Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-02-07
THE SMOKY CITY.
A Caustic Criticism of the Dirty
Town.
Fog Developed Brains of that City Can
not see the Faults of its Citizens DO.
server makes Some Pertinent Re-
marks on Conditions Prevailing
Down There.

Down There.
To the Editor of the New DOMINION:
A church periodical published in
Pittsburg, Pa, in its issue of DC.
tober 3lst last, in an editorial note
entitled THE South after abiding
to foolish utterance of Senator
Tiliman referring to Booker Wash
ington and President Roosevelt says,
with such utterances unrebuked in
the South it is clear that it is not
President Roosevelt or Booker
Washington that is on trial at the
bar of civilization hut the southern
people,
Recently Pittsburg newspapers
have been over crowded with reports
and journalistic comments in regard
to the sickning state of affair grow
ing out of The reprleve, escape and
destruction of their very notorious
criminals the Biddles And also
sandwiehed between these reports
are columns and columns of vituper-
alton or attempt at paliation of the
numerous charges of corruption in
the municipal state and county
government.
The Governor Of the great Key
stone state has said that he is not
bribed in relation to The city char
ter and city government, but his de
NAL of bribery is quoted as prime
evidence of his guilt or as thing
that is not true need not have been
mentioned
While these messes of corruption
simmer and splitter over the out
side Of the pot, dish after dish of
unsavory stuff is being ladled out to
the voters by sincere reforms wrang
ling officials and disgrunted politi
clans in the approaching municipal
election. The unseemingly seram-
bic of machine politicians is shame
less and open and many decent men
are working with disgust that be-
trays the nanseated conditions OF
their stomachs
The only object OF real sympathy
in this seething mess of crime and
criminals would seem to be the poor
silly woman, Mrs. Sotfel, who after
inhaling the malaria OF all this and
the evil influence of yellow Jour
nalisms has essaved to try the cities
criminals before manufactured
and distempered public sentiment,
rather than before court and jury
untrameled and unprejudiced, seems
to have reached the awful conclusion
that it was her privilege if not her
duty to release the notorious Bid
dies, desert her husband and child
rem and flee with the murderers to
parts unknown. She failed OF course
in the undertaking as well as her eff
forts at self destruction, when cap
tured and now the poor deluded
soul is repenting in AFFECT sorrow
suffering and anguish.
The criminal docket of Pittsburg
is by no means a meager one. MIR
ders and robberies, besides numer
Gus lesser crimes and misdemeanors
are reported daily and we read that
the district attorney hastens from
the scenes being enacted with Mrs.
Soffel and the dead Bittles at Butler
to engage IN the trial of the murder
cases that crowd his docket at
home
We doubt if any city in the I'm.
ion north or south can at this time
size up with thei'smoky city" for the
varied qualities or the quantities of
its crimes and criminals or the gen
orally distempered conditions of its
morals. Is it not clear that at this
time the people of Pittsburg are al
so on trial before the bar of civiliza-
ton?