The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-08-28
PRESLEY
EWIlIiTHA SHARP STICK.
Senator Morris Gets at the
Democratic State Platform.
COMPARISONS ARE oD1oUs.

4lfi
he Defends tte Republican Iegisiatus,
yigor6usiy and Refers to Some Thing,
Of the Democratic Past which Are In
famous li]sory--A Singing Rsbulee q
the Maiigners Of Honorable Men--Ths
Infainsds Record of Democratic LsgIs
iature. Merely Referred to. But II i.
Enough.
Hon. r. w. Morris, editor Of The
Richie Gazette, and for many years q
member Of tho West Virginia Legisla.
trre, and a member OF the lust:one, de.
votes over column In his issue Of Aug.
ito the Democratic State Platform:
Referring TO the planks attacking the
Republican Legislature and in regard
to the alleged Virginia State debt. he
says:
The paragraph is a filthy lie, outside
OF the bounds Of respectable politics,
made 10 by its first clause. To attack
the Legislature for what it did or did
not do, is legitimate politics; but to
charge II us a whole with being an us.
sembly Of corrupt spoilsmen Is nm in.
famous and dirty SANDER. The Gazette
Z denies Tint even one member Of the late
Legislature was corrupted. 1t will pay
the authors Of this venomous Democratic
a screed 81, 600 for every charge OF corrup.
ton against the Republican Legislature
they CAM substantiate, If they will pay
Denaocratic convention wbo .,yas ho MIN.
& corrupted nv being hanle,l IN n nm 4 frae
.pass and nv free WHISKY md free hoa,,,
Il admits that the convention contos M,
many splendid and honorable gentle.
men. but charges that n train .iond ~
delegates WIS hauled to Il without
charre to them: so that IL not in 4 nos;.
tion to charge corruntion ON ANYBODY ar
ANYTHING.
.srhe ATTEMPT to drag the school boolk
question int partisan, politics a ton con.
temptible 10 notice. Democratic Nom.
bers Of the Legislature as well as Rennh.
s licans nearly all voted for the present
law. There must have been nm Ameri.
can Book Company man ON this Demo.
cratic committee ON resolutions.
1.-THE Gazette regrets at this time IT
has not space to compare the record Of
the late Legislature in full, with that Of
Democratic Legislatures. rhe late Re.
publican Legislature was splendid, up.
right, Industrious working body. It
completed its labors within the constitu.
tional time limit, and did not wind M
with q drunken carousal, but adjourned
decently and in order.
How is 1t on the other slider The
Gazette does not assail the motives or
integrity Of whole bodies Of men: but
( the last Legislature win bear colnparisons
!, with It's Democratic predecessors for 25
years. More than one case Of corruption
occurred In them. The constitutional
convention Of 1872 was the opening for
a long line Of extravaganza and wnste.
The Legislature Of 1928 lasted for
months. Enormous printing bills were
paid. Extra sessions have been beld
The writer Of this article was n member
Of the Legislature for eight yenrs in
4 Democratic times. and there we're aavar
sessions when there should hive been
four. a Democratic I,epislotnra ,,,,e,oi,
on by political necessity, tilched the
- 800, .,i,..o.a NJ. ~. : = =
S5 ~ k *, A4es4s.
1sets e y. =, wouiiu pWi,noue oahquet
~ m.,1 onuip paging a'iu y, WHISKY nowed
" lleeiy us water oh tne electlon OF a
80 $3.50 sAa'ot W .ne cenio,
ss.s, -. ss1sa soelie VI u,lflvaiea
- I. anu ueus.u'ae,y occurred. 80
Mnen ~ oontes W sllkihg Oh Legislat-
.sa s-sMe.e atiAiI 10 Aor hesrly quarter
So mn " IL. Gehiocra'c rue IN TINS
ss''e = Anls 70 oilty seileral aecription,
wv, ior ue''1'ls wouiu MI pages OF u
nem ssl' -,
s " w. nElinl oepe paragraph, 1t
uns .S,. i'sen. !. was wonderful and
1ltli'ie work ior 'he Democratlc mi.
,oriey III .iie faouse OF Delegates, to get
.ne enormous isepnohcati maJorltles to
.eso1se asa M PAYING the debt. II is
yuss as Me'i 70 w nohest ana ialr IN this.
iW ,r. a'iu tsepuphcans alike IN
Hes. sI 1si ~. are opposed TO the pay
neti. VI .le Nlfeiiila uept, ana AL that
u necess''ry 70 ee, u nearly expression is
70 iileii'ion tne suolece.
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