The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-10-12
clarksburg Democrats gave Their
party Candidate for Governor
the cold Shoulder at the
Speaking Tuesday
Night
Holt Completely FrOze
The Democratic Crowd
After that and the cold Blasts Of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Walk :
or Distorted the Facts and
the Democrats are
Sick.

A medium sized crowd of the faith
full among the democrats and num-
Der OF curious republicans gathered In
the court house Tuesday night to hear
Stuart w. Walker, OF Martinsburg,
discuss the issues etruthfully" rs the
bills said
To say nothing Of Hack Crummits
drum corps, which made the principal
noise Of the evening, the prominent
feature OF the meeting was the awful
frost given Judge John IL. Holt.
democratic nominee for governor, who
was present. There we're few scat
tered cries for Holt, who was in the
rear end OF the audience, but he was
not invited to the front to make q
speech, and the reception given, Us
well as the GOODNESS prevailing, was SO
uninviting that Judge Holt deemed II
best not to make his presence known.
The situation was embarrassing TO the
extreme. In view OF the antipathy
Hollis speech created when he spoke
here early in the campaign and the
disappointment IL caused among even
the most partisan democrats, II was
plainly apparent that they were not
DESTROYS OF hearing Mr.. Holt again.
Then, on Mr.. Hollis part 1t seemed
that, he, after surveying carefully the
diScouraging situation, the lack OF
enthusiasm etc, used discretion that
Better part OF yalor, and responded
not.
Mr.. Walker is quite aclever speaker,
in fact, rather magnetic. His voice
Is strong and yolumlnous and his
flights OF oratory compare favorably TO
those OF the leading orators OF the
land. He is. as every one knows, one
of the brilliant young men OF the state,
and as capable as any one else To make
a good thing out Of a bad case. But
his speech Tuesday night was great
d disappointment, and none felt 1t more
than the local democratic leaders upon
whose faces were depicted disappoint-
ment in deepest hue. His discussion
was confined strictly to the Porto
Rican tariff, the American Sugar
Trust and bitter denunciation Of
Congress and the President. He as
serted that the United States had not
given the Cubans a square deal ard
yet he gave no citations to prove the
assertion. Then, he jumped off to
embalmed beef as the primitive
principle Of 'simperiallsm." Nexthe
tnrned his attention to the American
Sugar Trust and charged it with de-
bauching the great Congress OF the
United States, but he very studiously
failed to allude to that famous sugar
scandal few years ago, in which a
number OF leading democratic U. S.
Senators, some of them not so very far
from Clarksburg, appeared in most
unenyiable light. He talked about the
rise in the price of sugar and yet local
merchants tell US the price is falling
every day, and as much as As points
the last few days. He tried to make
it appear that the Trusts wanted the
Philippines on account Of the rich
resources Of that country, and ac-
cused the Government Of plundering
the islands OF the sea. He said we
were fighting 1O,Oo0,oOO Of people in
the Philippines. when In fact there
are only about 10000 lnsurrectionists.
Again, he clIimed that Cuba and
Porto Rico we're integral parts OF the
United States and also placed the
Philippines, by inference at least, In
the same category. Yet he was unwil-
ling In the face OF these statements to
call Aguihaldo and his crowd rebels!
Remarkable argument, indeed. He
referred to our soldiers In the Philip
pines as paid hirelings at sl3 month,
Of the fact that they volun-
teered and not for pay either, but for
their country's cause, flag and honor
In his enthusiasm to magnify he
stated that there were slxty-five mil
lion American soldiers In the Philip
pines. This was doubtless a slip OF
the tongue. He probably meant
thousand. II shows, how
ever, the recklessness OF democratic
speaker in distorting the fact and lends
to other statements they
make. He made weak effort to COM
pare the Spanish-Amerlcan treaty
with the other treaties made by
which we acquired, in his own words,
'territories aud peoples,n but said
never word about Bryan's aid In
securing ratification OF that treaty.
To condemn the treaty was to con-
denim Bryan as well as many other
democratic leaders. In I'll all he failed
to utter one word, either as an as.
surance or as a prophecy, as to what
the policy Of the democratic party
would be in case Of Bryan's election,
OF which there is not the slightest
probability.