Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-05-21
YVES, vlrala,. Abdul Ham.a

lof tue sSndtbEiuf toNS vi tit ilVtfs Ats
b. Scott. His tax commissioner and
Man Friday, Charlie Dillon OF Bayette
announces the candidacy Of his chief
and intimates that he likes not Scott
much nohow. 1t was happy thought
in Scott TO send Dawson to China on a
salary Of 50, 900 per year. The Hon.
Ike Mann had been pacified. He was
to run against Elkins who Is supposed
to be particularly unpopular in his
own neck o. woods. 1t was argued TO-
Mann that the gentleman from Ran
delphi was essier than the gentlemen
from Wheeling. Mann then let his
ambition subside for couple Of years.
Last winter 1t was announced that
Dawson was dying of tuberculosis,
All of us acquainted with the Hon,
Slipper Bill Dawson realized At once
that tuberculosis had cut off more than
it could chew. A few months In the
tarkiln regions Of North Carolina and
tuberculosis met Illuminating defeat
and Dawson returned with more poll
teal humbuggery up his sleeve than
ever. 1t was then determined that
our beloved governor should be sent TO
heather China Such consumption
though awful ON the heethens was
balm in Gilead 10 SCOTS future hopes
and he worked for It like Trojan
But neither the heathens nor the mys-
teries that surrounded tho Chinese wall
nor the pig tail nor the son Of Heaven
could allure Dawson. He staid. Then
1t was supposed that = salary Of $4,000
taxed out ofthe Virginia Debt business
might attract some peoples attic nticn
so the following shi.gIe was tackled up
In Charleston:
w. N. o. Dawson
Lawyer
and Notary Public Is
Real Estate Dealer and Fire Insur
, ance Agent. III
Andthe scott gang found cut .ess 4
long and tedious vigils In Doodle, buy
ing up negroes, etc. had learned Dsw-
son in the law AS no other process
would do, so it was decreed that he
was to have 81 900 per year as lawyer
in the Virginia debt case. But in spite
Of tuberculosis and oriental aIlurement
and the Virginia debt fee does Abdul
Hamid and his Musselmen throw
themselves athwart the pathday Of the
Hon. a. b. Scott. Correspondent
from Turkey who look beneath the sur
face say that in spite of all the jollIfi-
cation and celebration that the shadow
of Abdul Hamid arise to give some
folks the shivers. And in spite OF the
political wire-working and big cam
paign donations Of Scott, Elkins and
Ike Mann does the shadow OF this
Abdul Ha mid Of West Virgin rise up
TO give them the shivers. They can
collect the Young Turks and the glad
handlers and the ever hopeful but the
deacens and elders aud all The mighty
host Of the true believers will be feuad
IN the camp Of Dawson before the sea-
son is over. Noordinasy disease germ
ID going 20 put him out of business and
Scott is going 10 have something else
to abuse except the Democrats. Ike
Mann is a fine young fellow but in the
/! political spelling book he is just over
TO "bakern Dawson is over about
the page:
Amalga nate,
prevarlcate,
Assassinate, etc.
| Scott, Elkins and Mann are SO dog
gomez anxious about the Chinese and
the Virginia debt that we suggest that
maybe they might be induced to take
these jobs. But we think we can see
some real fun ahead. There are other
mighty dangerous "sick mem in the
world besides the "5iek Man Of Eu-
rope And they look much like him
too. Hinton independents Herald.