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Nov. 8. 1891
Welcome Sweet Rest! Every body is
beaten and everybody Victorious. Han
cock gets to keep his splendid place MS
second in the American Army, and has
his paradise on Governors Island yet
The Funders carried Virginia for him
the Bourbons lost New York for him
Gen. Grant took the stump against him.
By-the-way don't you commit the fol-
ly of reckoning Grants service Of little
worth to Garfield. have mn idea, that
with the heavy load Of ga tariff for rev.
enue only"-the Solid South, John Kel-
ley, the Bourbons, and all that, we
might still have pulled Hancock through
any way, but for Grants campaign for
Garfield on the stump. By-the-way, I
met in town the other day Prof Jno. j.
Stephenson, the Geologist, Of \. Y
| found him very sharp man. lie has
just completed geological survey Of the
country from here to Imboden City,
(Remcmbcr there's not house there
yet, but II will not be long that You can
say so.) He told me that If Hancock
had been elected, and the Democrats had
carried Congress on this anti-tNli(' idea,
the Tinsaia Coal & Iron Co. would have
thrown up the sponge and gone back to
Plttsburg in disgust. They would not
have paid, nor spent another dollar
They would have thrown our n. G. to
the dogs and quit the field. All for the
tariff Why, said he, those men are
men of wealth and business capacity
One of them made fifty thousand dollars
at one sweep the other day. They are
men Of fine capacity, and they would
not come here TO make iron day, If you
take the tariff from pig iron. No not
If you would make them fee simple
deed to Wise county. You see that
would let English iron into the o. 5.
free, and American iron would have TO
come down to the price Of English iron,
and that would bring American labor
down to the price of English labor, and
that means slavery again. So spakc
Prof. Stephenson. Moreover, he said,
these men have at Imbodcn City, the
finest property on this continent. They
can ship half million tons Of coke pei
year for 200 years from two veins OF
their coal, and an immense country must
come to them to get coke, which will be
tho finest article IN the known world
nm 40 often asked what is cokeP that
pausc 10 tell the readers Of the Ncios, II
| ia, 80 to speak, charcoal made from Goa
the coal reduced TO charcoal, Just as
wood ia reduced to charcoal
But again, the Readjusters Of va be-
came alarmed at the rush the Rcpubli-
cans made 60 Garfield, and most Of then
votcd the May ticket and elected II. Sc
the July ticket Is left out In the cool
Just M predicted, the Funders, wh'
sald the state debt was not In this cleo
ton. are now claiming they have The
Readjustcrs beaten. How Is this foI
hlghY q.
Abe Fulkerson ran through . N
vuh'rrlgg, McMullin Goodell G. !
smith. Cook, July Ticket and r. " 5
/ WITH, al on his back If That b'
7 not victory, please let me know you
Views. Abingdon was up to the thlr'
heaven about lust Friday, and fell ~
nard abe burst into shiyer-smoshes.--
coneratulatory Apeeches were made
aud l. h asserted thata coffin was pre-
nor.d for Flllkerson. Our Tennessee
nlsnda are In The dumps. They nav
lost hancock, Wright, hob Taylor an '
rrIpe. If Trgg had been elected sun u
Jam 20 was to be nddod to this "Destrlet "
t,..,,.e nflslul has one more nv