The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-24
Here is a letter with some very sig
nifcant u%tterances:
CLEAR OUT OF PATIENCE.

CLEAR OuE VI EhllHNNbs
WASHINGTON, D. c., July %, 1892.
Hon. c. J. FdulERa.
SIR:-I told you in our first interview
lin your ofice) after Congress convened
in January, 1892, that the position you
had promised me for my friend was
worth $1,000 to me. Again ms letter
addressed to you, January 81, '92, l
stated that 'the position was worth Just
$50 a month to me-"
It is true that / made a proposition to
you at your house 1890 R. street N. W.
on the night of March the 9th, '92, to
take $500 in cash, and the placing OF
two teams in the employ of the district
government in lieu of the $1,000 posi-
ton. When l made this proposition to
you, you said to me that you thought 1t
could be arranged within two or three
DAYS. 1t is also true, that after waiting
four weeks during which time you
we're trihing and quibbling with me,
for o to comply with this proposition.
l wrote you a letter dated April u, w,
in which l stated that if the PROPOSE
ton is not complied with, at least as far
as the payment of the 5000 is concerned,
on or before Thursday, the 18th inst,
that you may consider the proposition
withdrawn, and that / will not con-
slider it binding me in any way after
that date" / wrote you again on the
18th OF April, and stated that ! should
expect you to comply strictly with your
personal obligations to me, and told
you to provide the $1,000 position for
my friend in the house of representa-
tiyes, which you had promised, to do or
pay me in money what the place was
worth to Inc. These are the facts in the
case.
/ have received through Col. P. B.
Thompson, jr., $500. 1t has taken three
different parties to perform this ardu-
GUS duty, viz: to pay me $500.
From the tenor OF the last receipts
Col. Thompson left with Mr.. Grigsby for
me to sign, and from what he said to
sme the last time l saw him, | suppose
syou have presumed TO settle the matter
to suit yourself, and according to
your own ideas of justice for
which l have no respect or re-
gard) without consulting my wishes
in any way. l stated to you in my let
Ter Oh Juu6 OO, 1COSl that q
upon Colonel Thompson or was he I'M
der any obligations to me. He never
owed me a penny on his own account in
his life. / did borrow from him once
$50 to go to Charleston, W. Va, to pro-
tect your interests when we had White
head there p~racticing that vile decep-
ton upon your constituents, but have
long ago paid him.
You, senator, have acted badly in this
whole matter. You have not kept faith
with me. You have failed to comply
with your promises made to me. You
have time and time again, made false
representations to me. You have eyre
giously aud shamefully deceived me, and
last, but not least, you have unfairly
and d~isingeniously beat me out OF six
hundred dollars. Now are you perfect
" and we'll satisfied that you can keep
me beat? Remember what / have here
tofore told you. Adieu.
D. Med. LINDSEY.
The following miscellaneous assort-
ment OF letters preceded the entertain
ing missiyes quoted above. They show
the connection Of Thompson and Grigs-
by with the affair. Note that Grigsby
is connected with the Interstate Com
merce Commission: