Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-30
Mr.. DUNLAP ANSWERED..
SIR. saIathIeI Curtis Calls Attention 20
Numerous Mtsstatements'

Numerous Misstatoments'
WEST LIBERTY, VIVA, October p
II was not nv desire 10 enter into
controversy in the papers when i "foVe
nv 6rst communication. thouRus
there was two sides to this question anu
epdeavored 70 state my side talrly' ou'
see an article In the issue OF the III
trrJigencer of the 18th inst. from the pen
of w. NJ. Dunlap 10 which he makes
DpbIic parads of distress and epitnetS,
and charges me with wilfully mlsrepre-
senting things ia this section. especially
~ land. Now what establishes the price
oFIand is what it will sell for at puOlc
apctiop. or trades resembling the oio
Indian story OF tha 81, 600 hound. The
Drices which quoted were what those
farms which ] referred TO sold Tor aiter
one or more trials at public auction
which eau be proven.
As 20 the Dunlap property my n5st
article stated that 10 was sold 10 MI
Craven for 81 600 aud was recently sold
for 90 600. which Mr.. Dunlap denies.
Now he paid 500 for his portion. Mrs
ShiDe articled 90 pay Sl,sOO Tor tns re-
mainder. This makes 5000 TOT the
whole. which bears me out 10 my nrst
statement. Improvements, ne says,
we're the cause Of this advance OF
price. Allow me 20 refer the gentie,
man TO a conversation which was held
IN NV presence between his brother ana
himself. about one year ago, Ia which
they stated that the improvements upon
| ,bls property had gone down until IL
was bpt little better than naked prop
/ erty. ,r-i...
As 10 the John Curtis farm, while 1t Is
| trina that Mr. Thomas Hartley did pay
| Mr.. Craven 81 900 for his bargain out
/ urop reflection be saw his mistake.
/ Nessrs. Gates, Hammond and Hartley
with the assistance OF Mr.. Dunlap, sue
ceeded To trading property by which the
/ prices which he quoted on this Iarm anu
The Rucbannon farm were obtained.
/ n is true said nothing IN regard to
the improvements, neither did Mr. Dun
Ian in his first interview, but be says
! this farm was sold this last winter on
easy payments. Allow me TO INFORM
vou that Mrs. Lawton received the CASH
in full and not 10 payments.
He says 10 was distress which caused
the two other farms.tO which REFERRED
TO sell so low. 80.
Did he tell you that he was one oil the
bidders az the Harvey sale aud were on
such bad terms shat they were gong 10
Bgpt on this same day? This is what
he calls sympathy. He tells us II any
of the REGISTERS readers desire TO Ouy
land at the quoted prices, he would De
would rather boast Of these farms than
sell them, for TO conversation with Mr..
Leroy Alexander on the twenty fifth
instant, be said that be told Mr.. Dun
lap, some six or eight months since,
that when be found a we'll improved
farm OF 100 TO 125 acres, in this vicinity,
that he would 6nd buyer. Mr.. Dun
lay has not vet responded.
Perhaps &c does not agree with his po-
| litical doctrine 10 sell farms at this time
at good prices.
He says that before the last election
/ that I said If Cleveland was elected wool
! would bring 40 cents a pound, but he
\ forgets about the cry OF the Republican
\ party in the memorable Garfield cam
| psRn which promised US so cents q
I pound, and when the season came round
I we received 30 cents instead OF so cents
| as they proclaimed, aud IL has continued
TO fall year to year until it reached IS
cents under the Mckinley law. But
under the Wilson bill there has been one
shipment from West Alexander at %
cents already.
He says that would have your read
ers believe that the cause OF the ruinous
prices OF the farmers products was on
account OF the drouth. He wants to
know who ever heard Of drouth making
s cent wool or IS cent wheat What
l said was that the drouth was the cause
OF the low prices Of farm stock.
The cause OF IS cent wool and 45
cent wheat is on account Of the pro-
lection hobby which has closed us out
Of foreign markets.
Mr.. Dunlap tells us that when the
smoke has cleared away on the morn
ing Of the 9Th we will find that the Re-
publicans have carried this district by
the iarEest majority for twenty years.
Surely be has been studying his