Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1898-11-15

SPIRIT OF JEFFERSON.
CHAarns tow 5svrnasoa cOUaEE. ". Va
TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER Is. 1898.
The Democrats carried every precinct
in Jefferson county save one.
McGraw,s majoritYin Berkeley county
is 200, a Democratic gain of 6so.
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Jefferson continues the banner Demo-
cratic county of the Second District.
The Second West Virginia will go to
Greenville. S. c., for winter quarters.
Thanks to State Treasurer Kendall for
a bound copy of his Biennial Report for
1925.
Governor Atkinson comedies a Demo-
cratic majority of one in h House of
Delegates.
Mrs. John Roberts, a young woman of
Rileyville, Va, suffered a very painful
death from eating chestnuts.
McGraw carried Taylor. his home
county. by about so majority. Two years
ago Dayton carried it by over SOC.
Hurst a54a Majority 1902! Highest
vote in the county, and almost one hun
dred higher h the next Democratic
candidate.
Charles Town District in its vote of
last Tuesday made a net gain of 200 in
its Democratic majority over that given
for Wm G. Brown two years ago.
Republicans are making election
claims which are shown to be false, and
Democrats are determined that an unlaw-
full count for the State Legislature and
Congressman in this district shall not be
effected.
Mt. Hope is the banner Democratic
precinct-I4I for McGrsw to 7 for Day
ton. OF course they had to have some
election officers from both parties, or the
boys might have just made it unanimous
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John a. Davis, a bright young Demo-
crat, who formerly taught school at
Media" the residence of Col. E. H.
Mcdonald, in this county, and is well
and favorably known here, is elected TO
the Legislature from Harrison county.
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Mr.. w. H. McGaha, a one-legged ex-
Confederate of Mt. Hope precinct, though
n victim of paralysis. was brought to the
polls last Tuesday and executed the patri-
otto duty of voting for Hon. John T. Nc
Graw and the entire Democratic ticket.
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Mr.. U. s. G. Pliers overcoat was
stolen from off a chair while he was
speaking, on Monday night, at the Cen
trail Opera House.-Martinsburg Ind.
We sympathize with friend Pitzer. In
this case he seems not only to have lost
his o~vercoat, but next day lost the chair
also-that is the one he had expected to
occupy in the next West Virginia Legis-
lature.
The race trouble at Wilmington, N. c.,
reached a crisis Thursday. Manly, the.
negro editor who had published an edi-
torial rejecting on white women, was ex-
PEELED from the community and his print
ing Office destroyed. AT least eight ne
groes were killed and three white men
wounded. The whites asserted their SUI
premacy and a new municipal govern
ment was installed, which has since been
preserving law and order.
Chief Engineer c. NJ. Bolton is at the
head of a large surveying corps, engaged
in surveying for new railroad from Bis
mark, o the West Virginia Central Rail
road, to Winchester, Va. The new route
will pass through the towns of Moore
field, Romney, Petersburg, Capon Bridge,
High View, Gore, thence to Winchester,
and. will likely parallel the Baltimore and
Ohio to Strasburg, where connection will
be made with the Southern system.
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Committeeman VIM. Campbell has al
ready entered the claims of Charles Town
for the next Democratic Congressional
Convention. We have never vet had a
Congressional Convention, and Jefferson,
we are sure. is by all odds entitled to this
honor. Charles Town is eminently more
accessible to all parts of the district than
the town of E1kins, where the last CON
yention was held, and that the Democrats
from our sister counties will receive good
treatment here, they have only to come
and see.
Our gallant Congressional standard
bearer, Hon. John It. McGraw, made a
magnificent campaign and practically
won the fight by a large majority. A
miserable slump in the Democratic vote
in localities where we had a right to ex-
Pect much, has, however, made the con-
test in this district a close matter, election
frauds are evident, and a recount has
been demanded in some half dozen coun-
ties. The result, we trust, will vindicate
Col. McGraw, and give him the triumph
ant election which he so richly deserves.
Charles town is to have a company of
the new West Virginia National Guard.