Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-10-14
OH, WHAT A ROAST!
Editor Wat Warren in the Glen
VILE Pathfinder Does II.
"HE DO BOLT, DOES DR. HOLT"

"o"'""x Expose of the Record ~ D~.
Holt ~ = Kicker and Growier-Nsvcr
Satisfied, Always lsrcsking Out In spcs,
aud NSn whose Innuence Is only
Whore He IL Not Known "A Ratti,nu
SKIS ON where-tm-I-At Holt.
Glcnvillc Pathfinder.
The Democratic newspapers are max.
ing u great ado over the ''conyersiopr
OF ono DR. NJ. :. Holt of Lewis county
TO their way of thinking. The joyful
idings have beer spread from tho PAN
handle on the north to the murlSy flood
OF Old Sandy on tho south. and from
aristocratio Berkeley on tho east to
Mingo-by-Jingo ON the west--nav. thev
nave even been flashed along the mvrnid
teiegraphic routes TO the nations re-
motcst boundmics, and the name of
HOLT Is now Ms n sweet norsel be-
meath tho tongues of the silverloons.
Wero IL Mckinley himself, the hula
baioo could hardly be moro deafeniug.
Truly, hko Byron, the eccentric Mat
thew Samuel has ''wakod and found
himself famous r.
To DO plain and blunt and truthful.
this now distinguished disciple Of
Acsculapius has been n disturbing ele-
meht In 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 n new
nope are taking fresh courage. He has
peen the Jonah of the party all along,
ana now that he has committed polif-
icni suicide, the organization win flour
ish thore as IL never has before.
The subject OF this obituary is nothing
II not original and ecocntric. All hia
life no has been at loggerheads with
every principle and institution of Cristi-
anity. For years he published nm al
logged Republican newspaper ut Weston,
but IL was rank atheistic sheet merely.
the chief aim of which was TO annihi.
late God Almighty instead OF tho Demo-
cratic party. In this fight it appears
that he failed of his purpose, for Jeho-
yah still reigns and Matthew Samuel IA
lost In the bogs and bulrushos of polit-
cal infamy.
Failing In his attempt 10 crush the
Almighty out of existence, we find him,
Later ON, turning his battery Of gall and
polo-cat poison upon the Hon. Stephen
Is. Elkins. imagining in his vain concoit
that he could defeat that gentleman I'm
his candidacy for Senatorial honors.
Those efforts were az futile as his vicious
onslaught upon his Creator. In spite of
the venom of his attacks, Mr.. ElIrins
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 wading belly.deep In
the slough of despair and despondency.
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 vilifcatiou.
And tho Nervousness of his offences I'm
this particular direction Is all tho more
glaring when il is understood that In
overy instance, from the good Lord
down, the mark for his shafts has been
a Republican. Now that he has "broke
loose again. his friends are aware that
he was pushed to the last ditch, and that
he considered tho time ripe for another
pyrotechnic display. That his ''new de-
parture" will carry with it any weight
In improbable in the extreme, Che claims
OF the Democratic press TO the contrary
Notwithstanding. Influence he has
none, aud has not had for years. The
people know that while no has splendid
social qualities and is an all.around good
fellow personally--yet at the same time
they know that politically he ia queer"
and apt 10 ''break out in spots" without
cause and work injury TO the party he
Processes TO affiliate with. No: he win
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.