The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1870-09-19
rae sTATR on BRAXToN.
OUR TRIP THERETO.

JouEhey VI pieaSure-tO-ylslt our iTienus u
BraxtOn. On many previous occasions
We had been solicited to make tour o.
this famous county; but adverse circum'
stances had heretofore prevented US from
doing SO. At length. mounted on sOme
fast stock from Gilmer, VIC struck out fol
Ellis Singleton's- Salt Lick being our OBJ
jeetive point for that day. At jackson.
vile our heart was made glad by the
smiling counteuances of host of friend.
foremost among whom we're George l.
Dawson and John Arnold. George has
the best store in the county; and-is doing
a business which would open the eyes oil
our Weston merchants, wero they to OBJ
servo the amount Of cash which daily
passes over his counter. John Arnold is
the same old John-eyer ready with all
that is good for man and beast. After q
good dinner, We rode along. in due time
arriving at the residence of our old friJnd
Moses Cunningham, who so recently eI-
posed the rascality Of the radical candi-
date for Gubernatorial honors. We found
"Mose" busy building wagon; but as
certainsd that he had day or two pre-
vious been brought up before the radical
Grand Jury at Sutton. His loil brother,
John c., or some other radical equally as
mean, had brought the fact OF Moses
writing letter to the Governor before
the Grand Jury, and IN attempt was
mado to indict him, but without effect.
BY little cute trick Nose had found out
some Of the inner workings Of the radical
machine : and they were anxious to shut
his mouth by fear Of an indictment; but
Moses Cunningham is not the kind Of q
man to be searcd-eyen by radical
Grand Jury. and the whole thing was o
disgraccful farce upon the Grand Jury
system. TIE nHAocRAs containing Mr..
Cunningham's letter 20 Nd was the psinci-
pal evidence against.him. We now call
upon Mr.. Cunningham to furnish US
either the original letter frsm the Cover
nor, or copy thereof. The radicals
have done their bes.-let US pay them
back.
Towards night we halted ut Salt Lick
Bridge, and held friendly converse until
the ''wee snla' hours" With those sterling
Democrats and true gentlemen, W. D.
Rollyson and Ellis, Singleton. They re-
ported business as brisk and radicalisu'
below par. BY the way, during our stay
they received from Baltimore aud New
York on entirely new stock Of goods
the best assortment we have ever seen in
q country store. Our friends therea-
bouts will do well to call early and secure
bargains.
Early on The following morning We ar
rived iniSutton-the seat Of government.
We cannot boast to any degree Of the
great inducements to tho traveller TO visit
this place. unless it be to stop at John
Kelley's hotel-we always stop at Johns,
and advise our friends to do likewise. 1t
is town hard to describe. There is Just
a little too much business to make the
place romantic enough for a ruined city
and too much ruins to make it attractive
as place Of business. Tho war and the
subsequent blighting cru of radical poll
tics have reduced it to an hcrmophraditic
condition-h6ldiug the title Of the county
seat and not as much business going on in
the whole place as would make it pro6ta-
bic to corne. grocery. Alas poor
Sutton Once thou might have vast but
now no more art thou Wufadam! ."Court"
was in session during our stayin this place;
and our venerable female friend "Gran-
niep Irvine rendered her decisions with
the usual garrulous manner of her sex.
four other female readers will please not
be offended, for there are good and bad
women wherever you 60. Miss Irvine
We place in the latter class The Grand
Jury, after failing to indict Moses Cum
uingnam, then took up design Gnsti-
gated, no doubt, by high Judicial nuthor-
ity) ofipdicting some sixty men who had
attempted to register. This. like the
other farce, fell Hat; but the reason for it
is plain. The radicals of Braxtou see
that if they cannot succeed in still fur
thcr eoleing dorn The people, their power
is gone. The Democracy of our sister
county ore aroused-they know their
rights, and they dare maintain them
hence these miserable aitempts-at the
expense of the Taxpayers Of the county,