Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1901-02-13

ught TO hurl 1t back with Indignation
IN the teeth of its OrlgIuatOrs anu
ram it down their throats IN scoru
and contempt aud never vote for
single one of them again for any thing
until they come aud offer the most
humble apology for trying TO fore
stall and commit them. Taking up
ton on the people, without even Is
suing prospectus or putting up ii
bonus aud no doubt expecting TO use
this option To get from them a pro
hoterS fund.
Because Mr.. kennerly and Farm
Ell" can not see any connection that
Mr.. MOOre's candidacy has with the
Soon. that does not in my opinion
alter the facts that 1t does. | ani
not responsible for their stupidity.
If A was suing b. for balance due
him, aud b. was pleading that he
! did not owe il because y had got
ten BIS obligation through misrepre
Sentation or fraud, aud IT was tOuuu
that b. was going around praisIug
and exalting AS mauy virtues anu
advocating him for the highest hon
or in the gift of the people, dOu't
YOU think, if 1t was proven, 1t would
influence a jury or court? Its
very plato To me, aud no one knows II
better than the Lawyers IN this
case. In reference to the unIou ol
Mr.. Mccormick and Mr.. Moore.
spoken of so vividly in one of the
newspaper articles, | saw them early
the next morning after Mr.. keuuer
~ had pronounced the marriug,
ceremony in the last COURIER over
them, go up Church street as happy
and as much pleased couple, appa.
rently. as ever saw take upon them
selves the marital VOWS of HOLY Wed
lock. Let me please JON M the hope
that this may not only be happy
but permanent union, ana not like
one that Mr.. X. performed on one
occasion In his fathers absence, when
the parties come back IN two or three
weeks with curSlngs ON their lips de
handing that they be unmarried.
Some believe that this union Oetweru
the TWO political bosses mas beer
formed into kind of political couI-
hiue and trust for political purposes
alone aud that they expect 90 dictate
every county candidates nomination
lu the future, more particularly then
own. don't believe its SO. The,
are are too cunning Bud mart foI
hat. / believe IL Is union tempo
rarilv formed that has for its obiect
the greed of gain" Pardon "a home
Is illustration that came under NY
observation: As drove up 10 a Ger
tain house. ! saw considerable CON
nation in the rear of the building:
a little cOlored boy came lunuiug.
almost out of breath; upon inquiry,
he told me that two pigs that were
not used to each other were lighting
and chad been iteu' and a iii
en- and iitrn'" until ;hey had
almost done killed dey selves, anu
YOU Jest aut to seen um." About
that time came an old colored cook
out of the kitchen with something IA
"a bucket, saying In great earnestuess
lest let me get TO 'um, | will stop
| 'um.' She threw the contents of III,
bucket on them aud TO the utter as
constituent of every one present they
stopped lighting immediately.
! asked her 10 explain the cause OF 1t.
aud she said, IL Jest tell YOU how "a
is, sir; | billed uIce piece OF couutr,
middllng IN some cabbages aud j
Jest had some of the best potlickei
you ever tasted, sir, aud flung it on
'um and it smelt SO good that il jrst
sat 'um crazy, SIR, aud den de,
couldd't tell 'tother from which anu
dey Jest had TO stop" SO il seems to Or
with MIR. Moore aud Mr.. Mccormick.
They have been IA litrn' and a-tteu
and 6ten' aud "A fiten' " until the
kot their noses SO deep down into the
carcass of the dead and rotten Boom
that they became so saturated anu
infatuated with its pntrid Odour thai
1t has we'll nigh set them crazy anu
it Is almost impossible for them 10
tell "tOther from which," aud the,
just had to stop 'liten'
As to Mr.. MOore's being u farmer
aud the other Farmer" being willing
to follow him, etc, Mr.. Moore is d
farmer, that is true, but the differ
ence between his taxes now and what
his taxes will be even after being re-
ad justed by "A proper layman is IN
significant To what he makes by the
Law and will make 10y the retention
of this present cumbersome law ma
chinery in our constitution, and on
which he is so 10th to state his posi-
ton. have no doubt but that
Farmer" is ready and willing to fol
low Mr.. Moore bhndlv, as his article
virtually says, "Lead on, Master; |
will follow But, sir, if he choose,
to follow hun again, as we have done.
over another precipice, it ought not t.
make any difference to us if he fol
lows on and on into the gulf of de
spair after being warned, so he don't