West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1904-06-09
WASHINGTON LETTER.
THE La 4 SENATOR QUAY DECLAR-
ED THIS THE MOST IMPORTANT.
DIFFiCULT AND TRYING CAM
PAfGN FOR MANY YEARS.
tx-s emator Villas OF Wisconsin, Being
iirnmed for Wee President
FIoal aur resaIa, eo,l,sl,and,nl.

| t"N All 'cSonnuS Win the nTat mot
tetings of the November storm. and
until the chief parsonage ,of the
campaign betakts him TO Oyster
Bay Washington will be the centre
of political interest. He will 90
somewhat earlier than usual, for he
is thoroughly tired of trying to
bring harmony out Of discord and
he does not enjoy life so well since
he voluntarily put restraint upon
his own speech making. To let day
after day and week after week pass
without irrigating the arid county
with the fountains OF his speech is
very trying to him. Like Hobs N
sympathizing with the people OF
! Alabama for not electing him, the
President suffers keenly in behalf OF
those who cannot hear him. But
the campaign is on and he remem-
bers that for saying FIVE words too
much Zacharias was a condemned
to forty weeks silence.
The Democratic National Com
mittee under Senator Jones and
Representative Cowherd, is now
completely organized in its head
quaters at the Riggs House, where
it occupies seven fine rooms on the
first floor up. Your correspondent
ascertained this morning that con-
siderable work will be done even
before the nominating convention
of July 6. Mr.. Cowherd will 90 to
st. Louis in two or three weeks to
get ready for that important func.
ton. The Committee is now max
ing selections OF and from the Dem
ocratie speeches of the winter of
which it intends to circulate mil
lions. Meantime the literary bur
eau, under Robert Miller, is irriga.
ting the parched places with invig.
Grating streams of eloquence. One
of the most startling documents TO
go in carloads through the country
this summer, is Claude Ki,chin's
speech on Roosevelt, A Presiden-
tial Candidate, in which he quotes
Col Roosevelt as arguing in favor
of the occasional necessity of lynch
law and as saying of cowboys that
Though when drunk on villainous
whiskey they cut mad antics--they
are much better fellows and plea
santer fellows than small farmers
or agricultural labofers, nor are the
mechanics and workmen of great
city TO be mentioned in the same
breath"
Mr.. Cortelyou has tackled the
business Of managing the Republi
can campaign and the President
gives him full support. 1t is said
that fortnight ago Senator Quay
from his sickbed sent to the Pres-
dent a-kindly remonstrance against
calling in Mr.. Cortelyou as cam
paign manager He stated that his
warning was based not merely on
the youth and inexperience of the
new incumbent, but on the fact that
this was to be the "most important,
difficult, and trying campaign for
many years, and that its direction
required tie services Of the most
sagacious and discreet politician.
I'll
Augustus C.. Buell. is dead, the
last of the brilliant trio who from
1870 to 1885 made washington
Capital" one of the best known
American weeklies-his associate:
being Dom Piatt and George But.
Ter. They were Bohemian bon vi.
wants, and Butler and Piatt have
been dead for years. Washington
is full of "reminiscences and anec
dotes Of their wild capers, especi
ally Of Butler. the most irregular Of
the three. One day after having
borrowed all that friends would
lend him and spent il in the usua
way, and having pawned his clothes
till he looked like tramp. he tin
toed into Chamberlain's and 10 a
wheedling voice struck him for "a
quarter" The prince Of garments
replied mo, not a quarter. nor a
drink nor a cent. George, you are
miserable losfer; get out Of here.
Butler sides,epped TO the open door,
grabbed beautiful ormolu clock
from the mantei, and made off with
il down the street on full run,
shouting behind him "An right,
John: Time is money"
Perhaps the gentle reader will mol
be glad to know that your gentle
correspondent was slightly mixed
up in this mess IN 1903 was a
/ reporter on The New York Tribune.
I Amos Cummings city editor anil
7 John Russell Young managing
editor One Saturday was greatly
surprised by Young's inviting me to
dine with him next day at bis hotel.