The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-11-19
Brought Forth A Mouse.

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Brought Forth A Mouse.
i How the Mountain labored to bring
forth mousse! That Mountain has
% Ring on its name. Its better known
as the Morgantown Official Republi
can Ring. 1t made the slate for the
various nominees to be voted for at
the late election-None Others had
any show or chance. Their decree
was omnipotent.
This Ring, with its hired aid OF
old men and beardless boys, and men
recently imported here from below,
have secured the country day and
night, harranging and attempting to
deceive the very elect; and left the
slime of their feet daily and nightly
at every school house and cross roads
in the country, loaded with kind
of political literature, that no candid
or sensible man would carry, for dis
tribution among the people, And oh
such speeches as they made to the
people, was shame to Christian
people. But they also carried the
Elkins Doodle 80 buy up voters with !;
but poor Steve Elkins, the last seen
of him he was trying to crawl into
his hole, and pull the hole in after
him. These intelligent and con
scientious speakers never failed to
tell their dear hearers, that they were
going to carry this State certain, for
Ben Harrison and Tom Davis, and
that they were also going to elect
their National and State tickets Ger
tain, and would roll up Republican
majority for them in this county of
at least fifteen hundred.
And the nearer the election came
the harder they worked, until it is
said the Ring hardly knew what
sleep was. But why write about what
the people saw for themselves This
is the way the seething mountain la
bored; and 10! what is the result?
They carried this county by large
ly decreased majority; and lost the
State by at least five thousand ma
jority grand and quadrupled ma
jority over the elections of 1883, and
wonderful to tell, lost the Presiden-
tial electors everywhere leaving very
little to tell that there had been any
Republican party candidates in the
field. Oh Heavens! what a little
mouse it is; but the child is as large
as its daddy 1t is called a Demo
cratic victory, but it is more 1t is
called a-Republican defeat, but it is
more. 1t is called gigantic land
slide; but it is even more than this;
for it is as if the bowels of the earth
had been opened up and swallowed
the grand old party into it's capaclous
nav, as completely as the Whale
swallowed Jonah, or the Red Sea the
hosts of Pharoah. But how glorious
ly the grand and imdomitable Demo
cracy had passed over But our man.
if he lives will enter the promised
land on the 4th of March, 1898.
But dear Republican reader, while
the Republican party has suffered
this great defeat of almost total an
Inhalation; yet the Republican count
house Ring Of this county, have held
fast to good thing by electing some
of their favorites to office for four
years, and they have also formed and
decreed slate of their number to be
nominated and voted for to fill the
offices of this county, in 1896. That
is fixed and is irrevocable, and when
Republicans outside of the Ring OBJ
ject, they are coolly asked by the
powerful Ring, what are you going
to do about it? We propose to fill
the offices ourselves, and by the par.
ty lash compel you to vote for us.
And you will have to do it. Mark
this. Don't ask Bart what office he
is slated for, and the same question
might be asked of each of the other
Ring members.