Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-08-31
"COL. TOMS HOME FOLKS.
Those who Know him Best His
Staunchest Supporters.
The Democratic Candidate for Congress
the Most Universally Beloved aud
Deseryedly Popular Man in the See
ond District Some Incidents Prov
ing his Genuine Human sympathy
aud Big Heartedness.

kEYsER, W. Va, Aug. 3l-The
/ home folks of Col. Thos B. Davis,
without regard TO party, have decided
that he must, will, and shall be elect
! ed 10 Congress, and anybody who has
doubts about their sincerity needs
only TO show sample of the long
green, or the yellow coin OF the realm
or the white metal used as money,
with the cali on them TO exhibit faith
in their Judgment TO be called back as
fast as hands cap 90 to pockets. Few
men anywhere have enjoyed the es-
TEEN of their fellow citizens to the ex-
tent that it is enjoyed by Col. Davis
aud a causual search for the secret OF
his popularity brings TO light num-
Der Of them.
| was talking To colored citizen
here to-day, and as he showed such
zeal for Colonel CHATS what they
all call himl | asked why he was such
a Davis man. Said he.
''I'll tell you, boss, what makes me
for ssColoneln 4 few months ago
my little boy died, and the day of the
! funeral Golonel's carriage come To the
house and the driver said Colonel
had told him to bring it round to go
10 the funeral. / didn't see any 9TH
er white mans carriege there, unless
it is one | hired and paid for. l
hadn't been there very long, and |
didn't know Colonel 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 man to forget it. "
| asked others about the carriage
incident. and found that it is Col
| Davis custom to send his carriage to
all funerals III the town, whe ther of
white or colored people. He said
when asked about it that he had be-
gun it long time ago,
WHEN THERE WE'RE FEW CARRIAGES
in the town, and that it had grown
into custom which he had not
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
keyser held a meeting and discussed
the matter of supporting him, and
that the carriage custom was the
thing above all others that determin-
ed them to vote for him.
sYou see," said my informant,
"this thing has been going on for a
number of years. since long before
Colonel DAVIS was candidate for Of
fee, and the colored folks know that
his kindness comes from no political
motive, +"
Out in the edge OF Hardy county
the other day farmer said to me:
81 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 / have ever known. During the
war he saved number OF families in
this section from ruin, and in doing
SO took very considerable risk upon
himself. He was 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 farmers, and
especially of number of ladies. who
were Southern sympathizers, and who
icould not get pay for anything the
Union forces took from them.
These people
REMEMBER WHAT HIS DID FOR THEM.
and it would be passing strange if
they did not DO all they could TO re-
ciprocate.
"No other man / have ever known
has done so much transformations char
ity," said a Keyser man, s'and no 9TH
er man | have ever known has been so
free with his money in helpilg young
men deserving Of help. In all the
loans he has made in this county he
has never had a mortgage put on rec
ord, 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
money to many people who have not
paid when they promised, and has
only once brought suit for it. That
was in a case where he had been ex-
tremrly leDient with the borrower
who angered him by Il piece OF maley-
olent meanness aimed not only at
/ Colonel Davis himself but also anott err
for whom he had a very high regard.
The list Of his good deeds among his
| nelgbhUrs is very long one, and it
would be IA severe reflection upon
/ themselves il they should fail to re-
member them kindly, and do what
I they can to show their appreciation"
From Hampshire county, and from
Grant. The same kind OF news comes,
and il there is anything at all in the
record Of a life nf kindness and char
ity and hrotherly love, then Colonel
Davis VIII surely reap his reward at