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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01
e0MPERs IN THEORY T
AND In PRACTICE

Political theorists In the train OF
Bryan have an awful time Applying
their theories to their own practical
affairs OF life. They won't work,
somehow, and when the application
shows how untenable they are, the
advocates are driven into an awkward
plight. This is illustrated in the case
Of Mr.. Gompers. concerning which
the New York Globe takes occasion
to say editorlally:
Gompers in theory Is one person
and Gompers In practice is quite an
other. The chasm appears Il one con-
trast what Gompers is SAYING from
the platform with what Gompers has
Just done before a Washington court.
.On the platform Gompers con
tends that to deny a trial By jury in
contempt cases Is d subyersion OF a
primary rights SO enraged Mt the
Republican candidate becausc he
stands by the law as II has been
handed down by unnumbered genera
tions that he demands his defeat.
This is Gompers in theory-a man
who is exploiting proposal which he
does not understand, and OF which his
hearers understand less.
-Gompers in practice IN Washing
ton was before court on charges
that he had shown contempt OF court
by what he had said in the American
Federation concerning the Bucks
stove litigation. The circumstances
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01
WHAT The BRYAN
SLIGHT WOULD MEAN

while j, was on the Ways and
Means Committee said Bryan. ~ q
recent speech In Delaware, every
man who came there waS q tax-eater
and wanted something. 3
This Is another way Of calling
workingmen and their employers
public beggars because they asked
for protection from the products of
European cheap labor. Bryan has
evidently not changed the Views
which he hold ont and expressed be-
fore he was a candidate for President
that American lnbor has no right
to protection. and that the working
man whose wages are kept up by pro-
lection Is receiving that to which he
is not entitled; that he is. as Bryan
put It years ago, a -publIc bcggar. :"
and as he put 1t q few days ago q
stax-eater.n
Tho -tax-catersr and public beg
gars," as Mr.. Bryan calls them, are
quite numerous. It may be said that
the terms apply truthfnlly to all the
people OF the United States, II bene-
ficiaries OF the protective tariff are to
be included In Bryan's description.
No class Is more benefited by protec-
ton than the farmer, for whom pro-
lection has created home markets,
raised the prices OF his stock and
produce, and prevented free trade
competition with what he has to sell.
Tho difference between the attitude
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01
DRUNiNlERs TO AID TAFT.

Activity among commercial travel
sers in the campaign for the election
of Taft and Sherman is now showing
itself and promises to be very po-
tent factor in vote getting. It will
be undertaken in an organized way
by the Commercial Travellers Sound
Money League, whose slogan is Taft
and Sherman and the continuance of
prosperity" The league was the first
society of the kind to inaugurate the
system of MONDAY meetings, which
1t did in New York City in 1896. 1t
claims upward of 10000 members,
about $4,000 OF whom come from
New York houses. -
Colonel John l.. Shepherd, chair
man of the Executive committee of
the jewelers. Association, is the pres
ident of the league. Other prominent
members are General Joseph w.
Congdon, president of the Central
Dry Goods Association; George F.
Victor, one of the largest importers
and exporters In America: William
Il. Webb, of the firm of James H.
Durham & Co.; Walter Scott, of the
firm of Butler Brothers & Co., and I.
L. Hall. Jonas Langfeld is vice-pres-
ident OF the league.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

when he told them that with us the
church. had nothing to do with the
State. The situation between the ma
tives and the friars had to be settled,
and speedily. 1t appeared best that
the Philippine government purchase
outright the friars' lands, and resell
them to the tenants, or whatever pur-
chasers offered. But the consent OF
the Vatican had to be procured. 1t
also was imperative that the friars be
deported, transferred to other fields,
and that priests strange to the Philip
pines be installed in their stead. So
long as the friars remained there was
certain to be friction and turmoil.
Neither Mr.. Taft nor any of those
associated with him had the most re-
mote thought of lessening the author
ity and spiritual power of the church
in the Philippines. The matter was
grounded upon expediency and was
gone into like any other piece OF
business, diplomacy, craftsmanship,
whatever 1t may be called. Mr.. Taft
visited the Vatican armed with au-
thority to pay $7,000,000 from the
Philippine treasury for the friars'
lands. 1t was a good bargain for the
church. The offer was accepted, the
friars gradually were withdrawn and
SO, with q minimum of friction, Mr..
Taft wrote FINISHED" at the end OF
an enterprise which by its delicacy
tested even his persuasive and diplo-
matte gifts. a
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01
REFUSE TO FOLLOW eos1pERs


Although he had men on hand to
work hard for him, President Com
pers. of the American Federation Of
Labor. failed to accomplish anything
1or Bryan at the recent annual con-
veption Of the Maryland State Federa-
ton Of Labor. The convention turned
the Gompers resolutions down flat
What It did, however, was to adopt
resolution touching on tho question
OF Injunction and the attitude of CAP
ital toward labor, which concluded rs
follows: 80
That it is the sense Of the con-
vention that we put aside, SC far as
possible, all party feeling and seek to
elect to office, both National and
State, only those persons in whom
we can safely rely for fairness and
consideration"
What chance mas Bryan for the
support OF sane, clear-headed men
like those who made up the Maryland
convention? 'Ae
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01
THE ERlAR QUESTION
IN THE PHILIPPINES


No other problem in the readjust-
ment of conditions in the Philippines
gave Mr.. Taft more and deeper con-
Germ than the friar question. The
moral and religious progress OF the
islands, and to no small extent what
political progress was accomplished
In the Spanish regime, belongs to the
credit of the priests. They converted
o majority OF the natives to Chris
'tianity from Mohammedanism and
pagan worship. They became dom
inant, even above the civil arms With
the increase of their power abuses
crept in, until In the latter days OF the
Spanish occupation the friars had re-
duced millions OF FiHpinos to a state
amounting to vassalnge, practlcing
excessive extortions upon them in the
name of the church. mistreating them
fiagrantly and charging them ex-
.cessive rentals for the little farms
upon friars' lands which the priests
compelled them to tenant and till.
Although intensely loyal to the
church, the Fllipinos rebelled against
the friars and were in rebellion
against them when we took over the
islands. The union OF church and
State they regarded as indissoluble,
for that was the way 1t had been for
centuries. Tho priest was given COM
fplete supervision and power over the
municipal machinery OF his town.
They were loath to believe Mr.. Taft
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

of the alleged contempt were such as
to lay a foundation for an application
for trial Of the facts before jury.
The court was about ready to author
ize steps leading up to an empanelling
OF Jury when Gompers, through his
attorneys, withdrew his request for a
trial by jury. He preferred to have
the Judge hear and determine the
issues than to have them submitted
to twelve men good and true.
Screaming for trial by jury in all
contempt cases and declining to avail
himself Of jury in his own case
nothing more Is needed to expose the
hollowness Of the propaganda in
which Gompers is engaged"
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

Bryan to become Senator from Me-
braska. That the contribution was
given is admitted, although Mr.,
Bryan claims that he did not see 1t.
Perhaps like the policeman at the
corner, when q saloon is open after
hours, he held his hand behind his
back and twiddled his fingers, and the
$4,000 landed where It would do
the most good.
It Is true that the individual who
gave the $4,000 to Bryan's cam
paign fund Is q Democrat, and has
close relations with Tammany Hall.
which have enabled him to realize
enormous wealth out OF the wreck
and ruin of what ought to be the
most profitable system Of street car
lines on the globe. But nobody has
accused him of putting money where
1t would yield no return. It is q fair
Inference, therefore, that the New
York City railway magnate knew
why he wanted Bryan in the Senate.
There Is another feature OF Bryan's
New York political and financial assoc
Citations that is worth thinking about
by the audiences that listen to his
tuning and ranting about what he
Will do with the trusts. So far as the
State of New York is concerned Bryan
Is personally conducted" by Charley
Murphy, tho Tammany boss. and
@Fingy' Conners," OF the State Demo-
cratic machine. The wreckers OF the
New York City railway system were
and are so closely connected with
Tammany as to be part of It. The
effect OF that Tammany-railway COM
bination has been the bankruptcy OF
the roads, and the partial withdrawal
OF transfers from the public, thus Inn
posing on workingmen and others an
additional charge of ten or twenty
cents day for going about town.
When Bryan rants in New York
about what he will do with the trusts.
the New York Democratic politicians
responsible for what has been done
with the New York City railway trust
will sit on the platform and applaud.
Perhaps, as they clap their hands they
will BIO thinking of the opportunities
for graft that would be open to them,
II with Bryan's help they could get
chance to handle other trusts the
way they have handled and wrecked
the New York City railway system,
with bullying pockets for themselves,
aud with the general public robbed
OF transfer privileges to make up for
the millions divided among Bryan's
friends.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

Secretary Root on Government Ex-
penditures-"The expenditures of the
present Republican Administration
have been well within the means of
the country, and there remains to It
in the Treasury surplus OF revenues
collected during this Administration
over and above the expenditures"
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

From Secretary Roots Saratoga
Speech-"Is there one who does not
believe in his heart of hearts that
the selection of Mr.. Taft by Mr..
Roosevelt as his candidate for the
Presidency at the very moment when
he himself was thrusting aside the
Presidency, was with the honest pur-
pose to secure the best possible adj
ministrator of the great policies that
were dear to his hearth"
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

What Secretary Root Said at Sara.
toga-@It was skilful Of Mr.. Bryan to
shy that he Is bound by the omissions
of the Democratic platform as well as
by what It contains; but who dictated
the omissions as well as the platform?
Can an omission OF to-day wipe out
public utterances of the pastf"
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

Richard Croker. once Tammany
boss. predicts a Bryan victory. II ho
dcfers his Compromised visit to
America until that Is accomplished
he will never make It,
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

Uncle Henry Watterson declared in
1896 that the three Rs of Bryan's
campaign were Reputation. Riot and
Ruin. In those days Uncle Watterson
knew what he was talking about, but
now-well, don't ask foolish guess
tions.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

"Howeyer, Mr.. Bryan will make
another serious mistake II he allows
himself to think he has the entire
labor vote of Chicago in his breeches
pocket" says the Chicago Tribune.
1t has got to point in America
where organized labor is far too intel
ligent not to know the difference be-
tween promises and real performance.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

Evidently one of Mr.. Bryan's chief
ambitions is to prove that Lincoln
didn't know what he was talking
about when he said: you can fool
some of the people all the time and
all OF the people some of the time,
but YOU can't fool all the people ali
the time"
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

Bryan and his record are both. In
the running this year, but at this dis
tancc from the finish 1t looks as
though tho record were bound to beat
the man who made It.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

It must be about time for one OF
those Justly renowned bargain day
sales of convict labor in the good old
Bryanic State of Georgia.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

Judge Parker says President
Roosevelt's accomplished policies may
be menace. They are-to Bryan's
success.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01
POLICIES THAT MAKE
AMERICAN FARMERS RICH
What Republican Administrations
Have Done to Build Up
Our Agriculture.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF SCIENCE

Expense Which the Bryan Platform
Calls Unnecessary and Waste
fur Consists in Large Part Of
Money Used In Research ut
Home and Abroad For the Farm
er's I,encfit-Taft in Favor OF
This Policy and VIII Maintain It
in Its Present Efficiency.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

There is talk of Republican apathy.
1t will disappear as soon as Bryan
swings around the circle.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

FREQ trade, free silver coinage and
free ruin-Bryanism-that's all, or
nearly all.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01

Some time when William j. Bryan
Is IN the vicinity Of New York 1t
might be well for him TO explain to
the public how 1t came about that the
chief actor In and beneficiary OF the
wrecking OF the New York City SUR
face railway system contributed $780,;
900 to a fund intended TO help Mr..
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-10-01
BRYAN, us FRIENDS and
THEIR TRUST RECORD
plrecker ofNeW Works Traction Sys-
TEN Thought Il North S2O000to
Have CommoHer In Senate.
TlMhANY's AID EXPLAINED

Wien the Democratic Candidate
Rants About. What He VIII Do
With the Trusts His Political Al
: lies In New York Glccfuily APP
piaud as They Think Of the OPP
portnnitics For Graft Tint May
Como With His Help II Past
Example Presascs Correctly.
The Harrison times., 1908-10-17

the lodge Of the brave BlaCkCoat. Her
small brown fingers proved quick in
stringng beads and weaving grasses,
and the trappings that delight the In
dian child were hers while from
every harm she was protected,
But that was before Blackcoat made
friends with the white man, McBee.
McBee lived in a hut several miles
from Blackcoat, his lazy existence
eked out by hunting and fishing,
with frequent demand on his wits,
His rambles took him one time to
the camp Of the Cherokees where he
learned the history Of little Cry.in.
the.Grass, whereupon he determined
upon a plan for advancing his own
interests at the expense of the little
Usage captive,
TO this end he cultivated the ac,
quaintance of the mighty Blackcoat
and finally succeeded in getting an
invitation to his lodge.
No pale-face was ever quite so nice
to the red man as was McBee while
the guest Of Blackcoat, and no man
ever so greatly appealed to the stoical
chief, for the white man had a great
sorrow No child had ever come to
gladden. his hearthstone, though he
had been ten years married, and the
disappointment of all the years had
been the lack Of little one to play
about his hearth as Cry-in.the.Grass
played about the lodge OF Blackcoat,
He drew charming pictures or such
a future as he had planned for a girl
child and said he would give all his
worldly possessions, which he repre-
sented as being some account fo
such a lovely child as little Cry.in.
the-Grass.
TO all his speech Blackcoat made
no answer but his words were taking
a desired effect
Blackcoat loved the child but she
was not his own, and after thinking
Of the matter many days he deter.
mined to bring great Joy to the heart
of the lonesome white man by giving
the child into his care, for, said he,
The white man can do much more
for little Cry.in.theGrass than the red
man, even though he be u chief. lie
The Harrison times., 1908-10-17

little soft speech to Cherokee
chief, as unsuspecting in peace as ter
rible in war, and a COW and calf
There was little danger that Black
coat would ever discover that he hat
disposed of the child. If he did Il
would be easy to say she had beer
sent away to school.
The little Usage captive went down
the river with Mccall. There were 8
few other slaves, but either because
she was more valuable or because she
amused Mccall with her bright ways
the trader kept her with him,
With the boats in charge Of two
French watermen the voyage down
the Arkansas was begun.
The light craft was padded down
stream easily, passing beautiful
stretches Of forest growth, water'wll
lows where birds nested, and long
stretches of sandbar where water
fowl he'd their habitation. Sometimes
a far glimpse Of the blue O2arks came
into view and sometimes a nearer
picture Of some shaded place where
deer stood on the waters edge ga2'
ing curiously at the strange appear
ance on the river. At long intervals a
settlers shack was seen and oilenel
the blue smoke rising upward from
some Indian camp.
When night came the party camped
sleeping by burning fire which kept
back the panther that cried in the
mountains,
None of the slaves were Of interest
to the watermen save the little ono
with Mccall, and they determined 10
ask the trader for her history.
so on a night when the party mad
stopped but a few hours distance from
the Post Of Arkansas, the watermen
went 10 the camp Of Mccall
Through the open door as they ap
preached they saw the child sitting IN
the Arellght while Mccall made ig
ures on bit of paper.
Look" said one, "her hair Is
straight and black and shines like
silk"
And her nose-and mouth-and
eyes!" exclaimed the other, mo negro
is her father"
The Harrison times., 1908-10-17
GIRL WAS DELlRIOUS
With Fearful Eczema-Pain, Heat,
and Tinoing Were Excrucating-
Cuticura Acted Like Magic.

"An eruption broke out on my
daughters chest. l took her to a
doctor, and he pronounced it to be
eczema of a very bad form. He treated
her, but the disease spread to her back,
and then the whole Of her head was
affected, and all her hair had to be cut
off. The pain she suffered was excru.
ciating, and with that and the heat
and tingling her life was almost un-
bearable. Occasionally she was deliri'
Gus and she did not have a properhours
sleep for many nights. The second
doctor we tried afforded her just as
little relief as the first Then pur.
chased Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and
Pills, and before the Ointment was
three-quarters finished every trace Of
the disease was gone. It really seemed
like magic Mrs. T. w. Hyde, Brent
wood, Essex, England, Mar. 8, 1907"
The Harrison times., 1908-10-17
PUTTING 1T UP TO BILLIE.
Logical Reason Why He Should Be
the One to Ask Favor.

The wagons of the greatest show
on earth" passed up the avenue at
daybreak. Their incessant rumble
soon awakened ten-year-old Billie and
his fiyeyear-old brother, Robert. Their
mother feigned sleep as the two white
robed figures crept past her bed into
the hall, on the way to investigate.
Robert struggled manfully with the
unaccustomed task Of putting on his
clothes Wait for me, Billie" his
mother heard him beg. You'll get
ahead of me"
'Get mother to help you" counseled
Billie, who was having troubles Of his
own.
Mother started to the rescue, anG
then paused as she heard the voice
of her younger, guarded but anxious
and insistent:
"You ask her, Billie You've known
her longer than I have. Everybody 8
Magazine.
The Harrison times., 1908-10-17

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ton The squaws and little ones
were captiyes.
While he stood, his attention was
attracted by childs cry, which came
from a nearby brush.
Turning, he saw the child, who lift,
ed a tear-stained face and held up
her hands.
Under the impenetrable calm of
peace and the fury of war, the mighty
Blackcoat had a kind heart which
the wall of the child touched.
She, too, was his captive. Her
father no doubt lay on the bloody
field.
The hard lines on his copper face
softened and holding forth his hand
he said; Little Cry-in-the-Grass
come here" and when she came he
lifted her in his arms.
No papoose had ever come to his
lodge to interest him after the long
chase as he lay on his bear skin
couch, and when the little one who
was his captive rubbed the tears
from her black eyes and smiled at
him he determined to keep his cap
tive and make Of her a daughter.
For about three years little Cry
in-the-Grass found a happy home il
The Harrison times., 1908-10-17

can teach her the ways Of white peo-
pie and their lodge will be hers
McBee was overcome with joy when
he heard that the little Usage was
to come into his possession, But she
must come to me by bill Of sale" he
said.
Blackcoat's brow darkened. The
child was not for sale and an insult
was about to be offered. But McBee
fastened to make explanation.
Yes" he said, Il must give you
something, else when the white mans
government makes treaty with the
Usage there will be trouble. 1t is to
protect the little one"
When McBee had fully made clear
the necessity for such a transaction
in the interest Of the child, Black.
coat accepted a COW and a calf and
the little Usage belonged to the white
man.
There was no parting between the
chief and the child Early on the day
she was to leave his lodge he had
gone far away to the chase without
so much as looking at her, and before
he returned little Cry-in-the-Grass had
gone with the white man who prom
ised her a long ride and an armful
Of blue and red feathers.
With his purchase McBee hastened
to a point some miles down the river
where he joined a man named Mccall
who was buying slaves for the French
slayemarket in New Orleans. A trade
was soon struck between the two
men, which when ended, left the lit.
tie Usage captive in possession Of Me
Call, and McBee three hundred dol
lars better off for the business deal
To him this was rare good luck
He had paid for his investment with
The Harrison times., 1908-10-17
Espre,sIons Of a Cynlc.

Walter Pater, an old man at so, bald
as coot and grotesquely plain, re.
garded every woman much as did Dean
Swift. who wrote; "a very little wit
is valued in a woman, as we are
pleased with few words spoken intel
Hgibly by a parrot" you don't ap,
prove Of marriage?' a friend once OBJ.
served TO Pater NO" he replied,
nor would anybody else II he gave
the matter proper consideration, Men
and women are always pulling diff,
yerent ways. Women won't pull our
way. They are 80 perverse."