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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-15
Case in Point.

You will remember that bill giving
us $500 for the removal OF snow and
ice from the crosswalks and cutters
was passed by the House on January
% last. but as the Senate had ad-
journed. it did not pass that body I'M
til three days later Had snow fallen
in the meantime we could not have
touched It. even If it had been six feet
deep. because we had no funds for the
Street Cleaning Department.
"A similar state OF affairs also con-
fronts US when Congress adjourns for
the holidays. We are apt to he caught
without money in such a period and II
this happened the consequences might
be disastrous. Therefore. I think IL IF
the greatest Importance that we have n
steady unfailing fund 10 defray the eX
pense of dealing with the snow and leo
question.
"A great recommendation for Senator
Gallingers amendment. continued Mr.
Stutlcr, is that the appropriation could
not, Of course. be used for any other
purpose.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-15
ECUADOR MINISTER TO BOGoTA

GUAYAQUIL. Ecuador. Feb. 15-Gen.
julio Andrade. secretary for public in
struction. has been appointed Ecua-
dorian minister 20 Colombia. He leaves
here tOd2y for Rcgota. Luis A. Mar
tinez suta seeds tleral Andrade I'm the
cabinet
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-15
PLAN TO REBUILD
LUTHERAN SPIRE
Adjustment of Insurance
Soon to Be Made.
ORGAN is A COMPLETE LOSS
New Construction Will Be of Stone in
an Approved Style Of
Architecture.

Plans to rebuild the destroyed section
OF the Lutheran Memorial Church, re-
Gently damaged by ere. have been some
what interfered with. owing TO a delay
in the adjustment OF the. insurance.
Estimates of the loss will probably be
completed within few days. however,
and the work Of reconstruction will be
begun at once
The adjusting committee OF the church
is composed of George Ryneal. DR.. w.
K. Butler. and Lucius d. Alden. This
committee has been in conference with
representatives Of the insurance com.
panies, and according to their estimates
the loss on the building will aggregate
$1,000 No definite sum has been fixed
upon. The church was insured for
so, 900.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-15
WHAT is IT?
People Are Anxious to. Know What
"Cupidene' Is.

Ladies and Gentlemen: 'Cupidene" is
the great system cleanser when you
have been siCk-Or when your system
seems clogged up-or weakened. When
you seem 10 have lost your vital power.
you feel your ambition gone, then Gu
pidene' cleanses and rebuilds your Sys-
TEN and makes you strong and happy.
They cure nervous and debilitated man
hood. Price. 81 a box or S boxes for s..
For sale by Stevens Pharmacy, Ninth
and Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-15
Organ Complete Loss.

An examination OF the organ showed
that it is almost a complete loss Its
valuation is placed al $500, and the ad-
justors have agreed that the damage
amounts TO 5000. the amount OF the
insurance.
The new tower is 10 be of an entirely
different design from that which was
destroyed Stone will be used in its con-
struction instead of brick and galvan-
led iron, and the architecture will be
of the most approved style. The re-
building viii require about five or six
months
The vestry OF the church Will meet
probably next Thursday evening TO de-
eide upon plans for the improvements
which are 10 be made in the course Of
the reconstruction.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-15
Russians Would Not Try.

IAN through the Inland Sea there are
powerful Notifications frowning down
from the islands that strew the waters,
and Il is difficult 20 see 'loyv passage
could be effected. Troops landing on
the smaller islands woiid inevitably
come to grief. and throu ghout the is
lands, large and small, the facilities for
defensive warfare are such that it
would be almost madness 70 attempt to
make an invasion. II is pretty certain
that the Russians. even had their feet
overcome the Japanese, would never
have attempted an invasion Of japan
Whatever injury they inflicted on the
enemy in the way of attack on the
Japanese territory would have been con-
fined to bombardment Of coast towns.
There are endless numbers of small fish
ing villages and towns along the Japa-
nese. coast, and of course there are
many not fortified The damage that
could be committed by a hostile fleet
would be heavy. For this reason alone,
1t is OF no small importance that the
japanese fleet has weakened the Rus
slams at the outset of the war"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-15
Practicable.
Powerful Fortifcations.

1T must be remembered that while
Japan has been building up her navy
and creating a powerful army. she has
not neglected to fortify the islands at
many important strategic points. Thus.
at the Shimonosek Strait. the western
entrance 10 the Inland Sea. there are
powerful fortifications, manned with
disappearing guns These fortifications
are plainly visible on entering the
strait and an attempt on the part of n
hostile force to pass through into the
Inland Sea from that direction would be
accOmDan MED with great loss
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-15
TO INVADE JAPAN
NOT PRACTICABLE
Army Officer Points Out Diff
ficulties Of Attempt.
THE COAST WELL FORTIFIED
Defensive Warfare So Well Provided
for 1t Would Be Madness to
Make Invasion.

"All this talk about a possible Rus
sian invasion Of Japan which ] see in
dulged in by the papers must be based
on ignorance OF the conditions in the
japanese islands" said an officer Of the
army at the White House today.
1T is true il is possible foT the Rus
sian fleet to attack some of the Japan
csc towns and infiict much damage on
them, just as IL was rumored the fleet
around Vladfvostok had done in an at
tack on HaKouace. But a land tnva-
sion with troops would be almost inn
practicable.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
HAD TO EAT CROW.

1T is true that a certain minister
said if he were there he would look tc
his God before he did to Salem. he was
hen given the credit of saying that he
was a relative of Charles A. Short, and
that he knew him to be a man of an
immoral character and seemed to be
proud of an opportunity to say some.
thing about clarksburg News, Sat.
urday. August 0.
'The minister in the Prohibition CON
vention who said that if he lived in
Salem he would look to his God before
he did to Salem was not the one who
claimed to be a relative Of Charley Short
and so far as we know no one except
those who misrepresent the facts gave
that minister the credit for saying he
was a relative of Short. The one who
spoke about Salem lives in the upper end
of the county md the other who said
he is relative of Short lives in the
lower end of the county, but it is not
passing strange that defenders of the
Democratic clique get befuddled. since
they have 90 much on their hands that
they really can not think.p-C larksburs
Telegram, Monday, August s.
we acknowledge our mistake in re
producing the statements of a couple
of ministers at the recent Prohibition
convention. This mistake was not
wilfully made and we did not wish te'
convey the idea that the worthy Rev.
Schultz, Of West Milford, said that he
knew Mr.. Snort to be man OF an i'm.
moral character, but it was The Rev
Mr.. Shinn. of the lower end of the
county, who hns been accused of letting
slip the above accusation. s--C larl<sburg
News, Tuesday, August ..
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12

this county, the Incorrect. even basely
false statement IS made, in speaking Of
the county convention, which was con-
trolled by set Of men not IN accord
with the rank and file Of the party,
hat several ballots were necessary to
ascertain the strongest man. Many
men who were at that convention de.
nounce the statement as false and de.
ceptive. They were there and saw for
themselves. They were not long in see
ing the manipulations. however much
the effort to conceal them and thus de-
eeive those who were opposed to the
domineering set They saw That It
would have been as easy for that set
to nominate their man on the first bal.
lot as ON the fifth or sixth. They saw
that the matter had all been nicely
planned out to deceive them. Tacy
were aware of the fact that the set
went in to nominate one man and TO
see that no other was nominated, unless
he suited them. The clique feared Righ-
ter, but they knew before the convention
that be did not have enough votes to
nominate him. They knew he could not
be nominated as long as their own stay
ed in line, and they played with the con-
vention, until It came to critical mo-
ment, when they got scared, fearing
some of their own crowd might desert
them and go to Fighter, t4us nominating
him. As the, result of that fear they
went hnrriedly to work, jumping from
one delegation to another and fixing j
SO that Short would be nominated on
the next ballot. So worked up wer
they over the prospect of RICHTER gett
ing some of their men that they had to
run to one another and assure one an.
other that it would be rigat ON the next
ballot and that Short would be nominated
right off. Now, these are facts, as will
be attested by many Democratic dele
gates in the convention, and what is
the use for one to come along now and
say there was harmony and no attempt
of any one to deprive themasses of their
choicef Such statement falls on deaf
ears and does not pacify those who feel
themselves robbed of their privileges and
rights, so far MS party politics is con
cerned. The only effect of such dec.
laration is to add to the belief that the
clique is attempting to worl, still more
deception on the people.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
DEMoeRATs AND az REFoRM.

In their opposition to the present tax
reform measures in the Legislature, the
Democrats part of that body give as
grounds for its opposition that the
present bills are Compromise" and not
the original tax commission bills. Sup
pose that is the case, why is not the
present movement along the lines of
reform, and as the Democratic nominee
for governor is among those who are
opposing the passage of the present bills.
why in fairness to the people does he
not aeip in getting some of them
through He certainly does not mean to
say they are all so different from the
original bills that they ought not to be
passed. Are they not based on the
original bills and are they not along the
line the Democrats say Henry G. Davis
favored, few weeks ago, when they
were running him for the Democratic
nomination for governori The Demo
cratic papers will do us service by
telling us why the Democratic part of
the legislature opposes these measures
and why they can not endorse what
Henry G. is supposed to have helped
get up?
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that Thomas
C. White, on the 10th day of August
1904, fled viii the City Clerk of Garks-
burg, West Virginia, mis- application for
franchise for the construction, mainte
nance and operation of street railroad
with the necessary sidetracls and turn
outs for the transportation by cars
drawn or propelled by horses, electricity
cables, or such other motor power as may
be deemed expedient, of passengers IN
the City of Clarksburg, Harrison County.
West Virginia, over, upon and along the
following roads and streets: beginning
Mt the intersection OF centers of West
Mechanic and Third streets, Themes s
l6 degrees p minutes W. los feet to.
intersection of ceuters of Third and Ne.
chanic street S. y degrees 50 minutes E.
1873 feet to the intersection of the
eenters of Mechanic and Water streets
thence with Water street S. II degrees
SO minutes w. 500 feet, thence s. So
degrees 40 minutes w. GOO feet crossing
corporation line of the City of clarks
burg, West Virginia, Mt 532 feet.
A plat and map showing the location
of said street railroad has been fled in
the office of William H. Cole, the City
Clerk of the City of Clarksburg, Har.
rison County, West Virginia, by Thomas
G. White, to which reference is hereby
made, the one marked "Thomas O
Whites Surface Street Car Line on Me.
cbanie and Water Streets" and the other
marked profile of Thos. c. Whites Sur
face Street Car Line Mechanic and
Water Streets"
The said application will be presented
to the City Council of Clarksburg at its
regular session on Friday, September
10, 1901, or as soon thereafter as the
Council win consider the same at which
time this notice will have been published
and said application filed at least 80
days prior thereto. ~
This notice is given in compliance with
Chapter 20 of the Acts of 1901, of the
Legislature of West Virginia. and pub.
lisHed for thirty days in the Harrison
County Herald, the Clarksburg News and
the Clarksburg Telegram, newspapers of
general circulation, published in the City
of clarksburg Harrison County, West
Virginia
Dated this 10th day of August, 1904
THOMAS c. WHITE.
auglo.ltd-4tw.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
ERNEST RANDoLpH,s LATEST.

The Salem Express pretends to be a
sort of Prohibition paper, but Ernest
Randolph has publicly repudiated that
sheet. All along until the last week or
so he had his name at the head of the
editorial column of that paper, but the
Prohibition endorsement queered that.
Can it be he is seeking the whiskey
vote, or playing the same trick he did,
when he came all the way from Salem
the night before the recent town election
there, in which he was running for
mayor. to 80 on the bond of one of the
alleged violators of the law out there,
to keep him out of Jail, and tomake an
impression of Iiberality on the voters
of that town.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
MeeRAw's BALLOT BOX.


The Democratic state platform talks
, about the ballot box being corrupted,
and yet is there any means that the
present bosses of the Democratic party
win not resort to to win an electionl
What did John T. 0fcGraw DO n few
years ago, but have session Of tao
federal court convene here and bring n
train load or 50 of foreigners to it to
get them naturalized so that they could
vote the Democratic ticket, in the Mon
ongahela valley in order to carry Har-
rison and Marion counties for the Demo-
cratic party, which was to elect him to
tho United States senate, if they CON
trolled tae legislature2 Did he not pay
their way up here and backP Did he
not tip them for their coming2 Did he
not feed them while they were herel
Was he not trying to prepare the way
to stuff the ballot box in favor of the
Democratic partyf Did ne not use his
money in that to further his election to
the United States senate, and is he not
after that place nowf Considering even
that incident alone, is it mot sufficient
to stamp that declaration in the plat
form about the purity of the ballot box
with positive insincerity and untruth7
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
Nor MEANT no BE SINCERE.

In the state platform of the Demo.
Cratic party Of this state Alton B. Par.
ker, the Democratic nominee for presi.
dent, is referred to as "a safe guardian
Of our property and political rights
and yet within the past three months
in open convention members of the com.
mittee that got tine platform mp de-
nonnced Parker in severest terms and
Democratic conventions themselves in
this state in the selection OF delegates
to the convention At Charleston to Sc
lect delegates to the national convention
vigorously fought any and all instruc-
tons that would have any senblaree 81
IN enaorseEEsni q parlel,s s.laiaaey
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12

Of burden may prevail. But, believing
that these objects may not be attained
in the fullest and fairest sense under the
present Constitution, we approve the
enactment OF a law providing fora cali
for a convention to frame new Consti-
tuition for the state, 70 the end that
the people thereof may vote upon and
decide the questions here involved in ac-
eordance with their wishes and best
Judgment"
Now, is It NOT a fact that the present
constitution Of this state was made BY
the Democratic party, when It was in
power2 Is it not also true that that
party made no effort to change it during
al the years it was in power3 Is it not
also fact that that party Is now in
the legislature opposing any change of
it7 Tine answer being Eyes," the con-
elusion is that that. party is satisfied
with the tax system as it now is, and
that being so why do they denounee
their own work in such terms as the
above clipped from their platformH This
plank in the platform is merely another
example Of the insincerfty that party
is showing this year and the same de-
ception stands out prominently there
that is so plainly seen in every thing
else that that party has done or is doing
this year. This being proven beyond
contradiction, the people regard the
Democratic party with the same snspi-
cion they have for years.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12

And now they are Dragging that it
was free-for-all at the Democratic
state convention and that the delegates
did as they pleased in making the nom
nations. But is it not fact that
Henry C. Davis and John T. McGraw
manipulated that convention, even to the
lilly white" plank that was oonspicu
Gus for its absence IN the platforms Is
it not fact that John Holt was told
one day by the bosses that domineered
the convention that he should be the
candidate for governor and the next
day did they not tell him that he should
not be! Republican ma Democratic
adviees alike agree that Judge Holt told
his own county delegation that, and it
has not been disputed by any one. Is
it not fact that John I. McGraw.
campaign manager tor Henry G.. seem.
ed Cornwell's nomination FOR governor?
Yet to deceive the people they persist
in saying that the bosses had nothing to
do with it, not even McGraw and Grand
Pa Davis. But there is no man ac-
quainted with the facts who believes
them.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12

Even Democratic papers are boosting
Capt. Dovener for congress since Barnes
was nominated on the Democratic ticket
but that is only in line with the
convention that nominated the telephone
man. He was put up for sacrifice and
ne viii be sacrificed. No one thinks for
a moment that there was not a lot of
hungry Democrats for office who would
not have consented to Barnes, If they had
thought there was gaost or snow
For instance there is the late Democratic
nominee for that office. Why did he
not so after itl The answer is he had
one hitch at it, under conditions he
must evidently have thought much more
favorable for Democratic success than
this year.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12

The Democratic clique candidate,
Charley, in the words of the clique or
gan, 'fs for election" for the benefit of
Charley" and the clique. The clique
is after the place and so Is "cnarley. ?
and it is generally UNDERSTOOD if one gets
it the other win Also That organ is
mistaken as to Charley getting it, for ii
Is well known that the Clique proposes
to be the whole cheese and that Charley
win be a mere figure head, How about
the main deputy' Answer mat ana the
public viii, SEQ at once, who would be
sheriff, in the event of charley's election
q which there is not the slightest pos
sibility.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
For SALE.

Ohio river bottom farm of $50 saeres;
two-third bottom, one third hin; situat-
d in GalIia county, Ohio, four miIes
north of Gallipolis, o.. opposite Point
Pleasant, w. Va. and mouth of Big
Kannwha river. Two railroads, tive
rivers, soil fertile, improvements good;
within one-half mile church, school, post
Office. steam laundry and railroad sta
tion. Address D. F. Bryan. Gallipolis.
Ohio. july22- w4ts
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
GARDINER AND THE FIGURES.

Feeling himself internally, externally
and eternany injured by statement
made by the Salem Herald to the effect
that his act in rushing through mo-
tion at the close of the Prohibition con-
vention here to instruct the executive
committee to place Short on the ticket
under certain conditions was "a most
fragrant case of political trickerp,p Theo-
dore L. Gardiner, Of Salem, complains in
the Clarksburg News, and in entering
that complaint, he convicts himself of
lodging the question, or overlooks the
real facts in the case. as well as the
true import of MS bill of particulars.
Mr.. Gardiner says:
Il did move to instruct and the motion
carried by good majority"
Suppose we sec about this just lit
tie, and We will take the Clarksburg
News, in which he manifests such great
faith, to show him that he ans made an
error, one that is palpable for man
OF his reputation rs a logican and call
ing. The News the evening of the con
+bo yote an the motion % Instruct the
,.on,,n;tteo H. nnt short. name an tbe
t;cI.o+.
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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12

While 50 much is being said by Demo.
cratic papers that know no better about
Young men on the Democratic ticket
would it not be well for them to stop
and view the Republican ticket mo.
mont? 1t will be noticed that that
ticket has a goodly number OF young
men on it. But there is no good reason
that man in the prime of life is not
just as well fitted for the proper dis
charge of the duties of an office as a
Young man. 1t is when they. pass the
three score years and ten that the
seriPtural saying applies, that is to say
eff by reason of strength they be -four
score years, yet is their strength labom
and sorrow; for ii IS soon cut of and
we ny away" and there is no good rea.
son to not apply the Psalmistss saying
to Henry C.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12
THE RACES
FOR FAIR
Good Speed Program Aangsd F
clarlxsburg Fair and Purses
Are Liberal.

The speed program and purses haEe
been arranged for the C1afksburg fair
August 20. 80 and 81 and September
Tuesday. Aug. 5000 mixed, $500
2.4O pace, secs 2-s mile run sI25-
Wednesday, Aug. 3l-=2.S5 trot, 500;
2-25 trot $500; Free for an mixed, $500
one-half mile run, sl25.
Thursday, Sept. IBIS mixed, 5000
FPS pace, $3.50; mile run, $50.
aug9bt
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12

This action was taken because the
Democratic party in mass convention did
not believe in Parker, nor did they sym
pathige with those backing him and
their doctrines. Since these are facts
and the true situation, It Is safe to say
this latest platform reference to Parker
is an expression 50 hollow that no Demo-
crat believes it was meant to be sincere.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-12

Some Of the Democratic papers in this
section are stating that Captain Dov.
eyer = Preparing % 20 to Wash ton.
and the gist q their statements Z Ia
rs WIN have tlie opportunity. W. aaree
With them n that reense