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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
burners rnkept Pledges.

Mayor Harmer stated In his cam
paign speech last year at the court
house that he intended to reform the
finances of the city and make money
for the city-more money than his
predecessors? Has he kept his
word? Certainly, he ought to issue
financial statement, showing that
he has done so. But, Mr.. Harmer Is
afraid to do that, for he knows the
showing would result in the undi-
puted information that he has run
the city in debt and not turned over
big balance like his predecessors.
-Clarksburg Telegram.
Doesn't that sound natural? A re-
former is always long on promises
and short on performances. We
never knew 1t any other way.-Fair-
mont West virginian.
The West virginian never spoke a
greater truth. The real reformer
may be all right, but the kind that
promises and does not keep promises
is the one that is no good.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
Attend the Primaries.

The Republican ward primaries
will be held at the several meeting
places as indicated in the call Issued
by the party's executive committee
this evening and every citizen who
fyors representative government
should attend them.
AT these primaries candidates for
councilmen from the wards will be
nominated and ten delegates will be
selected at each primary for the gen.
eral convention 10 be held tomorrow
night at which the Republican
ticket for the coming municipal cleo
ion WIFI De completed.
The primaries tonight and the con-
vention tomorrow night present a
striking contrast in the present local
political situation in favor of repre-
sentative government, that in which
all citizens have voice and the will
of the majority rules. The two as
semblies are publicly called in ac-
cordance with established custom
and the nominations will he made by
the people. The people will do the
nominating and not a self-appointed
few who meet in secret star chamber
session and appoint their own candi-
dates, nor do the candidates them
selves make their own nominations
by sending out prepared paper to
he presented to few of their cohorts
for signature, thus proceeding with
ont consulting the rank and file of
their party.
Citizens OF Clarksburg who want
to take a part in naming the men
who are to he candidates for offices
of public trust for them should at
tend these primaries tonight as well
as the convention tomorrow night for
these will likely be the only oppor-
tunities of the kind afforded in the
present municipal campaign. Every
thing Will be transacted above board
and in the open and all will be given
the opportunity of expressing their
sentiments by their votes, All loyal
Republicans should be in attend
ance TO exercise the privilege that 1t
rightly theirs. privilege that the
Republican party always stands for.
They should be there to help name
good strong candidates. men OF
recognized integrity and ability who
believe in the doctrines and policies
of the Republican party, and the ad-
vancement of the city OF Clarksburg.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
The Easter Hat Ghost.

While the masculine head of the
household is devoting some consider
able portion OF his spare time in re-
fiections and speculations upon the
local political situation, there is an
other thing that is worrying him,
too. Though he tries his best to
eyade it. horrible thought turks
somewhere In his mind and though
ne may try as hard as he can to for
get 1t the notion, like hobgoblin,
keeps bobbing uppermost every now
and then and gives him the shudders.
This boyle Is the Easter hat question
and all Will acknowledge that 1t is
frightening to the average man even
this far in advance for it affects him
in much more tender spot than the
other members OF the household.
The grinning CHASTITY ghost of the
ghoulish Easter hat shuts out the
Ginning horizon of his financial hopes.
says the connellsvilie Courier, and
makes his pocketbook shrink until II
looks like thirty cents.
But no man, unless he is brute,
can resist the appeal OF femininity
for that browning glory of the Easter
festival. and no man ever did with
out having II made plain to him that
he was an animal of the lowest order
of creation.
A new Easter hat is essential to
the average woman's existence
Without it the beatitude of the oc-
casion is impossible, happiness is de-
stroyed. the Message of Peace comes
to the wrong household.
When lovely woman becomes a
suffragist and sits in the halls OF
legislation. one of her first reforms
will be the passage of law guaran.
teeing to womenkind as a Constitu,
tional and sacred right the Easter
hat.
In the meantime the man who
does not provide that particular
feminine headgear with Cheerful
countenance and liberal hand, ana
add generous share OF worthy OF
unworthy praise upon the milliner'i
wonderful creation. is not wise to BIZ
own contentment. which is better af
Ter all than riches.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

Senator Morgan of Alabama names
Judge Gray of Delaware as the man
to re-unite the Democratic party.
Senator Morgan is assuredly behind
the times, for was not the campaign
slogan in the last Presidential cam
paien: "a reunited Democracy. :
Senator Morgan does not believe it;
he did not then, perhaps. and now
he is like thousands more in that re-
spect. for they do not believe it is re-
united. Democrats in Clarksburg,
judging from their actions, who not
only do not believe there is a re-
united Democracy, but also thai
there is no Democracy any more. For
instance, take these same old-time
leaders of Democracy here who have
thrown Democracy overheard alto
sether and presumably enlisted in a
movement to create new party-a
Harmer party-but only such for the
time being.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
Strong Ticket for Council.

Splendid men were chosen at the
Republican primaries last night for
city council.
Charles S. Smiley in the first ward
is successful business man identi-
Fed with large industrial and COM
mercial interests here. He has been
eminently successful in his lines of
business and possesses the qualifica-
lions to look in the highest capable
manner after the interests OF the
city.
In the second ward DR.. Halterman
has been tried and not found want
ing. He is a member OF the pres
emit council and an earnest and sim
cere worker for the best welfare OF
the city. -..-,,-.--
The third ward showed good
sense in renominating Charles NJ.
Ernst. He has served In the city
council with great credit and there
are none to dispute this fact.
The fourth acted quite judlcious-
ly, too, in naming the Hon. Charles
N. Hart for council. His experience
In council and other public affairs.
together with his most excellent
business sagacity and his sincerity
and determination for the best ad-
ministration of city affairs. make
him an ideal candidate.
, The fifth ward did itself equally
proud, when it named Truman j.
Lynch for council. He is one of the
leading merchants of the city and
gentleman of the highest standing in
the community He is also SPLEEN
didiy qualified to deal with the great
questions that will confront the city
council the next two years on ac-
count of the rapid growth of the city.
Indeed, the councilmanic ticket is
strong one. None stronger could
be named. And it is ideal. The
people of Clarksburg will endorse
the action OF naming it by electing
1t at the polls by an overwhelming
majority.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
Dull Charleston.

Several state papers depict
Charleston as now in the sleepy
stages of yore. and attribute this
lethergy to the departure OF the state
solons. Descriptions of the present
inertia of Charleston along business
and other lines contain accounts of
the terrible reaction, aud all because
the legislature has adjourned. These
convince the Telegram that Charles
ton is naturally a very dull place.
Certainly hundred or two men
ought not to make such difference?
Clarksburg is so busy and so large
that the exodus OF even two hundred
men, transient persons, would not
be noticed. This is busy place all
the time, and there is no such sleepi-
ness here as Charleston seems to
have. indeed, but little would be
thought of couple hundred men
coming here and staying two months.
OF course, their arrival and depart
IRE might casually be noted but
there would be no striking effect on
business like there is in Charleston.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
Industrial company's Donation.

The Clarksubrg Industrial Com
pany is entitled to great deal OF
credit for the big glass factory that
is TO locate here. The company do
mated the site as stated, worth u
large amount Of money and most de-
sirably located, indeed. one with
railroad facilities right at hand and
OF easy access. under changed con-
dition or two, in other ways. The
board OF trade Interested the Tuna
Glass Company, Of Bradford, Pa.
and the Industrial company saw that
the site was given. 1t is fact that
the Industrial company worked most
heartily with the board OF trade to
get this factory. The Industrial
company showed Its usual good will
toward Clarksburg as we'll as its
progressive disposition. That addl-
ton to the city was the beginning Of
great things for Clarksburg. Gras-
SELL followed. after a number Of in
dustries with free sites we're located
by the Industrial company. This
company really began railroad
that may yet form q trunk line OF
Importance north and south.
There Is reason to believe by the
location OF this big glass plant that
many dwelling houses will be erect
ed in the Industrial addition where
there are splendid sites and where
the hundreds of employees will be
convenient to their work, but there
Is a great obstacle. 1t is the toll
bridge. There ought not to be any
such thing in Harrison county, as
the Telegram has repeatedly contend
ed. Indeed, 1t is the duty of the
county to own the bridge the same
as II does all other bridges in the
county. The many who will come
here with the big factory. to say
nothing OF the hosts that use the
bridge already, compelled to because
there is no other suitable way to get
into the city. ought not to be forced
o pay toll to get into the city to do
their shopping and attend to other
business.
The donation made SO magnanim-
ously and in such a public-spirited
way by the Industrial company
ought to be all convincing in this
respect and the county court ought
to buy the bridge. 1t can be bought
at very reasonable price and GER
tainly there Is no better time to buy
1t than this year.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
gram down to their own filthy level
viii be utterly useless and dishon-
orable waste of energy.
Dowie and Hypocrisy.

There Is no fraud too palpable to
be swallowed, no absurdity too great
to be believed, II 1t is only cloaked
with some pretense OF religious sane
tity, says the Wheeling Intelligencer
John Alexander Dowie. converted
10000 people to a theory of Divine
Healing, which they saw disproyed
every day, and still they believed.
He took their property and used 1t
for his own purposes. and still they
believed. He proclaimed himself
Elijah the prophet returned to earth;
in public addresses he taught them
strange mixture of can't blasphemy
and ribaldry of the street; he adj
vanced the claim of his own Divine
birth. and at the same time lived the
life OF a voluptuary and still they
believed.
The religious instinct is the
strongest power in men. Rightly
directed 1t is the greatest single in
fluence for good. 1t is the more la
mentable therefore, when hypocrisy,
self seeking and degrading bias
pnemy masquers.e successfully as
Divine truth.
The Telegram very properly adds
that even in the hes; of religions
Tie Christian reIigica--hypocrisy Is
just as hsl. Just as dangerous, as 1t
was in the Dowie case. Hypocrisy
is dangerous, wherever found, even
in politics, where claims and pre-
lenses ~. msde under the cloak OF
ei:r:o7. The sooner the people take
of the hyaocritica! robes of such pre-
tenders -" boi;.. for all.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
A Miserable subterfuge.

Some persons have peculiar way
Of replying to an argument that they
cannot meet with an intelligent ans
wer. Baffled at the exposition of
plain irrefragable truths they resort
to subterfuge and say that the
statement is not fit to read. They
indulge in a hypocritical evasion,
possibly because hypocrisy has grown
to be fixed habit with them.
If an evil exists In this commun-
ity which becomes a nuisance to So
ciety and stencil in the nostrils of
decent men. the Telegram expects
to fight that evil 10 the uttermost
and 1t shall always continue to do
so, as 1t has in the past. 1t is no
crime TO point out an evil nor to
protest against its existence. nor to
strive to eradicate 1t: these are
noble, praiseworthy, commendable
acts. So far as the lying assertion
that something has been printed in
this paper that is not fit for any one
to read. the Telegram will only re-
fer to the fact that its challenge,
heralded time and again, daring any
person to show or cite one instance
IN which this has been done by this
paper has thus far gone begging for
an acceptance.
And in this connection one fact
may be referred 10 and that is that
indecent words and phrases, sug-
gestive and vulgar dlction, tender
loin tattle that smacks of the usage
of familiarity, have been published
on news paper in this city that the
Telegram would not tolarate in its
columns. The Telegram goes into
the homes of the city and is read By
all of the members OF the family
from the father down to the little
ones. 1t has done something to
merit this. 1t is clean. honest, up
right newspaper unsullied with gut
ter slang and filthy thoughts and 1t
promises to continue so.
All efforts therefore of these hypo-
critical blackguards to drag the Tele-
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
West Virginia oil has iur

West Virginia oil has jumped
twenty cents in price the past thirty
days. That bears out the idea ad-
vanced shortly ago by the Telegram
that activity would be stimulated in
the oil and gas districts of Harrison
county. Certainly with oil climb
ing toward the two-dollar mark SO
fast, there will be renewed develop
ment, and with gas in such great de-
mand more gas wells will be drill
ed. The truth is the outlook is that
the oil and gas fields OF Harrison
county will be utilized more than
ever before, and, where the develop
ment has been for only the choice
stun. there will be activity in COM
plete development of those fields
though the find may not be so great
In quantity as heretofore. With
this outlook there is certainly
ground for greater encouragement
in commercial circles that the pros
perity of the county will be even
greater than 1t is now.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

pies party should SO carefully guard
against the peoples having part in
or being present at the deliberations
which result in the selection OF q
municipal ticket, which the people
are asked to support. It was even
worse than star-chamber affair so
characteristic OF some who prompt.
ed 1t, as after 1t was over and even
while the meeting was in session the
pretense was made that there was
nothing secret about It and the doors
remained open. 1t is stated that
one or more OF those who participant
ed said they did not have even a
sentinel. But, what they did have
was meeting few knew about
just those who quietly slipped into a
hallway, when no one was looking,
then upstairs and thence along a
long and narrow hallway to a rear
room. where none would even sus-
pect much less hear, or even think
of entering for the purpose of at
tending convention of a political
nature.
Just why the meeting, or conven-
ton, as it proved to be. was not held
in the open those connected with 1t
can give no reason that would ap-
peal to the public. nor can there be
any explanation that Will satisfy
those to whom that bunch appeals.
1t but bears out the assertion made
the night before by the Telegram
that Harmer nominated himself.
All know the fellows who we're at
the quiet" meeting, the gum-shoe
affair, will loudly proclaim in the
next two or three weeks that that
ticket was nominated by the citizens
of Clarksburg, when. in truth, few
plotters assembled and did 1t them
selves. fearing. perhaps, II the peo-
pie were really consulted in the mat
ter or given chance to voice their
sentiment, they themselves would
take back seat by virtue of the d.
mand of the people.
Indeed, 1t is the rawest piece or
political dictation and pretense since
the famous star-chamber meetings
of the Democratic clique that led up
to the nomination of Charley Short
for sheriff.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

The Telegram has proved beyond
a doubt that Harmer is being used
by scheming Democratic politicians
TO elevate themselves to power.
Harmer readily consents to this now,
because he labors under the delusion
that it will help him in his political
aspirations. but he will find out later
that he merely sold his birthright.
He will be an Esau, If the Democratic
can but down the Repub-
lican party by using him. and they
will have their own Jacob.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

in such way as TO only palliate the
symptoms, while the cold becomes more
deep-seated and the patient finally
awakens to the fact that she has we'll
developed case of catarrh.
By reason of their delicate structure
the lungs are frequently the seat of q
cold, especially II there Is the slightest
weakness of these organs. The treat
ment of catarrh of the lungs is also
more difficult and Encouraging than
catarrh Of any other organ of the body.
twouId be wise, therefore, to guard
against 1t by every precaution possible.
Peruna has been found most reliable
remedy for coughs, colds and catarrhal
diseases, by reason of the fact that It
goes at once TO the very seat of the
trouble.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

The Fairmont Times takes upon
itself the task of calling Clarksburg
newspapers TO account for the pub
lication of what pertains to the pres
ent and future of Clarksburg. The
truth is. that paper cares nothing
for Clarksburg, as repeatedly in the
past. as well as at the present, It
gives Fairmont the preference at all
times. Besides the Times actually
knows from personal observation
that what the Telegram says is true
in reference to some conditions that
exist here.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

The supreme silence of the Har-
mer mugwump sheet about his nom
nation at the quiet" convention
for mayor is significant. Ii looks as
If the plan was to keep the people
from knowing that the select few
had usurped the rights of the mem
bers of the Peoples party and have
resolved themselves into absolute
dictators to that party. Again, may
it not have been to give the mug
wump sheet a rebuke for asserting
that Mr.. Harmer had not done his
duty and for admitting in most every
instance the truth of the Telegram's
declarations, describing the failure
of the mayor to keep his pledges?
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

shortcomings by laying his failure a,
some one else's door. He Is nom
conformist. a political hereto. an
insincere avenger who tries to use
his friends to punish his enemies.
Malice and spite are his platform
and to do mischief Is his chief con-
Germ. Such man will bear watch
ing and pretty close watching at
that.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

cratic member would vote for a Re-
publican. Just what the trouble was
remains to be explained unless the
ground was taken. that the office right
fully belonged to the Democrats for
the full term, for which the late
clerk, who was a Democrat, was
elected. At any rate the county has
now Democratic clerk and there is
nothing to do but to put up with.
Personally. MIR. Tetrick is a very
clever gentleman, and can not be OBJ
jected TO on the ground of his per-
sonality.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

There is no explanation of why a
Republican county court should elect
a Democratic county clerk. from a
political and party standpoint, I'M
less the court itself was not agreed
on Republican. Some of the can
didates for the place were doubtless
Objectionable to the Republican
members OF the court. and IT was
hardly to be expected that the Demo-
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

Several persons have big notion
to notify the proper department at
Washington that the Chinese and
Japanese exclusion laws are being
violated. The chinks are sneaking
into this country, 1t is said, by way of
the Baltimore street entrance, thus
evading the immigration ports.
Likely the government will establish
a port of entry and customs house
on the shores of the deep channel
when it becomes aware of the situa-
ton.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14

Some miserable coward addressed
a communication to the Telegram
yesterday afternoon. He did not
have the manhood to sign his name
to it. The Telegram knows why he
did not, because 1t is so very appar-
ent. He is of the mugwump crowd
that believes the mayor does right to
wink at what is going on and braz-
emily fail to keep his pledges. He
like the little bunch of disappointed
fellows. who have been eating sour
grapes quite a time wants the con-
dition the Telegram has exposed to
exist.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1907-03-14
One Bottle Brings Relief.

The Charleston Gazette appears to
be out of touch with the leading men
of the State. 1t does not even show
much knowledge of the political and
Office affairs of the State. It refers
to the congressman from the Second
district as William c. sturgiss, when
in fact his first name is George, Just
plain George. That paper also says
the recent congressman in the Second
district was appointed to succeed
Aston G. Dayton. Does the Gazette
not know Tom Davis was elected at
u special election in that district?