The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-10-04
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MI md Mrs. James Hartley, of II
hnOis, started home yesterday. They
have been visiting friends and rela.
tiSes In this county for some time.
glinnn austin was down home on
Z visit Sunday. His parents live at
Little Falls.
Jesse Barnes, of Little Falls, was
IN Hcult Sunday.
Mra. Ess;e Barnes, wife OF Frank
Harness. and Miss Annie Sergeant
sepa dnwn at Little Falls to a festival
sarnrday night. They drove down
s;nd returned Sunday. Now, Sunday
WIS Hrs. Barnes birthday and several
Ct the neighbors had planned to sur,
prise her, SO about score of them
Eathered in. each armed for the fray
with suitable gift. They arrived
SOME time before Mrs. Barnes and
we're all seated in the parlor quiet and
nice while Mr.. Barnes was going
around with an innocent look when
his vile returned. The surprise was
complete but very pieasllt and all
report very ENJOYABLE evening.
The 3. and o. has unloaded fro,
and switch and great zeal Of rails,
dies. spikes, ETC.. at the bridge pre-
raratory to building the branch
up Hicluman's run.
CAN'T See II That Way.
Oh, what a tempest In a teapot our
few words last week stirred up! We
have scarcely recovered yet from that
terrfhle knockout blow we received
from s,one Who CThinks hey Knows"
Had he delivered all this oratory and
sarcasm at country literary society
his reputation would have been estab.
Hshed forever. Cont think that the
auors unsenhiAticate6 railway paddy
ras hunting for scrap with the
mighty politicians of Marion county.
Perish the thought! We never con.
templated II even in our most pugilis.
dc moods.
But even a worm will turn.
There may be other Het Browns.
The gentleman says there are and
ne generally find the sort of people
re Took for. But we are not looking
for that sort. and would not have no
Hced even this solitary case had they
K nnt established themselves so near
Under our eyes that their very pres
ence was a stencil in the nostrils.
There IS. undoubtedly, great deal
OF corruption but 1t is In high places
rs Wen as low. There would be no
zote selling II there was no vote buy
sry, viii the man who thinks he
Knows osM Ms how much worse is the
poor devil who sells his vote than the
xedIied. selfsatisfed politician who
paEE for It? When man spends ten
thousand dollars for fifteen hundred
dollar Office the chances are that he
Expects to get reimbursed some
where. hence is 1t any wonder there
Is An much graft in Offices of public |
frust2 Also VIII he tell us il the elec
tutate of this country are too corrupt
20 have anything to do with running
mis- country of ours; how much safer
HIS IN rise hands of the professional
poiitiEfIn? As witness the cases OF
Senators Mitchell and Burton or COM
ing down to corrupt State, county and
municipal politicians. If we only could
mention their names the West Vir-
gfnian would have to get out a special
edition to hold them. Even the Zone
NhD Knows" after taste Of political
HE came home SO Disguised with the
enrTnption of politicians as to decide
10 stay on the farm forever more.
Whether the political bee is again
SURFING around his bonnet deponent
seyeth not.
When he ran for office before we
z gladly voted for him and do not now
xnd never did regret it, and we did SO
without any enticements of filthy lu.
ere. and was unsophist:cated (blind
The gentleman says enough to sup
Epse that most of the people who gave
hin, bis majority did SO for the same
reasons; but If he thinks otherwise
ne ought to know and we would not
presume TO question his word.
He seems to think some one should
4 eve DER their wanderinss and return
70 their first love. Yes, the picture
sainted by him and the editor is very
snticing, we admit, but after standing
Hke Moses on the pinnacle of Mount
Ptsgah and seeing from afar the prom
assd land, should we turn again to the
sssh pots of Egypt? Even the prod.
dgai would not have returned If he had
expected nothing better than husks at
hume.
lid now in closing let us say we