Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-16
ROW Anour rHIs. COLE

i licans 10 brlbe Delegate HARR TO vote
to seat Corr as Governor by the offer of
the Mine Inspectorship and $1,000 In
good, hard cash, maybe he knows
something about the efforts OF
MATTHEWS, RAY and PoTEET to bride
Delegate SHELTON TO vote for GOFF for
United States Senator. For fear that
his memory may be equally faulty in
this matter we reproduce interesting
extracts regarding it as follows:
From the report Of the special committee TO
/ tprestigIte the charges OF brtbery.-houSe
Journal, fSS9-pGgcS $50 10 &C.,
/ MIR. shelton sworn. = 1t was along
! about the first OF Jandary-the first week
/ OF January I think, Mr.. A. Q. Ray, we
| called him Colonel, that is he was Known
/ in our country as Col. Ray; and 1t was IN
Lincoln county, on White creek, and IN the
/ shantv OF Mr.. Gill; He came there
/ and asked some OF them outside If was in
/ the shanty, and they said l was. He said
/ he wanted to see me and l went out. DE
\ told me he wanted to sec me on some Ousi-
| ness. 1 stepped around the corner or the
! house and told him that was far enough;
/ and then he said that it was particular bus
/ mess and that he meant business and sug-
/ gested that we so down the road some
\ sixty yards from the house. We went
! down there and sat down. he then told
me that he wanted to secure my
/ services for q while. He said my
/ services would be valuable TO him,
/ also 20 me; I told him l was Just getting
/ ready to come to Charleston and that he
! could not secure my services at that time.
! He also told me if 1 would MAKE trip out
/ West with him and not come back until
they had organized, he would give me $500.
/ 81, 600, and finally got up TO $1,000.
/ he said: II DO not want you 10 vote until
| they have organized; do not want you to
/ vote" He said the reason he offered me
this offer was because 1 was poor; and that
/ if l did not accept il someone else would
| take IT, I told him that he would have 10
! hunt some other boy, that he had the wrong
one. That Is al he said; and he asked me
! to keep 10 secret; to say nothing about 1t.
BE said that we would take trip
/ out West az his expense, and that could
pick out a location out there, and that If
1900 would not buy il, and that If it would
take 8, 800 he would secure it for me.
Q. BY Mr.. Llveiy-"GO on and toll all
you know before you stop
A. sSince came here Mr. Henry POteet
] came here, and after we had adjourned one
day, told me that he wanted 10 have con-
| versation with me. had known the gem
| tleman for good while and told MIN
''Al right, - we would go to my poarolng-
house We began talking about the cleo
ton Of United States Senator. 1 told him
that I did not know who would be elected;
told him was Kenne man. He said ne
did not think Mr.. Kenna would be elected
| this time; he also said that If Mr.. Con was
elected be would get government posi-
ton. He said that he and Mr. Con were
relatives, too. He said TO me, III
you viii help 20 elect COT, l have this from
headquarters, you shall have LOU" he
| then asked me how / would like TO have
position. 1 told him 1 didn't know. He
said you may have the place promised
| me.n or you can get the place promised
me if YOU will help TO elect GOH." told
him that / could not vote for Cot under
any consideration, that my constituents
had sent me here 70 vote for John %. Renna
He said that the Democratic party was go
ing to split up on John E. Kenna, and pro-
vided Cot can be elected promise you
this and have il from headquarters. [
got Up and left him then and went in to
| see the laudlady to see IL he was going TO
stay there told the lsndledy that l did
not want him put in my room any moro
and that if sue put him ia there any more
/ would not stay
O. Have YOU any knowledge or infor-
nation OF any other members Of the LegiS-
lature he approached at any time before or
since the beginning Of the session, or meet
ing of the Legislatu-eW
A. 81 have heard that there are some
two or three more but have not their
names"
In the testimony Of JOHN W. CHURCH
Of Barboursville, Mr.. CHURCH said:
"Some days previous to the converting OF
the Legislature, L observed a man by the
name Of ThomasiJ. Matthews Of Hunting
| ton. w Va, in the town Of BarbOurSville
I and I remarked 70 q friend that he ives un-
doubtedly after something that was not
exactly right He, this Thomas j.
Matthews, is a member Of the Republican
| party; so am I. He, meaning his
friend. put in an appearance again after
Mr.. Matthews hao left, and he told me
what he, Mr.. Matthews, was up 20; he told
me that he was on his way 70 bride the
delegate from Lincoln county TO vote for
Nathan Goff for United States Sc nator
When RAY himself was brought be-
fore the committee and examined under
oath, after one or two Intellectual efforts
at evasion he broke down and acknowl-
edged that MATTHEWS had offered him
s., 900 to get Mr.. SHELTON, out Of the
State for "irom ten days to three
weeks" the time covering the election
of Senator by the Legislature. Mr..
RAYS testimony is more interesting
and spicy than that quoted above.
He was forced to acknowledged the
truth OF the charge regarding the in
famous attempt Of the GoFF managers
to reverse the verdict the people had
rendered at the polls.
The uDshot OF the matter was that
| MATHEWS and POTEET very sud-
denly left the State aud have not yet
answered the criminal proceedings still
pending against them.
Since Col. HART. who was on the
ground all the while, is so intensely ig-
norant Of the attempt to bride HARR to
vote for GoFF for Governor, maybe II
will refresh his memory to read the
Journal Of 1889, and the sworn testi-
mony Of Republicans as well as Demo-
Gratis regarding the attempt to bride
SHELTON to vote for GoFF for Senator.
THAT SLUMP.
Here's nerve. Listen to what Col.
/ ~r r. III. - 30 49, n,ort .b, Mi,