Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-21
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Gregory's Reply to Hill.

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Gregory's Reply to Hill.
Editor Oil Review:
Dear Sir:-In your issue of
june IL an article appeared sign
ed by one T. P. Hill of Middle
bourne, Tyler county, attempting
to refute charges made against
him by myself and others. Mr..
Hill in part says that sit is a fact
that met at the Fort Henry club,
in Wheeling, April 10, 1904, II. G..
Richards, John A. Howard, s. g..
Pyle, Randolph Stalnaker and
others. There was no conspiracy,
no money offered me by Stalna-
ker, the B. & O. Railroad company
or any representative of the COM
pany; neither have | received one
cent from the company, etc." In
answer to this I desire to state
that I charged Mr.. Hill openly on
the stump in Tyler county during
the late campaign with having
gone to Wheeling on April 10,
1904, accompanied by one S. G.
Pyle, his political manager and
guardian, and there on that Sab
bath day met by appointment one
Ran. Stalnaker, the special repre-
sentative and lobbyist for the B.
g. O. railroad; and did at that
meeting connive and conspire
with said Stalnaker and others to
defraud in the Republican pri-
mary. 1 say now, this is true! Mr..
Hill never denied openly Che
might have done so secretly any
of the charges brought against
him, but comes out after the con-
vention and says that the charges
are false. Now, let's see and dis
cuss the circumstances. In the
first place, what was Mr.. Hill and
his guardian, Mr.. Pyle, doing in
Wheeling on Sunday, April 10,
1904 Why did they 60 there if
not by appointment with Mr.. Stall
maker? How could either he or
Pyle ever have gotten into the
Fort Henry club? Anyone who is
acquainted with either of them,
and with the character of the
membership of the club well
knows that neither of the Tyler
gentlemen could have gotten into
the parlors of that organization
otherwise, save and except with
the use of a broad axe or crow bar.
No one supposes that the money
to be used by Mr.. Hill furnished
by the B. 60. would be handed
out openly at the meeting referred
to above, but | do say now, as l
have said before, that it is true
that Hill was furnished funds by
the B. & O. Railroad company to
purchase votes, election clerks and
commissioners. I say that it is
also true that Hill was furnished
funds by the American Book COM
pany to be used in the purchase OF
votes, election clerks and COM
missioners. I say further that a
goodly portion of these funds
were used-how much no one can
state. But | do know, and can
name numerous persons who re-
ceived from Hill certain sums OF
money. / do know that Homer l..
Bowser, one of the election clerks
at Wolf Pen precinct, was offered
money by Hill only a few days
prior to the primary. Everyone
knows of the wholesale fraud and
steal in Sistersville. Hundreds
can testify as to the use of the
"red card" system for the bene-
fit of Hill in this city and that over
one hundred purchased voters
were sent into the booths at the
Jones hose houes precinct there to
have their tickets fixed for Hill
and other candidates by one Lee
Frantz, a poll clerk. Hill is aware
that his Al majority in Tyler coun-
ty was gotten by fraud, and that
he was not then, nor is he now, the
choice of the qualified Republi-
cans of Tyler county. If he was
not familiar with that feature of
the election, why was he so anx-
ious to suppress an investigation
Why did his lieutenants prevail