The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-29
DAY OF FASTING "COLDHILL" BILL
SAYS ROOSEVELT MUM AS A CLAM
Studiously Avoids All AIIusionS
to the North Carolina Gold
Mine Scandal.
CROWD is DISAPPOINTED
HE Kept Us Out of War" Bunk
is Handed Out in Great
Volume by Speaker.
"Gold am Bn" fell down In M


pinch :" '''o
Confronted with the truth regard
ing his connections with the mining
stock scandal in l9li. he dared mot
make answer TO the question pro-
pounded to him in Saturdays issue OF
the Telegram.
A large crowd or Democrats ma
publtcans and members OF other mar
ues, curious to hear what answer ia
might make TO the TeleEram's charge
gathered In the court house SATURDAY
night TO hear United States Senator
william =. Chiffon. crowd outside
me court house was addressed Inv
judge heeley, Of Washington. ID. q.
senator Chiffon told his audience
many things And there were many
things that he didn't tell The lat.
ter had an Overwhelming majority.
Democrats Disappointed.
Hundreds Of Democrats and Chill.
ton supporters, who had gone to the
meeting firm in tho belief that their
hero would at least deny tho charges
made by the Telegram. were bitterIv
disappointed when he virtually nd
nillted the truth Of the charges by
making no attempt to answer them.
confronted with the truth. the sena.
tor knew there was no answer fos
make. and he hnd brains enough not
10 make himself ridiculous by al.
tempting an answer.
The meeting wax called to order by
y. 9. Smith. who called on George
honheimer 20 introduce the speaker.
IN ms Introduction Mr. HoHheimer
lauded the senator highly.
Senator Chiffon opened his address
by comparing Woodrow Wilson to
George Washington, Thomas Jeffer-
son, Andrew Jackson and Abraham
Lincoln When he mentioned the
name OF Lincoln the crowd upp!auded
wildly. He did not mention Lincoln
again. The senator said that SAT-
urdny night prayers for Woodrow
Wilson were going up from all parts
of the world
Maling yelled charge that the
Republicans would attempt to buy
the election In this state, he de-
clared they cant bring enough
money into West Virginia to buy this
blood. he did not mention the leg
islatiye session Of 1911 when he was
elected 10 the Senate over John Il.
McGraw with the aid Of Clarence
Watson's check book and fountain
pen.
The Modest Thing.
The speaker said tho crowd
equalled in hEe "a Bryan, Hughes
and Mckinley audience all rolled i'm
to one" Modest, sweet. white vio-
lett
Praising the Democratic currency
bill, he told his hearers how 1t would
prevent forever the possibilities Of an
other panic, But he did not tell how
the Republican currency measure had
prevented panic in 1914. when the
war broke out, before the Democratic
measure had gone into effect.
Speaking of the good roads bill.
Senator Chiffon spilled quite bit OF
bunk about Howard Sutherland ask
Ing for election to the Senate because
he had supported President Wilson's
policies.
The Wall street bugaboo vaa
brought up by the speaker, Who told
how the dnanoiers were emluftinR
worthless stocks on the people, but
be did not tell how he, using govern
ment stationery, had attempted 10 ex-
ploit North Carolina gold mining
stock on the people: nor how a gov
ernment employe, while being paid by
the people, went to that state to i'm
7esugate the proposition. Nor aid
he tell what Colonel Wylie Beall. one
ot the states leading Democrats, had
% say about the mining stock.
Furgets the WaT.
I'VE have got the greatest trade
balance you ever saw" he declared
'eferrtng to the country's prosperous
apparently forgetting that
here was war raging In Europe.
remembering the war few minutes
ater he declared that the exports
of war material In this country
amounted to only one-aixty second OF
he total exports, The department's
lgures show that of $4,000 900, 600
worth Of exports In the fiscal year
ending June 80, 1915, war exports
to $4,000, 900, 900. The
ienator did not explain the difference
Setween hisstatement and that OF the
department..
The senator praised Wilson for
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