Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1890-11-04
Representative wilson Talks.


Representative Wilson Talks.
Says He Is Reasonably Confident Of
Saccess-An AlIeged Mtyft Letter.
From the Washington Star of wedncsdaysl
! Representative WI. Wilson OF
West Virginia was in the city short
time to-day. He is in the midst of n
very hot campaign and ran over to
Washington for afew hours on busi-
ness. a et
"There is no truth, - he said to a4StGr
reporter. who met him on the, street,
''in the statement made at the Repub-
lican headquarters that IS 900 has
been sent to my district by the Dem
ocraJic committee to help my election.
The fact is that the committee havo
sent but s5o0into the district to help
! pay the ordinary expenses ofthe cam
paign. That is all the financial as
sistance have.had from them. feet
reasonably confident of success. IL
the vote is got out there is no doubt
Of the Democrats having majority.
But the Republicans are making n
Tremendous effort to defeat me, and
are not stopping ut any thing they think
will aid them in the effort. My dis
trict is overrun with government enf-
ploEes whoare doing all the political
work they cal. do not see where
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Mason could put man in the district
that he has not done it. They arc as
! hrv- of
be. Wherever one of the revenue
agents is needed for campaign work
he is ordered and gets his 50 day
while working on the campaign. He
had one man stationed towatch sim
gle barrel of whisliey for one hundred
days at 81 day, so he could be
where he could do campaign work"
LETTER or COMMISSIONER MASON. a
In this connection Mr., Wilson
showed Star reporter n letter ad-
dressed to MIR. j. u. Halnby Commits
sioner Mason. The Mr.. Hall to
whom it was addressed is friend of
Mr.. Wilson and presumably the let
,terlwas intended for Mr.. NJ. L. Halh
the postmaster at Pliltppi, and cdi-
tor of the Republican newspaper.
1t is marked personal and is as folt
lows: 'sIf it has not occurred to
Lyon, 1 suggest that you write a very
strong article for this weeks Repu6L
licat. attSckiug Wilson vigorously on
his pension record. de dodged the
vote on the last pension bill. Say
that If he does not feel interest enough
in old soldiers of his district 10 voteon
a bill that was mostimportantto to them,
in fact the most important pension
bill ever before Congress, then the
old -eoIdiers~ OF the District should
take enough interest in him to see
that he is not sent back to congress
that they should make it personal
matter to see that no vote of q soldier
or the friend of soldier is cast for
Wilson. In addition to this it wouId
be well to say, possibly in another
paragraph, that this pension bill was
The most important measure before
the last session of Congress-; that it
takes $40, 900, ,O0O Oannually-out Of the
treasury, aud will continue-to do so
for many years, and that with so ims
portant a bill on its passage Wilson
should have had courage enough to
have voted one way or the other
that the people are tired of sending
men to Congress who decline to vote
on important measures like this for
fear that they will lose some of
their friends; that they now propose
to send men there who have at least
the courage Of their convictions and
who will not dodge vote.
Truly yours,
JoHS w. MASON"
COMMENTING or THIS LETTER,
Mr.. Wilson said:
"Mason's confidential letter to Re-
publican papersin my district that
dogcd the vote on the pension bill is
! false, as he. perfectly well knew
The conference report was sprung on
the House without notice and rushed
through under previous question. 1
was absent IL Missouri and the Con-
gressional Record shows that l was
paired with Gen. Grosvenor, who vas
absent in Ohio. More than fifty Re
| puBiicans were likewise absent and
| paired, including the two Taylors of
Ohio, Browne of Indiana, Thompson
of Ohio, Bontelle and Dingle ofMaine,
Cutcheon of Michigan, Peters of Kan4
sas and others OF prominence; also
Atkinson of West Virginia. Mason
would never accuse these of dodging
this vote, but is suggesting this anony-
nous attack on me when he thought
it was to late in the campaign to catch
up with the falsehood. Elkins' state
ment Of my vote in his Wheeling
speech is likewise grossly unfair. AS
to several he suggests the false or
suppresses the true so as to completea
ly distort them. As a specimen he
charges me with voting against the
original package Law when he knew
that voted with majority Of my col
leagues of both parties for the house
substitute, in my Judgment a wiser
and more effective bill than the one
/ passed. I call attention to the fact
that all these. attacks are reserved
until it is too Iate in the campaign for
me to catch up with them and expose
their falseness."
II When II Is fully recognized that one Of thd
4 first and highest rights OF tie baby IL to have
bOttle Of DR.. BulFs Baby Syrup. there viii be
/ more rest for .he household and comfort for
! the little one 1t is perfectly harmless, con-
/ tanning no OT!ates or other pOisOuous aubEfan-