West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-05-21
FUN FACT AND FANCY.
Political and Personal Points Picked
Up and PenClled Down By An
0bSerYant Observer.
SALT RIVER HEADQUARTERS.
TIME-FoR LIFE.
To the Editor of TIM Anous.

1
In the midst of heroic ages, the
creating Of empires, the building of
pyramids, the introduction OF
schools, the establishing of libra
riss, the downfall OF dynasties and
the spoils of revolution, All men
were interested, and we are all ia i.
terested now that VIC are IN the
midst of Republican politics, or.
that isy the first guns of political
office distribution have been fred
by the molling or creative power.
commonly called tire ring or bosses.
and their candidates have captured
the primaries and the evolutions Of
sound political economies are set
tied. not to the most honest con
yictfons of bossism, Of party emeTu
ments, but the county is safe from
Republican standpoint for anoth-
er period of four years. We call vt
Republican politics, simply because
no other party is interested or need
apply, as far as Preston county
POLITICS are concerned, and yet we
find that the wisdom displayed and
the system Of political power or dis
bursements are not in keeping with
the wise statesman Of the past, who
taught that all men are created
equal, andt under the Consti-
tuition of the United States that all
mon have equal rights and equal
privileges. The principles of Re.
publican politics or Republican par
ity, bossism, in Preston county, are
that none but Republicans are
worthy to hold office-or, in other
words, none but Republicans are
worthy to possess or to adjust the
economics of good government, the
enoluments of the office. But
every citizen is expected to pay his
taxes and to contribute his equal
share towards the necessary expen-
diture of the county government,
and Republican official is always
to see that the taxes are paid and
collected.
The Republican party has had
for years the system of primaries
fer the selection of men who shall
be the standard bearers of eco.
Monies and pure, honest govern
ment honestly ministere6. Why.
if the Republicans are the only
ones in the county who are capable
Of holding Office and who can hon.
estly discriminate the enolaments,
why can they not elect or nominate
| their candidates like honest men
should? IL we are to have prima.
| ries, let US have them honest. Let
men announce themselves, subject
to the result Of the primaries, and
In the election of the primaries vote
and act like. honest voters and not
like a set of d-n heathens grasp
ing for the last Office on earth. If
party principles are correct as EN-
bodied IN the primaries, and there
is no mistake to be made by the
choice of the people, what is the
use of all this electioneering before
voting at the primaries when the
Republicans have clear majority in
the county of two thousand (?
| consider the actions of the Re-
publicans before the primaries
shameful and dIsgraceful for free
and intelligent people, and in time
will be an entire dissolution of the
Republican party, 5ossism, in this
county. The candidates for the
various offices made a campaign of
scranbling and wire-pulling; the
county was oVer-run time and
again. Their friends were IN every
place that it was possible for the
hoof OF civilized man to trod /,
money being expended, men hired
to electioneer for their friends,
whiskey flowed like rivers among
the private aide-csmps. They have
been grabbing, gasping, wallowing,
promising, swallowing and lying as
though this were the last opportu-
nifty for Office on Gods green earth,
and yet the ignorant fools acted as
though they were insensible of tho
fact that as far as Preston county
IS concerned they will have the OBJ
pOrtunity to scramble for Office in
this county for the next one hun
dre6 centuries.
And now as TO the result of the
primaries, some Of the best men in
the Republican party died the
death Of the----fguratively or
politically speaking. Gabriel, the
standing Assessor of East Side for
the last score Of years, no more to
be resurrected in this Republican
county. John p. Jones is dead
never to be resurrected again, and
with him goes such men as Messen-
ger and Orr, OF KingwoOd. A. r.
fearsr, Assessor-elect Of the East
Side, may pull through in four
years again, but it will require taller
Representation than it did to
trade off Bill +. Menear, of West
Side, for Summers. Squire Miller
and Samuel Lee are dead, and the
eight hundred old soldiers OF The
county with them. Miller and Lee
may have been good soldiers, but