The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-12
A Few Interrogatories for MIR.
Mathews 10 Answer this Even.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, September $.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, September s.
EdItOn 1ntcllIseuecr:
Henry N. Mathews, the Democratic
candidate for Governor is to speak in tho
city Of Wheeling on the 18th inst, MS we
are informed by an issue Of the Wheeling
Register just received. We of tho Kanayha
valley, as we'll as all the citizens Of West
Virginia, have Il great interest 10 hear
how the wOuld.be Governor explains some
OF the crooked and lame places in his
short political life-as we'll as his official,
while Attorney General OF this State. He
has thus far failed to give the people in
his peregrinations around the State any
answer or explanation OF, the matters
Trefer to, andEI hope you will publish
this communication, II II reaches you in
time, and call upon the gallant Henry
Mason to rise and explain and answer the
following interrogatories:
FTa-Did you not, in 1867 or 1868,
sign a petition addressed to the Virginia
Legislature imploring that body to'take'
steps for the relrocession OF Monroe and
Greenbrier counties to the old State Of
Virginia, a petition which set forth that
those counties were violently torn and
estranged from their "beloved mother"
and that you had no affiliations or in.
terest in common with their present
alliance, and does not the Senate journals
OF Virginia for lS09.70 show that said
petition was presented and considered?
iSeOnd-Why did not YOU, as You were
called upon to do in the House Of Dele
gates last winter, when the Hon. J. II.
Good addressed you personally IN .
speech he was making, cause criminal
proceedings TO be entered against John s.
Bardetl, Treasurer, and +. Il. Bennca,
Auditor, as your duty as the chief law
officer Of the State required you to dO2
1Aird-Why have you not, as the chief
law officer OF the Stale Of West Virginia,
sworn 10 discharge the duties OF your
office az Attorney General, brought suit
upon the official bond Of John S. Burdeli,
Treasurer, on file in the State DepaftS
ment, to recover, the money which the
Senate, sitting as court OF impeachment,
han declared that Burtlctt has taken,
which belongs TO the State, and which
amounts to large sum?
Four'h-Where did you get your au.
thority on which you based decision
such az il contained in your letter 10
+. a. Bennett, Auditor, to the effect that
fees which he received from foreign in
surance companies doing business in tins
State by virtue Of the fact that he was
Auditor, belonged 10 him individually,
and not 10 the State Of West Virginia?
FIfh-Al the time Bennett asked you for
that opinion and letter lid not you know
that Bennett Ind then already received
large sums, amounting To thousands Of
dollars, and was only asking your Opin-
ion and letter, which you furnished him
30 promptly, to use as defense against
investigation, which was then upon him,
and Impeachment, which was then threat:
ening him?
SiFh-Did not Edward A. Bennett use
your opinion and letter as defense, and
his chief defense, and was it not that,
together with the assistance OF the vote Of
"Sweet William" tho son Of the elder
Burdett, "a chip of the old block, which
saved the sweet-scenled Bennett from
following old John s., who rented farms
for the benefit Of his son Bill, TO johnson
N. Camden?
SeHnh-Why have you not as Attorney
General and member Of the Board Of
Public Works, positions you now occupy,
moved to dissolve the injunction which
has enabled bankrupt corporation like
the Bank OF Charleston 10 sink over $751;
900 Of money belonging TO the State and
then bring suit against the stockholders
and bonds which were given to account
for the State deposits.
Eighh-Why did you as n member Of
the Board OF Public Works consent that
bank which was notoriously worthless,
and which could not pay checks OF the
smallest character as long asa year or more
before, should retain and have an aver
age deposit OF $4,000? Hayehim to an
swer all Of these questions and l will send
you some more for him to answer in pub
lie. to the people he is now asking toyote
for him as a reform candidate for Cover;
nor. He may want to dodge and not an
swer them, but tho people demand Mat III
shall ansEsr them orthtyEN at the polls on
the 10th Of October. REFORM