Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-11-16

selling The Government sn article it needs,
because 10 Is patented, than there Is IN
selling 70 an individual
Is 1T A CRIME
TO sell a patented article? II so, what be-
comes Of the myriad of articles the Gov
srnu sent annually buys which are patented?
What right had Mr. Foraker to make
charges Of the character that be did even
ia his Music Hall speech without investi-
cation? But beyond and above all, what
right bad Re to permit an attack to be
made upon the integrity Of his cOmpstitOr
when for three months il Wss in his power
/ TO have asCertsiued by q single brief nete
TO Sherman. ButierwOrth, McKinley-tO
myself-what the truth Wa? Can not
any body see who chooses TO look that this
matter Was kept a secret and was only in
tended for use on the las, day Of the cam
paign, and the little plan set up by
Foraker was spoiled by Hslslead, who.
70 use his own language, touched of
his dynamite Ia response TO
the Topp letter. Foraker either
was afraid to trust Halstead with the Sc
cret Of the forgery or Halstead desired FIRST
to ruin Campbsl by producing it at the
tine be did, and still believing that the
Republicans would carry Ohio. or With
that document In his power shat he could
compel the assistance OF Sherman, McKin-
ley, ButierwoTth and others. 1 GO not see
how Mr.. Halslead even can be acquitted
on the ground that he WAS deceived. Hal
stead says Foraker showed him this paper
August ., 1889, while be (Halstead) was
on bis way home from New York. With
the claim Of friendship that Hastead has
professed for Sherman, in the name Of
common honesty Why could not Mr.. Hal
stead by this time have s-nt 20 Mr. Sher-
man and learned the facts9 Why was this
great explosive kept hidden under q
bushelg
Napoleon ONCE said that "blunders are
worse than crimes, - but here Halstesd has
added 70 the crime Of concealment the sd-
ditional crime Of pTemalurely exposing q
blunder Foraker's plan was better. BE
would have kept the matter secret till the
I 80 Of November, two days before the cleo
I tion. Now, then, Mr.. Foraker says that
/ Mr.. Campbell seems to be in close COM
munication with Mr. Wood. That know
to be
UNTRUE.
/ In fact, that Mr. Campbell was ready
and willing to pay handsome amount
/ for the discovery Of Mr.. Wood. Three
weeks ago I came 10 this city for the
express purpOss OF seeirg Wood and
compelling bin to tell the truth. l
went TO Mr.. Woods house and cOnversed
With his wife. She said she could not tell
where he wss. In the course Of her con-
versatiOn told ne that Mr.. Foraker was
"a great ard glorious man. and if
wanted Mr. Wood TO do any harm 10 Mr..
Foraker she would not tell me II she knew.
then began searching for Wood. l went
to Mr. Mart Weber. sn iron merchant Of
this city, and asked him: "Hsve you heard
from Wood?n "Yea" "Where is he?''
His answer was to pull out letter post
marked Washington, October IA 1 in
msdiately determined that would 20 20
Washington 10 find Wood. I missed the
7.45 train and returned up town. met
Mr. John o is. druggist, corner 5 Xth and
B Vine. and asked him If he had seen Wood
q lately. he said yes, got letter irou
I him. "Where2n Hi5 answer was 70 pull
J. ont a letter from Wood pOstmarked
Z Saginaw, Mich, October "A 1 then
saw Mr.. George Murray, the attorney
d ''Doyou know anything about WOO0?
"Yes.u 'Whert2n His answer was g
letter postmarked Lansing, Mich, October
IA. Why were these decoy letters semi
p around? That Wood should not be found
> For what purpose? Because If found be
q would have been arrested. Now / would
state that Foraker had letter Of intro
/, duction to Governor Luce. Toe letter OF
1, introduction to Governor Luce was simply
p a reproduction OF that original. I saw th'
4 letter to Governor Luce and l thanked
Governor Foraker through Mr.. Wood iol
it. Mr. Wood, when l WAS IN Cincinnati,
: about S-ptem Der 26 bad "a many 81 hvs
y or six telegrsms sent by Governor Foraker
: 20 him. But perhaps 1 can better inform
YOU in this matter by relating to you
! ,rR GEORGE J.. MURRAY's STATEMENT.
b oft 10 me. Mr.. Murray told me that
Wood came TO him and said: Foraker is
p going into the ballOt-hox business with me
! I can yet rid OF T. @. Campbell il I get
/, Foraker in. want you 10 put in shape
} for me 3 contract similar to the one We
have n Washington with James E Camp
7 hell. Butterworth and others Mr.. Muir
rsy saws be then replied 10 him that he
, thought that Foraker did not want any
tbirg 10 do with billot-boxes nov, ss be
was busy enough, whereupon Wood pulled
ont a telegram from Foraker to himself,
which read: why don't yOu come 70
Columbus at once on the business that We
talked sbout?" The telegram was dated
in July. He afterward showed other tele-
grams from Foraker TO Murray. Where
upon Murray supposed that Wood was
then telling him the truth. Wood
told Murray that the contract was IN
Washington. and that he could not get 1t
aWay from there. Then, said Murray,
sit down and write me out in your OSn
way what you think the contract was, and
will try to put it in legal form" Wood
|, did so, and Murray, innocently enough,
wrote for him the alleged contract as II
> appears Ia the Commercial of to-day. Then
the question of getting the names attached
came 10. Mr. Wood was impscunious.
He claimed % Murray that he had not a
!, mouthful for his family and no means Of
sustenanoe. except q little credit that his
grocer would give him. Yet he bad gone
to Washington. For what purpOseS As
, Mr.. Wood related il, he went there aad e
E the basement Of The House Of Congress snc
found the psgs boys book, and from thu
! ! be cot tie names Of the members Of Con
Qress which you fad attached to the for
eery in to-day's Commercial Taking thes'
names back be had them traced on the
contract which had been prepared by hur'
rsy for hin.
WHO PAID WOODS FARE
! to Washington? Who paid the necessary
expenses OF getting this thing done? Wood
b had no money. Is it possible that some
b BODY in the interest Of forgery and crime
would pay Woods fare, or was somebody
: in interest who thought there was Gov
ernorsbip commission dangling at the
other end Of the rsscahty, that paid bis
way.
But I have already said more than IS
necessary on this subject. Let me make
this point clear and distinct: Foraker and
Hslsiesd both knew Of this paper from
September "A down to the day it was
used. Foraker and Halstead knew where
sherman, Mckinley. Mcpherson, Butter
worth ana James T. Campbell lived all
this time. Is it possible that politics IN
Ohio has become more treaOherous and
more contemplate than Indian varfaIe2'
d U.1u .raNn