Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-12-23


Van Wyck was the democratic.
further showed the weakness of
Parker in race before the voters.
Judge Van Wyck polled $4,000
more votes mp the State in the
republican section of the State than
had Judge Parker the year before. {"
These are the absolute facts in
this matter" said this democratic
leader in the State of New York.
and the people ought to know
them. If the people want New
York man we have much stronger
men than Judge Parker. who,
aside from his weakness at the polls
above demonstrated. is the crea-
ture of David b. Hill, and is as
acceptable to the trusts and the
Wall Street gang as is Grover
Cleveland himself. and it is from
that source that the Parker boom
receives strength enough to walk.
Personally ! entertain the opinion
that William Randolph Hearst is
the strongest man in the State of
New York, and will make a great
er race before the people than any
other man we could name"
An interesting figure who will
60 down in American history as
the man who made the only un-
answerable silver argument ever
delivered on the floor of the Senate
of the United States, is the Hon.
John p. Jones, of Nevada, who
for the past thirty years has rep
resented that State in the Senate.
Since his retirement from the SEN
ate | have had many inquiries from
all parts of the country, from his
admiring friends, as to his where
abouts, and what the old gentle
man was now doing. l am now
able 10 furnish the information
based on a personal interview with
the gentleman himself. Imet him
the other day and he said To me
that he had retired permanently
from politics and would devote the
balance of his life To mining in
dustrieS and to teaching the people
of the country the greatness of his
State of Nevada as a mining coun-
try, and which in his opinion is the
greatest in the world. He SAYS
that the recent gold strikes i'm the
State have been the most wonder
full of any vet discovered, and that
they will eclipse the great Com
stock Lode, which turned out more
than 5000. 900, 900 of the precious
metal. He said that for the pur-
pose of working for mining inter
estS of his State he had opened
Offices here in Washington in the
Colorado Building, with Major ID.
b. Harrison, of New York, in
charge. He said that thousands
of dollars were annually wasted on
fake mining schemes by the people
of the country who were misled
by constituencies promoters. 1t
was his intention, he said, to pre-
vent this as far as lay in his power,
by giving the people who desire to
correspond with him, correct in
formation concerning the mining
properties of his State. He is
again actively engaged in the min
ing business himself, being vice
president of the New England
TonOpah Mine and Annex, at Ton
opah, Nevada, and has associated
with him some of the wealthiest
men in the country. He considers
Tonopah the greatest mining camp
ever discovered in Nevada. The
old gentleman is hale and hearty
and bids fair to live yet many years
of usefulness.
1t is nearing the blessed holiday
season of the year when it is meet
and proper that we should think
of those who deserve our consider
alton, and send to them in remem-
brance a gift that will warm the
cookies of the heart. Most people
recognize this and are glad to COM
ply with the dictates of the heart
in this regard. In strange con-
trast with the actions of most peo-
pie is that of the great United
States Steel Corporation, known
all over the earth as the steel trust.
Last year about this time they
gave to their workmen a Christmas
present by allowing them to buy
preferrej stock in their corpora
ton at S29, which to-day is selling
at 52l, thus losing for their men
over thirty dollars a share on what
they bought. At this Christmas