Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14

Noting the movement Of Miss Kate Field
70 bring John Browns Fort back to Hsr-
per's Ferry, the Tygarts Valley News says
This relic Of a crank's folly should be al
lowed 70 remain where it is. West Viz
ginia soil is too valuable to be c'uttered with
rubbish"
The editor Of the Farmers Advocate an
imAdverted upon the fact that The FREE
PRESS was circulating supplements supplied
BY the Sound Money Currency Committee
ann vet be is putting into the hands Of the
people documents sent him by Senator
Stewart, a Republican and silver mine
owner.
Il is a singular fact that the person who
has done YOU a wrong will never like you.
He is angry at you because he IS ashamed
of himselG-RashriHe Ind JacssoniaR.
Pity It's true but, as a rule, the fellow
that has wronged you viii never forgive you
for the injury he has done you.
There ought 10 be q Republican press as
NNElAkLNM III AAAN LAAAN AW NNNf A"AN"0 1870
things. that one paper does not absorb the
campaign fund.-Ritcbie Castle.
Presley wants an equitable distribution
the result Of which would be that while the
Gazette would not get it all it would have
the lions share.
Hon. james NJ. Mason says free coinage
of silver at Is to 1 SIS already defeated -
OF course it is. Hon. Alex. Shepherd,
owner and manager Of the greatsilyer mines
in Mexico, recently said he favored free
coinage Of silver aud thought "A to would
be reasonable. He knew that silver mining
would be profitable at that, or be would not
have said so.
In his speech Saturday Judge Lucas is
reported 10 have said Money is the root Of
all evil. but there are not a few people that
believe that the Glove of" il induces the
Judge to make speeches on silver when the
mercury is at 100. II money is the root
Of all evil" why does the Judge desire that
the currency shall be inflated . Why culti-
vate a root that produces evil?
Judge Lucas met his own appointment to
speak on Free Silver at IS 20 I ia the court
house on Saturday afternoon. The meeting
WAS we'll advertised in the newspapers and
By posters. The correspondent of the sun,
Afriend of Mr.. Lucas says there was a
large audience of farmers and representative
business men present Mr.. Lucas said the
audience was small, but select Agentle-
man who was present and counted says there
we're $50 persons there, and two others came
in later" Il is fair 20 state that two-thirds
of the number were aud still are sound
money men. The Others, it is possible,
fprobable would be doubtful were con-
6rmed i'm the faith-such "a Brother Nor
row "a d atisit ,") and Mr.. Thomson, Pop
Mist. We are are informed that Judge Luz
cas- made his usual speech. He announced
that he would deliver two more IN the same
place on the same subiect-and, % Is pre-
sumable, in the same style.
The following is a paragraph from q COM
munication that appeared in the shepherds.
town independent. Unless we are faulty
at discerning ear-mark, it is from the pen
Of judge ID. b. Lucas. IL Is a ludicrous
mixture
"Of the remaining one-third, monomet-
tAlists, is having an extensive acquaintance
throughout the state, easily classified them
As follows. I, Bankers 2, Salaried men 8,
Federal office holders. These three classes
exhausted all the mOnOmettalists in West
Virginia, with, perhaps, one eXcepu0u-the
gOli-b0u1tt Editors. Upon examination, lt
will be found that not a single Democratic
editor in West Virginia has favored mono
mettalism. unless directly or indirectly inter-
s,ted in @ Federal Qf8ce. lt appears, there
fore, that the intelligence OF This state Is
fully committed TO bjmettalism. Acampaign
70 reverse this public sentiment by the use
Of money. by cOtrupung and brblng the
press. aud substituting our public meu by
the allurements Of public Office, 81 campaign
of qualification, and have so styled it. Or
If the change we're u-tperiHfleri by nervous
meas and hysteris, no Jury should con-
vict. To there is one principle well estab
lished 10 medical Jurisprudence, this Is that
principle. Whenever an inferior court
grants every instruction prayed for the pros
%ecutiOn, and refuses every one which the
prisoner asks, this circumstance does of It.
self suggest o%verzeal, If not actual aud phe
nomenal prejudice, in behalf OF the state,
which the Supreme court should correct
See State V. Zeigler.'
When Judge Lucas charges that editors
favoriug sound money are gold bought,
and that public men are subsidized by "the
allurements of Federal Office" heassumes that
men have forgotteaH that only a little while
ago be sought appointment 10 a foreign mis-
sion. Does be think i, would be Just to say
that if he had gotten it be would be as 81
lent As q clam on the subject of silver or be
an advocate Of honest money A distin-
guished Virginia divine in a Washington
pulpit on Sunday last said when one
Iaid that every man had his price, it was
pretty safe to conjecture that the speaker
himself had his price" A term under ltal-
ian skies and amid the art beauties Of Rome
A. goyernment e expense might well be regard
cd an allurement aud if the change could
have been made to that fromthe "Landwhere
we are Dreaming, "superinduced by ner-