South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-06-10

Editor South Branch Iutelligsn-
cer-If you will be kind enough to
give me space in your columns /
will make the personal explanation
1 have been called upon TO make
by the gentlemen whose names are
signed to the communication in
your paper OF June Ord. They
start out by saying the proceedings
OF the meeting Of the 10th Of last
month were Of such an extraordi.
may character "a to demand the at
teution of every fair minded demo-
crat.
Now say that ia q fact and | say
more it demands the appreciation
Of every citizen OF tho county. Why
were they so extraordinary? Be-
cause there was . uch . contrast be-
tween that meeting and the mass
meetings held heretofore that it u
hard to believe such . thing could
have been possible in the old couu-
~ Of Hampshire, where Q majority
OF the people have been sleeping az
it were and few have controlled
and governed things to suit them
selves. But the people have been
awakened and are thinking for
themselves and have acted and will
act for themselves. l am not sur
priscd at the gentlemen being
thunderstrnck. 1t is enough to
surprise them. But there arc sons
of democracy in Hampshire who
feel that tho time is coming and
coming near when Hampshire dem
ocrats will be free free to think.
free to speak AMI free to act.
Now gentlemen as to the caucus
or midnight melting you speak OF
being held in the office of j. j.
Cornwell. If there was meeting,
l know nothing about it and had
in the world to DO with it,
and | further say that if any map
or list was made out | was not as
as the chairman of that
memorable mass meeting held at
Slanesville. He was furnished
with q list of the committee and
delegates sent from the town of
Romney by delegate of this dis
trict. One thing l can't say and
that is whether that list was made
out in midnight caucus or broad
day light. Now turn on tho light.
l received no list. / was not die
tated to by any one. / nam. d the
Of the committee myself
and the secretaries only answered
such questions as ! asked them.
There was another difference be-
tween the meetings mentioned and
that was this: In the frat the
chair appointed the committee, in !
the last the chair named the COM |
mittee and the House voted unani-
nous for the committee.
The power to pack the commit
tee was taken from tho chair and |
the gentlemen know 1T aud arc Just |
AZ responsible as | or anyone else.
took the men l named to be good |
honest democrats and if they are
not why did the gentlemen not turn
On the light, and let the committee |
speak for themselves. As to Mr..
Hill MarshalPs arrangements | |
know nothing. Hill asked me to |
support his man as any gentlcm IN |
would do, ard he would deem it a
personal favor. | honestly and
politely tod him | could not help
him, and we parted friends as far
as know. But Tom Keller the
boy who has been working for the
democrats Of Hampshire so long,
what has he done wrongp I know
of nothing only he ia not on the
same side with the gentlemen as he
has always been before, but if Tom
Tor any one else) is not with you he
10 not fit to go to convention and
should stay at home and work.
Turn OF more light. Let Tom and
Hill speak for themselves. But
those good old democrats who have
held Hampshire in line Il moan
those who have their names to the
referred toy make q
bold assertion when they say that
Hill Marshall offered TO pay and
did pay the expenses Of delegates TO
the State convention. Can it be
possible that such men knew those
things and kept it to themselves till
] innocently and ignorantly APP
pointed such men on the commit
tee? Why did you not say lots
have somebody else, we don't want
him he will select delegates whose
way has been or will be paid to the
convention by Hill Marshall or
some one else? Why did you not
turn on the light so / Gs well as all
the voters of Hampshire could see
that we had such men in our cOun-
ty? Don't hide your light under a
bushel aud sit down on 1T, turn it
on. As to the Farmers Alliance
IL was not there as an organization,
The members OF the Alliance who
were there were there as democrats
and they expect TO be present ia
NOyem Der as they have always been.
But j am on Alliance man, stand
square on Alliance principles and
tie Ocala platform, and as far as
the democratic party being The tail
TO fly our Alliance kite, If tho dem
ocrats we're all like those who have
/ signed the communication It would