The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-31
AND TALKS

4 ulfus Chambers, IL Pittsburg Dis

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SenatorssT4ilI has retired! He says
sn%himself; bnt the political world is
#nptaeXpected to accept his statement
$aicne;Ea he strengthens the declaration
aalsaflrnaation5th hezwiH not take
@ssomces under Judge Parker if elected,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. lure him from
#@tSe@pripate#alife he covets.' Senator
Hill u.s. IS peculiar as he is able. He
sgbeganSin Elmira as patron of Boss
Tweed. 4 he ends his career at
SSSsssss Volferts Roose. as an isolated poll
who might have been an Amer
s lean Immortal Shad$he been sincere on
aatIeast q srreat occasions.
Withont any#Edisposition to jump on
sSaHman who's completely down refer
ence is made Eon1yt to the occasion"
s@soHered fo him at Chicago in 1896.
Sanator HiII,sSroom at the Grand Pa
ifeToteI The night before the nomi-
Observation-Disclosures the Democratic
#cenIeI.ofatheSU United States. No 9th
sersnlan inESpublic life ever had such a
Msehance foEsecure a5n~on1ination as had
s@Sanator#Hi1I that night. Nearly ev-
i newspaper correspondent whose
Ellsworth mentioning was in hat
room.%Th possibilities of Hill were
~evidentto every man present-except
ssSHlI1. was told by such men as
g@Jnlian9Ra1ph, Melville E. Stone, Will
anthuysen and all CORE
s5spondents from h &East that he could
~secure$the nomination hands down"
if%he would stand upon his famous Ell
mira speech and split the difference
hetweenS16 TO 1 and 81 to i. Already
THE purport of Bryan's speech was
Known obinson,&3o Of Massachusetts,
and HiN,sofNew York, we're able to
#headsoH from Nebraska if
$theyworked together. Robinson was
willing, and said so. Hill said he
would think over" but every man
hos8le his room that night had the
Ssi impression that II New Yorker real
oft
NHhat actually did occur is political
history. Fill went vi to the platform
defended the Supreme Court chief
#igs|H he had advocated silver at 20
S1hefWouI have swept the conven-
tIon 1t is too late now to say that
I1a@=sWould have been elected, but he,
sIldt@Bryan, would have been the nomi-
Sneet5sTherefore 7 have no hesitation
insayingSSSthat if ANY American citizen
seTerSlost-sh lis opportunity to get a
Presidential nonlination thai man is
sDaFiid Hill, He ought to quit, be-
Scanss hea#doesnst%know the game.
SS5E&sEESE@% ,Ss2F3 - .ss. !
4sAsto the Republican nomination
fprgoNernorof New York, l assure
youStae betting is easily ? to / in favor
pgsssIEVoodruff-now that Root has posi-
lively taken himself out of the race.
Acabiegram announces that Rud- +
RipEng is visiting his father near
s&sWinchester, in Hants. It will do Rud-
yRrd good to have a talk with his faith
q .The o1d man" is a portrait
s~pafnterSand a smoker of rank tobac-
This indicates a story. and it
ugh to be old
was recently travelling from Flor
Genoa, second class. The
rain, which was an express from Brin-
slIISls ana L SOL INTO the
smoking compartment of a second
class car, much against the wishes of
A hunEy.sgray-bearded man, who
wanted to keep a seat for a small grip
he carried, took up the bag and
put it OF the o of the car. Then
seated myself beside him, offered him
a cigar, which he CURLY declined and
loaded up his pipe with italian tobacco
from one of the small green packages
sold by the government in every city
of5the: kingdom at two pence each. In
vain i tried to induce the stranger to
take cigar. He would not fraternize.
We talked about Professor Fiske, OF
the beautiful villa Lander at Florence,
of Egypt and finally of India. That
was his long suit I readily discover
ed. He told me how to get into India
to the greatest advantage and 0 to
get out with the least expense and
trouble. He told me where disease
lurked and where it had been dissi-
patel and was harmless. He was an
authority on the plague; he had seen
TWO durbars and knew just how they