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
winterfoIIowed Stuart Walk
or Distorted the Facts and
the Democrats are
Sick.

Amedium sized crowd of the faith
| full among the democrats and q num-
Der OF curious republicans gathered In
| the court house Tuesday night to hear
Stuart W. Walker, OF Martinsburg,
discuss the issues "truthfully" as the
bills said.
To say nothing Of Hack Crummit's
drum corps, which made the principal
noise Of the evening, the prominent
| feature of the meeting was the awful
frost given Judge John III. 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 a
| speech, and the reception given, as
well as the GOODNESS prevailing, was so
unlnvltlng that Judge Holt deemed 1t
best not To make his presence known.
| The situation was embarrassing " the
extreme. In view OF the antipathy
Hollis speech created when he spoke
here early In the campaign and the
Disappointment II 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 IL 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
1up He fe aynFv nne knnVys. one
| of the brilliant young men of the state.
| and as ca pable as any one else to make
a good thing out Of a bad case. But
his speech Tuesday night was great
disappointment, and none felt it more
than the local democratic leaders upon
whose faces were depicted diSappOlnt-
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. Heas-
serted that the United States had not
given the Cubans square deal ard
yet he gave no citations to prove the
assertion. Then, he jumped of to
embalmed beef as the primitive
principle OF ''imperlalism." Nexthe
tnrned his attention to the American
Sugar Trust and charged it with de-
bauchlng the great Congress OF the
United States, but he very studiously
failed to allude to that famous sugar
scandal few years ago, in which
number OF leading democratic U. $.
Senators, some Of them not SO very far
from Clarksburg, appeared in a most
unenylable 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 45 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 lighting 1o,oO0OOO of people in
the Philippines, when In fact there
are only about 10000 insurrectionists.
Again, he cllImed that Cuba and
Porto Rico were integral parts of the
United States and also placed the
Philippines, by inference At least, In
the same category. Yet he was unwll-
ling In the face OF these statements to
call Agulhaldo and his crowd rebels!
Remarkable argument, indeed! He
referred to our soldiers In the Philip
pines as paid hirelings at s13 month,
forgetful 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 sixty-fiye mil
lion American soldiers in the Philip.
pines. This was doubtless slip Of
the tongue. He probably meant
sixty-tiye Thousand. 1t shows, how
ever, the recklessness of Il democratic
speakefin distorting the fact and lends
incredibiIity to other statements they
make. He made a weak effort to com.
pare the Spanish-American treaty
with the other treaties made by
which we acquired, inhis own words
s'territorles and peoples,'' but said
never word about Bryan's aid In
securing ratification of that treaty.
To condemn the treaty was 10 con-
denim Bryan as well as many other
democratic leaders. In it 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.