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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
pemocracy eondemns Its own.

The only Democratic member of
the county court Is a candidate for re-
election. The county court is the
hnancier OF the county and this Dem-
ocratic candidate has been president
of the court some time He is finish
ing his sixth year as a member OF
that body. Naturally, the Democratic
newspaper would praise his course
and actions as member of that court,
but such is not the case as Is ascer-
tanned in its utterance that change
is necessary If the affairs of the coun-
ty are to be administered wisely and
economically The other two mem
bers of the court hold over, and,
therefore. the thrust is at the Demo-
cratic member, who is now seeking
reelection. 1t is a party repudta-
ton that calls for no further COM
ment from the Telegram.
The utterance by the News is also
slur on the county clerk. a Demo-
crat appointed to that Office, who is
now seeking election. AS clerk he is
largely connected with the work of
the county and in close touch with
the affairs of the county. Notwtth-
standing the fact that he is the nomt-
nee of he Democratic party, of which
the News is the moucnpiece 1t charges
him with incompetency and as being
untrustworthy, so much SO that 1t
knows that the people want change.
The Telegram is not enlisted in Sc
curing his election, and therefore,
accepts the estimate the News makes
of him, though it verify believes that
the candidate will not take kindly to
the criticism his own party paper has
Il II toe 1NHNf
On the other hand suppose we con-
slider for a moment the administra-
ton of the other county offices. For
instance, the office of sheriff. What
man is there who can conscientiously
say the sheriff has not done his full
duty and that the affairs of that Of
fee have not been faithfully and hon
estly and capably administered? Abb
solutely no man is there to deny that
the office has been conducted proper
ly.
Who is there to say that Will e.
Morris has not been one of the best
prosecuting attorneys not only in the
state but also in the United States?
None! Who believes that he has not
done his full duty honestly and
capably?' No one! Certainly the
people know no change is needed
there and especially do they not want
an experiment.
The other offices OF the county NIL
ed by Republicans have been so ad-
ministered that it is reprehensible for
any one to make the broad and I'M
founded declaration that there Is a
great upheaval in the county deter
mined for a change in these offices.
A moments reflection is scarcely
needed to convince all OF the absurd
ity of sucn a statement. 1t is not
even good politics To indulge in such
silly declarations but the desperate
and disconsolate may be excused this
once for such monumental display of
weakness and ignorance.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01

TO vote for the Republican nomi-
nees was not Unexpected. but the
Democratic leaders and nominees
would really feel far better IL they
knew to a certainty that the full
Democratic vote could be cast for the
Democratic nominees. Perhaps, II
they should give more of their time
and talent to the Democratic ticket
and less to the Republican, they
would conserve their own party from
a party viewpoint far better than they
are doing.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01

las an instance of wreckless mis-
representation of Democratic speak
ers the assertion made by Hon. Louis
Bennett in a recent speech that,
the tax commissioner maintains a
staff of one hundred assistants at
public expense" is an example of the
most fragrant violation OF the truth.
In reality there are but four persons
employed in that office. and it is
department that has saved money to
the people of the state.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
Exposes Democratic Nominees.

Division of salaries lies so heavily
on the mind of the Democratic organ
that it is worthy of note. The DEM
ocratic party is doubtless well ac-
quainted with the subject in this
county, for it is a fact that some of
the Democratic leaders eXacted from
the first Democrat elected in years
to a we'll paying office in this county
a division of the spoils or salary of
his Office, and it is generally accepted
that a bargain was struck up, when
that officials Democratic successor
was appointed, by which the revenues
of his office are divided with others.
Here are two plain cases OF the
dividing of the spoils on the part of
Democrats elected to office, and 1t is
needless to say that that party in Of
fee these days resorts to the same
methids it did years ago, before
the Republicans assumed the ascend
ency.
Absolutely proven beyond possible
doubt that the Democrats have been
guilty of what the News condemns.
that newspapers aversion to such
things is shown to be quite hypocrit-
zeal. It> certainly accuses others.
without the slightest foundation, in
very bad grace. and its argument
that such a course is dishonest stamps
dishonesty on some OF its own candi-
dates, if the public accepts It's def
milton of division of the spoils as
dishonesty.
a little more condemnation by the
News Of the course pursued by some
Democrats in office and others who
are trying to get in ought to settle
the hash of the Democratic county
ticket forever.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01

In his letter of acceptance the Re-
publfcan candidate for governor very
pointedly says: inns nom
carries with it a great responsibility
which neither nor any one Repub-
llcan should be called upon to bear
alone The candidate should and
muse lead united party" These
are earnest words{and shoull appeal
to ali loyal republicans. as they show
The shirt which has moved the Hon.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
w. E. Glasscock to take u til nigh.
for "A reunited party.

The rural and village c,nmtnitjes
of West Virginia demand pod fOadS
The Republican party his Already
done much toward this Jehd. md is
pledged to keep up the food work.
On this subject the pe4ocratid party
is not only neglf9ut but holly
silent
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
An Evening Echo.

The way to help labor is to provide
it with steady work and good wages
and then to have those good wages
always paid in good money.-McKin-
ley
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
CONGRESSIONAL TIC"T.

For Congress
WILLIAM =. HUBBARD
Ohio County.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01

The Rest Was Done.
That the wisest and best thing was
done at Charleston in the nomina-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
sENATORIAn TICKET

For State Senate
CHARLES G. COLEMAN
Harrison County
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
rAnB1sou COUNTY TICKET.

For House OF Delegates
CHARLES Nj. HART
MARCUS l.. RIBLETT.
For Click of County Court
HOWARD NJ. GORE.
For Clerk of Circuit Court
!. WADE COFFNAS.
For Prosecuting Attorney
WILL L. MORRIS.
For Sheriff
J. f.. BARTLETT.
For County Commissioner
JOHN b. STROTHER
For Assessor
ERNEST l.. PIGOTT.
For County Surveyor
CHARLES c. FITCRO
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
STATE TICKET.

STATE TZCKET-
For Governor
w. 70. GLASSCOCK
MononEalia County
For Secretary of State
STUART f. REED
Harrison County
For S ate Superintendent OF Schools
II. =. SEIAWKEY
Kauawha County.
For Attoruey-G eneTal
WILLIAM g. CONLEY
Preston County.
For Auditor
JOHN SHERMAN DARST
Jackson County.
For Treasurer
Z. /. LONG
Mcdowell County.
For Judges of supreme Court
IRA Z. ROBINSON
Taylo- County.
W. n. MILLER
Wood County.
/. ]. WILLIAMS
GreenbTier County.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
PARTY EMELEM
REPUBLICAN TICKET

For President
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
Ohio.
For Vice President
JAMES $. SHEER NAN
New York.
Presiden tial Electors
JOSEPH II. NIcDERMOTT
l.. N. McPEAE.
District EleCtor
FRANK w. CLARK
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-12-20

made the last 1t is not certain that he
is superior to all other animals, while it is
very sure that lie ie the most cruel of all.
Biologists while they correctly measure
the order of the different epochs, and pal
eontologists fix the order of life when they
come to measure the time by thousands or
hundreds of thousands of years, are but
babies in mathematics. The religious
branch of them have never been able to
extricate themselves from the foolish stories
of their Bible as told by Ezra in the Thora.
The period from the time our earth first
crusted over, or from the first appearance
of animal life thereon, is so vast as to be
unthnkable; nor does this cover the meas
ureless time which must have elapsed after
the mass left the sun until life first made
it's appearance. While astronomers have
guessed, and biologists have divided the
time into epochs, classifying and naming
them, yet it must be remembered that this
division is only for convenience. Evolution
makes no such division. 1t is all one con-
tinuous, unbroken chain of events.
For countless billions of ages our little
earth revolved ON its axis and around the
sun, without an ear to hear its volcanic
thunders, nor an eye to behold it's stupen-
dous grandeur; all was deathly silence,
save the roar of the earth's internal fires.
Turn but for a moment your thoughts to
the mechanism of the bound!css universe,
all moving in obedience to the law of gravi-
tation; then come back to our little earth,
but a speck in space, and look at man in
LII. ~.
over the living forms around him, that he
alone was the sole object of creation,-how
utterly contemplate he appears!
Nature is one stupendous whole, our
earth but speck, man but an atom, all the
living world correlated, each animal and
each plant giving and receiving support
from all. Then and only then. may we see
that each and every living thing is the
equivalent of all others. Man no greater
no higher, no more important in the me-
chanical universe than the day-hy, the star
fish, the mollusk or other animal forms
All came into being by the same process,
live in the same way, go out in like manner,
to live no more, except as chemical conf
pounds for the building up of the organic
bodies.
Seen from this standpoint mans duty to
himself and all the living world below, or
about him, may be summed up in the word:
Humanity!-do good to all the living world;
no harm to any thing that breathes What
ever others may do, let us as Freethinkers
be ever mindful of these rules While
conducting ourselves in obedience to these
precepts, we must ever remember that self
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-12-20
BLUE GRASS BLADE.

of our little world, if the reader will follow
us a little further, we will look at man from
biological basis.
From out OF the depths OF time, stern
uenlanus Anow mny We were born
wny tne aniinal woIId! way me Dodnuless
MY! IneorieS Oh these matters, wnlcn
were rne WIN me ola oreclan, are waste
Oh vital FORCES. 10 We even iJioW mat We
live! WHAT is this protopiasnlc unit anu
It's germinal vitalty? ms moving com
pound OF anatomy-this chemical compost
uon called man? An aggregation OF moe
cues to De dissolved when their Work is
done! Thought says We live; Science
tells us that We are ever dying that We
may live Life gambols in The morn OF
time, fits along tie rugged paths OF noon
day, and sinks with the departing sun OF
night 10 the realms OF eternity, where 1t
awaits the reviylfyng impulse vi nature 10
be converted into some other form. The
lily IN beautiful fragrance floats ON tne
stagnant pool today; tomorrow it fades and
life is ended. The sturdy oak from the
acorn rises; for a few years its foliage
waves in the breeze; decay, death,-that
is all. The day fly, from out IS tiny ovule,
fits in the sunlight few hours, when it
passes on to sleep forevermore. Like the
planetary universe, the microscopic cell, a
compound of living units all moving in
harmony within its cell, gathers the float
ing atoms from without, expands, divides it.
self; new life comes into being, the old
passes on to live no more.
Man is but a chemical compound of such
microscopic cells These little cells classify
themselves, each class being assigned to
specific duty For little while all work
in harmony,-some gathering in tood others
digesting it, while still others are at work
in carrying off refuse matter, all this i'll
obedience TO the law of mechanism. The
compound having fulfilled its destiny, death
ensues; the protoplasmic body disintegrates
TO furnish materials for other organisms.
Man so far, as believed is the finale of all
the living world. He came up through all
the forms of life below: i. e. N his transit
he has passed through all the forms of life
that preceded him. He is one of the most
helpless animals in the morn OF life; devoid
of consciousness at birth; plaything in
childhood; fondled in the arms of some
sweet maiden in early manhood, he enters
upon the stern duties of life a little later.
A few years pass,-he sleeps to wake no
more! Why born? Why live? Live to
work or play for a few heeting days or
years, amid the sorrows, cares, anxieties,
and miseries around him, and then pass on
IN the shades of nOnpnity Or III born in
Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1908-12-20

ride in pleasure down the rugged grooves
of time,-only to be overturned on the brink
OF eternity. All nature is impregnated
with the germs of life, from which vitality
is ever evolving, filling our earth with new
born organisms. The human machine, like
all animate nature, is but an aggregation
of living atoms; all we consume, even the
ar we breathe, is glowing with life.
strictly speaking, there is no death. Ali
is Dut cnange; change OF chemical ele-
ments; the OF today may DE grass TO-
MORROW; ali that is required 10 effect the
Change is "a change OF the relative quantities
o1 tne compounds Man may be the product
of the laboratory, minus the vitality, winch
SO Iar as now known, is found only in ma
lure larger store-house. Vitality, which
We call lie, is not property, not thing
out the resultant OF organic compounds
undergoing change in obedience TO environ
ment-a nonenlty. The animal dies; in its
decomposition the plant takes up its car
bon; some other animal absorbs the hydro
gen and oxygen; the organism is different
being today. The universe with its vast
stock of life, moves in obedience to immu-
table laws,-laws purely mechanical In
their nature
Evolution, needless of mans supplica-
lions, moves steadily on. Creeds, states
and empires have come and gone without
much as making ripple on the Pacific
waters OF time. The great states of Europe
and American frolic in the throes of I'M
bridled passions; wars between nations
hold their ceaseless sway; Kingdoms, EN-
pires and republics rise and fall; millions
on millions of human beings go down to
sorrow and death, unheeded and uncared
for by their rulers. The animal world offers
a field of prey each feeding on the other
1t is an eternal war; never-ending strife
for existence; in the end survival of the
fittest. In the countless births few survive
infancy; the few are up with beak, tooth
or claw, tolsome hand or sweating brow,
to conquer the means of living Mature
is one with repine, a harm no preacher can
heal; the May-fy is torn by the swallow,
the sparrow speared by the shrike, and the
whole little world where l sit il world of
plumber and prey" Nature is cruel; she
takes no care for life or death; she is brain
less; deaf to the calls and suffering of man
or beast; she proffers no outstretched hand
hand in the struggle for life. To her the
life and death of man. beast, bird, fish,
reptile, insect, worm or polyp Is all the
same.
Some day philosophy no doubt,
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06
Tiger Shooting Records.

by accounting for seven tigers with
| his own gun during a recent shoot In
| Gwalior Lord Mimic, viceroy of India.
has accomplished feat OF which the
most successful big game shooters
might Well be proud, although he has
not riyaled the sensational perform
ances of a Mr., Walker, who when
deputy commissioner at Nimar, actu-
ally killed four tigers in ten minutes.
+. c. Selous who has phenomenal
record as slaughterer of big game.
once brought down three full grown
lions in four shots, while his bag in,
cludes more than a hundred elephants,
nearly all of which he shot on foot.
and twice as many buffaloes
In four years QS77 to 1880 Mr..
Selous killed 100 buffaloes, 20 ele-
plants, 13 lions, ana over 500 other
big game. ranging from giraffes (lS)
to zebras and antelopes. Sir Robert
Harvey's guns have wrought terrible
havoc in many parts OF the world,
from Africa and India to Iceland
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06
GO TO FARMYARD FOR DRINK.
Maine Nature Story Of Unusual Visit
ors TO a Farmyard.

James Tibbetts of the Neck Road,
benton, has been entertaining strange
company for several days, says a
hennebec tMeD correspondent Re.
| Gently Mr. Tibbetts went to the
| barn and turned out His stock When
he stepped into the barnyard few
minutes later 10 start the water at the
pump he was surprised TO find a bull
and COW moose apparently waiting
for the water
Mr.. Tibbetts went directly to the
pump and began raising water for the
stock As the water poured from the
spout into the big trough. among the
first OF the animals to reach il were
the strangers. Each moose drank its
quantity and then slowly walked past
the farmer 10 low place in the fence
where each yaulted over and struck
off across the field in the direction of
the woods
Every morning since the creatures
have appeared in the barnyard when
Mr. Tibbetts has turned ON the water.
The strange part OF the affair lies in
the fact that the farm is we'll watered
by three small brooks which keep
running all winter and the Sebasticook
river is but a few hundred yards
away. 1t is possible the creatures
have discovered something in the
brooks aud in the river which sets
their taste going in another direction,
for they are watering regularly at the
Tibbetts pump.
The moose have never bothered the
cows or theooXen of the Tibbetts herd.
and the latter have never apparently
paid any attention TO the presence of
the strangers.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06
Euds for Mr. Griffen

Eighteen eggs for breakfast as fast
as his wife could fry 'em, and then
eggs for lunch-boiled. shirred scram-
bled-and then 16 eggs for supper. all
cooked into one long omelet-that is
what John Griffen cf Winsted. Conn.
bankers after every day this spring
John likes eggs-he's not eating them
on a bet, but just because he wants
them. John says he has eaten seven
young spring chickens in one day and
afteRhis well authenticated egg record
il is hardly TO be doubted Griffen
says he can eat more eggs at one sit.
ting than any man alive, and the hens
on his farm are kept busy trying to
cover his appetite Forty seven in a
day is one notch that Griffen has set
for other egg champions 10 reach, and
then he was not half trying. says he
He only eats what he wants, and no
more
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06
SAD DISAPPOINTMENT IN STORE
Robbers Booty Merely Large Bunch
of Stage Money"

When Hall McAllister was playing
In "Brewster's Millions in Chicago,
he was in the habit OF running across
the alley during his idle second act, to
visit Jack Barrymore, who was play
ing The Boys of Company b." in the
theater next door.
One night, as he started over, he
thought of the $4,000 in stage money
which he must have in the last act,
and. to reassure himself, he opened
his coat and took the package half out
OF his pocket. In another minute he
found himself pushed hard against
the door, the imitation money gone,
and two figures disappearing in the
darkness
1T nearly spoiled the play" says
McAllistor Il had TO give Brewster
SIS in real money and the rest by
check but, after all he added sym
perhaps even thugs have
families to support Success Mag
azine.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06
a Prince as Farmer

Prince Eric OF Denmark. the third
son of Prince Waldemar and nephew
of Queen Alexandra, is TO have a prac.
teal education in agriculture. and. 80
far from following the rule Invariably
accepted by royal princes of entering
the navy or army, be intends to be
come farmer. Although only L. the
prince holds very decided views about
his own country. lie is convinced that
agriculture is Denmark's staple indus.
try, and that her future success and
prosperity are dependent on Il. The
prince proposes to make himself a
master of all the arts and crafts of
husbandry. and is to be indicted in
the most thorough ana practical man
ner on big estate some distance
from Copenhagen
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06
BEGINNING OF HER LiFE's WORK
Breaking the FiIly for the First Time
to Harness

She was very young to be tried
out in harness. but her trainer was
holding the ribbons over her never.
theless. She was rearing and plung-
ing all over the place, as far as the
checked lines would allow her to go.
and her little shoes paved the air and
tried to dig into the concrete for all
they were worth And half a dozen
rail birds watched the trial trot
never taking their eyes of her and
looking daggers at anyone who got
between them and the young one.
She happened to be as pretty a little
two-yearold lassie as one would find
in the five boroughs and was dressed
in a big foppy white hat with little
jacket and skirt of white and red. Her
little legs We're covered with white
stockings and her tiny feet with tan
cciored ankle-strap shoes. Her moth
er kept her safely in spite of her gurg-
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06
A Royal Cigarette Factory.

The Turkish sultan" said a tobac,
conist, has for generations smoked
the finest cigarettes in the world
Cigarettes like his, brought over here
would cost quite 20 cents apiece
In the royal palace there has been
from time immemorial a small cigar
cite factory-a light, airy room bale
of exquisite tobacco, one or two sim.
pie handwriting machines. half doz
en- workmen of marvellous skill. Here
the cigarettes of the sultan are turned
out
"The best cigarette tobacco comes
from Turkey. and the best Of that best
goes to the sultan. A hundredweight
of leaves are rejected before a pound
sufficiently fine and hawless is found
for royal use"
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06

quently of an unfayorable character
Political scares and crop scares must
be anticipated. There is also a pos
| sibility of labor troubles in the event
| of an ATTEMPT on the part of the rail
roads TO reduce wages, since il must
be remembered that organized labor
mas not yet accepted its share of the
business reaction when has lately
fallen upon the country. But aside
from these three danger points, there
us nothing in the situation of suffi-
Client importance to counterfeit the
Influence of an unlimited supply of alb
normally cheap money, which is still
the controlling element in the stock
market.
National Finances.
An element of concern is the course
of our national finances. The fiscal
year closes with a reduction of $G1-
100000 in revenue $iS.000,00O of this
loss being due to the shrinkage in
imports following the panic. There
was also considerable loss in in
ternal revenue, much of which was at
tritbutable to the prohibition move
ment. A year ago, however the gov.
closed it's books showing
surplus of $S7,0O0,o00 in receipts over
expenses which means a loss of about
$50 100000 in the twelve months.
Congress has complicated matters by
making eXtrayagant appropriations at
a time when economy should have
been the watchword. The treasury, |
however, is still in strong position; |
the government balance being about |
1898 600 600 of which more than $780, |
900, 900 is in the depositary banks |
This may be reduced shortly by a call |
or $4,000 900.
HENRY CLEWS.
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-06

Recently, in New York, carboys OF
acid fell from a dray and were
smashed on the pavement. The re-
leased liquids mingled, and the chem
zeal result of their union was a flame
of shoppers fed in terror. Water was
powerless against the blaze but luck.
lily sand was at hand, and with this
the fircmcn mastered the situation
Illustrated Sunday Magazine.