The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-04-29
ARKsBuRC rELECRAM,
FRIDAY, APRIL %. 1904.
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n lhe recent Dcmocratic convention
ne'a hsFs there were open declarations
&. intentions q revolt against tie Demo-
s1'sie ticket, Il Judge Parker Il nomin-
@ssa tof the Presidency. From what the
democratic convention did at Charleston,
no''Fl 'li 'anding that II had full in
formation y the existence Of similar
tee'ine all oser the State to that here
e '''e n'aitef, the Democratic leaders Of
1He etlie hasc invited snch revolution,
cry laMiua defiance III the faces Of tine
n'ans sons 81 toll. who are bitterly OPP
posed y wlat i termed the conseryn
eve een66 of the party, and which,
taey deaqnfced in Clarksburg as those
N"o worked ''surreptitittsly and secretly
and resort 10 corruption and bribery"
% aceomoish their ends.
u ile olycntion here there were
other dssla lions against Parker. waich
ALTHOUGH made in seeming sincerity,
FsFe aonbiltss meant merely TO deceive
lfoe eqnsf0tiop in order to accomplish
enas VII which they were charged at
tne openins IS the convention. hut whicA
whom tliss were hard pressed. it became
neees arF deny Or be defeated in their
designs g Us y, not trne, there can
Rs 20 r4f.ltion liz public utterances
.zaigs Parker ana II there be5ho re-
xaciion s BIT logical for tlis rank
end ti' 1i DEMOCRACY 70 conclude that
some the professed leaders 81 the
party u THIS county are not conversant
with lie policy Of the party in tho
state, and L this be true, the party it,
seif a ile county must conclude that
these leader are unsafe ms we'll as dam
serahs & The welfare Of the party.
The Charleston convention discarded
The wishes 81 the rank and file of the
Dsmocratie party in Harrison county
and thereby undertook to rebuke them
~ attefu pting to have voice as to the
party III lie nation. That convention
aid exaelly what the many country
ptnocra here feared would be done in
the c6Hventlan here, and which would
aouhiicsa haab been done, and which now
eus IS hav been done, If they had not
isen pose bon Of the convention and
trqod the Opposition and the plotters
fnIo snbieeiian They thought they had
nonplishea much but the Charleston
1HFertion bows how badly they were
Ist5ksi- how badly they We're deceived.
4nv ono cap now see why snch an I'M
Inin4 effort vas made in the convention
see 70 praxent it from inztrueting its
1sleeses The Charleston convention.
Tie handwriting on the wan Is plain.
i has been figured out for months by
certain persons in the Democratic party
who slonld be delegates, if possible, to
the ngtienel convention. This paper
Nv months ago about this, when Hon.
James b Fowler was 50 strcnuously OPP
isasss ~ Owen S. Mckinney for the
place. ,Ir Fowler stated at that time
that Mckinney told him that he. Mc1in-
ney; had ent red into a compact TO send
certain man as delegate and II panned
Spnt inst shat way.
An inpres sive lesson to be learned
from liz itpatiou IS that few Demo
cratic politicians in this county have
banded themselves to adroitly use the
rank and file to further their own ambi-
tons and personal ends. But the rat
has been ssnelt by that rank and file and
fhe hole has actually been found since
thssF suspffiods actually developed by
fhe trend q c4ents into actually. T1ere
s. no rQen nov for even the shadow of
doubt 81 be question and there is no
Foubt What placation can he made re-
atai1i to be seen, but judging from the
Temper Of that convention here. there
can be nom that will be at all effective,
and an nprisine in the Democratic camp
again<s suei lf9h -handed methods may
be certainty expected.