West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-11-02
Communicated.
EDWARDS cASTIGATED---ATR TRUE
PICTURE OF POPULAR SENTI-
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to see one man who cannot be driven
from line of duty by the abusive
lying of the hirelings of monopoly.
When / look at the men trying to
CRY you down, and then look at your
conduct in life. feel ashamed that
so few of our would-be great men
have courage to giyeyou the endorse
ment in public that they give you in
private. You are right, and every
man who knows anything about po-
litical management in this county
knows you are right. Barring office
seekers, and office holders and "men
on the make" your views are the
views of the solid men in this coun-
ty. l say it to their disgrace, that
the courthouse clique is silent when
you are lied about by the men who
have always been ready to sell out
to monopoly If they thereby could
obtain little place for themselves.
You are thinking about the best
thing for the people, and they are
thinking solely about self advance
ment. Our party in this county
needs few more men not afraid OF
their shadow, men who will speak
out and not play policy all the time.
You were right to ask Charlie
Knott those questions, and | admire
your pluck in refusing to support
him. It's time the yeomanry taught
their bosses that they cannot be
euchred by claptrap about nomina-
tions and party organizations. Ii
party organization means electlng
railroad pimps, then | do not want
any more party organization. l am
supporting Cleveland, because he
represents Democratic doctrine, and
not because he is n nominee. III
Charlie Knott was straight and was
going to vote on the side of the peo-
pie, there would be no necessity OF
all this shouting about organization.
Whenever the ringsters wish to elect
man who is againstthe people, then
they shout about nominations, and
whenever the people are trying to
elect man who will not sell them
out, then the: ringsters have not q
word to say about party organize
ton, but 90 sneaking around helping
the Independent.
You are exactly right on every
question and especially on Knott.
No speaker has ever opposed sim
ole one of the propositions advanced
by you. and yet our so-called party
organizers are insinuating that the
DEMOCRAT is assisting the Republic
cans. Is it assisting Republicans
to expose a railroad pimp? Was it
assisting Republicans for you to ex-
pose the damnable conspiracy OF the
machine politicians in Martinsburg
that saddled ON our party Duckwall?
Was it assisting Republicans when
you begged the ring not to pack the
State Convention at Huntington and
defeat johnson and Wood, the most
popular judges we have ever had on
the Supreme Court? Was it assist
ing Republicans when you begged
the Camden Kenna- Faulkner Trl'
umverate not to ostracize the kick
ers, who compose the best and most
faithful Democrats in the State.
Was it helping Republicans when
YOU advocated Clcveland's nomina-
ton at the time when Kenna, Cam
den, Barnum, German and all OF
that set were trying to kill him off
in order to nominate Hill? Were yOn
helping Republicans when you sup
ported Beckwith when Knott and his
crowd were supporting Higinbo-
than? Did Kenna advise Democrats
to support Beckwith when he was
the regular nominee? Shame, shame
ten thousand times shame on those
who now tuck tail and run before a
clamor made by strikers of monopo-
" not one of whom can look an hon
est man in the eye. Go on in your
good work. The yeomanry of this
county are with you. We have been
so robbed by monopoly, that we
cannot pay much cash towards sup
porting your paper, but appreciate
it all the same.
In conclusion, say you recently
got off two good things that should
be blazoned in gold, and hung up in
every farmers house. One was "Vo-
TING FOR AN UNFIT NOMINEE is NOT A
TEST OF DEMOCRACY AND THE MAN WHO
VOTES FOR A CANDIDATE WHO WILL BE-
TRAY THE PEOPLE is TRAITOR TO DE-
MoCRACY" The other thing was,
DEMOCRACY is sToNGEsT WHEN THE
RANK AND ILEREBEL AGAINST BOSS.
ISM"
Cleveland, Chew, Gibson and wilson
will obtain larger vote than this
county ever gave anybody. But
every true Democrat who thinks for
himself, and who is not run by the
courthouse clique will scratch Knott
off his ticket. II Knott is defeated
the railroad magnates will be taught
that they do not own the people OF
Jefferson county oody and soul
They may RIB us, but we will not
elect their pimps to office. All Knott
had to do was TO answer the ques-
lions, and he would have done ss il
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