Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-08-07

To my fellow-citizens of Clarke and
Warren counties:

lance to the people of Virgins. We
should, therefore, seek as our delegate
the one we deem best qualified by age,
experience, training and other attain
ments, to represent the whole body of
our people, that our two counties may
have the influence 70 which they are
justly entitled.
Friends whose good opinion no man
could fail TO value, many of whom
have known me for thirty years, have
requested that | stand for the Dem
ocratlc nomination. They have pre-
sented their call IN such q way and
such numbers that l feel no longer
justified in failing TO accede to their
wishes, as / consider that no citizen
has the right to refuse his best sbili-
ties 10 his fellow citizens, when prop
erly called upon, unless the personal
sacrifice be too great.
| therefore request your SURFACES;
and as the issue is, who is best quail
fed TO represent you, being unknown
by face to many of you, | will ask
your consideration of some items of
my record.
Born at Berkeley, the old family
home on James river, in 1S49, l am
more than fifty years old; l have liy-
ed In the counties of Sussex and
Clarke and the city of Richmond.
thus familiar with Underwater and the
Mountain, the country and the city.
l graduated in law at the Univer-
sity of Virginis in 1872, taking a two
year course In one, and was recon-
mended by Prof. Minor out of the
whole class to Mai. Robt Stiles.
/ rode sheriff in Clarke from Stone
Bridge 10 Vaudeville and Wickliffe:
actively prscticed law in Richmond
for fifteen years IN all the courts of
the city, the county of Henrico, the
Supreme Court of Appeals and the
I. ). courts, and others outside.
Was commissioner In chancery for
the chancery court, and special COM
missioner for the |. ;. circuit court.
l served six years In the volunteer
militia, and was S lieutenant in the
Richmond Light Infantry Blues at
Dsnvilie at the time of the riot, uuder
the hero of New Market, Andrew
Pizziui, as captain, and when the war
with Spain came on, telegraphed
Governor Tyler, claiming the right
to lead the Blues.
l returned to the farm in Clarke
county IN 1887, in order TO take care
for the declining years of my parents,
and bore the burden and heat Of the
day at farming, handling the hoe,
the spade, the pitchfork and the
pillow; riding the binder, running the
engine, feeding the thresher, ditch
ing the lowland; / know the crow
bar, the hammer, the saw and the
plane; | have been near to the heart
beat of the people.
| ask your votes on a platform of
conservatism; We should hasten, but
"hasten slowly; the Commonwealth
should sail 1.-The middle of the
courses; each citizen should have
the fullest liberty consistent with
like liberty in others; the law seeks
to protect the citizen not only in his
rights of person but also in HE rights
of property, and so long as be ener-
glses within Legitimate sounds, no
matter how vast his enterprises, be
ls entitled to adequate protection and
encouragement.
| should esteem it q great honor to
represent that conservatism that In
the exciting days of 1861 sent union
delegate to the convention, and vet
soon afterward formed the left of the
Stonewall Brigade at Manassas, and
manned the wooden guns at Win
chester.
1 revere and admire the Confeder-
ate soldier who deemed his allegiance
to Virginia to be paramount, and |
respect the bravery of the man who
honestly deemed his allegiance to the
Union to be primary.
BY every rule of courtesy, Chapel
District In which live is entitled TO
the Delegate, as she has not had it
for about twenty-five years, in which
time Greenway has had it twice, Bat
tletown two or three and the last
time, Long Marsh once or twice and
now the Senator. The courtesy that
Warren has extended to Clarke,
should now in like manner by the
other districts be extended to Chapel.
Should you deem that some one
else can better represent you at this
important juncture, and this result
be reached by your free and unbias-
ed judgment, | shall rest con sent
In the feeling of having performed
the duty of the citizen, by present
ing you the freedom of choice.
Should you choose me, my past
record will be better guarantee
than before-election promises which
usually can not be kept, and ought
not to if they could, as they seldom
haze regard for the people in gen.
eral. GEO. B. HARRISON.
Boyce, Va.