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1URSDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1916.
AN OLD TRICK.
UB good friend the editorial writer next door was
(up tohis old tricks again Wednesday. In his edi
. tortal on Wednesday morning he tried to set off a
5ejiU:j,7ib in the Republican camp, but he failed as
jr?6'undoubtedly trying to stir up strife among the
puhllcnn; of this county by getting the members of
jpartyjitij squabble among themselves at the primaries
jffi&^l)5rteflt of the Democratic party. This is an old
j[avd, tlie Times presumed that because it worked a
'G ago It would not fall again. But the Demo
igau did hot stop to consider the change lit con
SjEffiifiSTft. it Iwd the utter impossibility of such a
strtiice as It seeks to bring about would have come
BUTtSce.
??H?'1,
that a few yesrs ago, the Republicans were
<By the wiles of the opposite political party
fgijjf'a primary spat that proved disastrous
Democrats In power. The Democrats man
unfortunate circumstance to bring about a
(break in the Republican ranks and came into
cnTacdouht of division in the camp of their oppon
jte*d(ja.d dear teacher, but the lessons learned
qui of experience are not soon forgbtten. The
ISTSt&fHH- not be foolea again on the old trick
>?011.;ht defeat before. There are no factions In
1 (Ifity.) Republican ranks now, and It will take
(the mere rambllngs of our esteemed contem
.S", bring about the condition which it so devout
?; \
its zealous effort to stir up strife in the Repub
(the Democratic organ convicts itself of hav
i-dottbts as to the outcome of the next election,
-ndvtrftttiig oil the wall must be quite distinct when
^cSi^crgan grasps a: any straw for support. The
i&scuons of the Democratic organ betrays the fear
p,i Its heart, and although having plenty bust
its own to attend to It wishes to meddle in
JrSgbfjOthers.
|the|,Progressives back in the fold of the Repub
2j?and with the party united on all things Re
3ils little wonder that the Democrats con al
^Republican victory next November.
Jv-ithat we have been asked a direct question,
Jgautre why the Times persists In running a page
|SaJof Neely every morning?
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I se'em to the average Republican that the Dem
|organ would have plenty to keep It busy trying
jei^faenJocratlc party without making an effort
i JtdjmbllCan party also. The Republican vo
i no advice from the Democrats.
rJAW PAW ELECTION.
i^siilt of the Paw Paw district good roads elec
' ..was a . distinct disappointment to those who
jwAjjqjji toads. To lose an election for good
J>y(the:riarrow margin of 19 votes Is Indeed a shame,
Mjfikht for good roads Is not over with one defeat
f f STUFF
11 havo to send for ma ma
It Paw build good roads.
'the flag In Mexico."
M If we do.
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Ui.aU? Is "Investigating," the
MilfiHtreet yesterday wore
's^uaklng and swinging, got
fttfl fall on gome pedestrian,
fe* * '*
log the court house lawn Is
Cbeing played this week.
i county officers and govern
IfluMg Over a trunk of who
ICotwar!
*
; Daisies. doing fine."?
j.and pruned caretully per
hildren. at Owens Bottle
UBSbly' studying the opera
plant which runs without
pfjyhere-ii'is Tuscaloosa?
ibe?" Why should a man
^to a place like that?
yesterday washed a lot
otf'tt|e outside. Also a
ie cops captured
; ,
OK youu ? VjSgTWT T^^7^5iaOr^55utf
While a majority of 130 favored goo* rood* a three
fifths rote of the district to carry the Issue failed by 19
* ballot*.' ? .< . j , . . if.
If there was Internal dissension some place along tie
line that brought defeat, let steps he taken'at once to
remedy the'situation. Paw Paw iihbul^get In line with
the aiovoment for better highways. Plans are being
made at the present time for another elecUon In the near
future and It is to be devoutly hoped that the citizens
of Paw Paw will get together and make the next ballot
on good roads a success
Good roads, as we have stated before, are of benefit
to all and favor no particular class; to vote for good
roads Is a sign of progressiveness. We have faltb In the
citizens o? Paw Paw. we believe them to be progressive.
Favoring Improved highways as we do, The West Vir
ginian was disappointed in the result of the. ^election
Tuesday. But we believe that the next election will tell
another tlory.
The Important thing to do now Is to get another good
roads campaign under way at .once, to carry the campaign
of education on with a renewed vigor, to bring a com
plete hormony on the'question, In order that the next
ballot ou the subject of gco<l roads will bring a sweeping
viotory.
For the general good and prosperity of the community,
Paw Paw should rescind the action ot Tuesday Just as
soon ,\s possible.
Germany is waging war against the wide skirt. They
wailt to economize the material on future fashions. Per
haps It was his state of affairs that gave rise to the rumor
that Immediate peace was in sight.
OUT OF THEIR FIELD.
EVERY day almost we read that some county execu
tive committee stands in a majority for some can
ill-late at the primaries.
Sunll county committees go out of the field which Is
allotted to thetn when they tllus place themselves on
record.
As we see It, a county committee has to do with the
general election, not the primaries. It Is their duty to
fight for their party against the opposite political fac
tion in the main battle and not to take a hand In the pri
mary contests.
The people shall ay of themselves whom they shall
nominata to carry the standards of the party against the
oppoait'Ti. This is the spirit and the letter of the pri
mary'law. and the primary campaigns and elections
Should bo conducted free from political machinery.
Once the primaries are over, the candidates for office
nominated?then the work of each county committee
Is cut out for it. Then each member of every :coun(y
commltcec should work night and day for the cause of
his party.
But until the primaries are over, county organizations
should remain In the background and conserve their
energies for the contest which lies beyond June 6..
A Tnjcns telephone operator risked her life to" save
some records ot the company from the fire demon. All
the bra?e souls are not In Mexico and Europe.
It is co warm In Mexico that even the mules are suffer
ing with the heat, and a requisition has been, made for
a cargo ot horse clippers in order to relieve the animals.
GET THE MEXICAN MAP.
IF you ore at all Interested in the Mexican-situation,
you will want a copy ot The West-Virginian next'Sat
urday In this Issue will appear the' best map that
has yojt been published of the territory In which Villa and
the United States troops will likely engage in battle. It
will be a full page map, and will be published on a loose
sheet In order that it may be easily taken out ot the paper
and filed for reference. Every reader of The West Vir
ginian who follows the Mexican situation will find the
map of great, benefit in getting a comprehensive knowl
edge o.* just what Is taking place In the southern re
public. Your library will not be complete without this
map. Don't fail to Becure one on Saturday.
The weather seemed to be all over the country yes
terday.
o
Did you see any snakes after the thunder storm?
Don't forget that map in The West Virginian Saturday.
Our Old friend Ignatius T. T. Lincoln sends word he
is go^ng to break jail. He is a frank sort of a cuss any
way.
The. longer the Investigation of the Pittsburgh cafes
goes >,n the more damaging is the evidence Introduced.
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A letter to the editor In another column of the paper
today iB worthy of consideration.
Marlon county leads the state in spelling. But that is
not the only thing in which our county leads the field,
on Tom Park's property we think those
robins which were reported Been there
were merely Clarksburg chickens.
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"Today last chance to see The Gam
blers." Not If you are willing to walk
to Madison street and bang out there
a few minutes.
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Straw hatB are in and are conclu
sive evidence that the uglier sex Is
going craty.
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"But we will see what we will see."
?Times.
Hard to prove thit.
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It is estimated that a single quail
destroys 75,000 bugs and 8,000,000 weed
seeds annually. Tie a quail in Madi
son Square Garden during the Wll
lard-Moran fight.
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"New Ford Joke has arivod In town."
Very likely shipped by freight.
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The Orand had a dog and cat show
the other night. The animals per
formed in the audience.
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Old George Equt^iox Is a tough son
of a gun.
Marion county leads state In spell
ing. Dollar to a doughnut none of' the
?war town or Mexican names were 'sub
mitted. . i,
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More Fuel.
"The agricultural department la
sending out booklets cautioning people
that thtre Is a scarcity In the fuel sup
ply."
"The booklets may help: to*.rectify,
that"?Kantti: City- Journal. t. >
TOM" TAGGART
TO WEAR TOGA
Democratic national committeeman
and; three times' taajtoj of Indianapolis,
"Tom" Taggiart i? now United. States
senator?successor to Benjamin P.
Shlvely, iyhq: dleJ:recentlr- i
v Naturally : So.' '? ->
"Tour *ite haa Jmpr?iaed. a? with
her ability; to.keep a secret." <+?*>?? 5$.
> "TOen.ahe
inr Impreealon/'?Baltlmoreiimerican.'
BITS OF
STATE NEWS
U. S. District Court Clerk Sam R. |
Harrison, visited his office In the Fed
eral building at ParkerBburg this
week, and announced what few
changes were made by him in his
official family, the deputyshlps being
altered in but two places?philippl
and Clarksburg. To fill the vacancy in
the deputyshlp at ClarkBburg caused
by his own promotion, he appointed
Henry C. Chaney, formerly deputy
clerk at Phlllppi. Austin C. Merrill
was appointed to the deputy clerkship
at Philippi. Mr. Merrill is a graduate
of Yale university and of the law
school of lb? West Virginia univer
sity, and is a lawyer of rare attain
ments. He has been practicing his pro-1
fessiob at Phlllppi prior to his appoint- |
ment as deputy county clerk.
The* special committfe charged with
the duty of preparing the draft of a
new charter to be submitted to the
voters of Morgantown at the city elec
tion in April, has completed its work.
It is probable that a special meeting
of the Morgantown city council will be
held on Friday night of this week,
when the report of the commutes will
be heard.'
That Ohio county acquire the Linsly
school building at Wheeling as aloca
tion for _ the county law library and
overflow offices for county officials, Is
a sugestlon but racently advanced.
Aside from a practical side to the sug
gestion on that the county buy is a
patriotic phase. The LinBly was at one
time the capital building of tho state,
and were it acquired by the county
could be perpetuated for his historical
associations, while were private inter
ests tb acquire the block of racing
of the old structure would follow.
Tbe proposition of the Linsly re
moving to the country, now before the
trustees of that school, has called at
tention to the subject and brought the
suggestion that the county purchase It
T. B. Beckwlth, of Princeton, who
is a large manufacturer of staves in
Mercer and adjoining counties, is re
ported to have taken over a vast tim
ber acreage in Monroe county, where
he will locate a stave mill and begin
work at once. It is said that staves
were never more profitable In that
snot ion of the country, marketing at
(38 per thousand now, compared with
tliR top-notch price before of 132.
This week's issue of the Hampshire
Review; published at Romney, con
tains the following: "WbUe walking
across a field near his home last Tues
day morning. D. M. Wolford found a
small rubber baloon caught In a weed
on which was the label 'Miss Leona
Morris, 1016 16th street, ParkerSburg.
W. Va.' The baloon had evidently been
sont up more than' two hundred miles
away and had traveled across the
codntry to this place."
Clarksburg newspapers report that
Samuel P. Arnold, of Morgantown,
and Noah Nhsum, of Frenchtown, have
purchased from C. E. Molllhan approx
imately 1,000 acres of virgin timber
on Laurel Patch run at Holly river.
Braxton county. The new concern,
which will begin active operation at
once will bo known as the Arnold
Nuzum Lumber* company. Mr, Nuium
who is a well known timber and saw
Sill man, will,have active charge of
e operation, and Mr. Arnold will be
the sales agent for the concern, with
headquarters at Morgantown.
(Representing tbe bondholders of the
company. L. A. Watress, "of Bcranton,
Pa., purchased for $200,000 at public
sale InvCharlcaton, 'ten'leaseholds- of
the. Palnt. Creek Collieries company,
comprising 10.000 aores on Paint
Creek, and adjacent territory. The blds
were received thy Col.*;R. S.~CaSTitor,
commissioners E. W. Knight,'.W.VQ.
Matthews and Staige Davis, who were
appointed by the court-.,. Two .other,
leaseholds were sold-to>T. r0. Beury,
of Charlestoiv for ?lS,OOO .ThejdallV^
? capacity of; the;! operating mines on
:the;flrsf,leaiM^slal?uti6,7?0itOEB of
coal.
there are two mines aggregating an
output of 2,100 tons dally.
The Huntington Herald-Dispatch
takes note of a rumor that the Ohio
river Is to be bridged at that point
for the purpose of providing an outlet
from the great coal fields of Southern
West Virginia and Easlern Kentucky
to the lakes of the. west. It is a well
known fact, says the newspaper, that
I the Virginian and the Baltimore Sc.
Ohio have made an arrangement
through which the Virginian, by build
ing its lines across the watershed
from Mann, in Logan county,- to which
It will extend its present lines from
Gilbert to Wharncliffe. on the Norfolk
& Western and thence to connect with
the Baltimore and Ohio lines in Ken
tucky. Now practical men declare that
the Baltimore & Ohio must have an
outlet to the west. The latest rumor
is that this outlet is to be gained by
building a line up Browning Fork of
Gilbert's creek to Island creek and
thence down the Guyandotte valley to
Huntington, across the river thero and
"up Symmes creek 35 miles to .connect
with the Bt '?& :0. Southwestern andt
the C. H. & D.t owned by the Balti
more & Ohio, at'Jackson. The story
goes that there is a close relationship
between the Baltimore & Ohio and the
Virginian and (hat the two roads will
use the line from the coal fields to
JackBon in conjunction. It was indi
cated some time ago that the Balti
more and Ohio would shortly make
important announcements in connec
tion with the extension of its lines in
Eastern Kontucky. It was also report
ed at Huntington that the Chesapeake
& Ohio had dispatched a corps Of en
gineers to Manor to survey the route
for the extension of the Guyandotte
valley, branch from Mann to ' Gilbert
When the steamer Tell City,' pur*
chased a few day's ago by Hornbrook
& Donnelly, of Farkersburg. is es
tablished on the present run of the
Ruth, now operating bstween Pitts
burgh and Charleston, this latter boat
will be placed on a shorter run be
tween 'the Smoky City and Charles
ton. The owners of the boats are'con
sidering the purchase of several
smaller packets which will make short
runs to help relieve the blggoi- boats
of the large volume of business they
are doing. The Ruth and Dunbar are
the only boats making the long dis
tance run and the Ruth waB found to
be too small to handle the trade.
The formation of tt big banking
and trust company at Wheeling, with
a capital of $220,000 and a surplus $50.*
000 is contemplated by stockholders
of the Citizens' National Bank of that
olty, according to the Wheeling Tele
graph. It ig one of! the'biggest moves
In financial cifctos for some time. The
entire amount necessary to launch
the enlarged Concern that will be
known as the Citizens' Savings and
Trust company. It is understood, has
been practically pledged.
The Ultimate Consumer.
Little Sister?I. would laugh If I
got a nice box of candy for my birth
day. .. .
Big Brother?So would 1.
Little Sister?But why would you
laugh? , v ' ... \
' Big Brother?Because I'm bigger
than you are.?Tudge.'
I LETTERS TO I
THE EDITOR
LETTER TO 'EDITOR.
[Editor The West Virginian:]?
Fairmont, March 23?Plena allow me
a -little /space in the colnmne of your
paper. . ..
.. The caption of- your editorial of the
13th lost was an interrogation, and
an, Interrogation is the first thing that
God put forth to Adam la the Garden
atter ho had transgresstd , the* law.
The .writer has, however, - extracted
from your editorial the following:
'"Knowsof the , existence jot, 3 certain
organizations which amount to gamb
ling dens t for. stored ^voters.? ?.? ^
Now, Mr. i Editor, the most- ..canal:
observer does not.dciubt the truth of
your. statameht^aboat'itlieu; debs, of
There is a Wealth of Style, Beauty
+ L and Value in the Joriegg ;
J|v? Millinery This Season
j! A display of unusual Interest, (or there are
jj no two hats of a style and the models are -
distinctly smart In every clever line. Qutte
ItlPvvri tie most interesting assortment of Spring; f |
/// j IX Hats you will see this season. Included are.:, f
y^B?hats at several prices but we Quote two
prices here and describe one hat at each
AT $4.60?An Ajour Sailor with roso taffeta facing.Trimmed
with flowors and ribbons. Colors, white and rose, white and
delft, white and pink.
AT $6.50?Clel Hat. crown of satin. Bram edged in.Visca. trimmed ?
with black velvet ribbon and clusters of daisies and roses.
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SPORT HATS?Large or medium shapes In burnt, green or rose.
You certainly can make a pleasing selection from these, $3 and $4.50
PROHOUMCCD fftOiU-SAY
The discriminating
woman, she who has
cultivated a taste for
the correct and smart
in the world of style,
knows that the corset
plays an important
part.
A Frolaset for f 2.50
We can best show you wherein Frolaset Corsets excel by
giving you a trial fitting. If you visit our corset deparment
during demonstration week, beginning next Monday. Miss
Ball will be glad to try one of these inexpensive models bri'.' .
your figure.
FROLASET CORSETS $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50.
Sweet Maiden Toilet Soap, 3 cakes for 10c.
their rendezvous"f-rori'''Jackson and
Washington streets whenever a warm,
day comes?
- Why the-Christian people. o? Fair
mont with Its small colored popula
tion, tolerate this human offal of the
colored race to exist here, without some
solved problem to that class of col
ored people "which hustles dally for
Visible means of support Is an mi
ll read. In most towns and cities per
sons who have no known way of get
ting their bread and that lounge around
hive to account for themselves but
here they do not. The churches here
Rive money for the darx lands abroad
and leave the darkness at homo un
touched.
You have a class of colored people
Here that floats In ana out, and many
of them happen upon the scene a little
ahead of election day. They claim
to be colored "sports" and many of
them are known among their coterie
as the "Kid," "Baa Eyes," "Shadow"
and "Slippery Jim." They drop into
Filrmont and find It "dead easy" to
get their "punk," so they In many caBea
Ate followed by'their wotrhless "bud
dy." They are theh gotten In line .by.
some of these who hang around bere
til the time and who claim to be
"politicians" among their race, when at
the tame time they could not tell the
difference between free trade protec
tive tariff and Coal Ran. All they
Want Is to "get theirs." Investigation,
however, will show that most all of
those who claim to be "leaders" came
to Fairmont from the same town.
The writer remembers a few of the
faces of these colored "politicians"
that loomed upon the scene lust ahead
of the last election and who shortly
thereafter disappeared from the city.
Many of those that came here to work
on the road Improvements have formed
an acquaintance with some of these
"leaders" of the. race and the result
II that they are still here. One of these
was engaged In conversation by the
writer some time ago and he drew
from him the fact that he was a Fair
mont "politician" too. Using hie own
language he said: "They tell me nig
gers get rich here on election day."
Ft?m this fact alone, Mr. Editor, one
cin aae that it doe* not take the col
orod "sport" long to meet the members
of (he Jack^pot gang.
On the anniversary of their freedom
you can see In'the parade through
your streets the very "traitors to that
liarty?the Republican party?that-.Is
the sourise from which every civil priv
ilege they have today hiui.come. They
WOUd the next day after the anniver
sary sell the; Republican" party to that
party which is antagonistic to ' their
very freedom and the rights th'ey e'n
loy today.
If. these colortd "politicians" were
not so shiftless and had the mental ca
pacity: to .take a serious -retrospective
survey, oft the WUson '.administration'
they would And out that it has gone
the ^limit-jja'ilts,.despicable Machta
vellan treatment of the colored man:
Theywould alio find out .that piths'
Democratic party has eliminated the
colored man. as a political:factor from
the party. .r.Iiet, me -lay; stress upon;
this, Mr, Editor,, and' state that he'
IP-hoe ?(political entity within the fold'
t^Uwifteinoonti: atter^he :,-h? been
the snbject' of this article because'they
??< qtlKT*
when thoy h611 ^fhbfr sell
the writer's too without hl? consent;
and because when their rlgKtiffirefli
Ksn.away the writer's att.tak^^togj!
rwlthout hie consent,- "?*?
They are the ones who. same diir;<
will be the means through whlch.wttl:
come into this State, by IeglBlaUva'actl
ot the Democratic party, those space
limited, vermin infested, filth reeking,
tubercular breeding Jim Crow, rai! ro.nl
cars.
Some of them do not h'areVmMljr
stamina enough within thenTta^re^afj
to vote the ticket dictated to.thetfijbjpj
the person or firm that emplov?t&jfi?*
They ought to know that the Ymiygpiftj
does not keep any man If lil?' service,
is not satisfactory regardless,; of?,jhlj
party ticket he votes. The emplojjafy
has a higher estimation of the man1
who votes the ticket of his own choice
than he doos ot the man thitScrlnges:
and votes agalust the lntereit^6ffilltp|
country and race. A : short time ago
one of th fine cringing coIoredjSyjWts]
In conversation said: "I ato'a^SWDfl
llcan from my heart but-'thetbOT?8ffl
good to me' and I vote ;ibliMtlCket$
(Democratic.) Now, Mr. Editor, IMoj
not think this man haa^aiinpjMBra
Well, any man of the colored raCtftKat
will vote afealnat - the weltere'SoBMal
race to please the bosaijMBal worse
traitor thanwaa Judas';Isc?rio3MBj
In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I beg to
call upon every < oiored man wlfgSbM]
a vote at the enaalng eloctloi, Wlirdji
less or nir, past political parfylgmuSg
tlons, to think seriously for himself.
And using the language of King David
to his son SOlomon when
was about to leave the
thou strong?and show thjrrtlt9&?g&
at ihe polls for the Ecpubllesaipitty.
?sdBS