Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-05-19
THE FAlRMONT CONVENTION
THE REPUBLICANS TURN OUT ALL
AL0NG THE LINE.
THE CHICAGO DELEGATES. THE
NAME OF BLAINE SETS THE
CONVENTION WILD WITH
ENTHUSIASM.

ENTHUSIASM.
NOTES BY THE WAY. THE AIR FULL
OF POLITICS.
Getting out of town once in a
while during years of close applica-
ton to work and constant Office con-
tinement, is like getting into new
world. Mind and body become
cramped by following the routine of
life and labor too long without re.
Taxation or diversity. Intercourse
with nature hroadens the view and
space Itself inspires the mind with
thoughts and emotions unknown in
solitude. Business-making a living
keeps many of US housed up too
much, to the injury of health and
the loss of good spirits and happi-
ness.
A ride over the picturesque B. &
O. always discloses something new,
especially when in company with
someone familiar with the country.
Among the delegates on the train
was Mr.. A. Trump, of Kearneysville,
who has travelled through many of
the mountain districts, and is ac-
quainted with the nature of the
country and the habits of the PEG.
ple,- though, perhaps, in his travels
he has noted more particularly the
growth of the timber and knows as
much about walnut lumber as any
timber man in the state, as to the
quality and worth. While the rest
talked about politics he talked lum-
Der and showed that he understood
his business as we'll as the politl-
clans did theirs.
OF the Berkeley delegates, some
went on Tuesday afternoon, the
rest at night. Those present were ::
Messrs. z. S. Morgan, George w.
Feidt. Milt. Lamon, Robt. Horner,
Jos. 4. Ahern, c. G. Daily, Geo. NJ.
Bowers chairman of the delegation),
c. FL. Quenzel, Col. Mcdonald, Mr.
Patterson, Grant Pitzer, Henry Car
ter and Stephen Elan. All were
well pleased with the trip.
From Keyser on the delegates be.
gan filing up the train and from
there to Fairmont there was nothing
but politics and politicians. The
Conductor. one Of the cleverest cap
tains on the road, himself republi-
can, declared that his passengers
all looked so much alike that he had
to call for tickets every time he pass
ed through the train. AS the ugliest
man In the good looking crowd we
felt highly complimented.
The Republicans showed their in.
terest in the convention and their
confidence Of success this fall, by
coming long distances and in large
numbers,-eight hundred tickets of
admission having been issued to del.
egates. Some of the Grant County
men rode twenty miles on horseback
to get to the railroad station, and L.
NJ. Wade, ESQ.,, of Braxton, we be-
heve, formerly at the Distillery here,
the papers say rode forty miles on a
mule to be at Fairmont on time. He
goes to Chicago and he deserves to
go there in a palace car.
At Keyser the Grant and Mineral
County delegations came in with re-
endorsements from the INTERIOR
voters who never knew anything but
Republican principles. Mr.. Arnold
g. Scherr was one of their most
popular leaders, a prominent mer.
chant and wooden manufacturer,-.ex-
sheriff of Grant County and one of
the Chicago delegates in 1884. With
him was Mr.. Geo. Hartman, another
strong and able Republican leader,
former member of the Legislature,
and now prominently spoken OF as
one of the available men tor Con-
gress from this district.
Learning that we we're from the
home of Mr.. Flick, there was gen.
eral inquiry after his health and the
most sympathetic expressions of re-
greet over his misfortune. So at the
convention, his name aroused the
personal sympathy and political sen.
timent of all, from which it was easy
to gather the hopeful opinion pre-.
vailing that he was yet to be the
popular representative of the Second
District in Congress.
About thirteen miles above Gum.
berland the train slowed up at Raw
ling's where wrecking crew we're
at work, removing the fatal wreck.
age in which Engineer Woodruff
and Fireman Kitzmiller met their
tragic ends.
The wreck lay right between the
b. IL o. and the w. Va. Central
tracks. Several cars were loaded
with fragments of iron, splintered
frames, &C., and the ground around
was deeply torn up, in which parts
of cars had been imbedded.