Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1896-05-20
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The Weston State Times is not on our
exchange list. The following we found IN
the Farmers Advocate:
1.-THE Farmers Advocate Of Charles Town
gets after the Free Press IN lively manner
and holds them up in a very unenvlaole hght
TO the public. We regret 70 see that respect
able newspaper like the Free Press can os
bought with Wall street pot metal or al
street gold either We have bad two PROPOSE
tions made Us by these humane tends 20 sup
plv our paper with plate matter Tree. b1t we
spurned them in disgust i paper Win ITO
more independence and honor than 10 accept
q bride for We call IL nothing else, from the
Wall street robbers should not WELD very
great influence in this country. - Weston o'a'e
Times.
THE FREE Press has no acquaintance
with the editor of the Weston State Times.
He NAV be a gentleman and a scholar, but
the above paragraph does not emphasize
the probability that be is both or either
It does suggest, however, an apt old adage,
to.wit Fools rush in, &c. The editor
of the State Times, for aught we know, may
have personal knowledge by experience or
the potency Of brides, and we beg him not 20
measure eur corn with his bushel. Lest We
should be called an underwater we could
not lust now be induced TO 90 out Of our
way Tor less than $500, But, all this a.
side. Isn't it absurd for anybody that has
modicum Of common sense 20 allege that
a newspaper man, using plate matter along
the lines advocated by his paper, had been
bribed People are bribed to DO something
not already being done by them, or cease
10 pursue the course they have been or are
pursuing. A bribeis a price, reward, gitt
or favor bestowed or promised with view
to peryert the judgment or corrupt the con-
duo. Of a Judge, witness, or other person
"a bride is that which seduces." 1t will
be seen that two columns Of plate matter In
this issue are extracts from Mr. Carlisle's
Chicago speech. We had the printed mat
ter on the copy hook for the type-setter,
but the plate matter of the speech was q
convenient substitute, the ,compositor was
relieved Of days work-and no diminu
ton Of pay. Sensible meu must concede
that the use OF plate matter tina, is in per-
feet harmony with the principles advocated
by the paper using it is legitimate. We
will not dignity the roundabout allegation
that THE FREE PRESS can be bought with
Wall street gold by denial The Yves
ton State Times will not seriously charge
that the f. P. has been bought.
On Friday last, by a vote Of 81 to so the
United States Senate declared Dupont, OF
Delaware not entitled 70 a seat in that body.
The Populists voted with the Democrats
The Washington correspondent of the
Wheeling Register writes Senator Eauik-
ner was in high spirits tonight over the
Democratic victory in the Dupont case from
Delaware, the vote resulting in the exc'u-
sion Of Dupont (Repubhcauh whose right
to the seat the Democrats denied because
his election was not in accord with the Del
aware law. Senator Faulkner has been
very active in the management of the case
on the Democratic side, and much Of the
credit for the victory belongs to him.
At Fallington, Pa, few days ago, light
ming struck Bartz Cutters cider mill where
in he had stored keg marked lardl filled
with silver dollars. These were fused by
the lightning into an iudisunguishable mass
and now each one Of his hard-earned dol
lars is worth something less than 6S cents
in white metal. They have become COM
modity-are no longer coin. IL had been
a key Of greenbacks, aud the notes had been
charred, they could have been redeemed at
par: or gold, melted into a mass, tae value
would mol. have diminished The lightning
flash reveals to men the folly of free coin
age at is to 1 when silver, the world over
is 6s cents per ounce.
The Republican party no, only wants the
high duty Of the Mckinley bill ON raw ma
terial restored, though It's removal, by low
ering the cost Of manufactures, has greatly
increased the expor, thereof but now de-
mands that in addition 70 that high duty
i've or ten per cent more be imposed on
foreign products imported In foreign ships
though, owing to the navigation laws aud
the high tariff, this country has no ships Of
It's own engaged in foreign trade
Hon. Vim. Mckinley, prospective caudi-
date for The Presidency, was ia Cleveland
Ohio, and visited the Methodist General
Conference and was enthusiastically receiy-
ed He delivered an address In that city on
the same evening on George Washington.
Little Mac. as they call the Ohio Napo-
leon, is such a strategist that Just now be
avoids live issues. With him discretion Is
the better part Of valor"
Emperor William has excited the iudig-
nation Of the German clergy, Protestant and
Catholic, by the following dispatch "The
clergy must not NEEDLE with politics because
it is no concern of theirs" The telegram
is denounced as an imperial interference
with constitutional rights.
The Baltimore Sun was fty-nine years
old last Sunday. For editorial vigor it is In
its prime, though ever, heretofore, forcetul.
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