Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-21
%DUNNINGTON.
He is interviewed in Regard to His
Appointment
To a SI,490 Proof leadership by
Printer Rounds.
He Says 1t is 0uits the Thing and
All Right.
DUNNINGTON.
Special 10 the Sunday ReOiJtsr.

Special 10 the Sunday Register.
WASHINGTON, June l9.-The REGIsTEE
representative met George A. Huntington
the Intelligencer's Washington correspond
ent, to-day, and asked him fit were true
that hejhad secured a prooEsesdership here
at $l,4OO q year. He said that it was.
Have you seen the reports published in
West Virginia papers to the effect that
your appointment has created much indig,
nation among the DemocrtsH' asked your
correspondent.
Yes" he continued, but | do not see
why it should. / got the appointment
from q Republican, on the record l made
previous to my resignation in 1888. Even
if this were not the case, West Virginia
Democrats ought not to complain. Under
the Republican Administration there were
fully fifty Wet Virginia Democrats in the
departments at Washington, and they are
still here. / can give you their names if
you desire. Two of them were from my
own town. Ny Democratic friends ought
to remember this"
Il see Sam Mccormick and the Psrkers.
burg Journal charge that you have sold
Yourself 10 Camden and that your position
is a reward for services you rendered
him"
~N'coRuCE.
"You need not be surprised at anything
Mccormick says" he replied. He Is
never so happy az when he is smirchiug
the political character OF some Republican.
He is doing more than any other man in
the State 10 create dissensiors in our party
ae is engaged in an attempt to break
down such men as Mason, Pierpont
and other Republicans, who were serv-
ing their country aud the Republican
party while he was OF home asking a pen
sion for disabilities he was unable to prove
What he says has little weight, since it IS
but the utterance of a disappointed po!iti'
clan with a bilious temperament.
How about the allegations msdc BY him
and the Journsl2'
They are untrue. l never rendered
Camden any service. What l did in the
Mccormick. McGraw fight, | did as q Re-
publican and | am still a Republican. |
never voted any other ticket and never ex-
pect to"
How do you expect to serve a Republi'
can paper in your position!
"You ought to know better than TO ask
me that question. Dana Hubbard, a
Democrat, held a position here under q
Republican administration, while he wa
correspondent for the REGISTER and other
Democratic papers There are many sim
liar cases ia the city now and have been
always. A daily paper cannot get along
very we'll now s,days without a Washing
ton Representative So you know. Papers
10 cities the size OF Wheeling cannot afford
to pay large salaries like the metropolitan
papers. Under all administrations it has
been customary to give these correspon-
dents without regard to party employment
under the Government, tina. they may be
able to live comfortably.
"Bv thusfostering the press Of the u
try, which has well been called the "palla.
dunn OF our liberties" the government
loses nothing. Democratic and Repu6ll-
can correspondents alike have been thus
provided for under past administrations
and under the present regime there has
been no departure from what has grown TO
be an established custom. The people lose
nothing, certainly, by it. If we do, our
government work well and give the news
faithfully nobody loses"
"Are you afraid Of being oustedY'
He DON'T KNOW.
81 don't know what to think. / am in
q peculiar position. Democratic papers
demand my removal, and some Republl-
cans say my appointment is the result OF q
barter with Camden. So you see | am be-
tween two fires. 1.-THE Democrats demand
my removal l suppose it will be made, for
| am a Republican and all who know me
will acknowledge it, except Sam Nc.
Cormick, of course, who e%rroneously be
leves that anybody who does not appreciate
his talents can not be a Republican. l
am but an individual and have no vote
but my ownto give. The only prominence
| ever had Mccormick gave me. He has
made me the target Of his spleen for more
than two years, and the only reason Is that
| published a paper that did not tsty him.
| Am not couceited enough to believe it is
all on my individual accou 1t, however
Leading Republicans, of whom Mccormick
-: Jealous, are the real targets.
He ia not hold enough to call
them Sy name and abuses me a. tneir
alleged representative. He is sowing seeds
of discord by attacking such men as Mason,
Pierpont and others, who are treating him
with silent contempt. We may possibly
elect q Republican Legislature in spite of
him this year. l should think that he
would, as a politician, work more for the
good of his party aud less for the grstiica-
ton Of his personal spites. He ought not
to expect bis party TO carry his disappoint'
ments for him.
You will not resign then, on account o.
the row your appointment has csusedT
No. | shall continue to perform my
duties for awhile. The Democrats will, nc
doubt, on investigation, find that what !
have stated to you about West Virgins
Democrats under Republican sdministra
tons, is true, land will vote fair in the mat
ter"
Two White and One Black.
Special TO the Sunday Register.
WASHINGTON, June ia few days sgt
Col. Ben. Wilson presented to the Cour
of Claims three prominent gentlemen, al
of the Republican persuasion, and upo1
bis motion they were admitted as attorney
to practice in that court. They we're Hon
]. q. Smyth, late minister to Liberia,