Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-08-08


party of this county when he came
here; and that he has been adding
injury to injury, and mischief to mis-
chief ever since, no sane man will
deny. For ere he came to this town
and organized stragetic bread and
butter brigade, (Which has neither
principle nor fidelity to any partly
unity in our ranks prevailed. and a
Republican nomination conceded a
victory He speaks truly when he
says swe have no interest in the
school management Why should
he? when he has been calling the
principal "CuAy" since he nominated
his friend for Congress in the Grafton
convention, last August, year ago.
I had a preference and manly indie
pendence to advocate ia privilege
that one gentleman invariably grants
another-but this grip-sack editor APP
plauds me for it by clubbing me
'sCufy,' an epithet SO common to
colored people, and never used by a
scholar. or q gentleman. He asks
eWhy cannot men Of property, like
Col. Thompson, be elected against an
opponent with whom there is no COM
parison ?" Whew ! is Richard Boyer
a monkey because he makes his liv-
ing with his coat off? Inasmuch as
he has naturally "down-cast look," y
and wears a beard to screen his fiend-
ish traits, we hope that Mr.. Boyer, if
he is not "Col.' will stoop to make
John 7. Rely smart for his ''compar-
ison." But he wants to know why
Col. T. was not elected. In the first
place, property is no test of manhood,
ability or common sense; nor is it q
requisite to be school commissioner.
Secondly, large majority of the vo-
tiers, hard working brothers of Riley's
inconceivable shape of bone and mus
Gle, preferred the opponent" to the
Colonel and how dare you ostra-
else men for their action at the polls?
Have / been explicit enough in an
sweripg your Weston matured Conun-
drum? Mr.. Boyer, the only way he
can apologize is to say he never looks
a man in The face, and that it was
your shoes he compared to the Coils.
boots. In reference to Socrates
Webster he reminds me of a gnat
that in rage lit upon sleeping lion,
and after doing all the imaginable
harm it could, poised to watch the
fury of the lion After arising he
shook himself, surveyed his surround
ings and started off in search of food.
The gnat, worried because no signs
of injury were shown, asked the lion,
ssAre you hurt ?'' "No.D s'Don't you
feel sore ~ "No." ''Why! I saw
something biting you" The lion ar
rogantly walking off, said, 81 know
nothing of it." If John 7. Reilly had
enough sense he'd feel toward Soc
rates Webster as John did toward
Christ-not worthy to unloose his
shoe latches. We don't know "what
white teacher ever went off to politi-
cal conventions and begged money to
pay anybody's way" But for argu-
ment's sake grant such to be the case,
what would it have to do with the
school question? Were poor fellow
from home, among friends and "hard
up we don't think it would be half
as mean and "dirty" to beg money
with which to return, as it is for q
father to bury his child one day and
on the next go to political conven-
ton and beg for committee honors;
holding up the sorrow through which
he had passed as means to get
them But the "Cheerman" failed
because "Socrates Webster" Curry
and ''Cuffy" were on hand. And with
few rounds he was killed dead. But
to the point. We remember that you,
your "chee7non" and your sold SOL
diern had "Cuhfy" running over
this town with a subscription paper,
begging money to send your "Cuffiesr
to Parkersburg, and I think it is dirty
and mean in you to 'sgive them away
Amt you ashamed of yourself? I
pald my own iafe ana Lhat OF q Trend,
and / never receivednor asked a cent
from him. AS to '.what white teach
er does dirty electioneering work for
Democrats" we don't know; but we
do know of o dough-faced editorial
nonentity, and his posse Of political
parasites to do very "dirty work. to
keer 81 cOlored man from er0inor RI
Chicago. Since then "Cufyn had
chance to, and did change votes
against the same gang that reduced
his majority, and he lives on the alert
to repeat the act against them and
all political hypocrits, who button
hole and muster the Negro on or
about election time, and "Cuffyn him
thereafter; and every colored man
xxrhr, will mt balo ~ I0xur, e11ob a