Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1858-05-21
For The Register.

FELL0W CITILEHSs
Having been nominated by the Demo
crntic Convention Of Jour county. which
was held at Harrisyille. on the ed OF March
last. for the Office of Clerk Of the Circuit
Court. ann before you 40 candidate
for that Office.
The opposition candidates against me
are Mr.. MCGEE and Mr.. Culp. the latter
gentleman protesting to be q Democratic
candidate Independent Of the Convention
referred to-the former q Know-Nothing.
Ny friend. Mr.. Culp. has written cir
cular 10 the voters Of Richie. in which
he attempts to explain 70 the people his
position-as acandidate for disadvantages; 81
but Lam sorry, to say that. about aheson-
ly truths contained in it., are that he was
''easily persuaded" 10 bea candidate and
that he wants she Office. The charges
which he makes against me and friends.
and the charge of corruption in the Con-
vention, are altogether false and unfound-
ed. The FIRST objection which Mr.. CUP
makes to the Convention. and which he
claims as one of the reasons, why he did
not go before the Convention as candi-
date for the nomination. is, that when the
meeting was held in shesfirs. District for
the purpose Disappointing delegatesto at.
tend the County Convention. that was
in said meeting whispering in the ear of
certain man evidently telling him whom
to appoint as. delegates TO the County
Convention, and that gentleman appoint
ed six delegates. In reply to this grave
charge of brother Culp. will say that i.
is utterly false l will give the truth of
this matter, as certified 10 by the gentle
man himself. who is implicated with me
in this fraud. Mr.. Hiram S. Wilkinson.
who is the gentleman that Mr.. Culp says
he refers to in his circular. s0as. at the
time the meeting was held in the first
district. long before and up 70 the time
the Convention was held, o friend to Mr..
Culp. and against me, and had promised
Mr.. Culp, to vote for him in convention.
aud would have done 80, had Mr.. Culp
been before the convention as a candi-
date.
| Mr.. Wilkinson informs me that he has
been credibly informed that majority, OF
the delegates appointed on his suggestion
would have voted for Mr.. Culp, had he
offered himself as candidate in the
Convention. Would it not. therefore.
seem that would be the proper person.
if any. to object to the appointment Of
the delegates in the FIRST district. But
never should have made any objection Of
this kind against Mr.. Cup. as the sugges-
ting Of the names of suitable persons as
delegates to the convention, by any per-
son attending the meeting. was not The
appointing OF them-the meeting voted
on the suggestion. and elected delegates.
] And. moreover, the delegates who were
appointed upon Mr.. Wilkinson's sugges.
ton. were among the best men OF the
Democratic party in the district. l think
that Messrs. Timothy Tharp. Marshal
} Neal and James Webb. were among the
names suggested by Mr.. Wilkinson as
t suitable person for delegates to the con.
vention. Considering this fact. l could
not object to them, had every one oil
r them been against me. Certainly then,
Fellow Citizens, Mr.. Culp has attemp-
) ted to show fraud in the getting up Of
, the Convention when there MAS none.
unless he and his friends were guilty
of it.
! The second charge which Mr.. Culp
makes against me is, that had friends
in the SmilhviIle District meeting. who
did not reside in that District, making
. motions &C.. for my benefit. In reply
} to this charge, I will sim ply say that
] like the FIRST, it does not contain one
5 ,Oord Of truth, and | challange Mr.. CulF
t TO prove it.
e Another charge which he make,
t against the Convention is, that some o.
q the delegates from the Bonds Greek
!. district changed their intentions in re-
r lation to how they would vote in the
y convention. and as he verify believe.
5 Through the influence. persuation, and
bargain and sale of aspirants in tina
I convention.
Now, here ia serious charge agains
three or four Of our honorable and re-
spectacle men of the Bonds Creek dis
trict, Of "bargsin and sale," when Their.
is not the least evidence to substautiats
one word of it. Mr.. Culp only believer
d SO from the simple fact that they woult
:. not have voted for him in the convention
: But suppose these gentlemen did change
n their intentions with reference to whom
g they would vote in the convention. is tha
J any evidence that they did so through
0 the influence of "bargain and sale o.
. And must men be charged with corrup,
r ton for chaning their.opiuions? If we take
!. Mr.. Culp's view OF the matter. We will in
future charge corruption on every indi.
vidual who dsres to change his opinion
with reference to any matter whatever
This charge. as we'll as others equally
absurd. shall give no further notice, ex.
: cepting ehe one in which he attempts to
make the impression on the minds of the
people thatI was Know Nothing. The
Secretary of the ow.Noshing Council
at this place. il called on, will tell the
people that l was not regarded as mem.