggestions and deductions, the sole purpose of which was to color the evidence to suit the Intelligencer's ideas and to prejudice members of the committee and the public in the hope of accomplishing certain ends in view After watching the columns of the Register for three days in the hope of finding something which might be twisted into unfairness, the Intelligencer at last discovers "an omission," it being a neglect to mention the fact that the petition for the release of William Henry was "written by Clerk Barney Galligan." To this 'omission' the Intelligencer at once attaches "significance," and rushes it into print, accompanying it, as a matter of course, with the gratuitous information that "Clerk Galligan is recognized as one of the prosecutors" We desire to assure the Intelligencer that the "omission" of the Register reporter to chronicle the fact that the petition for the release of William Henry was "written by Clerk Barney Galligan," has no 'significance.' We say this, hoping to remove the Intelligencer's suspicion that some one is endeavoring, even in a small degree, to rival it in the production of inaccurate, partisan and improper reports of the proceedings of the committee.