Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-08-30

Tor Colonel. A few months ago my
little boy died, and the day of the
funeral 'ColonerS' carriage come TO the
house and the driver said Colonel had
told him to bring it round to go to the
funeral. l didn't see any other white
mans carriage there, unless it was one
| hired and paid for. | hadn't been
here very long, and didn't know Col
onel Davis, and there was no particular
reason why he should send his carriage
to my house, but he did it, and | am
not the kind of a man to forgt it"
l asked others about tn carriage incl
dent, and found that it is Col. Davis
custom 10 send his carriage to all
funerals in the town, whether of white
of colored people. He said when asked
| about it, that he had begun it long
time ago,
When There Were Few Carriages
in the town. and that it had grown into
a custom which he had no thought of
violating. Il have given my driver"
| said he, IAN order to take my carriage
to all funerals, without waiting to ask
whose they are or whether there is
not an exception to the rule
Somebody else told me that when the
Colonel ran for the Legislature two
| years ago the colored citizens of Key
ser held a meeting and discussed the
matter of supporting him, and that the
| carriage custom was the thing above
! all others that determined them to vote
! for him.
| You see," said my informant, this
| thing has been going on for a number
| of years, since long before Colonel
| Davis was a candidate for Office, and
| the colored folks know that his kind
ness comes from no political motive"
| Out in the edge of Hardy county the
| other day farmer said to me:
Il don't see how any man who knows
| Colonel can make up his mind to vote
! against him. He is the most uniformly
! kind and considerate man l have ever
known. During the war he saved a
number Of families in this section from
ruin, and in doing so took very con-
| siderable risk upon himself He was
! a Union man, and as such could collect
! for whatever property belonging to him
/ the Union forces destroyed. He bought
| the hay and corn of good many farm
ers, and especially of a number Of
| ladies, who were Southern sympathis-
, ers, and who could not get pay for any
! thing the Union forces took from them.
! These people
Remember What He Did For Them,
and it would be passing strange If they
/ did not do all they could TO recipro-
! cate.
No other man l have ever known
1 has done so much transformations char
/ ity,' said a Keyser man, and no other
/ man / have ever known has been so
| free with his money in helping young
| men deserving of help. In all the loans
! he has made in this county he has
never had mortgage put on record,
! and OF all the vendors liens he has
| retained, when selling real estate. he
! has never enforced one except in some
/ extraordinary case He has lent mon
/ ey 10 many people who have not paid
i when they promised, and has only once
I brought suit for Ii. That was In a case
/ where he had been extremely lenient
/ with the borrower, who angered him
/ by q piece of malevoient meaaness
| aimed not only at Colonel Davis him
| self. but also another for whom he had
a very high regard. The list of his
! good deeds among his neighbors is a
very long one, and 1t would be severe
| reflection upon themselves IL they
/ should fail 10 remember them kindly.
and do what they can to show their
appreciation"
From Hampshire county, and from
| Grant, the same kind Of news comes.
and If there is anything at all in the
record of life OF kindness and char
| ity and brotherly love. then Colonel
Davis will surely reap his reward at the
approaching election
DO / know the .Koornel?'" said
a section hand whom / met at Pied
mont the other day. well, me fine
buck, its nobody else I'll be KNOWN