Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-03-02

tive III pOHtlcS Il, who VIII be the
nominee of the Democratic party.
A good many of the men who. six
months and even six weeks AGO
laughed at the Hearst boom. now
are looking serious and admit that
they will have to reckon with the
Hearst movement as one Of the ser
ious factors in the Democratic con
vention. IL practically has mar
rowed itself down to fight of the
field against Mr.. Hearst. They
see that he has made and is making
such inroads into the rank and file
OF the Democratic party that they
must do something to stop the
movement or it will be Hearst on
first ballot.
The men who are most actively
fighting Mr.. Hearst here are the
men who went back on the ticket
in 1896 and 1900 and who voted
either for Mckinley or for Palmer
and Buckner. They are being as
sisted by the men who control
Wall street and the propaganda is
being fostered from there and by
the men who want an assistant Re-
publican nominated by the Demo
Gratis. They want a man who can
be controlled by the element that
controlled Mr.. Cleveland and they
will sit down satisfied that which
ever way the battle goes the trusts
and the corporations will be well
served during the next administra-
ton, and the people will get what
they are used to-a good roasting.
The recent developement in the
campaign in the central West is the
fact that almost every state is
bringing out its favorite son as a
Democratic candidate for the pres
idency. 1t is believed here by
some of the shrewdest politicians
that this is being done 10y the Wall
street propaganda and in the inter
est of their candidate. 1t is being
done for the reason that the man
they claim is the favorite son is
merely stool pigeon for the gang
that will manipulate the conven-
tion after the break from the fav-
Oritc son and they hope to hold all
such delegations intact and swing
them where they please. In other
words, the men who beat the party
in 1896 and 1900 will do the driv-
ing this time and tell the $500, 600
loyal Democrats TO dance To their
music. Ii has, as nothing else has
done, accentuated the candidacy of
Mr.. Hearst and many men who
are loyal Democrats, but, who,
hitherto have said nothing anent
any presidential preference, are
every day declaring for Mr..
Hearst as against this wicked COM
bine. When the time comes To
count noses they will find that
these tactics have availed little. and
that Mr.. Hearst is forging to the
front as a real land loyal Democrat.
AS stated in previous letter,
desire To acquaint the readers of
this correspondence with one of
the most interesting things that
can come to them, viz: any news
that concerns the great st. Louis
Worlds Fair, from a national
standpoint or from the farmers
standpoint. can say upon the
best of authority that one of the
special features of the government
exhibit at the Worlds Fair will be
collection of curious antique fire
arms, brought from the arsenal at
Springfield. Mass. The collection
will include weapons from all parts
of the world which have fallen
into the hands of the government
at different times. Among the sell
ection which will be sent to St.
Louis for exhibition is the old per-
cussion rifle carried by Jefferson
Davis, President of the Confedcr-
ate States of America, when he
was taken prisoner by troops
under Gen. Nelson A. Miles, in
May, 1865. This gun was pre-
sented to President Davis by a
French friend and admirer, =.
Bevisme, of Paris. 1t is most
interesting relic of an historic per-
sonage and occasion. The rifle
was taken to the Springfield arse
nal some time after the close of the
war, and has been carefully pre-
served.
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