The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-04-13

W. WIZ ovHhC Vui iCpuUutiOu do
prophet ON the prediction that with
in the next twenty four months there
will be big summer hotel here
crammed full of guests.
Paste this in your hat.
The New DOMINION has already
entered several predictions in this
line, and they are already in fulfil.
ment. Our own people begin to sec
it and the real estate market has
taken squirt.
Look out for new developments
very soon.
Our boom is on
Our Own District ATTORNEY.
President Harrison did not con
suit us, but he probably anticipated
our wishes in the matter of bis APP
pointment of u. s. District Attor.
ney.
We had contemplated giving him
hint in this issue of the New Do
AINIoN, as will appear by consulting
the first page, but as the appoint
ment was made before he got that
although not before it was in
print-we cant attribute his selec-
tion of Mr.. Sturgiss to that sugges-
ton.
However, we are just as well pleas
ed and happy over President Harri-
sons selection, as if it had been
made at our own instance Because
VIC regard the appointment of Mr..
Sturgiss as creditable not only to
Mr.. Harrison's Judgment but believe
it to be for the good of the public
service.
Mr.. Sturgiss is lawyer and a
gentleman. He will do no discredit
to the important office he has been
called to fill He will discharge its
duties with marked ability, with
conscientious fidelity and integrity
of purpose, and with uniform and
gentlemanly courtesy toward all
concerned. Neither is Mr.. Sturgiss
of that narrow and bitter type of the
partisan who would be incapable of
discharging the duties of his office
impartially. His Republicanism is
pronounced enough, but he is broad
enough between the eyes to see both
sides of question and to respect an
opponent,
The people of this community, with
whom Mr. Sturgiss has been identi-
fed through most of his life, will,
without respect to party, rejoice over
his appointment, and the only cause
of regret we can have is that it re-
moves him for the greater part of his
time to other fields and precludes to
a large degree, his active efforts in
behalf of our local development, in
which he has been so influential and
successful.
In connection with Mr. Sturgiss'
appointment we desire to say that
we have an example in Judge Berk-
shirc's conduct of self-sacrifcing
and noble friendship which does
credit to his heart, and of which we
N are almost as proud as we are of the
appointment of Mr.. Sturgiss.
The Thirtieth of April.
1t is especially appropriate that
we should observe the centennial of
the Inauguration of George Wash
ington.
There never was time when we
needed more to recur to the example
Of Washington.
The contrast between the modern
Executive and the first Executive
ought to be instructive The first
was for his country. The last was
for spoils.
If George Washington can look
down from his present abode upon
the spectacle of modern President
distributing the spoils of office at
each recurring change of party adj
ministration, he must feel an almost
uncomfortable impulse to come back
to earth and publish new edition
Of his farewell address.
We need to have pointed out semi
occasionally to the rising genera
tions that the original purpose of
this government was not to make
offices and pay salaries for the party
which can poll the most votes, and
to enable the successful party to en-
joy them, but above and beyond
these, there was patriotic purpose
formerly entertained by statesmen,
to provide government of the peo-
pie, for the people and by the people
in which every citizen could have
secured to him the blessings OF life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But the latter objects have become
so far secondary to the question of
spoils that the growing generation
" ii danger of entirely overlooking
the original purposes Of our govern
ment.
Hence we say that it is meet that
we should celebrate the inaugura-
ton of the first President We
ought not to allow the day to pass
without some local observance in
which all should participate. We
need To have our dormant sentiments
Of patriotism stirred up as much as
any other section of the country.