The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-24
FAULkNER'S SCHEME.
rcontinued from Nirat Paae.l

YOU nave pau uLtle hLt6HtlOu W my
letters Of late date, and nc regard,
Whatever, to the promises you have
made me, and now, / desire to call
your attention to a few facts concern
ing the matter at issue between US.
II you will tax your memory a little
you will remember that when we first
spoke OF sending l.. B. Whitehead to
West Virginia, in 1890, you said to me
in the presence Of Mr.. Syme, that you
would not like for 1t to be known that
you paid his expenses, but If a friend
was to make an expenditure OF that
kind for you, and after the election
was to mention the matter to you, you
would remember him. / thought at
that time ! could pay his expenses, but
afterward learned l could not and so in
formed you. You then said to me you
would pay his expenses, and sent me
the money for that purpose by Col
Phil B. Thompson, which he gave me
in the Riggs House. When Whitehead
ran short oil funds in Charleston, w.
Va, / went to you, and you sent me $50
for him by Mr.. Syme. After you left
Washington, it became necessary for
me to 90 to Charleston, w. Va, which
Ibid, for no other purpose than to pro-
tect your interest, in seeing that the
deception that we were then practicing
upon the citizens of West Virginia
through Whitehead was not endan-
gered. In doing this | incurred an ex-
ppnse Of SG6. You will remember that
after the election, and your return to
the city, you sent me word on the I'd OF
December, 1890, to call to see you at
your residence on East Capitol street,
which l did. During our interview |
mentioned this expenditure to you, and
YOU said to me, that | had acted honor
ably and honestly with you, and that
YOU would act the same way with me,
and promised that you would pay the
amount to me. / remarked to you,
that l and my wife wanted to go down
to Norfolk, Va, and, that l would
ike for you to let me have
money then. You replied, that you
could not do it Just then, but for me to
90 on to Norfolk and the money should
follow me within q day or two. You
sent me word by Mr.. Syme on three oc-
casions that you would pay me the
amount. On the 10th Of January, 81, L
addressed n letter to you, asking you to
pay me the money. / took the letter
to your house, and got Mr.. Syme to
hand it you, and bring me an answer.
He met me on the corner of East Capt.
tol and Second streets, where l awaited
him, and told me that you said you
would pay the money in your own
time, and did dot intend to be hurried
about it. | saw Senator - on the
same day, who 1 had requested to
speak to you about the matter, and
he said to me, that he had done all he
could in the matter, and that l had bet
ter see you myself about it. On the
l4th of January, I saw Col Phil. B.
Thompson, jr., at his office, and spoke
to him about 1t. He said that you had
mentioned the matter to him, and told
him l had acted the part OF a gentle
man, and that you were going to pay
me the amount l had expended. He
knew the amount. or rather he asked
me ii it was not $65. l told him that
that was near enough. He said he
would see you that day, and thought
you would send me the money at once.
/ saw him several times between the
14th and 10th OF January. On the 10Th
/ met him at his Office. He told me
that he could not see you on the Satur-
day before; that you were very much
interested in the ELECTION bill" that
you had held the floor for twelve hours,
&c, &C., but he thought he could see
you that day, and for me to call again at
his office at 4:15 o'clock that evening.
l did so, and he came in at 8 o'clock,
and told me that you would send me S25
at once. 1 went to his Office again on
the morning of the Dist. He vas sur
prised to learn that you had not sent
me the S25, and said to me, "Meet me
at the Democratic door Of the senate
this evening at 2 o'clock, and | will see
that he pays you SIS" l did so. He
gave me SOS for which Igave him a re-
ceipt. This is all you have eve paid
me Of the 500 l expended in your inter-
est, and which you promised to pay.
Col. Thompson, in one Of our inter-
views, in trying to make some excuse
for your failing to comply with your
promise, remarked, that you had very
probably forgotten it; that you were
rich; that you were born rich, had
always been rich, and therefore knew
nothing about the necessities OF a poor
man. Permit me to say, senator, that
if this is the way you are in the habit
of cancelling your personal obligations,
that am not surprised at
your being rich. Now, about the
$1,000 position you promised me for a
friend Of mine in the house of represen-
tatives, and for tVhich 1 paid you. Soon
after congress convened in December,
1891, l wrote you a letter calling your
attention to the matter. You, within a
few days, sent MI. Symet to my home to
get from me the name of my friend who
I wanted appointed. l did not recollect
the name Of the young man, but gave
you the name OF his father, and re-
ferred you to Senator - as to his
integrity, &c. / also told Mr.. Syme
to say to you to have tho appointment
to take effect upon congress reconven-
ing, after the holidaysS and that this
would suit me. Soon after the holidays
o sent Mr.. Syme to my house, and re-
ouested me through him to call to see
YOU at your Office, which | did. You
then said to me, that you had made in
ouiries about my friend and that he
was all right, but that you did not know
for certain that you could have the APP
pointment made, but hoped that you
could, and il you could not have the APP
pointment made, that you would make
other appointments to me, l told you
frankly and promptly that while l
would like to have the place for my
friend, that it was mainly a question OF
dollars and cents to me. l saw you sew
eral times during January and wrote