Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1896-10-10
COMMUNICATED. /,
HEDGEsv1LlE W. VA, !
October Sth. 1896,

October 9Th, 1896. {
Edaors--A short time ago our
little village was treated in the most
pleasant way by hearing our fellow
citizens, and especially our fellow
Tuscarorian, upon the great ques-
tions of the day. After quite a
lengthy talk upon tie subject of Is
to /, our farmer lawyer was succeed
ed by the "Great | am" and better
known in our village as the "Apolo.
gizer,' this being his second visit to
our town. Each time an apology
was forthcoming for his appearance.
After lengthy and soul stirring
harangue upon the laws of supply
and demand, which, no doubt, he
knows as much about as he does of
the laws he attempts to expound to
the enlightened people of Berkeley
county, and through which he wishes
to be elected Prosecuting Attorney,
he spoke on the issues of the day.
One question we wish TO ask Mr..
johnson "How came you, as a
Democrat, (not a bolter, } to be elect
ed Attorney for the Corporation of
Martinsburg, by Republican Coun-
ell, and does it not look to the vot--
ers, whose votes you ask, that you
are under obligations to the Repub-
lican party 2" AS l said previously,
last, but not least, he was succeeded
by our "Boy Orator Of Falling Wa
ters,n -four Willie," aCol.," "John
W." and "BiIl," as he is familiarity
called. After telling about what
Peter Sperow paid for his farm, and
what it was worth now, about the
niger in the wood pile and his wig
gle waggle, he launched forth, to the
delight OF the ladies present, in tones
of eloquence of how, amid the silent
hours of night, when all was wrapt
in silent slumbers, be went forth with
muflled tread and approached the
enemy's country, and whilst they
slumbered and slept, captured and
brought back the fairest often thous-
and of them all. But the greatest
effort OF sour Willie" was when be
compared the intelligence of the
"Bolting Democrats" to the child
like simplicity of Little DO Peep"
In his over anxiety for their welfare
he scared to the peaks that surround
Mt. Clifton, and whilst upon the
May heights, declared in thunder
ing tones: "Let them alone, and
they'll come home, with their tails
a-soagging behind them.7 Shades
OF Burke street, are these the intelli-
gent boilers, whose assistance you
crave to help elect you Sheriff, com.
pared in intelligence to the boy who
toyed with the sheep, and whose face
1.-THE Sheep you are ashamed to look
into now, as You stand on the crier's
block, because of free trade heresies
in robbing the poor dumb brute oil
the rightful protection it was so just
ly entitled ? ssLet him alone, r.Col. y
he'll so home, with not only his tail
a.wagging,n but the righteous indig-
nation of an intelligent and honest
minded Democratic voter at bis heels
lone who resents the sIur and i'm
pntation cast upon their right to
cast a free ballot, by the candidate
who, in the past week, blazed forth
in all his glory, and with hands up.
lifted and voice crying out in behalf
of the gamblers and fakirs who prey
upon the masses in attendance at oul
great fairs. The veil is raised--the
face unmasked. These are the vot-
ers from whom your majority come
and not from
Let them alone,
And they'll come home,
With their stalls a-wagging behind them.'
Bo PEEp.