Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1894-10-31

Sirsinia FREE gress.
WYE. GALLAHER, Editor.
OAarIesso1srs, JEFFERSON County, WsstVa.
october 81, 1894.
President Cleveland was vaccinated Mon
dav. In about three days be will avoid
crowds and stand off everybody at arms
length
Atabig Democratic meeting in Winches-
ter Monday night the name Of W. L. Wilson
elected applause whenever mentioned Ana
it is so everywhere.
The Republicans call Mr.. Wilson's speak
ing tour through West Virginia a hippo
drome. It is an acknowledgment, perhaps,
that Mr.. Wilson has them son the hip. -
He is striking them hip and thigh.
~
The Wheeling Intelligence published one
of the Joy letters stolen from Col. John 1.
McGraw's office. Colonel MeGraw offers
to pay for the publication Of the other
two that were from the same joyful source
and stolen at the same time.
Itisin order for the Wheeling Intelligen-
Republican, to explain how it came into
possession Of a letter stolen from the head
quarters Of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee room at Grafton. The receiver Of
stolen goods is usually the object Of grand
Jury consideration.
Mckinley has been making tour Of the
States, speaking from the tail end Of pal
ace car. and the Wheeling Intelligence no
ted il as a triumphal march that throws
"from Atlanta TO the sea- in the shade
Hon. VIM. /. Wilson made a similar trip,
with distinguished friends, along lines Of
railroad within bis own State, and It Is her
aided by the same Republican journal as
scheme born Of desperation" and fraught
with lavish expenditure "a frantic effort
TO turn the protective It'd" 1t doesntaP-
pear 10 us. by Mr.. Wilson leaving his own
congressional district 10 add to the enthu-
siasm Of Democrats in other congressional
districts, that he at all felt that his own was
case Of desperation.
One Of the most discreditable features Of
the campaign the Republicans are making
this year is their depreciation Of intelligence
and education their attempt to ridicule
men who bring into politics the results OF
patient study the constant cry with which
they try to detIact from the force Of argu-
ments that they can't refute-that the Dem
ocratic tariff policy is based upon mere the
DRY. without practical wisdom, and formu>
lated By mere theorists" college profess
sors, scholars in politics" men of books
and not Of affairs. They have found no
more forcible expression of their contempt
for the most conspicuous representative OF
the tariff reform idea than the whitening
title Of Professor The voter, thus dis
couraged from considering abstract priuci-
pies or adopting any definite theory Of gov
eminent as his guide in the discharge Of his
duty as a citizen, is left to decide whether
he ought to act upon impulse, ike a mad
man, or to be led by instinct, like a brute,
or to accept blindly the teaching of those
eminenuy practical" persons whose interest
in public affairs is wholly of private ma
ture
Il Is not 10 be conceded for sn instant
that the theory which is made the issue in
this campaign is without substantial toun-
datiou or practical application. It is based
upon justice and natural right; it is one OF
the fundamental principles of free govern