Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-01-27
ALL SERENE.
Col. Poster Says There Is No
Truth in the Alleged K.
of P. Rumpus.


First time the statement Has Been
Questioned Published in All the Pa
pers at the time the Election Was
held--We got it this time From the
+. State J0urnal---An African i'm the
W00dpile-- Gard from the Colonel.
On Tuesday this paper reprinted a
clipping from the Parkersburg State
Journal in regard to an alleged rum
pus in the X. of Ps. over the election
Of Col. Pesten's successor as colonel.
When the election was held the same
kind of stuff was printed in all the
papers of the state and no denial was
made Of the correctness of the news.
The card of Col. Posten denies that
the condition said to exist has any
real being. We are glad to hear this
from the colonel and take pleasure in
publishing bis card in regard to the
matter, only regretting that he did
not make the denial at the time it
was first published The card is as
follows:
Editor NEW DOMINION:
Will you please allow me the space
and privilege to say in regard to the
article you clipped in your Tuesdays
issue from the Parkersburg State
journal, that the article as well as
your comment on it is misleading and
does myself as well as the first regi-
ment Z. r. X. of p. an injustice.
One of the editors of the State Jour
nll was present in Charleston at the
time of the regimental meeting and
had previously promised to be present
at this meeting and vote for Captain
Geiger, but he and his two lieuten-
ants failed to put in their appearance,
and no doubt this same officer was the
writer of the article, and undoubtedly
refers to himself when he says, "From
what we are able to learn from a com
pany officer residing in this city we
are led to believe, :" sc. This officer
ought to know, and no doubt does,
that ten companies out Of twelve had
declared in favor Of Captain Geigers
election, and that eight Of the ten
companies were present and voted to
cessor. The only two companies
which opposed Captain Geiger's cleo
ton did not have single line officer
present to offer an objection or vote
against my successor. AS to your
comment on this article in which you
say ''The officers who participated in
the election was very much stirred up
hop 1af ha
when it was held, declining to be
present." is altogether wrong and is
misleading, as no officer present who
had vote was ''stirred up over it"
as every one present was of one choice
and voted solidly for Captain Geiger.
There was only one person who left
the room and he had no vote, and
this same person was the man who
wanted to be my successor, and who
ten of the twelve companies did not
want. He is the same man who en-
tered protest and sent it to Major
General Carnahan who, after carefully
investigating the entire proceedings
for several weeks declared the election
a legal one, issued Captain Geiger's
COMMISSION DIS c0l0HeI Oh Tie UTSU reg
iment u. r. X. of p The major
general in answering the protest over
ruled every objection made, and sus-
tanned me in every decision and all
the rulings | made. Every one who
was present or even in a position to
know, was satisfied with the result,
but there were few dissatisfied ones
who would not attend the meeting
because they were in the minority,
and who / suppose will keep on kick
ing until they are kicked out of the
order.
There have been other articles
printed by state papers that were
guessed at and very untrue, and if
any paper wishes to publish the facts
in the case they can do so by reading
Major General Canadians decisions
on the protest and appeal, which gives
both sides in detail
Very truly yours,
S. A PosTEN.