Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-03-16
SHOWING Him UP.
Reply TO Shameful TRADE Upon Kan
awha County.

WHEELING, March. Is.
Tothe Btinor Of Ire Register.
The Easeiliqcaoer of this morning prosti-
tutes-if such thing were possible for 1t
"a column editorially, to IAN interesting
conversation with Mr.. J. s. Cunningham,
of St. Adams, Kanawha county, who Is
here as a iuryman at Federal Court
which even for said professional jury
man." and said scurr ilous sheet exhibits a
malignity that challenges all corners for
meanness. The people OF the kanawha
Valley REQUIRE no yindication. and were 1t
aotthat the readers OF the Intelligence do
not know Mr.>Gunningham. would pas
the matter bgSSith the contemptuor4
silence it and he deserve. Verify, va
prophet is not without honor save IN his
own country" The people OF kanawha
know this migrate. The big majority
against the fellow when running on the
Republican ticket for State Auditor is
evidence that they at least knew him. 1t Is
yell-known among other things, that at
almost every Federal Court held anywhere
in this State for years past, this man has
been fulfilling the arduous duties OF jury
man. This and vilifying his neighbors
either by his votes or interesting con YER
tons" like that referred to, seems to be
his chief occupation.
1t is also well known that he voted for
Clarksburg and against his own people IN
the capital campaign. The reason Tor this
patriotic act it is said was the hope indulg-
ed that by doing so this man could thereby
secure the influence of certain. citizens OF
Clarksburg, then influential with the adj
ministration, to obtain for him the Consul
ship at Shanghai, China. Judas performed
his share OF the contract but owing To some
hitch" ian investigation, no doubt, as to
who he wasl he didn't receive the thirty
pieces of silver in the shape of the Consul
Ship. The best evidence OF the magnan-
unity and "progressiveneSS OF the Nan
awha people is the fact that this man has
not been tolerated by the people OF that
section. But he is harmless crank.
The pith and the reason for his stopping
over as he did and what made his lucubra-
lions so pertinent to the IRtelige1cer-whlch
always lends its columns to maligning the
Third diStrict-waS contained in his SEN
tence, They still, however, largely vote
the Democratic ticket" This is the sin OF
the people down there. II would
be grotesque, il it we're not
SO disgusting, to see this man
pose as a John the Baptist crying in the
wilderness of Kanawha. Such ideas OF truth
and morality may have been appropriate TO
a consul among heather, but they hardly
bespeak the sentiments OF either gentle
man or good citizen. The people of IA
nawha generally attend to their own bust
ness, and never malign strangers much less
their neighborS and if 25 years among them
cannot teach this man to do likewise, 1t is
his fault. With the view of spreading
himself and attaining cheap notoriety.
he comes all the way to Wheeling to vent
his spleen through columns equally SPLEEN
etc We have all kinds OF people among
us in Kanawha, but believe there is but
one man in the Third district who would
even at this distance from home cast slurs
and falsehood upon our people, and he has
done so. Your readers may rest content
that Mr.. John S. Cunningham is fully
known and appreciated by the people OF
Kanawha and others. This Jerseyman apos'
tie could we'll leave our valley unwept, un.
honored or unsung. All he says in regard
to our people is. OF course, false.
kANAWHA