Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-01-27

Al ali the CARRIAGES anu other vehl-
cles owned and maintained by the
government for the private use of
the employees of the different de-
partments were strung out i'm one
line, they would stretch from the
Capitol to the White House along
Pennsylvania Avenue. Mr.. Ian
dis has seen this abuse, and he has
had the manhood and the patriot
ism to hit at it, and it is to be
hoped he will smash it. My hat is
off TO Mr.. Landis, More power to
his elbow.
The political gossip that still is
agitating the tongues of the politi-
clans at the national capital con-
Germs the late meeting of the Dem
ocratic National Committee in this
city, and the things that happened
thereat. Itold last week how some
of the New Workers quit asking
for the convention when they
found that the Parker boom was
about as fiat as custard pie that
had fallen from the top of Wash
ingtom monument, but the letter
was written before the adjourn
ment of the meeting of the COM
mittee, and could not have fore
told the interesting developement
anent the place of holding the
next convention. At the time
wrote the last letter everything
looked as if Chicago would have a
walk-Over for the convention. but
something happened to scare the
convention down to ST. Louis.
That something was the powerful
Hearst movement and sentiment,
not only among the members of
the committee, but among the hun
dreds of prominent democrats who
came TO attend the meeting of the
committee. What some of the
reorganizing element of the dem
ocratic party took To be a cloud no
larger than n mans hand turned
out to be a cyclone, and it scared
them from the balmy breezes of
Lake Michigan into the cyclone
cellars of St. Louis. They were
running from the Hearst boom,
and they were a sadly scared lot of
people. There was n hurry call
sent around 10 the faithful late on
Monday evening before the meet
ing of the committee, and few of
them met at the home OF John r..
Mclean agreed then and there
that it would never do to allow the
convention to 90 to n city where
Mr.. Hearst had two powerful
newspapers and a great personal
following. They conjectured up
thousands of working men parad-
ing the streets of the city carry
ing banners asking the convention
To nominate Mr.. Hearst, and thouS-
ands in the convention hall To
stampede the convention to Hearst.
The vote ON the following day
showed that all but seven members
of the committee either were not
scared by the Hearst boom or else
were favorable TO it, as they voted
for Chicago. This move on the
part of the people who do not
favor the candidacy of Mr.. Hearst
proved boomerang. They
thought they were getting away
from the Hearst movement, and
away from the Hearst papers.
They have got away from neither.
The chances are that Mr.. Hearst
will start paper in St. Louis that
will be democratic paper to the
core, and not a wishywashy. milk
and water, good-lord-good-devil
sort of sheet, and the delegation
from Missouri in Congress are re-
Joicing thereat; also the fact that
they conceded the liability of a
Hearst stampede in Chicago con-
cedes the strength of Mr.. Hearst
in the republican state of Illinois,
and one that we must carry in
order to win at the polls next No
vember, and thus argues that he
is the strongest man in the state
whom we can nominate.
If that be the case Mr.. Hearts, s
friends are now arguing, then is he
not the strongest and best man we
can nominate, and the man with
whom it is easiest to winl
They all say that victory is the
great desideratum in the next cam
paign, and many of them are will
ling to sacrifice principle in order
to get it. Why not. then, say the
Hearst men, conserve principle
and at the Same tinoe win a v;ctor,,