The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-08-05
CLIQUE TIcKEr REpupIATEp.


IN its advocacy Of the election Of the
Democratic clique ticket and its com
ments on The Prohibition convention
herewith. che News says of the
Prohibitionisis, who were assembled
in convention here Friday that "the
only desire these citizens have
and entertain is to eradicate
from the county now an5 Forever those
moral and degraded corruptionists.D By
''moral corruptionists. it means some
thing that it has not yet explained,
something peculiar to itself that no one
but it can explain "Corruptionists"
means one thing. "Moral" means an
other. The terms are Numerically OPP
posite in meaning. Moral means prin-
ciple of right conduct "Corruptionist"
means all that is bad, and as the word
"mornl" is ascd to modify the word
"corrupiionist," it is plain the News
means to say that it regards those it
charges with bad conduct as trying TO
bring about a reform in that conduct or
an Improvement at least.
But the main point here Is the fact
that the Prohibitionists who say they
have for tfcir object the betseriug OF
conditions saw but little in the Demo-
cratic clique ticket to rely upon in their
effort. Out Of the entire ticket they
found but two men that came any ways
near suiting them and one of these was
not approved by goodly number, since
it is a fact that there was a considerable
vote against him in the convention AMI
open declarations that nc would not be
voted for at the polls.
And uLso in this connection other
Democratic clique nominees were placed
before the convention only to be repudi.
ated by the ProhibitionIsts And yet,
notwithstanding these regulations, the
mouthpiece Of the Democratic clique
would have you believe that the Probi-
bitionists OF the country are working
hand in hnnd to elect the Democratic
CLIQUE ticket
If that convention recognized in the
Democratic clique the purity for which
the Prohibitionists are said by the News
to be laboring. why did they find it nee.
essary to 60 to their own party to get
nominees instead of the Democratic eli
que nominees. who were placed before
the convention by their friends and some
of whom sought the endorsement of the
Prohibitionists in quiet way, although
they did not want it made public that
they did so' If the cliquc's nominees
are the embodiment of all that is good,
why were they not all endorsed by the
Prohibitioni-ts,
Also in this connection, it is observed
that tine Prohibitionists did not endorse
n single man whose office has any thing
to do with the things complained Of by
the clique, mouthpiece. Ernest Ran
dolph can DO nothing in the legislature
to enforce the laws in Harrison county
He viii do nothing should he get there
which viii improve the laws. Dave
Han A. county commissioner could not
do what that sheet says Judge. jury
sheriff ana prosecuting attorney should
do. Dave Han can not issue warrants
Dave Hail can not refuse to issue saloon
license III carks5urs. for the law says
he must DO under certain condition
and that condition j. the will Of the
people. Dave Hall can not raid an H.
legal phec. He can not punish Grim
inal. So. along the line OF any reform
that might be suggested in the morals Of
the county, what has the Prohibition
party recognized in the Democratic
clique ticket more bad than good as