Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-06-20
DUNNINGTON.
Hs is interviewed in Regard to His
Appointment
Toa Sl,400 Proof leadership by
Printer Rounds.
He Says It is Quite the Thing and
All Right.
S.,..i.l 10 "a. S.ndau Reaistsr.

repr5SeQtalANo WoN N'NNA - 49, 'S4'
,bs Iptelligeucer's Washington correspond
ant today, and asked him ifit were true
rbs, heIhad secured q prooEresdership here
a,sl 400 a 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 Dsmocrts| asked your
correspondent.
Yes" be continued, but | do not see
vbv !, should. / got the appointment
rom Republican, on the record 1 made
n.avious to my resignation in 1888. Even
: ,,;s were not the case, West Virginia
democrats ought not to complain. Under
,bs Rspubhcsn Administration there were
i,IIv 6fv West Virginia Democrats in the
4 iansr,ments At Washington, and they are
.fn here. / can give you their names if
vou desire TSo OF them we're from my
own town. My Democratic friends ought
TO remsmoe: this.
Il ses Sam Mccormick aud the PSrkers.
i bprv JourUal charge that you have sold
vou-.slf 10 Camden snd that your position
i a reward tor services you rendered
hin"
NCORNCE.
You need not be surprised at anything
NeCormick says, be replied. He Is
never 90 happy as when he is smirching
the nollr,cal character OF some Republican.
Hs ia doing more than any other man IN
the State 10 create dissensions IN our party
De is engaged IN an attempt 70 break
5osp such men as Mason, Pisrpont
and other Republicans, who were serv-
iDg the;r country aud the Republican
nsrry while be was at home asking a pen
sio, for disabilities be was unable to prove
What he says has little weight, since 1t ls
INIT the utterauce of disappointed pohli,
cian with bilious temperament.
How about the allegations made by him
snd the Jouruslf
They are untrus. never rendered
Camden any service What | did in the
Mccormick McGraw Gght, / did as Re
p15Tcan and am still Republican. !
never voted any other ticket and never ex-
pect to"
.Hos do you expect TO serve Repuoh.
can psper in your position?
"Y.r ought 10 know better thsn 10 ask
me- tla, Question Dana Hubbard, q
Democrat. h-ld position here under @
RsDp5gcsn administration, while he was
co-rssrrDdent for the REGIsTER and other
Democratic papers There are many sim
liar cases in tSe eitY now and have been
slssys A daily papsF cannot get slorg =
yerv well now sdsys without Washing
ION REPRESENTATIVE IS you know Papers
in cities tue size Of Wheeling cannot afford
10 psy large salaries Ike the metropolitan
papers. Under sli administrations 1t has
been customary to give these corresPon'
dents without regard TO party employment
under the Government, tina: they may be
sble to live comfortably.
"B7 thus,fostering the press Of the eoun,
,ry which has we'll been cslled the "palls:.
dunn Of our liberties the government
loses nothing. Democratic sGd Repuoll-
can correspondents alike have been TINS
crowded for under past sdministralons
ana under the present regime there has
been o. departure from what has grown 10
be an established custom. The people lose
nothing, certainly, by it. II we do, our
government work wsll and give the news
faithfully nobody losss
"Are yol afraid OF being c1Stsdy
he DcN'T KNOW.
VI dou'; know wha. 10 thinS. am IN I
q peculiar position. Democratic papers
demand nv removal, and some Repuoh- !
cans saw nv appointment is the result OF
barter with Camden. So yol see am be-
tween two fires. IfthS Democrats demand
nv removal | suppose il Will be made, for
lam Republican and sl who know me
will acknowledge it. except Sam NC ,
Cormick, of course, who erroneous'7 De
lsves that anybody who does not appreciate
his talents can not be a Repa5hcSn. L
an but an individual and have no vote
but nv own TO give. The only prominence
ever had Mccormick gave me He has
made me the target OF his spleen Tor more
than two years, and the only reason ls that
IpRbEshed q paper that did net tstfy him.
lam not conceitsd enough to believe 1t ls
all on my individual accou IT. however
Leading Republicans, of whom McCormlck
s Jealous, are the real tsrgets.
He is not bold enough TO call
them hy name and abuses me as their
alleged REPRESENTATIVE. He is sowing seeds
OF discord By stacking such men as Mason,
Perpont and otheEq. who are treating him
With silent contempt. We may possibly
elsc: Republican Legislature IN spite OF
him this year | should think tGst he
would, az a politician. Rork more for the
good Of his party aud less for the grstihea-
ton OF bis personal spites. lie onght not
to expect his party to carry his diEappoint-
ments for him.
You viii not resign than, on account Oh
The row your appointment has eausedf
No. ] shall continue to perform my
duties for awhile The Democrats vail, no
doubt, on investigation, find that what /
have stated to you about West Virginia
Democrats Euder Republican sdmiuistra-
hons is true, lsud gill vote tAir in the mat
ter"
Two White and One Black.
Special % ne Sunday R.gtaeT.
WASHINGTON, Juue ia few days ago
Col BeD. WilsOn presented to the Court
Of Claims th;es prominent gentlemen, sli
ofthe Republican persuasion, and upon
hls motion they were admitted as attorneys
70 practice in that court. They were Hon.
), Il. Smyth, late minister to Liberia,
fne specimen Of manhood but 9 very
black one; Gen. J. n. TYner, late Post
master General, and Judge Walker Of In.
diana. The amusing part Of it WSs that
the eoiored man and brother was made
prominent BY being first iptroduced'and
iEdorsed