West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-05-29

for six long years.
1--WE lost all the coin which Gen.
eral Prosperity advanced US on
easy payments that you would add
another prefix to your list of titles
to fame and fortune, after the Com
mittee had announced the result of
the Primary contest, and our grief
was both genuine and sincere when
the announcement doomed you to
mourning and exile The coin
which we bet DR.. King and others,
who were playing the sorrel as a
winner IN the race, has left an ach-
ing void in our pistol pocket which
nothing can replenish but a Demo-
cratic cyclone. II you can even
give US a cause for your defeat il
may tighten our burden of sorrow. {"
81 might attribute my defeat to
many causes" came the slow and
deliberate answer which is so char
acteristic of the defeated candidate,
"but the principal cause was my
miscalculation on the Dago and
niger vote. In former campaigns
/ had corralled the Dago and niger
vote and used it effectually against
the Democratic party. L was con-
graduating myself that / had the
Dagoes and niggers corralled once
more, and l placed them in squads
OF fifty under the command of my
former trusty lieutenants who would
see that they voted as they drank,
but 1t appears from the returns that
the opposition mixed the drinks on
them, which placed Walls lead pen
ellis in their hands," and the Boss
held aloft one of the Walls campaign
lead pencils. "This is the fatal
pencil" resumed the Boss, (which
scratched my name from the list of
clerks. Such is my reward Is it
not sad to contemplate that the in
ventor's invention should be the
means Of his own defeat? In the
exuberance OF my jollity over my
defeating the Democrats in Preston
corralling the Dago and niger vote.
| imported the fatal information to
the members of the party which
had served so long and faithfully.
AT that exultant minute and how
| was supremely happy and receiv
ing the congratulations of the thank
full pie-eaters of my party, every one
of whom shouted in unison that
there was no persimmon hanging
too high that my pole could not
knock when / grew persimmou hun
cry But, alas / cannot dwell on
this soul-piercing subject longer.
hear the spiritulistic rappings of the
dear departed brethren who died in
the same cause, and ! must be left
alone while l commune with Bros.
Shaw and DUN !"
AS was about to collapse myself
from over-sympathy, was willing
that the Boss commune with kin
dred spirits. THE GROWER.
We received an invitation the
other day that is little out of the
ordinary. 1t is handsomely printed
on a card like it was reception or
entertainment OF some kind, and is
an invitation TO changing bee,''
and reads as follows:
Mr.. ]. Slldell Brown,
You are respectfully invited to be
present at the execution of
ALFRED HAMILTON,
FRIDAY, May 20, 1902, at the What
com County Court House, at
6 O'Clock a. m.
w. /. BRIsBIN, Sheriff.
Present this card.
Not transferable.
1t was sent us by our old friend.
l.. p. White, manager OF the Bank
of Whatcom, and shows how enter.
prising and progressive they are in
the west. Hamilton was hanged
last Friday, and deserved it, as he
shot and killed ID. NJ. Woodbury..
a prominent lawyer, in cold blood
and without any provocation. He
had three trials and found guilty
each time, and died cursing the
Sheriff because he was too slow
with the hanging.