Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-11-13
Lessons Of the Election.

Thereverend gentleman, after asserting that
public opinion is a mighty angel" passed
ON TO some of the lessons taught by Tues
DAVIS election: lst-that " God defends the
weak End" the rebuke of SANDER Srd
the condemnation of political cOrrup-
ton" The closing moral lessons urged as
deducible from the elections were fidelity
10 promises and the enthronement of Proyi
dcnce as the giyer of prosperity" We are
pleased to observe that he is teaching that
the prosperity of the country was the gift of
Providence, rather than of the Republican
party-though the lesson is learned a little
late
Rev. Mr.. Birkens preached from Matthew
IN. Is But go We and learn what that
meaneth.' The lesson hesaw in the election
was unworthy leader, rebuked defiance
to the bosses"-that the most solemn
pledges uttered before his election by Mr.
Garfield will be required at his hands"
Rev. DIR. Collyer took as his text: "Of
man who lied for his party"-Gashmu.-
The reverend gentleman then proceeded to
draw some lessons from the old time. He
said:
Il suppose Gashmu was Il man whose
word went q long way in his town and State.
There are Gashmus i'm society, in our church
c- and in the nation Gashmu is said to
D.. the most certain >even-barrel repeater in
the whole internal armOry. The great
trouble ia politics and in the nationis Cash
ma who lies for his party. When things
wax ierycnt, as they have done for the past
six months. look out for Gashmu. One day
me will slide lie 10y inference into letter;
another day he Will hide barbed arrow in
q local then YOU shall find him lurking IN
leader, and then i'm the sting OF an epigram.
There was @ little touch of danger once that
should be nominated for Congress. May
the heavens defend me from such adOOm,"
[ said Why GaShmu will say let my
mother live away in the workhOuSe, and the
+ DE will 90 20 the mountains before truth can
ret her shoes ON. C,ashmu in the nation
breaks out everywhere, and if God did not
intend % make our walls strong through
good and true men. in spite of the worst he
can do. Gashmu would bc our ruin. lie Is
no; the deliberate liar and iorgcr of lies that
AN men brand him. We know what to do
with these We give them their thirty
pieces of silver and bid them 90 to their
own place He Is the man OF a fair name
who speaks out of a narrow and bad spirit
of the man he does not like and the party he
/ does not like. and his cOuntcrfets pass for
gold among those of his own side. With
AN the power for mischief Gashmu came to
nothing before this man, who wanted to do
the best he could for his country and found
that Gashmu said il was of no more use 10
hinder the building than a pewter spoon
would have been % carry it on. 1t was
common rum0r and Gashmuon one side and
honesty and truth ON the other, and so it
was no wonder which went down. Then
lot us take care we arr not of the breed our
selves. II Is one of the most subtle sins we
know Of fear none OF Us are quite IN
n0cent Gashmus amongministers, lawyers,
doctors and men generally are Is plenty rs
blackberries in "A good year. We must pity
Gashmu"
Rev. Joseph Bradford Cleavcr, Of the
Church of the Diciples " preached from
isaiah IN, u. lie defined politics as the
science of human wcll-being,' and upon
this ground he justified himself in choosing
a political subject for his discourse from the
pulpit. Speaking of General Garfield who
belongs To the preachers religious denomi-
nation. DIR. Clcavcr said: For the first time
i'm the nations history Christian, pure and
simple. without dcaominational ties, has
been elevated TO the chair of Washington.
The career of this man, the majestic pose
maintained, despite the assaults of malice,
tal-chood and forgery, line with hope. \
man can be q politician, a statesman, a SER
want of the people, and still be teacher of
the sunday school, wise parent, a loving
husband. a dutiful son to al widowed mother
and member of a congregation of Chris
t,aus. The people have SIT the stamp of
approval upon the coin of his character |
pray God TO hold him clean and enlarge his
usefulness lie then went on to indicate
the duty of the Republican party. He said:
It must set it, face to the future and its
back To- the past. Ii must not boast of what
Ed has done To be living on recollection>
of the past Is q sure mark of dccadcncc and
'iI a-I- L uN ltI u'llN'iA pau ut"Nts liiNt
of all, see Co it that the government be hon
est. For twenty years the credit Of the
United States has been maintained. The
icspi,cd greenback has been exalted and
crowned with yellow gold and our bondsare
worth more than any other nations in the
world. But millions of war debt still re-
main Co be paid Let there BE no scaling
down, no shadow of reputation. Our bonds
must bc refunded to- three or three and one
half per cent and the silver bill repealed.
/ We want mo- more cighty-siX cent dollars
| I'm the second place the the republican par
I ,y must keep the nation just. We must
maintain our treaty obligations. \ fierce
clamor has been raised over the meek-cyed
Chulman. and statesmen of the Denis kear-
ney stripe have declared as their uitimatum
that the "Chiuamm must go" Butshould
we abrogate the Buriingamc treaty to please
demagogucS and hoodlumS? Cinnamon do
not hll our pcniteutiarie>, they are not street
/ brawlers, they do NOT claim charity. There
are other classes of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and ticket-ofleavc-mcn-that We could bet
ter shut out from our midst chan the inot-
tcuSive Chinaman. The speaker cnumerat-
cd among thc duties of the republican par
( ty the necessity for stopping the bulldozing
of voters North and South, the checking of
the expressions of capital upon labor, the
restoring OF our merchant marine and COM
% p NH q f..r.