Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-15
A NOVEL INTERVIEW.
The Grand MOgul of the Anti
MasOns Expresses Some Views
Concerning State Politics.
CORRESPONDENCE OF the Register.

the political prospects for 1880 have at
tracted general attention and ELECTED
much discussion, your reporter pegs
permission to add to the already over
fund of political wisdom by placing on
record rerbdtim report of conversation
held last evening with the leading mem
Der of a party in this State, which here
tofore has had no hearing in your col
umns devoted to the interviewing fiend
Last evening We accidentally ran
across Rev. ID. B. Turney, late pastor OF
the NJ. p. Church at this place, but now
in charge of a church near Cameron. he
has been in this county for week past,
mending metaphorical fences, and has
! organized several anti-masOnic societies
in the western part of the county. 1t
will be remembered that Mr.. Turney
organised the opposition to COlonel
Latham in the Cranberry convention
last year and succeeded in procuring the
nomination of his friend Colonel Burr
Knowing that Mr.. Turney was more IN.
timately acquainted with the inward
workings of the anti-secret society mind
of this State than perhaps any other IN
diyidual, as soon as we set our eyes upon
him the thought struck us that the Po-
litical horoscope could not be success
fully scanned without the information
locked up in Mr.. rs Uranium. So we
preached the subject of an interview,
and he fell into our net as gracefully rs
ever fell victim TO reporters wiles.
"Mr Turney, have you any objections
TO talking before the REGISTER readers in
regard to the probable political action of
the Anti-Secret party in the next cam
paign?
"None in the least, sir. Our people
have no secrets.
"Well, Mr.. Turney, what are the
present prospects and intentions OF the
ant-Masonic party OF this State|
"Our prospects are as bright as could
be expected. Believing that people are
willing to accept and honor facts, We
intend to show that Fremasonry dis
honors God and degrades man, and
through its admitted obligation to give
aid 10 those who make its grand hailing
sign of distress il is an obstacle in the
way of an administration of justice which
ought not to be tolerated in this land.
The aid given to the Grafton murderer
CLAYTON in securing the indictment for
murder in the second degree when
everybody knows it was murder III the
first degree, illustrates the manner Ill
which the lodge campers with law.
"Will your party make nomination
for State officers next Year,
81 am not prepared to say that we
will. Perhaps our better plan would
be to control the ticket which some of
the other parties will put in the field
and to support no known Mason. II
none of the existing parties will make
nominations to suit persons OF our
sentiment we may possibly do the next
best thing"
"Whom do you consider the most
available candidate for Governor, pro-
vided your party goes actively into the
campaign ~
Hon. f. II. Pierpont, OF Fairmont,
Marion county
"Is it your opinion that the Ants
will make any nominations for Con-
gress?"
eyes, in my opinion, provided nei-
Their OF the present political parties in
the several districts nominate such men
~ Anti-masons can consistently sup
port"
How do you propose to make the
influence OF your party felt, unless you
make nOminationsY
" BY using printers ink and extend
ing the circulation OF Anti-masOnic liter
allure. Also, by open Anti-masonic
organizations-sucha as the one we have
a few miles from Cameron"
"You misunderstandm me. Imean how
will YOU show your strength i'll the next
election unless you make nominations
ooh, we will probably make nomina-
tons in the event that neither party
puts up an Anti-Masonic candidate. If
either party presents the right kind of
men, we will quietly throw our strength
to them"
GLOW many votes do YOU imagine
your party controls in the First Dis
trict?'
Not less than 700, which is a small
beginning, but will do for start.
'Is the report true that the Ants had
ANYTHING to do with the Republican
nomination Of Colonel Burr, in the See.
Ond District last year, and il so in what
way?'
Eyes; the kilograms and other mhu-
enceS which secured the nomination OF
Col. Burr were evidently due TO Anti
Masonic influences. Several men III the
Second District had resolved not to vote
for Free Mason; and SO the knight Of
the cable-tOw, who considered his nOmi-
nation sure thing, rs every Republican
paper in the District supported him, was
forced to take back seat. 1t is agreat
pity that Colonel Burr was defeated"
"Do YOU think that the anti-seCret
question entered into the campaign last
fall?'
Think? YeSi even to the extent
that Masonic editors OF papers of other
States denounced Col. Burr and myself
in no measured terms, and one of them,
i'm sheet published at Ottawa, Ills, eX-
pressed the hope that thousand centu-
rics might elapSe ere the birth OF any
more such men,"
"Whom do YOU think the Democrats
and Republicans willnominate for Gov
crnor next fall?'
81 would rather not tell"
"What influence will the Greenback
movement exert in that election
perhaps influence enough to enable
the Republican party to get power in
one District out OF the three. Any more
qucstions?"
Wehad no more questions, and so we
Withdrew our augur and babe the rever-
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AsMARALDA.
A Liberal Offer.