Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1876-07-19
LETTER FROM X. Y. WILSON.
Pas July 3 1876,
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10 4, J. BoYEaE tnM
tslp lii the clcar6eld REpuD-
LIoAS, OF June 2sth, is published,
over your signature, a very remarkable
letter, in which my name Is made to
figure conspicuously, e, ,s,r,j sjis'ss2a Z. s..
In your character as a man, would
pass it over in contcmptuous silence,
but in that of late Senator OF the thir-
ty.iourth Senatorial district Of Penn
sylvania, | am denied the enjoyment
of so great luxury. 9a
In that letter you assume, or affect
to assume that i was the author of the
Schoonover letter, or wrote II conjoint-
ly with othors. On this point permit
me to cnlighten you. This county has
boen my home for more than twenty
years--thc entire period Of my active
life. During this long time ! have
never written communication on any
political subject save in n single in
stance-many years ago. haye never
been, am not now, and probably never
will be, candidate for any public
Office. ~.
As to the letter which with some.
thing OF the righteousness you enjoyed
SO much in your interviews with Mr..
Andre, you namothe aB, ,-W.-S..letter"
| collected no rAatorial wrote no line,
dictated no paragraph. 1t is true,
however that had something to do
with the appearance Of the quotation
from Meigs; Tor upon reading your
first letter no one could fail to be pro
foundly impressed by your eloquent
tribute TO true dignity. In this re-
cognized an old acquaintance, and
chanccd to mention the circumstance
to some gentlemen, aud thus the pas
sage was enabled second timeto Illus
tratc the value OF dignity this second
time in a marked anncr,--ichdtepT
Of dignity can attach to literary larceny.
OF the gentlemen between whose
names you have seen proper to sand
witch mine, it can be safely said that,
either the word or the note Of orran
SchoonoverwiA pass current at high
er value than yours in any market
where you are both known and of
Mr.. Belts, that he will give you the
most satisfactory evidence, before you
are much oldeE of his ability to take
care of himself
In order that you may understand
your arelation to things around YOU"
and TO this correspondence, it is neces-
sary, however painful it may be, to re-
mind You that there Is in existence q
corporation known as the "Susquehan.
ma Boom Company !" that under it's
original charter it received, ,---as it was
fairly entitled to receive-fifty cents
per thousand feet for the boomage of
logs,-a sum amply adequate to re-
munerate its stockholders for any capi.
tai invested, risk incurred, or labor
done that BY the vigorous appliance
of plausible reasons, the Legislature
was persuaded TO pass successive acts
comforting upon it the right to charge
and collect the sum of one dollar and
twenty-five cents per thousand feet of
logs, and thereby ptundr your con.
Stituents under copr Of tie forms Of
lar, The oppressed lumbermen, from
year to oyear vainly struggled to secure
the reduction of rate OF boomage so
outrageous and 50 unjust, but they
were met in the lobbies of the Legisla-
ture by the agents Of corporation,
now grown rich and insolent, and not
until the present year did they sue.
coed in obtaining any Legislative re.
lief. You were member Of the Leg
stature that passed this bill.
Under the circumstances, represent
ing as you did an interest so important
and 50 wronged, your voice should
have sounded no uncertain noto, so
busy should you have been with tongue
and pen, that no man would have
dared to distrust or throw the shadow
of suspicion upon your conduct.
While the bill is pending in the low
er House vague rumors of corruption
ill the air Corrupt means, it is said,
src being employed by those in favor
If the bill, as well as by those opposed
o il, as you testify before the House
Committee, where in regard to your
conversation with Andre, you say
4 was sure they were paying money
IN both sides"
Tho bill passes, and the House, at
asst quickened by sense of duty to
tself, orders an investigation. In this
you figure as witness ;.wth what
iredit appears in your printed test,
nony and IN the report of the House
Committee, wherein they say that -
"They (the committee) also call at
,cntion to the testimony of Andre,
Warner and Miller, members OF the
House from Berks county, aud Mr..
ieiselman, member from Adams coun-
y, from ,chich ii dppearSthdt TJ. Boyer,
4 CYedTeid, State Senator from The thirty
ourth district, o6ged and promised money
md endeduored, BY the Offer and promise
4 money, 10 influence members Of the
House in regard TO their uotes on said
ILL.,"
There is the record and you come
rome and pratc of honor
"sOmc kinds OfbAscness are nobly undergone
That this article may be short,
'ass at once TO the report OF the Senate
)ommittee,-a committee raised on
our own motion and filed by your
ricnds-from which | quote. j
"Your committee, with deep sense
4 their responsibility, would respect.
ully report that in their judgment the
vidence Is not sufficient TO justify
barge oil bribery against Il. ]. Boyer.
While this is true, your committee feel
ound 10 disdpDrOre of The conduct Of