The Williamson enterprise. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1907-1911, 1911-03-16
Democratic Ticket.
SEEM AND HEARIN' THINGS.

SEEM AND HEARIN' THINGS.
'"Lo, the poor Indian, whose untutored
mind
Sees God in the clouds and hears Him
in the wind,
If we may be pardoned the
liberty of taking as our text, the
classic thought of Pope, the
great English poet SRd phlloso-
pher, who thus expressed him
self pertaining to the workings
of the inner consciousness OF
poor Lo, we are bound to say
that this happy Cor otherWlse)
faculty Of "seein and hearin
things is not confined exclusive
" to our aboriginal brother
whom the poet had in mind.
Our esteemed friend and con-
temporary, Booten, has worked
himself into a fine frenzy over
the things he purports to have
seen and heard. Whether it
was mirage, nightmare or some
thing worse, that troubled the
dreams or inspired the imaglna-
ton of the able editor Of the
Mingo G. O. p. is beyond our
humble ken. The cause of this
outburst could only be definitely
and accurately ascertalned by a
grand jury Investigations med
ical mination or the testimony
of an alienist. We have neither
the means nor the funds to Sc
cure information by this method
and can only base. our surmises
on the fourth dimension. But
why bother about such simple
elementary things as cause an
effect. these are for such hum BILE
clods as have not the wit, mag
ination and trusty typewriter,
with all of which this modern
Sherlock Holmes is pre-eminent-
ly gifted. The fact remains that
we are discovered, found out! A
dark rainey midnight conspirac y
has been uncovered. The 'trea-
sons. stratagems and spolls OF
Mayor PInson and Chief of Police
Porter, have been revealed
Alas, murder will out! They
have been detected in the unlaw.
full and felonious scheme of try.
ing to break a Republican slate
or sprag" steam roller at a
fixed convention. Suppose they
had succeeded in persuadlne
Wasky to run for Recorder
would there have been a Henry
Priode to hold the East End vote,
Never, perish the thought.
But this is not all the things
this eagle-eyed-sleuth Has done
found out. (" He has been hear
in as how that arch democrat
Lon Pinson, had the consumat,
impudence to run off forty-level
niggers the night before las
election, thus depriving thei
brothers-in-the-faith, of thei
sweet scented company, ant
worst of all, of their most pre-
cious votes. Our misguided
friend quotes copiously from tn,
evidence of John B. Maynard
taken in the recent unpleasant
ness to sustain his aerial flight
of fancy. This evidence prove
nothing, except that it is an ele
giant space filler, and was proba
bly, so intended by our devote
friend. If this seeker after in
formation really wants to know
where his missing colored broth
ers were on election day, W
recommend for his careful pc
rusal. the testimony of Haym
Shellose, who saw them eating
out of wash tubs and voting b
battalions at Matewan very earl
in the morning; and if he shout
inquire further, he will mos
probably find out that some 0
the lost gentlemen of color
composed the company of thirty
who tried to vote at Merrima
under guard of two alleged ba
men armed with Wincheste
rifles, and who were deferred b,
the warm reception accorde
them by the democratic clerk a
that precinct. Then, if this Slr
Knight-of-the-G oose-Quill, t hi
Defender-of-the-F faithful, has no
vet satisfied his burning curlosit,
be may find a "clew' as to tn