West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1892-04-28
FAIR PLAY.
AURORA. April II. 1902.

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Dear Sii You say you are il
favor Of fair play. l don't beliey,
it. If you are in favor of fair pla,
why do you critlcise the Journal fol
booming Ed Elliott? There IL
nothing fair in your criticism
Mr.. Elliott is candidate for a
State Office, and not q county office
The Journal announced 1t would
not publish anything for candi.
date for county Office unless IT
was paid for at their usual adver-
Using rates. What do you find
wrong about this? Don't the
Journal belong to Messrs. Elliott,
Wotring and White Can't they
publish or exclude whatever they
please from the columns of the
Journal? IL your boosted fair play
is genuine you will tell the public
your criticism of Ed Elliott is not
just. ] don't expect you will pub
lishthis letter. FAIR PLAY.
The above letter speaks for itself.
The writer "did not expect us to
publish it," Well, we do, and We
publish everything that is legiti.
mate, gentlemanly and of public
interest, space permitting. We
have no az to grind and wear no
mans collar. We fight for princi-
Piles, not men. That Preston
county is boss ridden county no
man will deny who is not the bene-
ficiarv uf bossism.
Let us analyze the fair play
theory of our Aurora friend. lie
says our criticism of Mr.. Elliott
is not just" because the gentleman
is a candidate for State Office and
is therefore entitled to booming"
in the Journal. Admitted for the
sake of argument. But how about
MIR. James A. Brown, who has Il
legion Of friends in the county who
assert that he is honorably entitled
to the nomination for Judge of the
Supreme Court, if Preston county
is to be honored by a candidate on
the Republican State ticket They
base their claim on Mr.. Browns
long and untlring zeal in behalf OF
his party; that lie was given
nomination when there was no
show for election that in that
contest he reduced his opponents
majority that when there was
sure chance for him to be elected to
the office he previously made the
race for, he was set aside and
another man nominated, which was
hagrant violation of party Gus
tom. Now the friends of Mr..
Brown would like to boom him.
Can our Aurora friend recall one
item in the Journal "boomlng -
Mr.. Brown for Judge? Not one.
Is this Jdlr play to devote column
each week TO Mr.. Elliott's boom"
and not one word to Mr.. Browns {?
But our friend has got the wrong
idea that the Journal has a right to
exact money consideration from
each county candidate who desires
a puff" in its columns. The
Journal is supposed to be the
representative of its party in Pres
ton county. Suppose the party
refused to support or patTonize it.
How long do you suppose it would
last? AS the representative of its
party it is honor bound to PRINT
what is said in a gentlemanly way
about the candidates Of it's party.
1t Is duty it owes its party and
the party candidates.
We hope we will not shock the
sensibiliIies of our Aurora friend
when we tell him that the sentiment
OF the Republicans Of Preston is
largely in favor OF Mr.. James A..
Brown. The newspaper guild is
giving Bro. Elliott the necessary
puffery, and he prints it, but the
rank and file of his own party are
agin " him in the Banner county.
Somebody Is going to take tum
BILE one of these days, and the
friends may as well prepare to pick
up the pieces.