West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1899-03-16
The Darter Family
Ceuies tO rowa Again aud Abo nrop>
In ON the Lime n iln Club.


we woulda't write anv, mere afo' the
leaves come out but Gemima thinks
we 'sight 6s very busy wheu the saug
starts up IN it's upwardaess 90 we
thought best To write To once.
The lass tiae we we're ever on your
side thsr river we were little late
gittin in 10 town cause We hat ter 40
reurd by thcr bridge
Wsu while Gemima was doin' her
shepin' Thought would jes drap i'm.
ter some place aud warm, 80 / draped
inter one OF tho most intercsun meet
ins' been in since my son MarlSus was
n baby. Well whom fust entered
they was all still, couldn't guess wha,
they all been talkiS about; presently
one says, well it lays 'tvssa Clark
Gt'lsv and Gin Leuhart as TO who gifts
the nomination aud that's same as
lSct'ng man you no: mother one says
! would encourage Clark in ruuuin'
only you know he haiut got much TO
| GO on and mas mus have the where.
with to buy somthin that will quenoh
thirst es hs can't git the nomination
aad you go aud ask Ed Messenger and
heel tell you the same; says | gentle
men, hope you are not sinuatin' thet
Ripuplicans drinks 40 you. and they
all looked at me as though they
thought had better Law low. Then
one big fellow with saady wni,kers or
mnstash aud frsckled face spoke up.
says he, wont sinuate that Ripup.
tcans crink as general thing but
YOU all no IA candidet mus bs able to
furnish somthing To make IA man feel
PATRIOTIC ON tho day of the primarian
lection and plenty of IL and rs for
Clark GIdley runnin' it was nothin but
Jack Browns lies anyway; and there
was another old fellow IN there, he
SAYS we'll l wouldn't think they would
drink they all profess To be methdist
now, since the fusieri then this big
fellow (aftsr 1 lsf was tole mis- name
WAS OiS Gim ShrouO he says what
tnsioni then the little did mAu saws.
there was fusion OF Iuothdist and
Ripupiv leans the day OF the big Datin
rally @r teat meetin here some years
agoi the big man says, l were there
and seed no fusiou, ther n,yer was
much difference tween 'em no way;
ySS the little old nan SAYS there was
a difference, the netndist believed ia
uigger-wool, protecshun aud ths Rip
uplicans believed In protecshun To
the trusts and they had the methdist
preacher to come there 60 pray aud
help tnein all To call on tho samo lawd
TO cuaDie them TO deceive the people
and tney have De0n united ever since,
lrYln - fool the people, aud then the
little old man went out; then some OF
EN- said he was n sore head and some
sdid hu was copper head and soma
said ho was a. pudiassionist but this
oIg maa they called Gin says, / No
him lao - the Isaan what said some of
us pensioners had To go and git Gin
Flynn ~ read ths histry Of the war
70 as bsfore we could tell what battle
we was wOuLdsd in and then he said
mckinley promist great prosperity.
big wages aud beef stake three times q
day. Out he said he couldn't deliver
tho g0pds, people had noLhiB TO do and
was starvin. Now he says its true
some OF Us old fellows never does
Hucn but every bsdy moss / was 0He
OF the captins of Industry in my Young
days.and then talk about dull times.
look at JOHN Gidly, be has done "a
rushing business ever since Mcf<inIy
was lscted; and then the cautin or
industry went on ter say rs how that
Gin Uphois told him that Gin len.
hart suid that George Sheets herd Gim
Flynn say ne had Guided that MeI[iuIy
was tile greatest mln now ivin: tant
he bad such big idees wobiin around
IN his hair that no other man cept a
RiHnt interleclt could stand under A..
why sed he th4 very idee OF taxin a.
( man 10 make him rich never entered
any common SCANS mind: 10 wonder
the fust hich he made az tlfr Qroat
qusSsion busted his hat band. and now
ge"tleinens says the captin. have "A
To" more words o. sly TINS same
man Mckinly is still going on in his
on"arsnsss; lac has kept on spaRden
ana spanden until this united states
OF Africa was not biz enough f0r him
an he has Hexed all the flnpcener
IaRds and - large part Of New Jersy
aHd now he tells fourteen hundred
thousand millions OF people TO quis he
haven themselves and they do IL and
/ ne tells thom TO vote for protecshun
I and say in out the wet and they do "a.
he doss all that and yet 90 don't Lptbsf
mat great iuteriecl,; hs lays down and
4 goes 10 sleep and slseOs sound, YOU
/ cos hear Kim snore at evorv voting
! piace 10 the county Ou primariau lee.
/ ton day. Just then tomiiaa cone for
ne 80 help her carry thing, 10 the
wagon and told her she mist the
ereatest Ripupiikin spsach size ever
heard Of She said size had no time to
lisen to such stun, she hurried ns OIL
but J was tainkin about tbat sppach.
- passed thrs0gh tho city at Al
T fayetteville and didn't no it. bnt the
very mex kipuDiicin inctfa yet inter
( DID have Gomimt there with mc
ANu.f I