The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-08-10
OF the City Administration by an
Ex-C.y Official


spirit form, and witness the city ad-
m!mistratiou of Charleston, West
virginia, in the throes of reform
patterned after the type he estaD-
lIshed in England between the years
uf l"30 and 154T-the date of his
d.ntA-old Hen would be delighted
and clap his hands in estacy, for our
city administration is the only body
of men on earth who have ever at
ministration of Henry VIII. A sub
st;ntion of names, and the compari-
son would be complete. Anne Bo-
leyn. the mistress to the king, was
the basis of that bogus reform, and,
indirectly the cause of change
an enforced change-of the religion
OF the country. The king seduced
the wiling Anne; Illegally divorced
his wife, Catharine; married the
1oluptions Anne, and eventually had
her executed for conduct unbecom-
Ing lady and the saint Of the new
ly established religion. Your Uncle
Hen tried matrimony several times
afterwards. but his physical condi-
ton, being out of harmony with his
l.
desires being strong and his body
being weak he was not suited for
matrimony-for which he blamed
his wives-and successfully and sue.
r"ssfully divorced them, and then in
disgust, lay down and died Now
III" world didn't stop. nor did the
people go into spasm OF uncontroll-
able grief on account of his death
hot by dang sight. They got what
consolation they could out of the
hranu OF religion he invented and
gave them and proceeded with their
daily vocatiOnS, chickering's and wars
Just as though old Hen had never
The people of Charleston are GO
ing to put up with the Holleys and
Bedells, and their bogus brand of
reform until an opportunity presents
Itself to wipe them and their mon
S,roSty off the face of the earth
Reform administration indeed. why
you might as we'll have n Siberian
wolf as chief of police, as the adul-
terous Al Quill. when the question
of reform enters into the equation
Of civic righteousness. Then again,
tn" FIRST APPOINTED, under the
n"w dispensation, of that well
x y,
hasn't added lustre to the escutch-
"on of the administration, notwith-
standing the fact it has brought
th" family of George into sacred near
ness with some of the grand molochs
"t the administration. Many crimes
nav" been committed in the name of
religion. Almost any old fraud cal
be successfully worked, if the thing
Is warmed up with some kind oil
i"liEiOus zeal But no sort of re-
Hslous aiilatus has been incorporat-
81 IN this modern Henry and Anne
hoi"yn business. The result is, all
'"AT"h members. regardless of creed,
'Hf or color. are opposed to the
KING of mystery conducting himself
- modern King Henry VIII. There
nav" been no executions or divorces
- Yet. unless the case of c. w.
'A'hpn"ll. can be classed as ar exc
ZION. Ii" was fired because of his
knowledge of the doings of the
,"#>"S at the palace of splendor on
p. sfr"et, and Russell crucified be-
'4HS" he knew too much.
Judge Friday Bedell became lit
e'''N the power behind the
."'"h" last Wednesday. during the
tIdi OF the Hopkins woman, who.
as testimony disclosed. was the vic
W." OF the machination of the
"oI-hptST TWlNS-Mat Slaughter
"i' ~ GULL. To those present, who
not thoroughly acquainted
WI" 'urSe co-laborers in Holley's
'l""N1ra. the evidence against them
startling and almost unbelieve-
." tat to those acquainted with
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