The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-05-21
Current Comment
On Things General And
Political.

Bismarcksays that as he grows
older he grows more and more
Indifferent to calumny and false.
hood. The TELEGRAM commends
this idea. To stop and worry
over the silly stories started by
malicious tongues is time wasted.
/ Young Mr.. Bailey who sudden.
ly rose up as the leader of the
Democratic minority in the house
appears as a blighted and wither-
ing flower doomed to an early
demise. His leading" is not
unlike the farmer that led the
sow-by sliding along the pike
behind the omnivorous mammal
on the seat of his jeans.
On the 4th day of March VIM.
Mckinley began forty-eight
months service as President of
the United States. He has serv-
ed q months and Congress has
not yet given him the legislation
for which his platform stood. No
reasonable man expects much
business improvement until the
tariff is readjusted and our Demo
cratic friends who are now re-
jeicing and proclaiming the ad-
/! ministration failure should re-
member that many things can
come to pass in the 45t months
yet to come.
The announcement that anoth-
err colored youth-from Chicago
has been appointed to cadet
ship at Annapolis is welcome,
says the New York Mail and En-
press. II he succeeds in passing
his mental ana physical exami-
nation. of which there seems to
be no reasonable doubt, his APP
pearance at the Naval Academy
will have q Wholesome effect.
With the Cincinnati boy recently
appointed. there will be two in
stead of one to face the threaten
1 ed ostracism and they will be mu.
tually helpful in companionship.
It should not be difficult for the
colored cadets to hold their own
without decentralization and re-
treat.
Our Democratic friends are
much disturbed over the indica.
tions of returning prosperity un-
der the Mckinley administra-
ton. 1t is evident that they are
hoping for a period of suffering
and business depression. 1t was
no more than we expected that
they should claim that the sell
ing of property under conrt de.
crees last week was a result OF
the election of a Republican
president. It's about as plausi.
BILE as the average logic of our
misguided friends. It's sad bu!
nevertheless true that several
courts will come and go before
the legal actions bugun during
the preceding administration are
brought to finish. The disas.
tiers that have resulted from the
experiments of Prof. Wilson and
Mr.. Cleveland are not of a trivial
nature. Homes have been mort
gagged and estates swept away to
such on extent that years of great
prosperity will be required to re-
store the happy conditions that
prevailed four years ago.
five are to believe the ideas
advanced by some Democratic
editors, the election of Bryan
would have stopped all DEGREES
for land sales and long ere this
the'mortgaaed Indebtedness OF
the country would have been
wiped out. Every fellow would
have had his silver bullion coin
ed into shining fifty cent dollars,
anawith these his debts would
rapidly be liquidated. What a
pity it is that some way could not
be pointed out that would enable
the farmers to get their silver
bullion converted into money.
1 Mr.. Bryan seemed to think every
farmer had a quantity of bullion
h;e hands that xuae eprilin0