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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-21

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|hcr parents In eston tais we'll
Mrs. Haynes il visiting friends
and relAtivasin Weston.
Miss Mollie CLANCY d home
from . visit TO Weston.
VIM. g. Showalters took Id the
sights in New York this week.
Miss Nellie Post lefs saturday
for Peoria Ill., whore she win
spend the winter With relatives.
Mrs: N. A.Nnsbanm, NM 4
B. Seeley anddanghter. Adaiade;
are visiting in Weston this week
Mrs. John 1. Ruhl left toS
Baltimore and New York Mon
day ;or a few days visit
Miss Clara Koblegard was viz
ting friends in Grafton this
week.
Mrs. Fannie Farland Maxwell
left Saturday for Baltimore
where she will visit friends.
George F. Rogers and son
Porter, are in Baltimore this
week on a business trip.
Miss Bee Carney was the guest
ofrelatives in Weston during the
street fair. 4.
Miss Mary Tulley. Of Baltii
more, Nd, isvisiting Mrs. Clar.
ence Stout, inthe east end.
Mrs. M. v. Hurst and daugh.
ter. Mrs. WIN. Post, Of Buckhan.
non, were visitors in town for 1
few days thisweek.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. @. Brady left
Wednesday morning for Wash.
ington. D. O. where they will
spend a few days.
No card will be issued for Miss
Elizabeth Coffman's millinery
opening, but everyone is earn
estly requested to attend. Thurs
day and Friday. Oct. 2s & %. Q
Rev. Mrs. Jos. Lee. who has
been visiting Mr.. and Mrs, b.
F. Robinson, left Tuesday for
New York, where the Reverend
has accepteda call from the old
est church in that city.
Mr.. Roswell Dewey, OF Canton,
ILL.,, and daughter. Miss Mary
Dewey, were guests at the home
OF Mr.. and Mrs. II. =. Ogden, on
Mulberry street, a few days this
week. Mr.. Dewey is closely re-
lated to Admiral Dewey and was
on his way to his western bone
from the east. where he has
spent some time at Washington,
Baltimore and New York. Mis-
Dewey is q highly accomplished
young lady and made many
friends during her short stayl
our little city.
Maj. d. B. Stewart. d veteran
| Of the Civil War, and Miss Sarah
Jane Evans we're married at Nor
gantown Tuesday. The groom
is past 20 years Of age and the
BRIDE is 10. They were sweet
hearts when young, but her par
ents obiectedto the match and IL
was broken of. Hemarried and
his wife died q couple Of years
ago. He then met his former
sweetheart and found that she
had been true to him. The court
ship was resumed and the mars
rage followed. Both are very
wealthy.
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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-21
LRFRYETTE Dry
Celebrated bu the cltu Schools wsdnss-
dau AFTERNOON.
LAFAYETTE.
LAFAYETTE.
By JOHN Q. CUTTINGS,

Tis story long since told,
And never forgot should be
How Lafayette, in morning prime,
To our rescue crossed the sea,
Departing from his own dear land,
From wife and home sailed he
And with our fathers took his stand,
In the ranks Of liberty.
Thro' weary years Of cruel war,
In the desolated land,
His very name it was q charm,
To our devoted band.
He proved q friend to Washington.
While envious hate prevailed
For ave, his heart was steadfast, true,
Tho death itself assailed.
He brought to US from his own land,
or men OF might, and store;
De Kalb the brave, and heroes bold,
Who would return no more,
Their bones did moulder on the fields,
Where heroes graves were made
From Saratoga's stricken heights,
To the southern palm tree shade.
No base ingratitude can harm
The memories of the free
And brave, true hearts will warm
To Frances Fleur-de-lis
To him, who at Brandywine,
With the Continentals bled
And on many field iucaradine,
The gallantyanguard led.
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visit 70 her son. Seaton, at Wheel
|iing.
Rev. John Stump. Of Parkers-
burg, was the guest OF friends in
the city the first Of the week.
Mr.. Roddie Keenan,. Of Eliza
beth. N. j.. is here visiting bis
amt Mrs. John cGown, on Pike
street.
A Grafton poet asks his best
gin Why do you cast your sweet
eyes down and sigh as II In
pain 3" Corns, Of coarse.
Editor Camden Sommers, Of
the Nal returned Tuesday from
q ten days trip to Parkersburg
and Marietta.
Miss Estella Davis has been
theguest OF her brother Rev. +.
B. Davis, at Shinnston. for sew
eral days.
Governor Lowndes, of Mary.
land, was the guest of his brother
Mr.. r. T. Lowndes, of this city,
over Sunday.
Howard Gore came home from
the University last Thursday
and Is now confined at home with
a severe attack Of typhoid fever.
The Harrison County Republi-
can Executive Committee has
opened headquarters in the
Cot block on Main street.
Rev. J. d. Springston, OF the
New River section, made an able
missionary address at the Bap-
tistchurch Sunday night.
It's reported that 9 Detroit
firm will soon commence the erec.
tion Of q large brick building
near the new depot to be used as
a wholesale and retail drug store.
A man from Wheeling has ask
ed for q divorce from his wife
because she persists in eating
onions. Otherwise there is not q
breath of suspicion against her
Music, tits said, hath power to soothe
the savage breast.
To ease the ills that oft the soul 10
ravage; .
To.day alas. / heard cornet on Third
street, and, at best,
'Twould change peaceful man INTO q
savage !
During the past few days Sc.
we're snow storms have been rag
ing in 4 ansas and Missouri. Il
is going.to take q good deal OF
civilization to cure the west Of
the blizzard habit.
Paul Winchester, a member OF
1.-The Hospital corps Of the
Second West Virginia Regiment,
died at Camp Meade last Friday
and was taken to his home at
Buckhannon Sunday. The re-
mains were met here by his moth
Grand sister, and other friends
ofthe family.
The women of Buckhannon
have been terrorized of late by q
Jack the Hugger,' who has
been plying his impudent work
on some of the most prominent
thoroughfares. Women of that
town are now afraid to leave
their homes without a gentleman
escort.
DR.. Geo. M. Holt, the dentist,
will be in his Clarksburg Office
on the 1st of November and will
remain 30 days. 3ott
L. P. Currence, the Pike street
ieweler und optician. will please
you if you need glasses. Good
work guaranteed. 5o'st
The State Bankers Association
will hold their annual meetingin
this city the End and Bird OF No
vember at the Traders Grand
Opera House. On the evening
ofthe 3rd a banquet will be given
at the Traders hotel in honor Of
the visitors by the local bankers.
The State Board of Education
has decided that the fiye.day in.
stitutes to be held in all the coun-
ties, by order Of the last legisla.
ture, must be held during the
school year, and that teachers
must attend, receiving their pay
the same as if they we're IN at
4ona.., an +hoir echnnls @
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looking UP EVIDENCE
Agalnst Rev. Geo. A. Doyle for His
Trial Before the Synod.

Rev. Frank j. Brooke, of Har.
rlsburg, Va, was here several
ldaysduring the past week look.
ing up the record Of Rev. g. A.
Doyle. who was placed under ar
restseveral months ago at Park
ersburg and later released. Some
Questionable transaction in con-
nectiou with an insurance COM
pany he claimed to represent
gothim in trouble there.
II will be remembered that at
one time Mr.. Doyle was pastor of
the Central Presbyterian church
of this city. Later he went into
the insurance business and on
several occasions he has gained
unenviable notoriety by his high
living and his method oflife.
Recently at GAINESVILLE the pa
pers OF that city published start
ling stores, charging him with
gambling. wine drinking. and
obtaining insurance money in I'M
professional ways to say the least.
Rev. Mr.. Brooke is after in
formation to use at the trial of
Doyle, which will take place be-
fore the synod of which Doyle
wasa member.
W,D. showalter. formerly of
Clarksburg, has been made ex-
change editor of the New York
Journal. Mr.. Showalter is a
brother of Prof. Showalter, for
merly in charge of the reform
school at Pruntytown.- index.
The meeting of the West Vir-
GINA Mayors Association, which
was 10 have been held at Park
ersburg this week, hasapparent-
ly been abandoned. About all
the officers and most OF the mem
bersof the association, which
was organized in this city, last
year have gone out of Office, and
no one has yet taken steps to-
wards it's reorganization.
"ADaughter of Cuba present
ed by Jean Mawson's company
at the Traders Friday night was
Witnessed by only fair sized.
though very appreciative audi.
ence. The play was excellent,
the scenes beng founded on the
latswar with Spain, and scenery
carried by the company was ex.
ceptonally good. The departure
of the 71stN Y. Volunteer Regi-
ment for the front, the camp in
Cuba, the fight, at FL Caney were
special features of the play and
werepresented as they occurred.
The company was tirst.class in
every respect and management
Horror deserves much credit for
having such an attraction.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21
WHAT MEANETH IT9

we want to record choice bit of his
tory so that it can be referred to occa sion
ally by those who may sometimes get dis
couraged At the time the farmers eleva-
tor opened for business, and for a long time
prior therto, the difference between The Far
loault price of wheat and the price at Min
neapolls was never less than 8, but usually
or lO cents per bushe Today (Tuesday)
tney, the opposing elevators are buyine
Oh margin of to cents per bushel. The
farmers elevator did not therefore buy anv.
Out sent 1t over to the other elevators On
the Saturday before they bought even on
a less margin. In the light Of these facts
the farmers will get enough more on this
or wheat to build the elevator. conser-
vat1ve estimate places the amount of wheat
In six townships tributary to Faribault at
1,O 600 bushels. 1t is safe to say that ev-
cry bushel Of that wheat will bringAt least
= TO cents more per bushel
than 1T would have. brought if the
elevator had not been built. Fixing
the saving at the minimum, viz, cents per
bushel, the farmers will have SIS, 900 extra
IN their pockets after having paid for the
elevator, and this out Of the wheat crop
alone We have not considered the saving
on max, oats, rye. barley and corn, but the
presumption is fair that the saving would
De as much more. In short, we have no
DOUBT but that the saving for this year
Will be from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t pays to CO.
operate.-Faribault Jeffersokian.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21
NATIONAL PLAN OF ORGANIZATION

Your committee appointed to formu-
late plan for the future organization
and government Of the Peoples party.
realizing the Necessity Of preserving
party independence and wishing to prove
that our party alone stands for direct
legislation through the initiative and
referendum system applied 20 party gov
ernment as we'll as to the making of
laws, reports the follow ag rules on or
ganization:
l. All delegate conve4ti IL sr the peon,e,s
Party for making nominal lions and Plat
Iorms are hereby abolished and instead
thereof, nominations for office. platforms
ana amendments thereto shall be made by
olrect vote at the Peoples Party primaries
OF the political subdivisions affected there
by. NO
Z. Inc People's Party organization shall
consist Of: A national committee of three
members from each state to be chosen by
the state central committee on each presi-
Dental year.
3. A state central committee of three mem
bers from each congressional district to be
erected by direct vote at the party prirna-
ries on each election year.
a. A congressional committee of three
members from each county in the congress
sional district, to be elected by direct vote
at the party primaries on each election
year.
D. A county committee of three members
from each township or ward to be elected
by direct vote at the party primaries on
each election year.
6. National, state congressional and
county committees shall perform the same
duties as heretofore. not inconsistent here
with, provide blank ballots for the referen-
dunn votes herein contemplated and canvas
and certify the votes cast in their respective
territories
Z. The unit of organization shall be the
precinct club.
8. Any voter may become a member OF
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21

the precinct club Of any precinct by SUBJ
scribing to our national declaration of prin-
cples and our rules organization
y. Any member of any precinct club who
snaA propose fusion or cooperation with
either the Republican or Democratic oreafl--
lzatlons In the makeup of ticket through
conference committees or otherwise, shall,
upon conviction thereof, by majority vote
of his club be deemed outside the party.
10. No person not member of precinct
clup, and in good standing shall be eligible
to membership on any Peoples Party COM
nittee. or Peoples Party nomination for
dny office.
H. Each committee shall make prompt
report to the committee next higher of all
referendum votes and other matters within
the jurisdiction Of such higher committee
ana the chairman Of each committee shall
be deemed responsible for the prompt and
faithful performance of the duties of his
committee.
II. State platforms can be changed onlv
upon demand Of majority vote of the pre-
cinct club membership of any county, rat
flied by majority vote Of the precinct club
membership of the state; and the national
platform can be changed only upon demand
of a majority vote of the precinct club
membership of any state ratified by a ma
jority vote of the precinct club membership
of the nation.
13. No salaried official shall be elected
member of any committee of the Peoples
Party organization, and any member Of
such committee elected to salaried office
shall be deemed to have vacated his position
on such committee.
IA. All Peoples Party candidates for Of
flee and members of Peoples Party COM
mttees shall at all times be subject to the
principles of the imperative mandate and
may be recalled by a majority vote of
the league membership of their constitu-
ency.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN o. label, Chairman.
II. B. FAY, NJ. D., Secretary.
Adopted in national convention, Cincin-
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21
THE People FIRST,

Shall the government treat the labor
er on every occasion, where he asks for
a humble share in this country's pros
perity, as if he were a revolutionist and
an outlaw?
Of late years the tendency has been
that way. Is it crime to belong to a
union for mutual protection?
1t seems to me that it is of more i'm
portance that our laboring classes shall
not be brought to condition of indus
trial slavery, than that the number of
m1llionaires shall increase.
II the United States is not to be a
country where the average man can live
IN comfort and the pursuit of happiness.
1t is failure as republic.
GOVERNOR PINGREE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21
A CORPORATION MASSACRE.

Last week, at Cohoes, N. Y, an ex-
press train ran into an electric car which
was returning from a labor day picnic,
and out of 35 passengers % were killed!
Surely there could be no more terrible
warning against the evils of corporation
ownership.
The engineer of the train was not to
blame, for he was compelled to make
time in spite of grade crossings.
The motorman was not to blame, for
he applied the brake with all his
strength, and lost his life while stand
ing at his post.
The real criminals are the railroad
company and the electric company
The fearful accident was caused by
two things-THE GRADE CROSSING
AND THE OLD-FASHIONED HAND
BRAKE.
Neither of these two are necessary, but
they are CHEAP-cheaper than flesh
and blood.
In almost every European city grade
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poor farmer-a plain man of the peo-
pie, with nothing but a common school
education. look at his frank and
earnest face shows that he fears neither
man nor devil. He has a private rec
ord of which any one might be proud
He has been true, faithful and honest
in every relation of life. He faces lies
as he faced bullets, and nothing can
turn him from his sense of duty.
He was born Aug. 1, 1874, in Jo
Daviess county, Illinois. He removed
to Forestville, Fillmore county, Mimi,
in June, 1856. There he helped his
father to reclaim two farms from the
primeval forest.
He enlisted in Company K Capt W.
". Braden's company, 9Th Minnesota,
(William Crooks, coloneD, Aug. 16.,
1862. He was discharged Aug. 10, 1865,
after three years of the most gallant
service
He moved to Mobiles county, Mimi,
in June, 1S73 and became a successful
president, and has worked on that line
ever since.
The military history Of the country
shows that he was in the battles of
Birch Coolie. Wood Lake. Stony Lake,
Dead Buffalo Lake, and Big Mound, in
Minnesota and Dakota. He was sta
toned at Helena, Ark, during the sum-
mer of 1864, which has aptly been call
ed the grave yard of America" There
was a greater loss from disease there
than in Andersonville prison. He spent
the winter of 1864 at st. Louis, on pro-
vost duty Hunted Quantrel in Ar
kansas in 1854 He was in the nine
days fight at Fort Blakely, and Mobile.
Mr.. Long is of mixed blood. His
great grandfather, Long, was born in
England, his grandmother Long was
born in Scotland, and his grandfather
Burns, on his mothers side, was born
in Cork, Ireland.
Born in the West, and reared on the
prairies of Minnesota, with the best
blood of England, Scotland and Ireland
in his veins, he is man of heroic mould
and instinctively on the side of the pco-
pie.
We hope for his election to the gov
ernorship. The fusionists are getting
their eyes open and returning to the
Peoples Party; and the whole farming
population of the state feels the pinch
of the twine robbery, which has taken
hundreds of thousands of dollars out
Of their pockets. The nomination of
John Lind has fallen still-born; his
countrymen who supported him two
years ago are not with him this year;
and with the campaign that Mr.. Long
can make it is within the possibilities
that victory may perch upon his ban
ners.
Let every patriot do his duty.
I. D.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21
CHAS. H, HOPKINS
MidrOad POpulist Candidate for State
Auditor.

Mr.. Hopkins is, like L. c. Long and NJ.
Wesenberg, an old soldier. In the Sc
lection of these three veterans our party
feel that less honor was conferred upon
these candidates by the nominations
than was conferred upon the party by
their acceptance of the same
Fusionists expect to make political
capital out of John Lind's military rec
ord. We would in no way detract from
the military record of John Lind, but
few comparisons seem pertinent at this
time. John Lind, at mature age, ac-
cepts a commissioned Office with fat
salary, supplemented with vast contract
opportunities. Similar opportunities
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21

made most of the millionaires of the
civil war. His duties were at the rear
filling the bellies of our own soldiers
with victuals. The duties of L. C. Long
and Chas. H. Hopkins were at the front
filling the bellies of the enemy with lead
and steel. Every soldier, every thinking
man will appreciate the difference in the
qualifications required to fill these posts
of duty The one post offers the oppor-
tunities to lay the foundations for
wealth and luxury. The other post Of
fers the opportunity to work for $13 per
month and get shot.
Mr.. Hopkins enlisted when a mere
boy. In November, 1863, at the tender
age of 18 years he left the school room
to enlist in the 18th Wisconsin battery.
He was ordered to New Orleans under
the command of Gen. Banks. His bat
terry had charge of Fort Williams for
several months. A section of his bat
terry consisting of 2 pieces of light artil-
lery was selected to serve as Flying Ar
tillery and Mr.. Hopkins was selected as
one of the flying artillerymen. This fly
ing artillery was always at the front, it
could change positions in the field as
quickly as cavalry. They were sent on
numerous expeditions through Louisiana
and Mississippi and on nearly ey@y oc-
cassion they would encounter the rebel
general, Forrest. They never knew
when he might find them and many
nights slept with their heads pillowed
upon the trail of their cannon and teams
harnessed ready for business. He was
boy and then as now he had sand. He
was homesick, he was far from home,
he was sick with black measles, but he
stuck to his post till the close of the
war in 1865. He helped to free the black
slaves. The same patriotism today
prompts him to help free the white
slave. Once more he has buckled on his
armor and in company with L. c. Long,
our candidate for governor they will
fight the good fight of true Populism.
Let every Popu1ist, let every citizen give
them the greeting due patriotic Ameri-
cans. e. A. T.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21

sincerely mourn and has moved him to
open remonstrance, but to no effect.
The ships, auxiliary cruisers, tugs and
the like which go to make up the coast
defense fleet, have, as I said, paid trib-
ute to Brother Abner-all but one. The
Comanche was sold on her merits. She
was built sixteen or eighteen years ago
by Mark Hanna at a cost of $48, 900. At
the time Of the yachts purchase by the
navy she was registered as the property
of H. NJ. Hanna, the senator's brother.
The Hanna family was able to sell the
Comanche to the government at the
comparatively small sum of S1O0, 900, be-
cause there was no middleman to pay
commission.
The Mayflower, owned by the late
Ogden Goelet, was bought for $3.50,
but the greater expense was for the in
terror fittings, which were torn out when
the yacht was put on war footing. Mrs.
Goelet offered the Mayhower to New
York yachtsman for $4,000. This was
three months before the war. The story
of the Merrimac is an old wife's tale
by this time. She had been once con-
demned and lay rotting at her docks.
coat of paint and barrel of white
lead raised her selling possibilities from
a questionable $4,000 to 100000. The
Merrimac scandal was ready to burst
when she was scuttled in Santiago chan
mel. I don't want to detract from the
glory and heroism of Hobson and his
handful of vikings; their bravery stands
for as much as If it were effective. It was
not the desire of the men who ordered
the Merimac's drowning to block the
channel. They wanted to submerge the
evidences of their fraud. When Cervera
figured that his time had come for an
ocean run the Merrimac wreck did not
obstruct his squadron's passage, nor did
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-21

it prevent the entrance Of the American
feet later under the questionable Samp-
son and the undoubted Schley. The Mer-
rimac was sunk to conceal crime, and
Hobson and his men were put in jeOp-
ardy to keep men now in Washington
from public notice. All these things will
get into tie newspaper press one day,
but to no purpose. The war will be eight
months ended before some uneasy con-
gresham will demand papers and re-
ports.
One of the most entertaining series of
official improprieties is going on now In
the war Office. l doubt If Secretary
Alger knows that he is In way felon,
requiring only the formality Of convic-
tion to make him legally such. His is
one of those happy natures which knows
no wrong in itself. In the fullness of
time 1t became necessary to the progress
of this opera bouffe of war that the
war department acquire some transports
for the troops Assistant Secretary
MeiklejOhn set himself to work and
bought several at fairly good rates.
Then an idea struck the Algerian mind.
Other labor was found for Meiklejohn,
and Secretary Alger brought from Mich
igan his one-time business partner, COL
Frank Hecker, and commissioned him
as the governments agent for the pur-
chase of transports. Prices to the gov
ernment for sea-going craft at once went
up, although it does not appear that the