The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-28

d wire barricades they coolly await
vancihg columns.
fed to be worker in the ranks Of
the Republican party in Ohio county
/ and in the state of West VIZ gina. lie
has sought no ONCE for himself, no
rank for himself, and no preferheM
for himself Insofar as he has been
able to, he has sought to help other
men, and his achievements IN that
line he is entirely willing to leave to
the Just estimate of the public. In
trying to put in his mouth vain
glorious boast, q boast which would
have been foolish in itself. as well as
utterly untrue, MANSFIELD NJ. Nicely
only told another lie, and at the same
time revealed the after absence OF
anything OF material Importance
which he could allege against The
Intelligencer and its manager.
"Intelligencer readers who read the
story, The Fakers,'' which ran for
several weeks In the Saturday Even
ing Post during the past summer
will find in the principal actor in that
story, T. Jefferson Riggs, q highly
Nelly. AS faker, fraud, and q
cheat, no other man in public life in
West Virginia is entitled to quite the
same high position as has been earn
ed in a few short years by Mansfield
M. Nicely. He first achieved some
prominence IN the city Of Fairmont
|rby noisily attacking the Fairmont
Coal EouEang :and5tliG Yatx1n fittgf.I
ests lie continued In that line OIL
he became candidate for Congress-
When his mean little soul was filled
with congressional ambitions, hei
sought and formed an alliance with
the Fairmont Coal Company interests,
which he had formerly denounced
"a, and became their candidate for
the congressional nomination in the
First district Of West Virginia"
aside from presenting these
[Dayton1 charges M. NJ. Neely's con-
gressionaI record is limited to an adj
dress devoted to the glorification of
Woodrow Wilson, and to laudations!
of Wilson as the greatest of all
Americans, past. present and future
No address written in the Congress
sional Record was ever more SUB
lime in its asininity 1t deserves only
panegyric which Adam B. LittlepageE
composed concerning himself. Be it
said to the credit of two Democratic
congressmen from West Virginia in
four years time, that they did more
to immortalize peanut vanity and de-
velop drive1ling idtocy into a fine arr, (
than any two men who by ACCIDENT
ever found their way into the halls /
of Congress.
.sAmong the members of the Dem \
ocratic majority in the House of Rep-l]
there are many men who
have abandoned all independently
thought, and submitted entirely to the
will Of woodrow Wilson; but no other
ever filed the Congress-
sional Record with such a flood Of
iuisome laudation and sfckening fat
terry. as Mansfield NJ. Nelly, gobbed
over in his attempt to make an adj
dress In the House of represents
tives'
AFTER November 3rd. Mansfield NJ. /
Nicely thinks he may afford to laugh /
at the candidates whom he will have
duped and lead on with false promises
and filled with false hopes. But be-
fore that time he dare not face the
issue.
faker has sat in the Congress- of the
United states and misrepresentedt the
people OF the First district OF West
Virginia He has sat there, the tool
of the most corrupt and most vtctousl
influence that ever figured In the pol-I
itics OF this states.
The loud protestations. OF po1itical|
virtue with which he fills the air only
amuse those who know his real char
acter They cannot long deceive many
people. There Is, however, some con-
ISOLATION for the afi1iction which this
district has suffered for the past
twelve months After Tuesday, Mo-
yember 3rd, 1914, this cheat, fraud
and faker will pass into the dead seal
OF forgotten things. thence to emerged
no more. His place in the Congressl
OF the United States will be filled by
q am nwho stands for Americanism,
for the preservation OF American In
dustry, for work for the American
working men, and the home marketl
for the American farmer.