West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-11-02
Receives Telegram From Elder Whet-
sell Announcing Celebration Of
His goth Anniversary
FROM HIS DBLIVERAECE
FROM SINFUL DEMOCRACY.
The Elders Ambition TO Be a Sod.
dist was Thwarted by the Loss
Of a Two Year Old Colt.
Delivered Dramatic Speech on
The Occasion and Joined
The Republican Party.

The following telegram was re-.
ceived by me today from Elder
Whetsell of the Old Family Journal,
which | hereby append:
81 send greetings to The Ram
bier, on this my twentieth anniver-
sary. have thumbed the diction-
airy from cover TO cover to find
words to convey my heartfelt graft.
tude to one who has done so much
to make me the political shining
light that am. My headlight is so
bright that il dazzles in the day and
sparkles in the night. | owe every
thing to thee, my dear Rambler /
Were it not for you / would be a
humble soddist today aud in all
probability denouncing the famous
Dawson tax laws which is doing SO
much to increase the wealth and
prosperity of every soddist in this
fair land
Next to thee, my dear Rambler,
am equally indebted to the Peer.
less Gov. Dawson and his benevo.
lent tax laws tor my prominence in
the political world and the royal
feasting which / have enjoyed on
the pies which he has furnished me.
My heart overAows with apprecia-
tion that my luminous rise in the
political world is not due to the
baneful influences of soulless cor
porations like Senator Montgomery,
Deacon Brown and Leader Shaw,
but is due wholly and solely to the
Christian influence of Gov. Dawson
and yourself, which makes me one
of the anointed and the salt of the
earth / am pure and sinless. AS
journalist and editorial writer
stand on Beverly Hill without an
equal. My intellectually is recog-
nized and honored by every one
who knows me, and / am known as
far away from Kingwood as the
HacklebarneY and Whetsell Settle.
ment
"With that Christian spirit which
anImates every fibre of my royal
carcass am offering up supplica
ton after supplication on bended
knees on the sod and through the
columns of the Old Family Journal
for the conversion of Senator Mont
gomery, Deacon Brown and Leader
Shaw and the rest of mankind who
have been led into the evil paths
and byways by the influences of the
soulless corporations until they can
not realize the goodness of the Daw
son tax laws
'It is useless for me to remind
you that today is the twentieth an
niversary of my deliverance from
sinful Democracy to the succulent
Republican pie. 1t would be a
waste of words to ask you to rejoice
and celebrate with me today. 1
know our hearts beat in unison on
this joyous day I"
On the receipt of Elder WhetselPs
telegram / was seized with an un-
comfortable desire to shout that
every man, woman and child in
Charleston might hear 1t. So let
my shouter loose and inside of five
minutes the Executive Mansion was
surrounded by the police and FIRE
departments and an immense throng
Of the gentry. Every pieman made
frantic rush for me. The crowd
informed me that they thought the
Insurgents were robbing me Of my
pies and the Dawson tax laws.
When ! explained to them the cause
OF nay JOY they left satisfied.
Until / received Elder Whetsell's
telegram the incidents in his event.
ful life, which he recalls, had almost
faded from my memory. We are
living in a fast age and since have
visited the Bowery and the red light
districts I am trying to keep up with
the age. After a perusal Of the Fl.
der's telegram everything came back
70 me and once more / found my
self back in the Whetsell Settlement
on the sod.
The people back in Preston must
excuse me for dropping into a remi-
niscent mood and reoiting the events
in the life Of the Elder which saved
HIM to the Republican party. The
Elder and myself point proudly to
the Whetsell Settlement as our
birthplace. On both sides OF the
house the Elders folks we're staunch
DemOcrats-the Whetsells and the
Tfemblys. Ny kin folks, on both
sides, claimed allegiance to the par.
~ that furnishes the pies. Being
anxious to continue the party in
power that was dispensing the pies
so lavishly ! kept my weather eye
open for promising young men.