The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-08-24

| could lie with figures, and figure with
lies this one cantor instance-Jim
Holley has receipt from J. A. Blake
or Huntington and w. c. Walker of
| charleston for eight cases of whiskey
| "hen ne knows that Adulterous Jud-
as Quill had four cases of it hauled
away from police headquarters in the
patrol wagon driven by that eminent
social reformer George A. Saunders,
the Accident'' from Lincoln county
oelng perhdlous partner in the tram
| saction. These four cases were
| hauled away In the night time. Four
cases were hauled away by the United
states Express Company in the day
time and sent to j. A. Blake in Hunt
1ngton, who had no earthly claim on
any of this whiskey 1t was a
scheme entered into by BIakes agent
| and Quill. by which each of them
were to steal four cases of whiskey to
which neither had any claim. Be-
sides. the whiskey was in charge of
the federal authorities, who have
never yet released it. Jim Holley
usurped power which he thought and
thinks. makes him n greater creature
than Uncle Sam. Holley released this
Adulterous Judas Quill chance to
steal four cases of it-Simply that and
nothing else.
Peacock Murphy, the strutting ig-
noramus of the police department,
gloatingly boasts that the Argus has
said nothing about him, because it
can't. We are not fools enough to
waste powder in fighting wind bags
OF the Murphy type AS the negro's
wife said to her husband, who had
!! caught a pole cat-Hold him Josh-hold
him till he stinks his'self ter death.
Murphy If let alone will strut himself
to death. To use a thirteen-inch can
non to kill a pismire would be no
more foolish than to waste space in
attacking Murphy. however we have
dope enough on Murphy to take some
of the starch out of his brilliant plum
age and leave him just what he is
an ignorant ass panoplied in a uni
form. TO answer an easy question.
Mr.. Murphy might tell. or add his
affidavit to Guills and Iaggerty's as:
to where he was and with whom on
the night-the historic night-allud-
ed to in those afidavits.
There are some men who are fool
ish enough to think that when they
wish to convince the public of their
ability, that they must tear their hair,
jump up and down and howl forth
billinsgate against those whom they
fear and dislike. Their antics are SO
strangely like those Of the little boy
who drops down on his back and
kicks the floor and howls when he
cannot have the moon that they are
ludicrous. They really should be sent
to bed without their suppers, if in-'
deed they deserve any punishment.
They may be very innocent. their
ideas are too crude and indiscrimi-
mating to make them cogniZant of the
evil they might do.-Sunday's Gazette
When paper has the liability" to
throw q stone in the dark in the
daytime"it it may have knowledge suf-
| ficient to convirce the public how one
could be afraid of those they dislike
and at the same time be brave
enough to manifest their dislike fear
| lesSly. openly and above-board. Mixed
| metaphors may answer for those who.
| politically. would rather be regular
than right. An effort was made by
the HoIley crowd to send us to bed
| "supperless'' and in disgrace, but the
| crowd was foiled and failed. of course.
| We are not .cognizart of the evil
| we may do" but we are conversant
with the evils the Holleys. Bedells
| and Guil1s have done and are doing
| When we called a city official liar"
and thief why did he not step out
into the limelight and deny the aleEa-
| tion and call for the proof?
When we do our best to tone down
our rough language and more nearly
| conform to the usages of polite So
| ciety. and instead of calling this fell
| low liar and thief and call him
a ''prevaricating kleptomaniac." a
| howl goes up by the defenders of cor
| ruption that we are using "billns-
! gate" My God. why don't You come
ont in the open and instead of tacitly
| admitting we are innocent prove to
| the world that the truths we have
been telling are lies? If A. ]. GULL
| is the victim of a persecution handled
| in the -crude and indiscriminatilg"
| language of billinsgate" the evil of
| which the writer is not cognizant,"
| why don't you come out in the day
light of the dark" and defend him ?
The truth of the matter is that every