Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-10-15

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partner) now do, four good public Of
hceS at the same time, to-wit Collec-
tor OF internal revenue, which pays
$4,000 year, commissioner of the cir
cult court, and twice commissioner OF
the county court. Brother GlasscOck
has become, as we are glad to know
what may be styled in West Virginia
rich man, living as he does in his
beautiful $4,000 home, with it's veneer
ed floors and fine furnishings. This
home and other valuable real estate
which he owns in this city, represent
ing many thousands of dollars, were
obtained by his holding Office all his
life under the people to whom he now
denies the right to speak through his
paper upon the vital question of
whether Charles w. Swisher shall be
the rominee of the Republican party.
Collector Glasscock is subject to
grave criticism, for no man ought to
hold public office, unless 1t is a public
trust. Holding 1T as he does while
continuing to practice law at Morgan
town with lucrative fees, during all the
time he has been collector of internal
revenue, and being retained as attor-
ney by the year by Stephen B. Elkins,
he IS simply drawing his salary from
the public purse without giving value
received If he is not subject to Just
criticism in receiving from the govern
ment about $4OP per month, under such
circumstances, remaining away from
his Office more than one hundred
miles, and perhaps only once or twice
month looking in on the Parkersburg
office to receive his voucher for mis-
salary and possibly to sign a few rec
ords, when there are so many other
worthy Republicans who for the last
forty years have made so many Bacri-
fees for the grand old party. who
would give their whole time and atten-
ton to the work of the office, and who
have earned the right to Il much more
than our brother.
The old soldier, who, leaving home
and dear ones, went out and fought for
the dag that the Union might be per-
petuated; who often used a snow pill
low upon which TO snatch a few mo-
ments Of slumber, and who tramped
through the mud and mire and freez-
ing from perhaps one to four long
years. when he looks at his little pen
sion check of $12 per month, and real
ICES that he sacrificed his all and gave
up his health and his fortune for his
cOuntry-and then knows that Col
it''pl bidoSCDCh beLS-uOJ SlZ per
month-but at the rate OF about S12
per day, Sunday included, for prac-
tically doing nothing for the govern
ment. Will come TO the conclusion. and
justly so, that there is something
awfully wrong In the makeup Of our
institutions, II this is 10 be the rule i'm
this republic. Will ne not write I'm the
leaves Of his Bible. as he reads the
Golden Rule. that I'm this age greed has
become rife, even among the men OF
West Virginia in high places?
II this government is simply TO make
Christmas gifts OF $4,000 or $40. 900. In
four years time TO any OF It's citizens.
we would just as leave see Collector
GlasscOck receive II as any one else.
but the principle r. all wrong. and tle
government that permits Il will sim
ply teach dishonesty among It's people.
The men standing down I'm the hard
places Of life, and looking TO the gen
tlemen who receive such elegant com
. pensatlon for such little or no labor.
will come TO the conclusion that social
lem Will finally control in this country.
Nothing is so dangerous 10 the Repub-