Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1896-07-01

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evidence, and, yet, more retiring than the
"bike"
A recent telegram is to this effect: Hanna
goes to Canton to see Mckinley. Boyle has
A job" Now if it had been written JOB
has BOYLE" it would have been strictly
scriptural. no matter about Hanna.
After awhile when you give a note Tor
borrowed money, and back it up Win
mortgage on your farm, you viii mud the
money lender will add a proviso that the
note shall be paid in gold. Then you VIII
see what il is n be gold standard cham
pion.-Poiat Pleasant Register.
Brother Tippett intended the above for an
argument in favor Of free silver, but 1t Is not
as.rikingly strong oue-excePt as a boom
erang.
The colored voters Of Ksnawha county IN
meeting assembled denounced the white
Republican combine aud passed resolutions
tha. they will not support the county Re
publican ticket. The chairman, in the
course Of his remarks, said that "the negro
was no. treated half as badly by their for
mer masters when in slavery as the Repuo-
Hcsn bosses are treating thea here On
Ksnawhal at this time" COlored men
elsewhere are making similar declarations.
The A. P. As have removed headquarters
from Chicago to Washington. There Is
trouble in the order over the selection OF
the rooms for headquarters. They are sit
uated over a liquor store, and that displeases
the temperance element They are also
controlled by company which has a week
ly paper printed at nOn-union office, and
that displeases the Printers Union. Ii IS
claimed that the foreman Of the paper Is
Catholic. and that oiends the more radical
anti Catholic element Of that order.
Hon. stephen B. Elkins showed his good
sense by staying away from the It. Louis
convention He has saved his reputation
Ua politician. Mr.. Elkins has always said
that he il satisfied 70 be q U. :. Senator, and
the Post believes what he says. HIS con-
stituents will admire him more than ever
bv his conspicuous absence az -. LOUIS
Morgantoloa Post Rep.
Il appears from the above that Mr. Elkins
is approved for not risking his reputation
BY going to St. Louis Evil communica-
tious corrup. good manners, " Ell? How
about those fellows tina. did go? Hadn't
anything TO lose ?
The Devils Lake North Dakota Inter
Ocean say they are preparing out there for
"red hot celebration Of July 4,h''-that
"the day will begin like the ascension of a
SKY rocket, and will conclude with red fire
and bowery dance" The orators Of the
day will be States Attorney General Hon.
IF. Cowan, and Mai. E. A. Maglone. We
don't know about the Attorney General, but
we are sure the Major graduate OF this
ofice-will give exhibitions of patriotic fire
that will warm up the Devils Lake people
to A pitch far beyond expectation-unless
he has before thrown some Goals from the
Altar of Liberty on their devoted heads.
Tt has already been announced that Post
master. General VIM. L Wilson delivered
an address at the Vanderbilt University
commencement. Rev. De Hoss of the
Christian Advocate a. Nashville, tbs great
organ Of the VI. r. Church, South, Gays ed
itorially;
"In the evening large audience appear
ed I'm the Tabernacle, though heavy ram
was falling, 90 hear Postmaster General
Wilson deliver the literary address. In ev-
erv way. in private and In the public address,
be sustained the reputation which he has
made for himself as one of the foremost
men of the country man OF scholarly
training. high character, and real statesman
ship, and withal as simple, sincere, and IN
affected a gentleman as we have ever met.
NIr.B.F. Sheetz, editor of the Loudoun
Mirror at Leesburg, died on Sunday last at
Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. aged
sixty-six years. He was born ia this town,
and for forty years past has been the editor
Of the Mirror A little the senior Of the
editor Of this paper, he was a companion of
Ouryouth and all through theyears has been a
friend. Among the recOuections Of our
young days was bis memoriza,ion Of verses
of the Bible, and in the Suuday-school re-
peating hundreds Of them at time. He
was worthy man, edited his paper with
cleverness, in a manly way, and ever eschew-
ed sensational or questionable publications.
The Mirror was always a clean sheet. We
dsplore the death of our friend but are graf
fled that he has successor worthy of the
sire in Mr.. Arthur Sheet, his only SON.
Mrs. Sheet survives. She was with him
when be died
The MorgsntOwn Post referring TO the re-
cent Republican Convention there, said
"There were several Democrats scattered
throughout the delegations who were con-
characterization when they heard the able
speeches in favor Of protection and sound
money"
Wonder how the Berkeley delegation felt
in the region Of their conscienees about that
time-those Of them who were in the Berke-
ley county convention August II, 1894, the
year Mr.. Dayton was first nominated when
the following resolution was unanimously
adopted