Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-06
MANLY CARD,
From President Frank Cruise, Of tie Board
of Commissioners.

VI NOhAA4ABoAOACAB
The following manly and straight
forward card from President Frank Cruise,
of the Board of Commissioners, will be
read and commended by every right
minded citizen. 1t was published in the
Inteuigeneer yesterday morning, bat was
no! received at the REGISTER from that
Office, until 2:4O o. m, which made
it impossible to get it in yesterdays
issue. 1t is o truthful portrayal Of
the incidents and proceedings before
the recent sessions of the Beard, and a
digniied answer 10 the snarls and contumi-
lies of the hteEigeneer, and the inpotent
anger of the Republican minority:
To he Editor Of he IHtVi0enc.r.
sIR:-Duriug the past few weeks the In.
teliqeneer has psrsis.ently misquoted and
maiIgned the Democratic members OF the
Board of Commissioners OF this county,
and in this mornings issue you again Cmis)
inform the public As to our blackness and
cowardly dishonesty.
At the samet time You publish a so-called
rAddrtss to the Public" from Messrs.
McGresor aud Maxwell, which contains
nothing more than q mere rshash of the
various slanderouSi nsinuatiors and charges
published in the Intenigencer from time to
time. In answering o1e l answer both.
confess that / was somewhat surprised
that my two colleagues (McGregor and
Maxwell) should assume a character 10
similar 10 one related in the New Tesla
ment; e certain individual pIays. Lord,
l thank thee that / am not like othtr
men," etc. Like thcss wicked Demo
Gratis, for instarcs.)
As regards the recount for Congressman
of the First Congressional District, l
would say that l defy any man to point
out one ballot that wss counted for Mr..
Pendleton that did not belong to him.
In the same manner Mr.. Atkinson re-
ce:ved every vote that h3 was rightfdlly
entitled to, among which were a num-
Der that were bIdly written and badly
spelled. A great ado has besn made
about the ballots which were reserved
for later action. Said ballots consisted OF
tickets with black stickers, or with the
name written under the designation OF
another office, or where it was impossible
TO make out what wal written or n was
intended to be stricken out.
Asis we'll known, our lfgIl adviser (Mr.
Jordau) was unfortunately called away by
the death of his father st the beginning of
the count. This left US with the law uu-
defined as to the points above mentiore1,
ard fer that reason tickets coming under
the above head wer3 re- served till we could
get the op MON OF Mr.. Jordan or his, sub
stitute as to the definition of the law.
When it was ascertained that Col. Rob-
ert White had been attending to Mr.. Jor-
dams business during ths latter's abb
sencs, his name was suggested, but was
promptly objected to or the ground that
Colonel Wbi9e was the law pa,tuer OF MIR.
Allen, the attorney of Mr.. Pendleton,
wtereupon bis name was withdrawn.
When Mr.. Russell wss suggested, the only
obstacle thrown in the way was that Mr..
Russell was probably out of the city, and
for that ress)n would be unable to act,
but carefully concealing the fact that Mr..
Russtl II had been retained by MI. Akin
SOD, and of which they had full knowl-
edge, as was afterward stated by MIR.
Hugus. The Clerk Was instructed to
telephone to Mr.. RuSselPs Office and
inquire if he was absent and when he
would re.uru. The report was that he
was then Out Of the city but would be at
his office at 8 a. m. the next day, where
upon Mr.. Russell was appointed the legal
adviser of the Board. These proceedings
were necessarily slow and not in haste, sS
I believe was stated by 8 Csrtaiu Republl-
can gentleman in a card published, where
in he attempts 10 exhonerate Mr.. T. j.
Hugus, Mr.. Atkinson's attorney. Wee did
not become aware of the fact until next
morning, when We called on Mr.. Russell as
to his appointment. he then told US that
he had beer acting for Mr.. Atkinson, and
for that reason could not serve US.
Finally, Mr.. Ewing was appointed,
aud it is CONCEDED even By Republicans
that his opinion and sdVice were sach,
that they must BIZ regarded as a just snd
fair Interpretation Of the law, end upon
them were based the decision in refer
ence to the reserved ballots. Mr.. Pen
dleton certainly lost as many votes by
reason of said decision as Mr.. Atkinson.
Msssrs. McGregor and Maxwell throw
much stress upon the alleged attempt to
count out Mr.. Mc9ollOch, of Richland
dis :rict, but at the same time they for
get that the recount was so fairly con-
Quoted that Mr.. Maxwell himself gained
one vote as candidate for Commissioner
from Liberty district. They also forget that
upon the second re count beingdemsndeifCr
Richlsnd and Liberty DISTRICTS, IS to the Of
fee of Commissioner, it wa received with
srch disfavor that Mr.. Ewing was appealed
to as to whether there was not q limit 10
such demands. Mr.. EHiDg read a repG-t
from the Supreme COuct bearing upon such
cases, which had the feet of the withdraw
81 of the demand for q recount Of the
district.
As regards the bill of exceptions, /
would say that had Mr.. Hugus not been
so psststsnt with his mandamus, prohibi-
tion and csrtiorsrl l feel Sssured that he
would e:e this have had a proper bill Of
exceptions. Such, however, is not what
is desired. The rose of Injured Innocence
has besn assumed to conceal that, which il
exposed, would display methods and
means 20 Questionable and foul that all
homes. people woald turn from them with
disgust.
Very respectfully,
FRANK GRT-SE