Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-10-17
Oh, WHAT A ROAST!
Editor Wat Warren in the Glen
Vile Pathfinder Does It.
.'HE DO BOLT, DOES DR. HOLT"

A seathing Expose of the Record of DIR.
Holt as kicker and Growier-Never
Satisfied, Always Breaking Out in spots
and a Man Whose Influence Is Only
Where He Is Not Known-A Rattling
skit ON where-Am-I-At Holt.
Chenille Pathfinder
The Democratic newspapers are MAX
ing great ado over the conversion
of one DR.. NJ S. Holt of Lewis county
to their way of thinking The joyful
tidings have been spread from the pam
handle on the north to the murky flood
of Old Sandy on the south. and from
aristocratic Berkeley on the east to
Mingo-by- Jingo on the west-nay, they
have even been flashed along the myriad
Geographic routes to the nations re-
hottest boundaries, and the name of
'EHolt'' is now as a sweet morsel be-
meath the tongues of the silverloons.
Were it Mckinley himself, the hula
baloo could hardly be more deafenlng
Truly, like Byron, the eccentric Mat
thew Samuel has walked and found
himself famous y
To be plain and blunt and truthful,
this now distinguished disciple of
Esculapius has been a disturbing ele-
ment i'll the politics of Lewis county for
10 these many years, and now that the
Republicans have got rid of him, they
are congratulating themselves on their
good luck, and with the dawn of new
hope are taking fresh courage. He has
been the Jonah of the party all along,
and now that he has committed polit-
ical suicide, the organization will -four
ish there as it never has before.
The subject of this obituary is nothing
if not original and eccentric. All his
life he has been at loggerheads with
every principle and institution OF Cristi-
anity. For years he published an al
legged Republican newspaper at Weston,
but it was rank atheistic sheet merely,
the chief aim of which was to annihi-
late God Almighty instead of the Demo-
cratic party. In this fight it appears
that he failed of his purpose, for Jeho-
yah still reigns and Matthew Samuel is
lost i'll the Dogs and bulrushes of polit-
cal infamy
Failing in his attempt to crush the
Almighty out of existence, we find him,
later on, turning his battery of gall and
pole cat poison upon the Hon. Stephen
B. Elkins, imagining in his vain conceit
that he could defeat that gentleman in
his candidacy for Senatorial honors.
These efforts were as futile as his vicious
onslaught upon his Creator. In spite of
the venom of his attacks, Mr.. Elkins
was triumphantly elected and Where
Am-I-At Holt had to bite the dust in
chagrin and humiliation of spirit Since
then he has been wadlng bellydeep i'll
the slough of despair and dependency,
cudgeling his think tank for fresh means
to make himself notorious. The bright
est and best men of the State have been
targets for his abuse and vilification.
And the Nervousness of his offences in
this particular direction is all the more
glaring when it is understood that in
every instance, from the good Lord
down, the mark for his shafts has been
Republican. Now that he has 'sbroke
loose again, his friends are aware that
he was pushed to the last ditch, and that
he considered the time ripe for another
pyrotechnic display. That his "new de-
parture" will carry with it any weight
is improbable in the extreme, the claims
of the Democratic press to the contrary
notwithstanding. Influence he has
none, and has not had for years. The
people know that while he has splendid
social qualities and is an all-around good
fellow PERSONAL---VERY. at the same time
they know that politically he is queer, Z"
and apt to "break out i'll spotsi without
cause ard work injury to the party he
processes to affiliate with. No; he will
exert no more influence among his one
time confreres than the least influential
of the three hundred former Democrats
of Wheeling who the other day came
out for the Republican party and good
old gold.