The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-12-19
A WEST VlRGINlAN
WHO TAKES A JUST PRIDE In HIS
STATE.
Not Only Is Our Natural Wealth and its
Development Attracting Attention
but Our Public Men ms Well.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Dec. 11.-My
State pride has been tickled dozen
times over since / came to town by
the compliments bestowed upon
West Virginia BY strangers from ev-
cry section of our great country.
The wonderful strides we are making
all along the lines of material pros
perity have attracted the attention
and challenged the admiration of
men of business thrift and energy,
and they are seeking to know more
of US and our hidden and undevelop-
ed resources. The fact that the tire
less iron horse is racing along our
rivers and across our valleys and
over and through bill and noun
tains, dragging after him the prod
ucts of our mines and mills TO
ready and remunerative market be-
gets feeling of jealousy in some
minds and desire in others to be
partakers with us in the possibilities
with which the near future is preg-
nant. And when ! tell eager inquirers
that we have coal enough to supply
the demands of the whole earth for
hundred years; that we could fur
nish the coke for all the smelling
furnaces of christendom for future
ages; that the extent of our forests
of the finest varieties of timber
for building and manufacturing pur-
poses are yet unknowable except
upon personal inspection, awe sue
ceeds wonder and curiosity gives
place to anxiety for further particu-
lars. My brethren of the press have
done much to spread our fame
abroad, and they have been ably sec
onded by our worthy representatives
in the two Houses of Congress.
Gov. Fleming's carefully prepared
articles are bearing good fruits. and
the wise and intelligent efforts Of
Col. st. Clair, our Worlds Fair Com
missioner, to direct attention to our
sources of hidden wealth will return
to US an hundred fold. / am prouder
of West Virginia than ever before in
my life, and would not exchange my
allegiance for patent to nobility
on the gold coast of Africa or the
diamond fields of Australia.
Nor is it because of these things
alone that | am proud of my State.
Numbers, considered, she is more
ably represented in both Houses of
Congress than any other State in the
Union. Senators Kenna and Faux
ner are universally esteem
ed, in and out of congress, as
the equals of the best in debate
either on the floor of the Senate or on
the stump, and far superior to the
majority. Mr.. Wilson, of the Sec
ond District, has charmed thousands
with his eloquence and irresistible
logic. Messrs. Pendleton, of the
First District, and Anderson of the
Third, are both bright attractive
young men, who by their charac-
ter, correct habits and gentlemanly
department, have drawn around them
invaluable acquaintance among
their associates who stand ready to
aid in any landable undertaking, and
confidently predict for them both a
brilliant and useful future. Mr..
Capehart, of the Fourth, is already
recognized as one of the solid, sub
stantial business men of the House,
active, alert, and any measure which
attracts his support al all, calls out
his wonderful energy. He has fire.
quently been mistaken for Mr..
Blount, ofGeorgia, who looks enough
like him to be twin brother.