Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-26
povENEE AT BUcKnANNoN.
Goes Over Into DORIS District to Cut
Little Ice and Finds Lots OF lt-A Few Oh
His silly Statements.

Goes over into GOrfS DlStr'CI ~
Little Ice and Finds Lots OF It-A Few OF
His silly Statements.
To the Editor of the Register.
Buckhannon, w. Va, September "a
On the 22d inst, Capt. B. B. Dovener
addressed a large audience here COM
posed principally of Republicans. the
Captain made" so his gold friends say
"a wonderful speech" We agree with
them. It was long and loud, and he
gracefully waved the bloody SHIRT.
He called upon the soldiers 10 witness
that in 1861 he raised a company ana
went forth to fight foI the honor OF the
Old flag. "The flag We all love so well,
and. my friends, we are still fighting
the enemy to-day" The gallant captain
made quite hit. in his own Imagination,
but he appeared to forget that the war
was over. Calling the attention OF his
audience to the fact that he was out
of his Congressional district, he SAID:
81 am with you to-day because l am
not needed at home" We agree with
him and further say: Neither is MI Dorf
needed at home. 1t being EMANCIPATION
Day. the speaker had evidently taken
great pains to prepare for the co!ored
bows. He told them all about thslr
friend. Abraham Lincoln, except tne
fact that the emancip~tOr warned the
people against monopolies, trusts anu
the Capitalization of capital. However
if made little or no difference What ne
did saw here to the colored peop.e' ior
the majority of them were at Clarks-
burg and It is understood one reason
WHY so many of the boys went 10 'he
neighboring village TO spend the Gay anu
listen TO some other speakers was pc
cause. as one of Upshur's voters sa-u;
"The captain can't shut my eye anu
tell me he is with the poor lapo ,..iS
man. And the starving fellow ou'Siue
looking n at the buns" in the shop
window he told about. Whenever l see
him in Wheeling he has got on the
front of his shirt a big diamond. For
CARS sake. man, why don't he wear
that "big sinner" out here when he
comes to speak. and show it to the
Ruckhannon boys? No one can deny
that Mr.. Dovener was full of malice
and hatred to the silver cause, and espe-
ciallv toward ex-Gov. e. w. wilson,
whom he spoke of repeatedly as WIN
DIV" Captain. be polite if you are IN
Congress. "He whom the gods woG.d
destroy they first make mad NO
doubt that the captains clothes did not
fit him, else why did he say n his speech
here: "My sweet deluded friends.
No iok.ng. The fact that he did repeat
that sentence thirty-seven times during
h's sneech is evidence that his Congress
s,onal Commute, should look after him
and nut In mis- head some gold ideas, III
they have any) instead CT letting nm
run around the country with $40 gold
piece that probably Mark Hanna fufn.sh-
ed, trying to impress the people IN" I
he's had plenty of them or could set
more where this one came from.
May the good Lord have mercy on a
man who expects the average citizen TO
be hoodwinked like the gallant captain
tried TO Go here. Send a man that viii
! tell the people a remedy Cor the hard
times existing to-day. He said he
would. but he nsver uttered one word
! about it after announcing the fact that
he would explain all to the audience.
Again. he jarked through his nose, The
] crime OF 1910. & ttctSAt II 1-AtA0
again. and then said, "My sweet, deluded
friends. the crime Of 1873 has no bearing
at all on our troubles of to-day Not
as matter Of criticism, but 10 show you
the breadth Of intellect and the wide
scene Of learning possessed by this man
who would like to be returned 10 Con-
gress. we will give you what he sad
REGARDING Mr.. Bryan, and he quoted
from his Chicago speech, and after men
tioning "The cross of gold" and The
crown of thorns," he said he wondered
that Mr.. Bryan was not afraid that the
Lord would strike him dead for such
sacrirdge, and in a few moments he fol-
lowed it by saying in connection with
Mr.. Mckinley, and using the Sayiors
words paraphrased, he said, Thou hast
been faithful over few things and
trusts. I VII make tnee ruler over
many" May heaven strengthen Capt.
Dovener's intellect, so that he may
know hereafter that if an expression IS
sacrc,ieious one minute when speaking
Of YOUR enemies that it is not changed
The next when talking OF your trends.
In short. Mr.. Dovener is either no rea-
sCner or he has no material from which
n reason. His speech here, from Jog
zeal standpoint, was failure, and II
Ohio county has any more ike nm,
send them out 10 us.
Yours truly.
"MARGAREETE."