The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1875-10-30
MIR. WALLIS on MR.. WOOLFORD.

Mr.: Wallis, Reform candidate for Attor-
ney General, published on Monday last a
letter to the voters of the State in answer
to the charge of Mr.. Woolford that Mr..
Wallis opposition to him was on personal
grounds. After showing clearly that the
charge of attempting to rob the treasury
by putting man on the pension rolls who
never served in the war, but acds a useful
man to tile party ring in his part Of Som
erset county, has been clearly proven by Mr..
Woolford's party friends, Mr.. Wallis gives
the following bit of history which will in
terest Cecil county people. 1t shows that
while Mr.. Woolford pretended to be the
friend of Gov. Groome, he was all the time
secretly working against him. 1t will be
remembered that Mr.. Wallis was one of
counsel for the State to recover this Capt.
tation Tax " from the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad Company. Mr.. Wallis says:
81 felt called on last Spring to express a
very frank opinion to Mr.. Woolford in re-
gard to some behavior of his, in connection
with the settlement of the case of the State
against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
ton Tax case" If MIR. Woolford shall
have published our correspondence cor
rectly las he promises before this reply
shall have appeared, it will sufficiently ex-
plain itself. l am free to confess that it
was probably mistake on my part to take
the trouble of noticing Mr.. Woolford's per-
formauces on that occasion. But one can
not always repress 4 righteous indignation
though it be wasted, and it is due to myself
to say how happened not to do SO on the
occasion in question.
l went especially to Washington to hear
the decision of the Supreme Court an
nounced, and l communicated its happy
result at once to the Governor and my col
leagues. The next day, at Annapolis,
received the instructions of his Excellency
to proceed with the enforcement of the
judgment as rapidly AS possible, and being
the junior counsel of those employed by
the State, and therefore charged with the
details of the cases, l at once took the ne
cessary steps. The Clerk of the Supreme
Court-with his usual kindness to me-
promised to send me the necessary mandate
in advance of its order, and until that was
received nothing could be DONE Mean
while, received visit from Mr. John w.
Davis, with whom my personal relations
have always been very kindly, and who
asked me who had the control of the judg
meut Just rendered against the railroad
company. ttpld him that the States coun-
sci had, thought, ssbject to the Cover
nor's instructions. then inquire, why he
asked. He said Il drop ceremony, as he
did that he had met Woolford in the cars,
who asked him the same question, but he
Davis was not able to answer it. I then
asked what Wooiford had to do with it.
He replied that Woolford wanted to be
Comptroller again, and had told him Davis
that he was afraid that if Jim Groome had
the control of the railroad Judgment, he
might make bargain with the road and
get its influence in the Convention by Civ
ing it time on the judgment. | asked, in
my innocence, what Woolford had to do
with thSt, y i was true, and Mr. Davis
reply was that #oalford was too good
politician not to know that there couldn't
be two men on the ticket from the Eastern
Shore, and he didn't mean to let Groome
get ahead of him if he could help it,
then told Mr.. Davis that Mr.. Woolford's
imputation upon Gov. Groome was, to my
knowledge, absolutely groundless, as had
the Governors express Instructions to col
lect the amount of the Judgment With The
least possible delay. Although this CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Davis was in no sense con-
tidential, l should greatly have preferred
not to allude to it publicly. did not even
refer to il in my correspondence with Mr..
Woolford until my last letter to him of June
End, when thought it was time t. let him
know that I thoroughly understood the
empty pretense of official energy and zeal
under which liz was covering up his dis
courtesy and his personal self seeking
This reference renders the present e4rlana-
ton necessary. should further add that,
from the very day when the money was
paid by the railroad company into the
Treasury, a round Of paragraphs began TO
appear in the various newspapers which
favored Mr.. Wooifard's nomination, com
piiMenting him upon q quote from one
'the persisteEey With which he had pressed
the States claim * 1, lqscsssfni issue
Other journals thought it was th;s 1t&te
that ought to be congratulated upon Che
possession of such treasurer as Mr..
Woolford."