The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-09-08

the company so far as | know. Every
officer and director OF the compan!
will confirm what ! have Just sait
and no respectable Democrat in West
Virginia or elsewhere will deny thest
facts.
WHY MR.. ELKINs WRITES.
For about fifteen years was member
Of the Republican National Committee
and made il. a rule never to contradict
in print anything that appeared against
me because false. But now that have
ceased to he member Of that committee
and am not member Of any State com
mittee, nor IL candidate for office, nor aC'
lively engaged in politics, feel for these
reasons, in Justice to myself and also be-
cause this malicious statement not only
Injuries the gentlemen have named in
their business relations, but is calculated
to injure and bring into disrepute the
good standing OF the West Virginia Rail
road Company, whose credit is high
wherever known, and its business in
terests are entirely disconnected from
politics, that feel compelled, even at
this length, to contradict and expose the
same. The whole statement is blum
dcring campaign fabrication, and | be-
lieve, gotten up and circulated for politi-
cal effect in West Virginia and else
where.
! trust it is not asking too much for
you to give this matter the same pub
licity that you gave the statement.
Yours truly, etc,
S. q. ELKINs.
In speaking Of the above matter Mr..
lGikins said:
"I've been interested more or less in
National campaigns for fifteen years, aud
as much lied about, | think, as any man.
But that is the most absurd story | ever
saw. | have never answered any Of the
lies because | have always been ON cou'
mittees aud could not. The trouble is,
the local Democrats are afraid they are
going to lose the State. The interests OF
West Virginia are with the patty of Pro-
lection, and the Democratic leaders
know it, and our Central railroad is let
ting in the daylight in good many
towns, and the Democrats who own
stock III it know that. They are all
troubled about General Coll down there,
too. He is Il native OF the State whom
they all know: a soldier, scholar, and
an eminent and honest man, as the
whole country is aware. Republicans
are forming clubs all over the State.
There are five or SIN Elkins clubs along
the line of the railroad, I'm told, but |
never saw them or their leaders. No,
the trouble with the West Virginia Dem
Ocrats is that they are alarmed. They
have spread the alarm to the National
Committee. They in turn gave out this
colonization story, partly TO discount the
Republican efforts and partly to frighten
their own people into greater action.
The Democratic committee may decide
to send some money into West Virginia
also after IL while. They will need to
send good deal
CLUBS IN WEST VIRGINIA.
President Foster, Of the League, said
last night that the average membership
OF the Republican clubs OF West Vir-
ginia was above 100, and that there had
been the same steady increase in the
number oi organizatiOns-the number
long time ago was l25-that was to be
noticed in all the other States. He said
he had not been in West Virginia since
February,
[NoTE-Thc INTELLIGENCER is in re-
ceipt of letter from Mr.. Elkins, who is
still in New York, in which he says that
the colonization story appeared oFigi-
nally in the New York Times, World and
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