West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-09-28

The interview with Gov. Bill
Dawson which was published in the
Wheeling Intelligencer of a recent
date is causing more excitement
throughout the State than any thing
which has appeared in public print
since the close of the Civil War
when myself and comrades came
marching home. think it is a duty
owe myself, as we'll as my widow
and orphans when am transplanted
in the Pieless Paradise, to explain
how this interview OF Gov. Dawson
was given to the public. Since the
Governor has taken up his abode in
Canada am the one whom the In
surgents have been training their
inch guns on. Gov. Bill is out of
their range. With Is inch gun
facing me in any direction | might
look my health began TO fail me like
Gov. Dawson's failed him when he
was on American soil. Not being
possessed of the happy faculty to
appear before camp meeting audi
ences and entertain them in a man
ner that they would forget that they
had ever Infringed on the Ten Com
mandments, like my noble and pat
riotlc friend Gov. Dawson, was of
necessity compelled to devise some
scheme to obviate the necessity of
facing the Is inch guns. So call.
ed conference, in which invited
Senator S. b. Elkins and the rest of
ehe piemen, who are ready to lay
Pwn their lives, if need be, to pro.
3tct their pies, in which | explained
ITO them fully that the interview in
the Wheeling Register, in which
Gov. Dawson stated that he was
ready to meet the Insurgents in bat
tie array, and il necessary, to strip
to the waist, and with bare knuckles
reach for the solar plexus. Striking
the pugilIstic attitude, which was
dramatic and artistic, | told them
that / was in no condition to duck
and sidestep when the Insurgents
ignited the touch hole in the "a inch
guns. 1t was all right for Gov.
Dawson to- make this declaration of
war with bare knuckles before he
left for Canada, but ! did not feel
that il was honorable in him to
appoint me his substitute and expect
me 20 whip a whole army OF insur.
gents With my bare knuckles. ex-
planned to the piemen that Gov.
Dawson was not a pugllist, but a
wrestler, and If he ever got the
strangers hold on the Insurgents
that he could put them out of &C.
tion.
/ suggested to the piemen that we
have Coy. Dawson to cable an in
terview to the InteIligencer from
Kingston, Canada, where he is
preaching his tax laws and making
many converts, and extend the olive
branch to the Insurgents and tell
them that he had just had his knuck-
les examined by specialist who in
formed him that it would be suicidal
for him to go into the ring with bare
knuckles II the contest lasted over
four rounds. After duly consider
ing the matter he vas fully convinc
ed that he could not knock the In.
surgents out in four rounds and he
wished to inform them that he with %
draw his challenge to fight them
with bare knuckles. This was cabl-
cd to the Governor and his interview
to the Intelligencer followed. The
compositors made mistake in set
ting il up and had it dated "King.
wood, w. Va" when il should
have been dated Livingston, Canada"
As / remarked before, the Daw-
son interview has been discussed all
over the State and created all kind
Of excitement. The Governor is
getting all the credit for il, while il
was my own creative and native
genius that sprung it on the public
when the contest for the pies was
raging and the Machine would have
to call on President Roosevelt to
call another Peace Conference be-
tween the Machine and the Insur.
gents. The Machines condition
was getting to be similar 10 the Rus
slams when Teddy inlervened with
the Big Stick
As Il is family affair do not