The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-10-01
Thread Bare Trick of Democ-
racy is Resorted to in
Brazen Manner
ABOUT HUGHES MEETING
Out of Town Newspapers Are
Imposed on for Cam
paign Purposes.


The report sent out through the
state by Democratic correspondents
as to the character and numbers of
the crowd that greeted Governor
Hughes. of New York, during his
stop at this point on the morning of
September 30, were aggravatingly
misleading and untruthful While
the Democratic party and its speak
ers are we'll known for deception. for
the reason they have no su bstantial
issues on which they can go before
the people, it appears that they have
out-Heroded Herod in STOPPING to the
silly prevarication in the instance of
the Hughes meeting at this point.
The special telegram bearing
Clarksburg date, and which was
printed in the Fairmont Times of
Thursday morning, October 1, states
among other things of warped mag
ination that Dixie played by an Ital-
ian band secured by the local Repub-
Iican committee to furnish music at
Governor Hughes's speech here this
morning. broke up the meeting which
was attended by 200 persons mostly
negroes"
Extending some charity for parti-
san feeling and rancor the estimate
of the crowd as numbering only two
hundred bears its own comment for
untruthfulness. There was actually
present during the time Governor
Hughes was speaking, at the most
conservative estimate more than 1900
persons. and the people were still
coming to the station while he was
speaking, and many arrived as the
train was pulling out. Near the close
OF the speaking there were nearly
two thousand people gathered to
cheer him on his way across the state.
So far as the audience being compos-I
ed mostly of negroes" that is a.
statement made solely for discredft-
ing effect and without any regard for
the verities of language or mathe-
matlcs. The negroes who were pres
ent were intelligent enough to ap-
Plaud at the proper points In Cover
nor Hughes's speech, showing an ap-I
probation far above the intellectual
receptivity of the Democratic cores
pendent who sent out the lying ac-i
count of the meeting.
Another violation of the truth is
contained in this paragraph of the
special telegram: The Governor
was well launched in his address
when some one. believed to have been
a mischevious Democrat, went to the
band and told the. leader to play
Dixie Not being acquainted with
the significance of the song and be-
lieving his instructor spoke with au-
thority. the leader struck up the tune,
drowning the words of the speaker"
AS the Star Spangled Bannerr' Is
hailed with reverence and applause
In the South today, as we'll as Dixie"
Is applauded and enjoyed in the North
because this is now reunited coun-
try on all matters pertaining to ma
tional patriotism. the playing of
Dixie" carries with 1t none OF the
Significance" pointed out by the
Democratic correspondent; but to-
show the wholly unreliable character
of the report it is only necessary to-
say that there was no musical, inter-
ruption in Governor Hughes'sI
speech, except the concord OF the
sweet sounds of appreciated and in
telligent applause.
AS the train pulled out, and was
twenty yards from the station on its
way to Grafton. the band did play
Dixie" but it is doubtful II Cover
nor Hughes heard one note of the
tune. The viciously misleading state
ments contained I'm this Democratic
special telegram" Is only part and
parcel of the plan Of the campaign
inaugurated by Democrats in this
state, and which IS being pursued in
the belief that 1t takes long time
for the truth 10 overtake lie, and
that sometimes it never does catch up.