West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-10-22
BROWN FOR CONGRESS
Logical Reasons Why MIR. Brown
Should Be Retained in Congress
tor the Good OF the District-Hc
is Faithful and He is Honest
By ID. w. Gall.)


Hon. William G.. Brown wa
elected to the 62d Congress, owe
Hon. Geo. c.. Strrgiss, Republican
by majority of 4,fS3, in a distric
that previously had given very
large Republican majority, and il
his own county, Preston, which ha,
normal Republican majority oi
$500, he carried i'm that election by
majority of 1910, which is a
strong evidence as to the STANDING
of Junior Brown in his home coun-
ty, where the people, regardless OF
politics, stand by him in such a
manner; but come along down
with the writer to the election i'm
1912, when a general election was
had, and Mr.. Brown had as his
political opponent, a Republican
from his own county, and possibly
one of the most popular Republi-
cans in the county, and yet i'm the
face of all this, in 1912, Hon. w.
q. Brown, the Democratic nomi-
nee, carried the county over Pres
ton county Republican by 1888 ma
Jority. Now why is thisi Let his
tory answer.
James Brown and his wife came
from ireland, and they were the
grandfather and grandmother of
Junior Brown, and they settled in
Preston county, then Virginia, in
l7S9, and carried all of their world
ly possessions across the mountains
into the place where they located
in Preston county, on horses, but
like the honest, Scotch Irish lineage
from which they descended, they
applied themselves and cleared out
the forests, planted, and the Lord
gave the increase, and though only
one family intervcncd between our
Congressman Brown and the grand
father, James Brown, by honest,
frugal and industrious habits of the
Hon. William G. Brown, Sr., and
the same followed by the Hon.
William G.. Brown, Jr!, they be-
came people of means, but not by
the half-pay process of the factory
hand or the shop girl, but by sterl-
ing, Christian dealing with others,
as they would have Others do unto
them, have they become the per-
sons of the means they have, but
that is where largely the story of
the success of the father and the
son, the two William G.. Browns,
lies, the good they have done with
what God has blessed them, and il
IS true in the history of the fathers
career, as of the son, who inherited
the largc-hcarted spirit of doing
good from his father, the Hon. VIM.
&. Brown, Sr.
Some years ago, in Preston coun-
Ly, which is n mining county, there
was n strike on and in many cases
icstitution existed, and the writer
IS advised by n Republican voter
Of Preston county, that the Hon.
VIM. G.. Brown, Jr., did not send
agents around to sec the needs OF
the poor people around the mines
and report to him, but he went i'm
person, viewed the situation and
where he found poor children bare
footed, he took them TO the store
and bought them shoes; and where
he found families without food he
supplied it, and then the aspiration
Of seat in Congress was not i'm
his mind, but to relieve those i'm
need, by the means with which a
Just God had blessed him, and this
IS one of the reasons why Preston
rounty, with an overwhelming po-
Iitical majority against him, cast
J ,0l0 majority for him in 1910 and
with the many similar acts, of
which the writer has no informa-
ton, that county this election, with
The noble record hc has made for
his county and district, ought to at
least cast 5000 majority for him,
and his first majority i'm the dis
trict will be materially increased.
The vindication, which his home
county has given him in these two
elections, should be another reason
why he should get an increased
vote al over the district, and if
there is no change from news com
ing to the writer. hc IS not only
going to bc elected but by au in
creased majority.
Mr. Brown has possibly done
more for The old soldier than any
other member Of Congress, not only
in getting the pending cases before
the Pension Bureau taken up and
acted upon, but in thc way of pass
ing special acts, granting pensions
to oldicrs who by some reason
could not get "a pension under the
cclual law. br Mr. Brown has
tccn great aid Co the veterans iu
his district. and to lhc writer's per-
soual knowledge is going to get n
large soldier vote, which is au act
of gratitude on their part, and they
grown longer than intended