The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-08-31
INTERVIEW WITH COL. SHALL.
CROSS.

INTERVIEW WITH COL. SHALL
CROSS.
The local editor of the Inteltlgencer
prints in that paper an article which he
is pleased to represent as an interview
with Col. SHALLCRoss on the subject of
the Sherifalty. In this purported IN
tervlew, Col. SHALLCRoss Is represented
as having said, among other things:
"That when was candidate for Sheriff
before the Democratic County Conven-
yention that nominated THOMAS
}. CAMPBELL, the present NOM
inee Mr.. TINGLE] was appointed
one of the tellers to count the ballots
cast for sheriff, and that he counted votes
cast Tor me, for CAMPBELL, such was his
anxiety to secure his nomination.
We don't like to charge our young
local friend with misrepresenting Col.
SHALLCRoss with view of injuring his
prospects of the sheritialty At this tine!
but we feel sure that Col. SHALLCRoss
was never guilty Of perpetrsting so stupid
a falsehood-one that can be so easily
refuted. Wequote from the proceedings
of the Convention referred 10, which held
its first session on the 18th of August,
1866, and failing on that day to COM
plete its labors, adjourned TO the 10Th,
and again to the I'd of September. MIR.
TINGLE was not zone of the tellers," as
stated, did not handle the ballots, and
of course did not count votes cast for Col.
SHALLCRoss for Mr.. CAMPBELL. We
quote from the report, the incident Col.
SHALLCRoss may have had in mind, and
which the interviewer has probably mis-
understood:
The 18th ballot having been taken
and no nomination resulting, Mr.. Forbes
appealed to the candidates to effect some
arrangement by which nomination
might be made and harmony secured.
The 18th ballot resulted as follows:
EI1HTEENTH BALLOT.
L. I. Shallcross. 9So 90
T. j. Campbell l................"......llO 20
"After the delegation from Union
ownship had deposited their tickets on
he 18th ballot, but before the votes had
| ben counted, it was announced by one
OF he delegates that the wrong ticket had
bse deposited and it WAS suggested that
who the tellers, in counting the vote,
cam, to the Union township ballot, it
shoui be changed. After this
had ben done and the entire vote
counte with the result stated
above, lr. Forbes moved that, to allay
any dissatisfaction that might result
from the,hange in the ballot of Union
townshlP,,nother vote OF the entire Con-
vention behad. The motion prevailed,
~ the Convention was about to ballot
again, whei Mr.. IT, p Shallcross ad-
dressed the Chair aud formally withdrew
his name fron nomination as Candl.
date for sherH. At the conclusion OF
Mr.. Shallcross remarks, ballot was
taken with the blowing result:
NINETEENTH BALLOT.
Il. =. Shallcross ..,....................... 4l2
j. Scarbrough......................... ..... $50
L. j. Campbell ........................1l34
"Mr. T. j. Campbell having again re-
ceived majority of he votes cast, was
declared the nominee'or sheriff"
In another part of rae purported IN
terview our young friend has been equal
ly unfortunate in reporting Col SHALL
Ckoss In referring to his candidacy in
1870 against Mr.. K. S. BRowN, he Is
made to ssy: "Mr. TINGLE erased my
name from great many of the Demo-
cratic tickets, and wrote the name OF K.
S. Brown thereon, and had them placed
in the hands of Democratic voters, who
voted the tickets thus altered by him"
If Col. SHALLCRoss ever made this
statement he IS simply mistaken. The
writer of this knows, and his statement
will be verified by Mr.. CURTIS Brown,
who was recently spoken of for sheriff,
and other gentlemen whose word cannot
be called in question, that GEORGE K.
TINGLE worked faithfully and honestly
for the election of Col. SHALLCRsss
against Mr.. RS. Brown in 1870; and no
man ever saw Democrat ticket with
Col. SHALLCRoss' name erased and Mr..
BRowN's name written thereon, in Mr.
TINGLE's hand writing.
That whole story is delusion and b
snare. If Col. SHALLCRoss is not badly
miSrepresented by the interviewer, he is
laboring under dangerous hallucination.
HIRAM BARNEY, collector OF New