The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-21
FORMAL NOTICE SERVED
On John 0, PeudIeton by Hon.
q, w, Atkinson
OF A CONTEST FOR THE SEAT
stolen for Pendlcton-The Interest
ing Facts Related in the Docu.
ment, ofrhe Shameful Meth.
dds Taken to That End,

Saturday last Hon. G. W, Atkinson
served his notice Of contest on John o,
Pendloton, The notice sets out the fact
that at the last election Mr.. Atkinson
was duly elected on the face Of the re-
turns, but because OF unlawful and Inn
proper manipulations Of the returns by
unfair returning boards, majority was
turned, In a most shameful manner, TO a
minority, and partisan Governor gave
Mr., Penlleton the certificate Of election,
In tho eleven counties about three
hundred illegal Democratic votes are al
legged to have been polled, The names
OF the voters and the polling places are
given, Upwards Of one.third OF the
three hundred illegal votes are located
In Ohio county,
The Ohio county fraud perpetrated by
the Gruse-Stein "ssven-by-two" return
ing board Ia also set ont In full, and the
Cllim Of about u dozen legal votes Is
made, which were arbitrarily thrown out
by Cruise K Co., because Of the misspell-
Ing Of Mr., Atkinson's name, and other
alleged informalitles,
The climax OF the notice Is the Wetzel
county villainy OF scratching Mr.. Akin.
sons name from thirty ballots, In the
clerks office at New Martinsyille, while
tho so.CaIled "recount" was pending,
After Cruise 4 Co, finished their high.
handed JOHN Ohio county, Mr.. Atkinson
still had eleven OF majority, The Wet
zel County Court had been adjourned
from day to day under whimsical pre-
texts until II was ascertained how many
votes 1t was necessary to give Pendleton
to elect him, and they were promptly
furnished by Wetzel county statesmen,
under the direction OF manipulators
from Ohio and other counties.
The people have not forgotten the nu-
merous interviews held with Ben Earn
shaw at different times, by Demo
cratic managers from Wheeling aud
other points, while the Wetzel coun.
" court was In session for the pur'
pose OF recounting the vote. They have
not forgotten, either, that Ben Earnshaw
was ut that time the President Of the
Wetzel county court They have not
forgotten the day when a Wheeling man
and another one OF the same kidney,
who lived out the Baltimore 4 Ohio,
held an hours interview NJ Jess Eakins'
hotel, In New Martinsville, with the said
Earnshaw; how they left the town oil
New Martinsville at o'clock; how they
stopped at Moundsyille about haltpast
two o'clock that same afternoon; how
a telegram was hastily written in
tho said town Of Moundsville, and
flashed over the wire to tho said Earn.
shaw at New Martinsvill0, informing
bin that his dear wife was lying seri-
ously III at his home, Eve miles from
Burton, In Wetzel county; how the said
Earnsliaw promptly adjourned the So
called returning board" aud took the
first train, not for home, but for Wheel.
ing; how the said Earnshaw spent the
night in this city; how he took the
morning train the next day for Burton
how he tarried all day in Burton, and
was forced only by the shades OF even.
ing to hasten 10 the bedside OF his sick
wife, five miles distant from Burton;
how the said Earnshaw found his wife
at a wedding reception, partaking OF tur.
key, mince pie and other dainty medi.
cines; how tho said wife was not then
sick, nor had she been sick for weeks be.
fore; how the whole thing was lie
manufactured out ofthe whole cloth pur.
posely to give the Ohio county Board OF
Commissioners time TO finish its work,
so the Wetzel tribunal would know how
many ballots it would have 10 scratch 10
defeat Atkinson and elect Pendleton.
All this aud more the people will re.
member: How Earnshaw returned to
New Martinsville for the purpose OF
resuming the recount; how the other
two members OF the honorable court
finding that President Earpshaw was
In town-took TO their heels one bright
Saturday morning-one In one direction
and the other in another-and did not
return until the next Monday morn
ing, how the recount then began; how
the coCk.sbarrow bosses wiggeled around
like hens on hot griddlts, when the
nervous deputy clerk ran Ills arm down
into the unsealed bag that contained
the ballots from Upper Green or Mar.
tins School House voting place, and
began the recount; how all eyes shot TO
and fro with awful Arrangement when
The unexpected fact was revealed
that Atkinson's name had been scratched
Off fourteen ballots; how some men
looked then aud there as II they wished
they had never been born, and how
others looked a. II they were praying for
the mountains TO fall upon them and
cover them out Of sight forever, How
Atchers Fork precinct was In O like
manner taken up for recount and how
Il too was found 10 contain another lot OF
scratohed ballots, all Of them Atkinson
tickets, and how the news was tele-
rraphed TO Wheeling and TO the Demo-
cratic Executive Committee Of Washing
ton that Pendleton had been elected to q
seat 10 the American Congress, God save
the'markl
The contest hos now begun in earnest.
Mr.. PendlCtOn has thirty days In which
to reply to Mr.. Atkinson's allegations,
by presenting counter list Of illegal
votes, and explaining how old and blind
the election officers In those two Wetzel
county precincts are, and how one man
IA Republican, In each OF the said pre-.
cinCts will be brought forth to show that
he did the scratching Of the ballots be-
fore the votes were polIed, &C., &c. Then
both OF the candidates will have forty
days In which to take dispositions to
prove the allegations each sets out In
bis notice. This will throw the com.
pletion Of tho dispositions toward the
latter part Of March, or about tho time
when the extra session Of Congress will
be held. The ISFELLlaENcER during
the last two months has conversed With
a large number irresponsible gentlemen
from different parts Of the district, and
tic universal sentiment iG that Atkinson
was elected by upwards OIL forty Oh q
majority after all fpTreChoLB and add.
lions had been made, and that lie was
robbed OF his seat by the outrageous 70.
counts In WetEel and Ohio counties, and
TINT there is no shadow Of doubt Of his
being seated In q short time after Com
gross ConVeneg.
Hunting Evidence In Ohio.
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