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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-26
HARDING CLUB FOR
COLORED WOMEN
One Will Be Organized In
Jacobs Building
Tonight

A Harding-Coolidge club tor the
colored women OF the city Will 30
organized this evening at I'3V
O'Clock at the club headquarters IN
the Jacobs building. All colored
women OF tho city and county are
asked to be present and Join the
club, OnIcers viii be named ana
plans made for the part the colored
women will take in the coming cleo
tion.
Tomorrow night Mt 1880 o'clock
a meeting VIII be held for the girls
Of the industrial concerns OF the ci-
ty and all Republican young girls
OF the city and all Republican
young women employed in the Ow-
ems Bottle works. the Mononga1
Glass company plant the laundries
the railroad shops and all other In
dustrial concerns are asked to at.
tend the meeting win be held at
the club headquarters Of the HaTo-
inR-Coolidge club in the Jacobs
building. Attorney Ernest Bell Will
be one of the speakers on this oc-
Beginning Wednesday morning
at ten O'Clock a class in insruC'
ton on the ballot will be conduct
ed each hour during the day. These
classes will be in charge OF Mrs.
Minna Hornn, chairman OF the
Citizenship Committee and she will
be assisted by other members OF
the committee.
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Cop. PARADE
HELD IN FAIRvIEW
Was the Prelude To a
Splendid Mass Meet
ing There

Sweeping into the final week OF
the campaign. the Republicans are
gong strong in the county and con
ducting an intensive drive against
the enemy. The week will bo
filled with meetings in all parts OF
the county, ending with great Re
publican rally here on Saturday
evening when Judge Morgan vii!
be here and will make his final
campaign address to the people o.
his home county.
Three splendid meetings were
held in the county last night IN
widely separated districts All
we're well attended and the speak
ers were given enthusiastic recep'
tIons.
Mira ], A. Meredith and Hon. r.
A. Pollock were the speakers at q
big meeting held at the gymnasium
at Fairview last evening, 1t was
one OF the biggest meetings OF tho
campaign. A large street parade
was held before the meeting.
Or. G. w. Miller presided at the
meeting, Both Mrs. Meredith and
Mr.. Pollock discussed the national
and state issues at length, and their
speeches were well received by the
large audience. There Is splen'
did organization in the FalrVleW
section and a great work for the
Republican cause Is being done
there at the present time.
w. H. Bunner presided at tho
meeting at, the Norwood school last
evening, where large crowd turn
ed out to hear the issues Of the
campaign discussed. Harry Engle
and Mrs. T. NJ. Courtney were the
speakers, and they delivered two
very timely addresses. It was the
first effort as a campaign speaker
by Mrs. Courtney and she made
a fine impression upon her audi
ence. She discussed in detail the
league Of nations issue.
Mrs. Emma Spencer presided at
the meeting at the Rymer school IN
Warrington district, where ]. d.
Continued on Page Eight
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-26
WARD MEETINGS
IN CITY TONIGHT
Good Speakers To Discuss
Issues In Third and
Fourth Wards

Republican mass meetings in two
OF the wards OF the city viii be the
feature OF the campaign tonlghL.
There will be ratuiuG speeches on
the issues OF the day and some mu.
sic nv a drum corps at both OF
them, and the Indications are that
there will be large crowds IN at
The meetings Will be held in the
Third and Fourth wards: senator
Third ward and the meeting VIII
be held in the school house. The
Fourth ward meeting which Will pc
hold at the Miller school vii! be
addressed by J. NJ. Jacobs ana NJ.
l.. Brown.
Everybody, both men and women
are invited 10 attend these meet
fngs and especial arrangements
viii be made 10 take care OF the
ladies at both places.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-26

II any voter has a compell-
ing personal reason for sup
porting Sam Montgomery. he
should fulfill that personal
obligation. and no man or
woman would, In such a case
have cause to citicise his ac-
ton.
But no Republican is un-
der obligation TO vote for
Sam.
lie was a Bryanite in
1896.
In 1910 he bolted George
C. Sturgis, Republican nOmt-
nee for congress in the Sec
ond district.
In 1912 he bolted William
G. Conley. Republican nomi-
nee for congress In the Sec
Ond district.
In 1914 he boltcd George
NJ. Bowers, Republican nOmi-
nee for congress In the Sec
ond district.
In 1910 bolted Republican
nominee for governor.
In 1912 received privately
and secretly from Governor
Glasscocls $3.50 pay as "Spe-
cial Agent" in mine strike
troubles. drawing at the
same time more than $4,000
from the Mine Workers
treasury.
He never performed any
service for any working man
that he was not paid for by
the working man. He has
made political capital of his
alleged relations with the
working men for twenty
years. and when he bolted
Stnrgis in 1910, and Couley
in 1912, and Bowers in 1914.
it was upon the. hypothesis
that no would deliver the
workers to the Democratic
candidates.
These things are simple
facts, and are recorded in tho
political history OF West Vir-
ginia. This man. who now
poses as the friend and
champion OF the workers.
has, in fact--and we chal-
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lenge any man to dispute 1t
actually put the sunrages
of the workers on the politi-
cal auction block year after
year. claiming to be able to
deliver their votes to Demo
cratic candidates, while he
pretended to be a Republi-
can.
These words are not wri-
ten in hate or anger, The
Herald-DIspatch has treated
Sam Montgomery fairly, yes,
generously. But they are
promulgated in simple Ian
guage OF truth. that no man
may be misled by bolting
candidate. who, whilst crying
fraud, has lately come to
boast that he was the beneh-
ciary of gross frauds in v1o-
Iation Of the law. when thou
sands who could not legally
vote in Il Republican primary
went to the polls and cast
their votes for him. Chair
man Dunlap admits that an
lrmy of his Democrats voted
for Motgomery in the prI-
mary. Montgomery in his
Williamson speech admitted
that he received illegal votes
from various sources. includ-
ing the Democratic and So
cIalist parties.
Ia he safe for labor?
Is he safe for business?
Is he safe for West Vir-
gInIa?
Does labor owe him any
thing?
Do Republicans owe him
anything?
The SS,657 paid Mr.. Mont
gomery by the United Nine
Workers during the Paint
Creek strike, plus the $3.50
paid him by Governor G4ase-
cock for services as special
Agent" during the same stir
ring period in our states his
tory, would seem to be about
all that's coming to the ur-
baue and distinguished flop
per. ...
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-26
Carloina Miner
Electroouted Today

David Banlak, aged 49,. 9 bus
sIan In the employ Of the Censoiis
idation Coal company at GaGolllnli.s,
was electrocuted this morntn 8
when In crossing a string Of car
his head caught in the Overhead
trolley. 27B volts passing fhEo ugd5
his body, killing him instantly
The man has brother feSta A!ae
in Duouesne, Pa. The body fa.S..
prepared for burial by Unda 4 r.
ers Carpenter and Ford and no
funreal arrangements will be made lss
untils the arrival OF his nrot4sL.i
The accident occurred = nm ~
O'Clock this morning, s
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-26
Ben F. Evans New
Kinwanis Secretary

Ben F. Evans was selected as
new secretary Of the Kiwaais club
last night at a meeting OF the d.
cectors OF this organization. Mr..
Evans succeeds Larry Shafer who
resigned, and who has left the city.
One OF the principle duties Of the
now secretary will be to find out
why all members do not attend the
weekly luucheons at the Y. NJ. c.
a. and to ascertain whether those
members wish to be dropped from
the club to make room for others
who wish to join. Altogether 1870
are members of the Kiwauis cub
and tho "Y" reserves places for
1875 each week. About rs or 80
have been attending.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-26
Killed
In Tampico Field
TBy Associated PresSl

WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. 26.-
Two American citizens have been
killed in the Tamplcol oil fields dis
patches today to the state depart
ment said.
The Americans arc Arthur l..
Moslcy and Gustave E. SalIer. The
report said the men were killed
yesterday afternoon near Tampico.
No details were given.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-10-26
Montgon1ery,s Record ShoUs
That He is a Flagra11t Flopper

/ DEMOCRATIC newspapers and Democratic campaign
speakers their efforts make the candidacy Of Samuel
Montgomery look like split the Republican party instead OF
drive of Radical Socialists seize control of the state govern
ment Of West Virginia which is have had lot say about
Montgomers Repubicanm When it under examination
can than Koonz is The Huntington Herald Dispatch has been
investigating Mongomeys political and this what has
say about it:
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Notice To Tax Payers
of Marion County

All the tax books will be com
pleted and ready for collection
Of County taxes this week.
There will be a discount given
on all taxes paid in full Of 2H
per cent Come in and pay them
and take advantage OF the dis
count, as 1t will only last
through the remainder of Octo,
Der and November. The Sher-
IFS office will be open for the
collection OF taxes each Satur-
day night from 7 to 0 O'Clock
during the discount period.
A. NJ. GLOVER,
Sheriff of Marion County,
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800 Empties On the
B. & 0. Wednesday

Reports received late this after
noon indicate that there would be
500 empties on the Monongah di-
vision OF the B. and o. railroad
for Wednesdays loading
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Three Shot Down
In City Of
Dublin
.RIOTING IN BELFAST
Crowd In Cork Fired up-
on From a Military
LOrry ,Ss.
rRu AaanoIatad Praas.

LONDON. Oct. 26.-Inpuiries
which have been made OF members
of the family on behalf Of the sgoy-
ernmenr regarding arrangements
for the funeral Of Lord Mayor Me-
MacSwlney have been tnteEprated
as an indication that there WIN ~
no interference with the falnfly'8
plans and that the body will be
turned over TO them immediately
after the inquest. :.
The body is still in Brt1tnn prtsss
on, clothed In a coarse brown
Franciscan habit. The uienber1
Of the MacSwiney family We're coflrs
tinulng today their ytgtl Oyer O.
body.
GALWAY, ireland, oct 3e.
Thomas Egan. keeper Of apublio5
house near here, was shot dead at
his home Sunday night by ratdpr1
after the latter had accused htmsot
completely in the murder OK GJsl-
way magistrate last March.
DUBLIN, Oct. 26.4Throe mdn
were shot and killed by mRSted
men who were alleged to be wsaT-
Ing khaki uniforms here today.
The shooting took place In the
Thurles district, one Of the, victims
being connected with the local
arbitration court. Another one OF
the slain was shot while lying In
bed, where he had been suffering
from pneumonia.
BELFAST, Oct. 26.-Further
rioting occurred in this city last
night. Large crowds burned e6i-
giles of Terence MacSwtney IN g
street in the Stanhope section pf
the city, and a nearby party. mis-
taking the ettigies for those ot.Rr0-
mier Lloyd George, started ex-
changing shots with men burning
the figures. The police were. pow
erless to quell the disorder and
troops were summoned. Several
shots were fired by the soldiers and
order was restored.
One man was shot and killed
yesterday during a fight caused ~
the display OF Sim Fein hRg9.
CORK, Oct. 26.-CroWds along
the Grand Parade, one of the priI1-
cipal thoroughfares, were thrown
into a panic yesterday when sew
eral shots were fred from q milf
tary lorry and an accompanying
armoured car. No Casualties oc-
Cured. It appeared the car had
turned It's searchliht on the stn1
Fein club house and a large! ptIr1-
Der Of epople led by curiosity suE-
rounded the machine. The esoeeu-
pants, fearing an attack, fired and
the crowd scattered thronghodt
the streets in the business digtrtct
Of the city.
Armed men flaged the afteFnootl
mail train running from Cork
uorthward today at Blarney sAnd
searched the compartments eos
many cars. Apparently theYsdtd
not flnd what they were seAFching 8
for and later allowed the train to
proceed. ,.S,S' Y L I.
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VOTE IN COUNTY
ABOUT 28 900 THIS YEAR

ber of women and men voters al
ready registered by precincts:
EaErmont District,
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GALWAY, Ireland, octe 3e.-
Thomas BEan, keeper Of public
house near here, was shot dead at
his home Sunday night by raidprl
after the latter had accused htmsof
completely In the murder Of efIl-
way magistrate last March.
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, The WE:A.iT TEI:I!ERl 81: ] ]! !

showers tonight S1d 4
Wednesday
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
RUSSlA'S EIGHT MILLION

THOSE alleged preparations for a Boil
shevist high jump over the Himalayas
and Hindu Kush, which so excited Lon
don few weeks ago, seem to have been
imperfectly advanced. However. this is
only natural, since, according to a more
fecent report, that soviet government is
now engaged in raising an army of
100000 men, which General Brusilotf
has been badgered into commanding.
Naturally some little time is required for
marShallng these hordeS, even in Com
munist Russia. Perhaps We shall have to
wait a couple Of weeks for the invasion
of Punjab, If Mesopotamia, Persia and
Poland.
Meanwhile there is opportunity to Won
der whether the silly season, formerly
slated for midsummer. has slipped around
on the calendar. Such dislocation might
serve to explain several things. The re-
pute of Russian humor, however. is not
high and the run of the jokes which have
crept into the incessant Bolshevist propa-
ganda is probably the only thing about
it which is unintentional.
In the present instance laughter is not
likely to have been sought by the rumor
mongers. That is reason why it is
wholesome to indulge ourselves.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
GOMPERS ON BOLSHEVISM

ONE of the bitterest paragraphs in the
" arraignment of Bolshevist theory
which Mr.. Gompers has just published in
Federation of Labor journals is flung at
high-browed radical editors-those opin-
donated brahmins of class journalism who
are disposed to see something reasonable
in the Lenine philosophy.
The head of American trades unonism
is not without justification in his assump-
tion that they are capable of good deal
of harm. Not every one can digest the
high-favored economic theories which
they eXpound. But there are a great
many earnest and light minded folk who
like any theory for its sound alone. In
what might be called the modern liberal
movement they are the matinee crowd
For them the deft writing of the more
pretentious ultra-radicals has definite
appeal. It is like music or hypnotism
Mr.. Gompers sees deeper into the
whole matter. Unlike the matinee Boil
sheviks, he does not approach it as one
conscious of an inherited immunity from
labor and labor's actual troubles. He is
able to understand the meaning of the
one great fact that stares out of boil
shSN4Leu INuSSId ana 10 leau us llpllcd-
tions more intelligentIy than any anna
teur dabbler in liberal" doctrines,
This is the fact of compulsory labor
Emma Goldman and her followers were
confronted by it when they first set foot
in soviet territory. 1t is a new thing
under the sun. In Russia working units"
under state control are common. The
dictatOrs ignore all individual rights and
they have only hatred and contempt for
the claim to freedom of action expressed
in labor unions.
1t is not strange that this astonishing
reversal from civilized standards should
enrage the federation leader. No i'm
perious- minded capitalist ever thought of
such thing. Vast masses of men and
women, denied the right of initiative, or
ganized like the bees in working detach-
ments at jobs selected for them by sys-
tenn of government that also fixes their
rate of pay at a figure suggested by the
needs of the governors, didn't figure in
the widest dreams of the German au-
tocracy. Such, however, are the founda-
tions of bolshevsm.
The spectacle doesn't trouble the newer
"intellectual liberals" who, preaching to
the proletariat, are still lesurely. well
fed and true to their aristocratic tenden-
cies. 1t does offend man who has been
a worker and the friend Of workers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
THE WATER SUPPLY

IF DOCTOR FURBUSH knew as much
4 about municipal finance as he knows
about santet'cn he would have hCsita5cd
before putting the existing water system
in the list of utilities that cry cut to be
abolished and replaced by better things.
He would have spared our feelings.
To say that dependence on Schuylkill
water is unwise will not do any good.
With vast outlays of money water might
be brought from the Pocono regions
through viaducts such as now serve New
York city. But where is the money to
come from? The city is now deep in a
financial morass, where it was permitted
to drift during the reckless and lazy
years that have passed. Until we are on
solid ground again there is nothing to do
but improve the present water system
and increase the efficiency of the filter
plants built to purify river water and
render it generally wholesome.
Normally the filtration system operates
successfully to this end. Water isn't as
plentiful as it might be in Philadelphia.
But ordinarily it is as free from imrur-
ties as the water which other cities obtain
from mountain sources. \ prol0ngel
period cf cold weather Is responsible for
the present condition Of the water, which.
according to chemists, is no. unwhole-
some though it IS uupalatablo \ closer
application Of the state laws inspired. t
memory serves, by the late DR.. Samuol G.
Dixon to protect ri! -.,gtA0s froa ro'1r-
tion is necessary proceeding. on the
rivers We shall have to depend until
money is available for the lcltet &-le'v
At, b.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
MORE ABOUT lie BRIDGE

lEiVERYBODY will devouIy hope hat
- the architects concerned wuh ire
Delaware bridge and the engineers for
whom Mr.. Quimby speaks will not emu
late the example Of Republicans and
Democrats in the Senate and refuse to
agree until one or the other group can
be annihilated.
1t may be said that Mr.. Quimby, in de-
manding prior rights for engineers, is
crossing his bridge before he comes to it.
But it is not too early to recognize tie
need for a structure that, while serving
practical needs, should not hurt eyes that
look at it.
Architects and engineers have related
functions. But who will be able to recon-
cile them if they begin to quarrel now?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30

cause in France. The cheap dollar is
doubtless the principal cause for the
falling birth rate of New York. 1t is
likely that when the vital statistics of
the other states are published they will
show a similar decline due to similar
causes.
Normal conditions will ultimately be
restored both here and in France They
will be fastened if the purchasing power
of the dollar can be restored to its pre-
war state or if the pay of the salaried
man can be increased so that he can buy
with it as much as he bought in 1914.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
4 LULLABY
FrOnl q Plnul

(FrOm Pldy)
Nov silent falls the clacking mill;
~ Sweet-sweeter smells the briar;
The dew wells big on bud and twig;
The glow worms wrapt in fire.
Then sing lully, lullay, with me;
And softly, lill-lall- 10, love;
"Tis high time, and wild thyme,
And no time, no, love.
The western sky has yelled her rose
The night wind to the willow
Sigheth, "Now, lovely, lean thy head,
Thy tresses be my pillow!"
Then sing lully, lullay, with me;
And softly, lill-lall 10, love;
'Tis high time, and wild thyme,
And no time, no, love.
Cries in the brake; bells in the sea-
The moon DER moor and mountain
Cruddles her light from height to height,
Bedazzles pool and fountain.
Leap fox; hoot owl; wall warbler sweet!
'Tis midnight now abrewing;
The Fairy Mob are all abroad,
And Witches at their wooing.
Then sing lully, lullay, with me;
And softly. ill -lall-lo, love;
'Tis high time, and wild thyme,
And no time, no, love.
Walter de la Mare, in the Anglo Frenc
Review.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
Rittenhouse Square

QUADRANGLE clipped and cleanly swept
W and sleek.
Garnished with nursemaids and with little
boys
And dainty girls, unspotted as to breek
Or pinafore, expensive as to toys
Along those graveled walks with ~well bred
eye
And quadrupedal gait in timed accord
Parade the couples favored of the Lord
And flavor May time with gentility.
Bacchantic with the rising sap of spring,
Full often Irish Moll and Swedish Yimmy
List to Antonio's tunes, and, while they
sing,
Adown the sacred greensward shake a
shimmy.
o sanctitude of naughty Persian cats,
And j. A. 2. b. Twidde in gray spats
ALEC b. STEVENSON.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
Social Chat

A serious misunderstanding was narrowly
averted at a local second hand bookstore
recently. Jim Shields our particular biblio-
shark, was mistaken for a copy of Sense
and Sensibility" and was bought and paid
for by customer James, absorbed in
looking up some matters for the Dish did
not realize what was happening until they
started to wrap him up.
Marathon is inconsolable, for Bill Sites,
the well-proportioned commuter on the
Cinder and Bloodshot is going to leave.
Bill has acquired what Is known as a piece
of property, down Riverton way, and the
rabbit hounds, the fowling piece, and what
ever it is that Bill keeps locked UP in the
cupboard under the cellar stairs are all
going down there with him
We have the above on the authority of
Hank Harris upon whom and Fred Myers
falls the burden of acting as nucleus of the
new social order in Marathon. Hank has
dark penetrating eyes and manner of much
charm he would be useful as social nucleus
anywhere,
Edgar A. Guest, the copyright 1920 poet,
has just remarked for the 5000th time that
this is a glorious world and honest toll is
sweet indeed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-01-30
HIGH PRICES AND BIRTH RATE

THE number of births in the state of
New York last year was $4,000 below
the normal, according to the state com
missioner of health. He assigns the war
and the high cost of living as the causes
of this decrease. The birth rate for the
first eight months Of the year was l6 per
cent lower than the average for the pre-
ceding five years.
These are disturbing figures. But thev
are nowhere near so disturbing as the
vital statistics Of France for recent
years. The records for 1913. the wear
before the war, show that there were
100000 births and $4,000 deaths in the
whole country. In 1914 the births fell
TO 592, 900 and the deaths rose to 647.OOO,
without counting the lives lost in battle.
NThe deaths from ordinary causes have
remained around 100000 annually for the
Succeeding years, but the births have
fallen to $4,000 in 1915, $4,000 in 1915
and 343,000 in 1917, the latest year for
which the figures are available on this
side of the ocean.
This is what war does to the popula-
tion Of country. II cuts the birth rate
IN half. One reason for this is the
forced separation Of parents. another
and eompelling reason is the dep<hsiation
- sallkA II money WHICH I's@ = tse
rents tol lnws.RxgERore
/. IhIiIfl' q. war ,nt