The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-21

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without fearso, competition naessfet-
s ( may patent an iraprovementSo!s
sParker,s patent; but there's only q
Improvement possible That woutl
be if Parker would con1e outGan saySf
he sent that telegram before the
platform was adopted, but that the
he sent it to the depot by had
got drunk on the way.sThat's the only
Improvement in sight, for when %
can get bunko as nearly perfect
as this here Parkerhas got it, its hard
to improve on it.
"He has raised the high water mar
Of buako in the Democratic party
Of the East, ann a man who q do
that is no slough, I'm a-tellin YOU
Cleveland set 1t SO darned high that
there's got to be a rainy summer like
this one 10 set it higher. Parker il
the ~rainmaker who's done the JOB, but
there's this difference between him
an. Cleveland: The party repudiatett
Cleveland an throwed him over in a
! platform that run over him as plain as
if we'd mentioned him by name: When
ii come to Parker we just set there,
IAN after that man bunkoed us by nor
sayin' WORD about what h~e..thought
O. the gold standard or about anytime
else. till after we'd mad up our mind
TO take him like a pig in a poke, when
he sent us word that he didn't agree
with our platform an he wanted u5
no know that he thought hissetf bet
ter than the platform we'd made He
was sayin' for hisself what Zeb Ian
ders. that used 10 live in St. Charles,
said OF Tom Benton. Zeb was a great
Benton man an an nothin' Benton
could do was wrong, il you let LeD
t~teli"it. Somethin' or other come up III
connection with the slavery question
that {. good many OF the people o Mis-
souri, didn't agree with Benton on, n,
a good many o. EN- was a-sayin
around that what Benton wanted TO
do was unconstitutional. Zeb Lam
ders heard Col. Wall a-sayin' it one
day, an he walks up to the colonel
am says, says he, You say, colonel
i that Tom Benton an the Constitute"
O. the United States ont agree? .
"'That's VIA I say, sir said tue
colonel, a-bristlin' up. And what do
you say, sir?'
L say says ZSD,s so
too. that if Tom Benton an the Con-
stitution disagree, Tom Benton,s
right, sir, m the Constitutions
-rcng-
That's about What Parker was say.
in for hisself when he sent a tele-
gram h him, an the platform dl.
fered, an he was right, begod.
But the convention set there an
took it.. 1t set there an swallered
the medicine he gave it. Bryan fought
against it, but they voted him down
an said that what Parker had done
was all right, a proper part OF party
practice an usage. an a precedent for
all future deliberative bodies in the
party to go by. An that's logic. So
the fellers that's goin' to meet here
next Tuesday to put a Folk an ma
chine ticket in the field will have
somethin' to go by. They won't ae
without a precedent like they would
have been if they had held this State
convention before the National con-
vention net at ST. Louis. Don't Tor
get that I told you a good while ago
that this here State had
been put off till after the National one
at St. Louis. so they could get a tip
how to run this one. It's a good thinS
they waited, for a dead-straight tip is
the one they got out O the way that
Parker run that convention dow.
there. They've got a question before
EN- that I don't know how they could
have settled at all if they hadn't wait
ed for Parker to play his bunko game
Some of EN- might have objected to
workin' such a trick before, but now.
it's been approved by the highest
council in he party.
It's this way. AS I've been tellin'
you, COX an Aliens got a cinch They
can't beat EN-, if they're a-tryin' OF
not. That is, I mean I don't know
whether they're a-tryin' to beat 'em on
votes. They can't do it, because-1Ee
old you why a dozen times. But
there's a platform thatn denounce
doodle in thunder tones. He wants
one thatll just take the hide off tho
boodlers an hang it on the fence, an
he wants it to go into particulars that
will describe Sam Cooks participa-
ton in the bribery of Bill Lyons by