Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1880-09-25
Mr.. Farns,rorth at Charlesto~n.

EDS. FREE Press Hon. Daniel Farnsworth
followed Mr. Wilson on Monday afternoon. He
began by saying that he was once Democrat,
and afterward Republican, Republican Of
the Republicans. That party had left him lie
was still Republican i'll principle, but they
had gone off after false Gods. beginning I'M
mediately after Mr.. Wilson he had a tair-sized
audience. but when he got that far the audience
began TO see the wisdom of the Republicans
and to leave him also.-so that from beginning
of about two hundred he finished up on about
two dozen.
Mr.. +. attacked four things with great yigor,
the two old parties, the b. d .. Railroad, ana
last. tho not least, the Kings English. lie
began on the parties and finished on the Rail-
rad. but gave thunder to the English all the
way through. DISCOUNTED parts of speech flew
with lightning rapidity and yourcorrespondent
could only CLEAN that he was telling the same
old hackneycd story of the Gnashlonal Pm
back Lubber Deform party.
He said he helped TO give us the elective fran
chise. He did his duty, and we are filled WITH
gratitude to him Like Mark Twain's iniorma-
ton it streams from eve, from mouth, from pen,
from every pore-and as we have cold III the
head it even finds vent from our nasal organs
He said Little Hockey" was 'decoy duck to
take votes away from Judge Hoge and himself.
We would like to know whether there WAS not
a mirror in the back of the Courtroom reflect
ing his own spotleSS plumagc.
After having admitted that he himself had
been n member of three different parties-and
had been Hopping for the strong side all ms
life Mr. Farnsworth vcntured To attack the
public acts of Judge Hogc, who, since the days
of the grand old Wing party, has been consis-
tent and representative Democrat. Two years
ago Mr.. Farnsworth contendcd for the Repub-
lican nomination for Congress, as he full OFT
had done before" Two years ago he was array
1 81 l.-f fse.n So a
this District and of this State Disappointed
at not receiving its empty honors, he turns
green-BACKER, and now attempts to arraign a
man who has always had the interests of the
whole people at heart, who has always been
guided by strict sense of duty, who for eight
years has worn spotless ermine and dispensed
Justice without regard 10 color, condition or po-
iitical party, and who will lead the Democracy
on to glorious victory in October. To those
who may hear Mr.. Farnsworth'S attacks upon
Judge lIogc we would simply say, consider
the source
Mr.. +. complains that in the Constitutional
Convention Judge Iiogc voted tn give its print
ing To the regularly constituted Public Printer,
and that the Printer stuck the State for about
S20. OOO on the work Was Judge lIogc To- blame
for the Printers dishonesty? Mr. FarnSwUth
forgot to say at this point that that Public Prin-
ter is to-day the candidate for Congress in the
TE:rl District of the Gnashonal Pin-hack Lub-
Der Dysom party, as he himself is in this
District
Mr.. +. told what ne would do if he got To
Congress, explained Utopian railroad scheme,
and closed with the words, when yotcOme to
the polls, | ask YOU not to forget your humble
speaker" and ere the echoes OF lis Fiaintive
appeal had died away tie l;ess lniteTer Of thche
role two dozen had departed, and Farnsworth
sailed forth to new fields of conquest
N'IaPoPTE.