The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-12-10

November Is, 1878, by q new canyAssing
board specially created for that purpose,
and Intended 10 supercede the papers
issued by the Governor under the then
existing law, and which certify in form
the due election Of the persons who re-
ceived 0 majority oi the votes at the Oc-
tober election OF 1879. have been present.
ed, but appear To the Clerk to beof doubtful
pdliditv, and hare not been accepted BY him
az credentials toithin he meaning Of the
Lau." .....-..
This, Il will be seen, explicitly and au-
Ithoritatiyely contradicts the statement
thatMr, Hereford was enrolled on the
certificate furnished him by The legisla'
tive board. The Clerk expressly states
that he rejected the certificates made by
that board as Of doubtful validity" (not
10 state It harshly) and as not being
Credentials within the meaning OF the
law" The first paragraph In the Clerks
statement shows that Mr.. Hereford was
enrolled upon the Governors certificates,
they showing Mr.. Hereford to have been
chosen both In August and October, and
the Clerk assuming that one or other OF
these elections was legal. Either MIR:
Hereford telegraphed an erroneous state
ment oil the TACT or his dispatch has not
been correctly understood and reported by
your correspondent. / am inclined 10
think the latter; because Mr. Hereford
distinctly stated before the organization OF
| the House to at least one person that he
claimed the August election as well as
the October one; because the statement OF
the Clerk quoted above was too distinct
10 have been misunde by Mr. Here
ford, who was on the floor OF the House
when 1t was made, and too important to
him for him not to have informed himself
about It, in any event; and because, ! take
lit, MI. Hereford 10 o gentleman, and as
such quite incapable OF mlsrepresentinga q
plain matter Of fact so important to his
constituents as this. 5i-. ;-- 90
HEREFORD ACTIVE AND INJupIcIous.
Mr.. Hereford Is actively at work try
| ing to manufacture opinion in favor Of
the October claimants. When Cessna's
resolution was before the House he made
long and very vehement speech In their
behaif-a speech better BETTING the
slumps Of Logan and Wyoming than the
chamber Of the House OF Representatives
and one which made his Judicious"
friends in the gallery "grieve." Under
the circumstances OF his admission-the
more especially since TO promote his
chances ior 1t he had given assurances
that he claimed under the August cleo
ton. there was sort Of improperly In bis
making himself tho active partisan oi the
October claimants just so soon as he was
secure In his seat. II would have been
more becoming, under the circumstances,
whatever his syrnpathies or opinions
might be, II he had borne himself 10 the
matter with little more reserve and dig.
nifty. A little paragraph In your paper,
by the way, locating the various West
| Virginia Congressman here, is hardly fair
10 Mir. Hereford. He does not live ION
the European PLAN" but Is a.guest at the
Arlington, the most high:priced II not
the most elegant hotel In the city.
WEST VIRGINIA REPRESENTATIVES, AT
WARRINGTON.
West Virginia, while neither so numer-
ously nor ably represented Just now In
Congress rs she might be, Ia pretty well
represented In the departments and at the
! hotels. In the Treasury, In the Secre-
ltary's office, l find Mr.. Andrew johnson,
Of your city, and Mr.. Murphy, formerly
editor Of the Parkersburg Times; In the
Freedman's Bureau, disbursing office.
connected with the Adjutant Generals
office, your townsman Gen. ]. NJ. Ewing,
Jr., formerly Adjutant General Of your
State; In the Pension Office, our old friend
Hon. j. A. Macauley, the ex.State Treas.
urer. Col. Edwin Frey, formerly clerk In
your State Auditors office, before the seat
Of your State government became 80
"permsnent" as L Is now, is In the same
division with Gen. Ewing. Messrs: Da'
yid Holmes and VIM. Widney, Of Nor
gantown, are still In the War Depart
ment. Your old friend Pearson, the typo.
graphic artist, well known to Wheeling
offices. still practices the art preservative
| in the Adiutant Generals office. BE Is
getting so fat that unless they enlarge the
Office he will soon have TO give up his
"sit." He has become admirably quail.
| fled 10 be an alderman, and since It is Q
pretty fat thing to be an alderman mere
now, I shall embrace the first opportunity
| to advise "Snooks" to give up the case
and turn his attention to turtle soup. l
have also met Mr.. Rapp, of Buckhannon,
but do not remember what department he
Is In. Capt. Henry Raymond, OF Clarks.
burg, who was candidate for House Post.
master before the Republican caucus, has
been here couple Of weeks, stopping at
the Continental. Uncle Nathan Gotf, OF
Clarksburg, was In the city day or two
ago, as were also Mesars. Wisner and
Blackburn, oil Msrtinsburg. Mr.. Elisha
| Owens, Of Clarksburg, who has been 0
Senate doorkeeper some eight years, Is
still here, as lively and jolly as o young
man, though verging on seventy. Hon. j..
B, Blair, Of Parkersburg, is spending the
winter here, living In chambers on The
Avenue and taking his sustenance al the
National. The old National, though lack.
inc me elegance oil the newer hotels. is
still a popular hostelrie. II Is . sort ol
headquarters and rendezvous at present
lior the West Yirginians. Col. Ben.
Wilson and Hon. j. J: Davis,
competitors for the seat from your
First District have rooms there. Hon.
IL. Marshall Hagans, one oi the
ciaimants for the Second District, boards
\ with friends on 4th street near the City
lHall. Hon. B. Frank Martin, his com
petitor, Ia Of the Arlington. Senator
i DAVIS is Of the Arlington. Senator Bore
man at the Washington. Judge berk'
shire, who Is Mr.. HAgans counsel In the
matter OF his contest, is here, stopping o.
the Washington. Mr. I'D. W. Moore, o
Fairmont, former Clerk OF your STATE
Senate, 10 here ios the winter, winter, tsa 9eleye s1s
and 10 staying Of the Arlington. we nae
the ,oleaSure Of seeing here last week
deleestion Of Wheeling gentlemen, Messrs
John Mcclure, Thoa. ]. Blair, WIN. q
irwin and W. =. Peterson, who stopped
over here q day or two, ON their way te
. Baltimore. They put up ct the Ebbit-
which rather surpasses the Arlington Il
tho elegance az ita appointments-ant