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_____ ^^ARKSBURG. W. YA., OCTOBER 26. 1894.
Thje American Flag Placed
on the Academy Building 1
A Grand Parade.
j
(large Crowd of Junior Order!
Members.
'IRST arnoug
the patriotic
organizations
in tbe .United
StatPsjmQds
the Junior
Order of
United
Aimr j ca n
M ec h a nics.
On last Tues
day the pro
gram. as an
nounce d i n
th e columns
of the Telu
Gram. relat
ing to the pa
rade and the presentation of the
\merican flag and the Bible to
Jity Schools was successfully
jarried out. Members of visiting
jrders, from Grafton, New
Martinsville. Pruntytown, Sar
lis and ether points were pres
et. The parade was surprising
y large, and many people were
imazed at the strength the or
ganization presented. The First
Regiment band and the Stealey
5&nd were in the procession,
shich was viewed by hundreds
rod hundreds of people on the
~ ; ;. At
rat 2:30 p. ft1. the vast crowds
had left the streets and followed
the procession to the new school
building. From the platform in
front Sheriff Alexander an
nounced the order of the exer
lises and Rev. B. B Evans came
forward and in a speech charac
teristic of his usual happy and
.'arnest manner presented the
aible to the school. His address
*as complimented on all sides.
Prof. L. J. Corbly, superintend
Mt of the schools, accepted the
present in a masterly address
lull of patriotism and lofty and
jourageous sentiments. Prof,
-orbly spoke of the public school
ffork- and the mission of the pub
lic schools of our land, winning
heart.v applause by his sincere
iloi|uence.
.The next speaker, Mr. John
foe, of Glenville. State Council
lor Jr.O. U.A.M.carried his audi
ence through flowery fields of
sentiment. It was a pretty
speech?all flowers?in fact one
could almost, at times, catch the
fragrance 'from the wooded
Sflens or hear the sweet choris
ters of the forest. He came |
?o\vn through the ages of Ameri
can glory on rhetorical, pinions
and at his conclusion left our
star spangled banner in heaven
"?here it will float from the ram
parts of immortal glory, forever.
eeis a young man?very young
indeed, to occupy such a promi
nent position and he did his work
on this great occasion. Af
ter this thunder clap of oratory
''was indeed fortunate that
rksburg was abl0 to send to
16 rostrum ayoung man who has
honors for himself and his
^te 48 an orator and debater.
'o man to whom we allude is
? f- Kdw. G. Smith who grace
u \ accepted the flag presented
y ; lr. Kee and treated the wait
multitude' to another feast of
isoii and flow of eloquence.
.f "ai-r a?d bible were present
the City Schools by the
?f Pinnickinnick Coun
pmt ' UT" The Telegram con
tulates the organization upon
e success of this, their tirst
public demonstration.
wit!!"1 P?''t,0*l pot is boiling over
campaign stumper just at
Present in West Virginia.
MAUI'S LITTLE LAMB.
For the Teleorhm.
Mary has a little lamb
Its fleece is white as snow.
Anil iu the spring and summer time
Its wool is sure to grow,
Not long ago slid sold the wool.
For twenty-five cents you know,
And bought her silk and mode it full
And trimmed ber Buit from tip
to toe.
Now Democrats tare down the wall,
And sweep protection at a blow,
80 down comes tumbling wool and
all.
Yes, everything that farmers grow
So we turn back, a page or two,
Now Mary's dress is flax and tow,
The farmers raise just what will do
And let their fields in briars grow.
And now should this be our doom,
A patch of flax, a dozeu Bheep
The large rim wheel, the old brown
loom,
And Mary must spin and sadly
weep,
Bat lo; I see an army strong,
And every file?complete and full,
It matters not where they belong,
They are sworn to wear no twelve
cent wool.
And lor our home they're aworu to
fight,
Proteot the farm and factory too,
The star of viotory now in sight,
Is the star that led the boys in
blue,
.Its light will flash on every hill,
On every flock that grows the
wool,
On every town and every mill.
Until protection cup is full.
Quiet Dell, Oct. 22, 181*4.
Foster Comes Over.
J. M. Foster. a young attorney
here, who is well known through
out the county, has "hung his
gate on the other post." He has
hitherto been a Democrat, but
does not see how free lumber,
free wool, free salt and an in
sufficient duty on coal and iron
can bonefit West Virginia. Now
the enemy will probably deny
that they have frequently sought
him out and begged him to sub
mit, and threatened him if he
"flopped." They will probably
abuse and vilify him as they did
Floyd and Dorr and Dulin, but
he has a mind of his own.?
Weston Independent.
Fairmont.
The council at their meeting
last Tuesday night decided to
submit the question of bonding
the town to the amount of 110,
000 for the purpose of putting in
a sewerage system for the town,
and the election will take place
on Dec. S. 1 very careful esti
mated the cost has been made,
and the grounds gone over by
competent engineer corps. The
bonds will be payable 11,000 a
year, commancing ten years.after
the date of the first issuo.
The Fairmont and Grafton Gas
Co. have completed the main line
to Grafton and will tackle the
lines through the towm The
company turned on a well a few
days ago that showed 1,000
pounds pressure. The company
have the lines and the gas under
good control and the public can
expect good service this winter,
let it be cold or warm. Free
Press.
The following special telegram
is from the Baltimore Sun:
Elliott City, Md? Oct. 10.
?At St. John's Protestant Epis
copal'Church, Howard county,
this afternoon. Mise Minnie Lee
Owings, the only daughter of
Dr. Thomas B. Owings, of Elliott
City, was married to Mr. Clarence
Wa.vland Watson, of Fairmost,
W. Va.?Index.
Bismarck has fought in twenty
due'lsi and has been wounded once.
And even that was through an
accident, his adversary's sword
flying from its handle and cutting
his face. m , m
Buy your wife and daughter a
pair of Kangaroo Calf Shoes at
Holmes Shoe Co. They remain
sol ft, wear strong as iron and
will their feet dry ^ 50"3t
The election ticket is printed
on second page.
HELP IT.
;
The Prospects for the Chau
tauqua Assembly Bright.
A,SITE SECURED.
Prominent Business Men bare Cuitir
to the Rescue.
, Last the move
i.ment t o locate
"the great West
Virginia Chau
tauqua Ansem
bly Clarks
burg has been
started. The
Telegram has
always been
? ? foremost in pre
senting this matter, and in fact
is the only paper that has shown
up the great advantage that the
location of this Assembly here
will be to Clarksburg and to Har
rison county. In a previous issue
of which a large number ofext
copies of the Telegram wer
distributed, the pfoject was full;
explained. It was shown tha
Clarksburg was the best place
West Virginia to locate such a
resort and we are happy to an
nouce that a great effort will be
made to induce the Conference
committee to locate the Assembly
here. Already there have been
two meetings attended by sev
eral of our leading business men
and the matter has assumed a
tangible form. A beautiful?in
fact an ideal location has been
selected and an arrangemen
made whereby a tract of over 8
acres of land Will be jpven
to the conference. Tfii:
the Silas Hoff farm, located on
the Weston railroad, about two
miles from town. There will be
no trouble to give to these
grounds, connections with the
city water works, electric light
plant, and furnish both artificial
and natural gas. The railroad
passes this farm and the report
of the committee that visited it is
that it is just exactly the spot
desired. The purchase of this
land of Mr. Hoff and the donating
of the 80 acres has been provided
for as we have already stated
and all we want now is a sub
stantial gift in cash and the As
sembly will be ours. This mat
ter has not been overlooked; a
subscription paper has been
started and several cash sub
scriptions of one hundred dollars
each have been secured, m fact
it is thought that there are
twenty-tive or more of our 'citi
zens who jvill donate amounts of
one hundred each. Then there
are a number who will be willing
to contribute on a smaller scale.
Let everybody help. It means a
new Clarksburg?a city with &
future. It is a glorious chance
to help the town to something
grander than anything of which
we have dreamed in the past
The money that is donated will
be expended here with us. It
will be used in erecting a large
summer hotel and an auditorium.
The Telegram has always en
couraged and assisted all worthv
measbres that tended to promote
the interests of our people and
it tells to all that a golden oppor
tunity is now here. Will we act
and achieve or. will we remain
inactive while other towns pass
us by?
The Democratic candidates for
Congress in West Virginia in
this campaign are resorting to
the vilest demagouguery in order
to win at the polls. There is no
depth of deceit too deep for them
to revel in, and they seem now to
deceive the voters by the same
methods pursued in 1892. Then
it was not such a difflcplt matter
to fool the people. But now it is
different It is preKy hard to
make a man believe that times
are good when his pocket and
stomach are both empty.?Charl
eston Mail.
?'LKANAXT WORKS.
tin the nomination oT Stuart F.
the Republicans of the
pird Senatorial district made no
jistnke. Mr. Reed is well equip
led fur the duties of a State Sena
Brnnd is ifi every way worthy of
??' honor.?intelligencer.
J[Mr. Reed is a young man of
wilitv and promises to be one of
J State's foremost citizens. ? ?
? is well fitted for the duties of
fcnator.?Tyler Star.
Jlliere will be one grand Re
Mbliean representative in the
?xt West V irginin Legislature,
least, and that is Stuart F.
d, editor of the the Clarks
,{ Tklkhraji. Of course there
ill be many morebutnone more
?tful than Bro, Reed.?WetieJ
'ffUhlkan.
JThc nomination is equivalent
fiHkn election and Senator Reed
|M|1 be an honor to and credit to
Hf! party.?Parkersburg State
Jttcrnal.
?j;A most distressing accident oc
curred yesterday near Valley
fills in Wood county which re,
Stated in the instant death of
?.Young man. Oliver P. Curtisf
?tfS o* Theodore Curtis was out
hailing rabbits. He was accom
plied by a small boy. They
In separated and when Cu'r
| Mai companion came up to join
' hiqa he found Curtis lying on one
side of the fence with a bullet
hole in his heart and his gun
itig ijn the other ,side. The
man had acoidently shot
while climbing over the
th was instantaneous,
tartis was 18 years of
Are the Adherents of Democ
racy.
The Great Free Trade Party
1 Badly Rattled.
Republican skies are growing
brighter eve'ry day. The num
ber of Democrats who are de
seriingthe party of free trade
are legion. Not only in Harrison
county but in adjoining counties
the tide is turning. Hon. Henry
0. Davis, the eminentDemocratic
ex-United States Senator is work
ing earnestly for Dayton. The
Weston correspondent to the
Intelligencer says the Democrats
there are growing more and more
desperate. Their best men are
dsserting the cause and Hocking
to Dovener. Col. A. W. Wood
ford, who is well and favorably
known throughout the State as a
Democratic candidate for gov
ernor, has declared for Dovener
for Congress and Young for the
State senate.
Thomas M. Horner, one of the
stalwarts in the First dist
rict says that he never
voted anything except the Demo
cratic ticket openly declares that
he has been sinning long enough
politically and intends from this
on to vote with the Republican
party, as he is fully convinced
that it is the true friend of the
laborer.George Cot trill and many
others too numerous to mention
are now in the Republican col
umn.
Their Last Ktxort.
The terrible desperation to
which the Democratic leaders a.-e
driven to prevent the storm that,
is about to strike them, looks as
though they were in the last
ditch. They are at tlieir old
tricks of making affidavits, pub
lishing alleged letters, accusing
j Republican comdidatesof forgery,
theft, immorality and all kinds
I of depravity. Such methods al
ways recoil and strike the author.
They accused the lamented Gar
field of all these things \ they con
nected Blaine's name with all
manner of vileness. How awful
it must be wi?h them now.
Doyener's meetings are still far
in advance of thoBe of his oppo
nent. . Large crowds Hock to hear
him at every point.
BLAINE'S
Proptiecy Verified
Disastrous Results of Free
Trade, as Predicted by
him seven years ago.
Washington, D. C., Oct. S5.
?Mr. Blaloe was not only a brllr
liaut and forceful man, but ho
had at times the triftof prophccy.
Seven years ago, just after the
delivery of Mr. Cleveland's
famous tariff reform message,
and while Mr. Mills, in his ca
pacity as Chairman of the Com
mittee on Ways and Means was
formulating the tarifTbill of 1888,
Mr Blaine addressed a vast as
semblage in Boston, apropos of
what was then, as it is now, the
palpitating question of the hour.
In the course of his remarks, he
said :
"I love my country and my
countrymen. I am an American
and rejoice every day of my life
that I am. I enjoy the general
prosperity'of my country and
i know that the working men of
; this land are the best fed, and
best clothed of any laborers on
> the face of the earth. Many of
them have homes of their own.
They are surrounded by all the
comforts and many of the luxu
ries of life. I shudder, however,
at the thought that the time
must come when all this will bo
troyed. When the great body of
workingmen in this land who are
now prosperous, will hear their
wives and children ory for bread.
That the day must come wnen
the great factories and manufac
tories of this land will shut down,
and there will be the silence of
the tomb, and the reason why It
must be so is this : The great
Southern wing of '.be Democratic
party are determined to estab
lish the doctrine of free trade in
this land. They will bo assisted
by their Northern allies. The
fight is now on. There is a great
body of visionary, but educated
men who are employed day by
day in writing free-trade essays
and arguments in favor of that
doctrine, which find their way
into every Democratic newspaper
in the land. The great body of
our people have never experi
enced, themselves, the sufferings
which always result when the
protective principles are laid
aside. Poisoned and excited by
the wild statements of these
writers, and the demagogue ap
peals of Demooratic speakers,
the result will bB that, in the
near future, these forces which
are now working will be strong
enough to defeat at the polls the
party advocating the doctrine of
protection. It must inevitably
follow that uncertainty and
doubt will ensue. The business
men of the country, fearing the
destruction, will decline to en
gage in business; consequently,
mills will shut down and the
working men will be thrown put
of employment. The people
will then see, as we have never
seen before, that they can not be
prosperous and have work while
this principle is threatened. In
the midst of this suffering they
will learn that the only way that
they can be prosperous and hap
py is to vote for the pwrty that
will build up the industries by
which they have gained a liveli
hood?because they can see clear
ly that when a manufactory is
shutdown there is no demand
for the things which they have
to sell, and that is their labor."
This was a prophecy ot the
genuine kind. None of the tariff
reformers of that day dreamed in
their philosophy of such crazy
experiments as are now discuss
ed and advocated. No promin
ent Democrat of that day dream
ed of such extreme and rovolu
tlonary expedients as last winter
found expression in the Wilson
bill. Even the measure in its
present shape, toned down by
the Senate amendments, which
have been denounced as treach
erous, would then have been re
garded with wonder and alarm.
But Mr."-Blaine's prophetic vis
ion has been realised, novorthe
less. Demagogues and visiona
ries have come to the front with
their reckless chatter amj their
grotesque rhodomontade until
the nation is a p'ey to fear.
Capital is territled, conlidenco
chilled, and wise men wait for
the issue of this amazing
paroxysm, The picture drawn
by Mr. Blaine in 1888, and ac
copied then as a mere burst of
eloquence and a trick of meta
phor, is now before us. a steru
and chilly reality. If he were
alive tp-day he could not draw it
with atlrmer hand and truer lines
or with more startling colors."
Oral.
Please give space to a few local*
from a new corres|>oiident at
Oral.
John Sturdier nnd sister Dor
thy are union*; friends.
Our church wan re-roofed with
I (date this week.
' Several of our ho.vs attended
Literary in Tnylor Tuesday.
Our school held very appropri
ate Columbian exercises
part of our program was
by giving "three cheers to the
memory of Columbus and the
American Flag" which decorates
our school room* We were dis
missed feeling that our teacher's
efforts to imbue us with reverence
for our flag had brought forth
fruit. Pupils.
AT LAST.
Mchtol Will Open Xonfer the 2?lh.
Arrangements have been made
to fill the windows of the siliool
house with improvised sash for a
few days and school will open
Monday the 29tli. All pupils ex
pecting to attend at the new
building will please to report at
their respective grade rooms at
12 o'clock, Saturday, where their
teachers will meet them nnd
organize work for Monday. Each
pupil will receive a slip contain
ing the names of books needed
which may be purchased Satur- .
day afternoon and all made ready
for Monday, thus saving time
and confusion on our regular
opening day. All pupils who
have never attended our schools
before will please to ' report in
assembly hall on second floor of
new building where the Superin
tendent will grade thera. Pupils
will meet their teachers at 12
o'clock (Saturday,) at their grade
rooms because all the workmen
will-be out of the building from
12 to 1 o'clock. They will not lie
needed longer than one hour.
L. J. Corbly. !
Do not forget that the Xewx in
speaking of the Republican can
didates for House of Delegates
said that to compare them (Hess
and Harmer) with Hall and Ger
rard would be a sin against good
breeding, &c. Such methods will
not win votes. The people rec
ognized that Harmer has both
character and ability. He is a
true Republican and will help
elect a U. S. Senator.
Successful Republican meet
ings are being held \n all parts
of Harrison county.
If you failed to get registered
it does not prevent you from vot
ing. <!o to the election and there
is one way for you to vote, even
if you are not registered.