The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-17
IIn THIS Congressional DiStriCi
Causes Cot of Amusement
iIl Nations Capital.

10 Nation, s Cdpltdl.
fCharles Brooks smith,
:, WASHINGTON, d. c.. Sept. IL
The wise councillors in the amen cor:
Ener lifted reluctant lips from their
rfckeys when the chronic butttnsky
COATED in with the announcement
that he had some late news that was
really worth while from the region
| or the rhodOdendron and the chest
nut commonwealth. They thought It
was the usual thing just in from, the.
desert, dry and without sou with
which, to buy.
Not SO, Horatioi He was there
with the goods, this time: It may
have been old stun back in West VIZ
ginia, but 1t was live and palpitating
with new birth when he sprung It. So
what'Il yours be, old top
In the excitement of early narration
some got the idea that Major Mans
field Marmalade Neely had defied the
lightning, others that he had KAISER
like threatened to whip the world,
and some that he had challenged the
entire First congressional district for.
series of joint ebates-proy1dtng
he could make his getaway from his
arduous duties of statespansn1p
here. Order finally being restored
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by the house detective that he would
rasmitem If they didn't behave, paved
the way for the crushed and crunched
truth to arise and stand on her rect.
1t seems that the cataclysmic oc-
currence reported by the newly ar
rived courier was that Harvey Har-
mer. Of the Democratic Aid Society In
the First district. had thrown down
the glove, before Major Nicely. and
when the Major picked it up he. at
the same time. threw down his glove
to Senator George White, who is the
young Repub lican person who has the
audacity, not to say the effrontery. to
tbestir himself in the lfveliest fashion,
and in a manner so winning and Wig
orous, to cut the Majors congression-
al career here short OF before he has
| chance to duly impress upon the
House com bination of eloquence and
statesmanship that will make 1t SIT
| up and take notice, and weep for the
denatured fame of Daniel Webster.
It Is not to say that either Major
Nicely or Mr. Hammer actually threw
away their gloves. Cold weather is
here and they need their gloves, and
4 the signs of tough winter ahead
4 are SO many that even they would
| not be SO reckless as to cast aside
n gloves, pulse warmers, throat scarfs
and the like. 1t Is merely figure OF
1 speech that came down to US when
knighthood was in flower and the
lWaverly novels we're being written.
1.-The knights went around nights as
well as days dropping gloves and
lighting duels. When they wanted ste
4 dnel they shed glove to the star
4 board side of the slipper buckle OF
the knight they had a notion they
would like to lance through, up and
across. The. glove business was quite
i q flourishing industry In those times
I When all the knights had duelled
4 Themselves until there were no more,
folks found better use for gloves,
/ and when they wanted to challenge
neighbor they just politely said to
i him to consider that they had thrown
/ down a glove to him. and they held
on, to the glove. They were the oil
| rect ancestors of the yankee who
4 made wooden coconuts and sold them
4 to the direct ancestors of the boobs
4 who can't tell q hole in the ground
Il from q gold mine and who never are
i able to keep their kopeiks in their
jeans when the see a genial-faced,
\ glib talking gentleman in the kid tent
! shuffling pea from one little shell to
h another.
Il All of which was explained to the
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Il vivfng hostage of John Browns raid
at Harper's Ferry who. although, he
( was never in Harper's Ferry in his
/ life and came up here many. years ago
from Georgia. has been so long cred
II tied on the pay roll as being from
4 West Virginia that he probably
boasts that she has no native son at
4 the public crib more loyal, nor one
4 who did so much to help mount her
priceless jewel in the diadem of
4 states 1t now being clearly under
tstood-and the last round settled for
that Harmer had challenged Nicely
Ito series of joint debates. that Nicely
had accepted the challenge, at the
same time challenging White. basipg
his acceptance. of Harmer's challenge
| on Whites acceptance of his
| Nicely challenge, and on the furth-
er provision that he-Neely could
get away to keep the engagements
proposed without being locked 500
/ 81 for each day of his absence--au OF
which would make the debate any
thing else but joint and every
thing thus being made as clear as the
loud applause" which use to ring in
! Auam Littlepage's delighted ear,
every time he wrote speech for
the Record when he was in the