The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1897-02-20
GONE GLIMnERING.
Keen Logic and Cold Facts Nip
the New
County Scheme in the Bud. Bragg,
Buster


Blow, Doodle are Busted. -MetrspolIs
Of Mud and Grease Will Remain .
Discontinued yillage-f'he Trick II
Was Done by.
Once it was alive and joyous but
now it has been packed away in the
cold, cold ground. Its brief season
of prominence is gone. The bubble
is pricked and sensible people are
now wondering how they were ever
caught by such transparent device
as the Augusta county scheme.
When the test of cold facts was APP
piled the whole fabrication fell.
There was no substance to it. The
claims of its supporters were ALSO
lutely without Foundation. The
amount of noise they made was some
what disconcerting but on close in
spection the body was found to have
pumpkin head with crude grease
for its illuminant.
The bill came up in the House for
final consideration last Wednesday
afternoon. The matter after the first
mad rush of the boomers had been
thoroughly investigated and their
wild claims utterly disproven. This
being the status of affairs a motion
to strike out the enacting clause Of
the bill was made and carried. The
vote was SO to 25. The galleries
were crowded by the friends and OPP
ponents of the bill and great excite
ment prevailed. The remains Of
Augusta were then placed upon the
table. In the Senate the whole bill
was placed in the legislative grave
yard and no Gabriel is likely to be
found for sometime yet.
The defeat of this bill is due in a
great degree to the Morgantown con
tingent who though late in going
worked like Trojans when on the
ground. To them and to all other
similar delegations the thanks of the
county is rendered Senator Fast
and Hon. G. w. Laishley also did
yeoman service.for which they have
the appreciation of their constitu-
ents. We hope that this is the last
of this hair Drained scheme and that
it may slumber peacefully in its
tomb. Alive it was a disgrace and
dead reproach to its friends. With
nothing to commend it but its au-
dacity it sleeps a sleep which knows
no waking. Farewell, last long,
eternal Farewell.
Not a drum was heard; not a funeral
note,
As its course to the graveyard was
hurried;
Not boomer discharged a fare well
shot
Der the grave where Augusta was
buried.
The House yesterday afternoon
disposed finally of the Augusta
county bill, and the gentlemen who
were interested in trying to steer it
through the Legislature can now
repair to their respective homes,
sadder, wiser and poorer men.
Those of the members supporting the
bill, undoubtedly were conscientious
in their action, but the result of the
final vote shows that the boast Of
the boomers that they could buy
enough votes to make up a majority
were unfounded. The action of yes
terday has removed from the legis-
lature the stigma of venality which
the manipulators of the new county
scheme sought to fix upon that
body, and shows it's members to be
possessed of the courage of their
convictions and the manhood to
stand by them.
Few and short were the prayers they
said,
And they spoke not word of sor-
row
But they silently gazed on the names
of the dead,
And they bitterly thought of the
morrow.
Charleston West Virginian.