The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-11-28
That "Nigger
In Wood Pile"
cIarksburg News Reveals its
Hypocrisy and Tries to OBJ
struct Officers in Dis
charge Of Their Duties
1t is Against Law
and Order.

and Order.
EVERY Justice of the Peace upon
information made under oath, or
affirmation that any person is selling,
Offering or exposing for sale, spiritu-
Gus liquors, or that the atliant has
cause to believe, and does believe,
that any such liquors are sold in any
house, building or other place named
therein contrary to the provisions of
this chapter, whether such person
have license or not, shall issue his
warrant requiring the person suspect
ed to be brought before him for exam
nation or the said house, building or
other place to be searched and the
parties found therein arrested and
brought before him as Aforesaid
Chapter 80, Section %, Code Of West
Virginia.
A judge Of circuit court, in vaca-
tion as well as in term time, or a
Justice of the Peace, may issue pro-
cess for the apprehension Of person
charged Of an offense. On complaint
toany such officer of criminal offense,
be shall examine on oath the com
claimant and any other witnesses, and
if he see good reason to believe that
an ofFense has been committed shall
issue his warrant reciting tine accusa-
tion and requiring the person accused
to be arrested and brought before a
Justice OF the county-Chapter 156,
Section and ,, Code of West Vir-
einia.
With malicious intent and through
ignorance the News came out last Sat
urday evening in flaming headlines
about the method of procedure in
breaking up the Illicit sale of intoxi-
cants in this county and the attempt
to free the county from houses Of i'll
fame. 1t set up a great howl against
the prosecuting attorney, the sheriff
and the Justice, thus betraying its
nervousness over the fact that some
reformations are in progress and dis
PLAYING the insincerity Of its previous
bowls for reform, howls that were
purely for political purposes as its edi-
tor so often expresses it when he is
hard pressed to account for his actions
in maligning those who do not think
in the same narrow, bigoted way that
he does. Every feature OF the article
shows the sore disappointment Of that
set over the movement made to rid
the county of evils against which they
have SO vociferously and hypocritically
complained. The general tone OF the
article portrays the malice which
prompted it, and their boastings on
the street in advance of It's publica-
ton demonstrate clearly that IL was
not the welfare of the people that
led them to such perversion of the law
and the facts. The article itself and
their actions are their own condemna-
ton. The real "nigger in the wood
pile' is that they feel themselves
pinched. They are between the Devil
and the deep blue sea and know not
which way to turn. The idea, not
brilliant by any means, was to create
discomfort and friction among those
who are dong exactly what they
themselves clamored so hypocrltically
for before the election. Their manner
and words, as we'll as their way Of liv-
ing, demonstrate clearly that an en-
forcenbent Of the laws isnot u their
liking and that nothing would please
them so well as 10 obstruct the officers
IN the discharge of their duty, IL they
can accomplish that end under cover,
or in other words. as wolf in Sleeps
clothing. The hypocrisy III their
former position is shown plainly by
their words and actions. II they want
reform, What matters it TO them what