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November 9, 1929.
Even ex-senator VIM Pitt Kellogg. Of
Louisiana, eminent Republican, says Mr..
Cleveland will be elected.
There was an immense democratic dem
onstration at Fairmont, OF Friday night.
Speeches we're made by Hon. Wm.L Wilson
and Senator Faulkner.
Prof. A. d. Hopkins, Of the West Virginia
Experiment Station, arrived from Europe
last week with a bug which, he thinks, will
destroy the pine tree beetle that has so
greatly damaged the West Virginia forests.
Republican defeat seems TO be in the air,
and speculation is now rife as to where Mr..
Harrison will locate after the 4th Of March.
Il is the conclusion, however, that he will
make his home with his daughter, Mrs. Nc
Kee, in Boston.
Senator Kenna, who is forbidden by his
physicians TO take the stump in the present
campaign, has given for publication his
views Of the situation. The Force bill he
considers the supreme issue, because with
that measure adopted every other issue
would be controlled at will"
The Parkersburg Sentinel Of last week
said Senator Camden has rendered the w.
L. Wilson Tariff Students club, Of Wheel
eng, a free outing, which will include q ride
TO Huntington and Charleston. They will
accompany Weep resident Stevenson on his
trip through his State. Senator Camden
will pay all the bills.
Milwaukee was visited by a great FIRE on
Friday night, which burned for ten hours,
sweeping over forty-six acres of business
and residence blocks, destroying 100000
worth Of property, and making 5000 people
homeless. A high wind aided the spread
Of the e~onAagratiOn. Only four lives were
lost.
Tie P1asy for November is at hand, in a
bright new cover, suggestive Of the Column
bian year and its interests. With this num-
Der the Pansy magazine enters upon a new
year, and, Judging BY the good things in
cluded 10 the present contents, it begins in
earnest. Price 800 q year; 10 cents a
number. d. LOthrop Co, Publishers, Bos-
ton.
Judge John P. Rea, of Minneapolis, Min
uesots, ex-cOmmande r-in-chief Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, will vote the Dem
ocratic ticket. Judge Rea said that after
an exhaustive examination into Mr.. Cleve-
lands pension vetoes, he failed to find a
single veto that was not based upon princi-
pies Of right and justice. He also says the
Republican party is wrong in its tariff the
cries.
The great New York lawyer, David bud
ley Field, has presented his valuable libra
~, consisting of over one thousand volumes,
to the Washington aud Lee University. at
Lexington. The gif was made through,
and out Of Friendship for, Hon. John Ran
dolph Tucker who has for many years been
close friend Of Mr.. Field aud who is pro-
lessor Of international and constitutional
law At the University.
Maj. A. W. Mcdonald presided at a
meeting st the courthouse Wednesday
night addressed by Capt. John J. Williams,
Of Winchester, and Hon. Stuart W. Walker.
Mr.. Walker, worn BY the duties of the con-
gressional committee Craftsmanship and by
his services on the stump, occupied less than
half an hour and discussed the Force bill
only, but TO the great delight Of his audi
ence. Capt. Williams talked tariff logical
" aud entertainiugly, aud pointed out some
Of the ingenious and diabOlical provisions
contained in the Force bin, only discoyera-
bic upon careful scrutiny. The Captain
Ipiced the discussion with good stories and
humorous hits, aud concluded quite elO-
quently.
Mr. J.. Mortimer Kilgour, Of Loudoun
county, Virginia, on Monday night aroused
more enthusiasm than any speaker Of the
campaign by she yigor Of his denunciation,
the fervor Of his eloquence, and the min.
gled FIRE and pathos Of his appeals to the
emotions Of men who loved Virginia and
men who wore the gray. He declined to
recognize his hearers as West Virginians,
preferring % include them with his own
people under the title Of Virginians-only
recalling the separation from the mother
State to remind his audience that the Re
publican party would do anything it want
ed to without regard to constitution or law.
Mr.. Kilgour was humorous and sarcastic as
well as savage in his arrangement Of the
party 10 power, and repeatedly set the house
in an uproar Of merriment. Maj. A. w.
Mcdonald introduced the speaker aud the
feryor Of what is ordinarily a mere formali-
" was a foretaste Of the good things.
Hon @. Wood Daley. of Mineral county,
Democratic nominee for electoral large,
delivered one Of the most eloquent aud con-
viDcing speeches Of the campaign on Thurs
day night. Assuming that the purpose of
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