The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-13

things. One was to get the Prohibi.
ton party composed mainly of Repub.
licans to say. the DEMOCRATIC party was
all right. Another was that they want.
ed all the Prohibitionists possible to
vote the Democratic ticket and The rest
Of them to vote the Prohibition ticket.
In other words they wan ed to keep as
many votes from the K publican can
didates as possible. II was bold poll
tics but so raw that il is bound to re-
bound on them with disaster. Another
striking feature was that it was made
up largely OF Salem people who are sore
at themselves and their neighbors and
are ready to do any thing to carry the
point they have brooded over the past
year or so. Now, you found in the
crowd one who got so drunk, when he
attended Prohibition convention a
year or so ago as one Of the conyen-
tion's star performers that he could not
take care of himself. Then You find
another who laid in the ditch for years
as a drunlSard to the disgust OF every
body. Then you find others who have
always voted the Democratic u lei and
last of all you end a set jof h from
Salem, VINO have tried TO get ltrol of
that town and who are sour on h man:
kind because they failed, the majority
Of the citizens of the town having had
their way and their will having pre-
vailed. Most of these same men are
Democrats and are seheming to turn
the county over to the Democratic party
simply because they themselves are
Democrats There could be no other
reason assigned owing 10 the fact that
these men can not know what viii be
the policy of-the Democratic party on
the whiskey question, since there has
been no party declaration on the ques-
lion. Also at the convention were one
or two persons who are loud in their
protestations that they are Republicans,
bnt who, in fact, are openly known to
be working for the Democratic party,
not on the matter of temperance, but
as a matter Of politics and personal in
terest. One who has been a Democrat
all his life and is still Democrat and
who viii surely vote tae Democratic
ticket next fall, whether it be made up
Of whiskey or Temperance men stated
in open convention that one Of the gang
that Processes to be Republican, but is
using all his energies to defeat
the. Republican candidates, wanted
him as the right man in the right place,
but later fearing that the secret would
get out this man was excused @for good
reasons" from serving on the committee
to which he had been appointed. Again
there were fellows there who spend most
Of their time drinking and carousins
and they were active in debating and
making suggestions, evidently for the
purpose Of mapping out the destiny of
the Prohibition party in this county 50
that it would find itself IN the Demo-
cratic lap this fan. Nothing could have
been palmer than that the plan OF the
little Democratic star chamber the night
before was being carried out to the let
ter 50 far as it was in tie power Of the
Democratic clique's .Iieufenauts. but the
presence Of Few conscientious preach
ers and true blue Prohibitionists saved
the day and the Democratic schemess
have not As Jet succeeded in landing
the Prohibition party into the Demo
cratic lap.