West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-05-24
POLITICAL rorplR.
RepabIIean Raee Tor lhe AuaItarshIp,

Inc pGht Tor the nomination for
Auditor IS getting warm in the Re
publican camp, and il looks like the
present incumbent would be turned
down, although he is not beaten yet,
and may surprise the other fellows
when il comes TO a show down. The
three leading candidates are lanes
Kelsey Hall, City Collector ofWheel.
ing and son-in-law of John Frew,
business manager and principal
owner of the Intelligencer, and Ar
mold {. Scherr, of Keyser, Mineral
county, and Maysville, Grant coun-
ty, with WOODEN mills at both places.
and the present incumbent, La Fol
lette, of Grafton. We have named
them in the order of their strength,
as Hall is undoubtedly in the lead,
and has been working harder for
the Office than anyone else. He
also has more backing among the
Republican leaders than any other
candidate, and specially the support
OF his pap-in-law's paper, the chief
organ of the party in this State.
Hall not only has the First district
solid, but has been doing some lively
hustling in the Third and Fourth
districts, and has the Third almost
solid, and good part of the Fourth.
He has kept out of the Second, and
left that to La Toilette and Scherr,
but has few votes in this district
that these gentlemen do not know
of. He has publicly charged La
Toilette with making SIoo, 900 out
of the office and not spending any
of it for the party, and insists now
that he shall have whack at this
official gold mine.
So far as attending to the duties
of the office and observing his oath
is concerned, the present incumbent
seems to have filed the bill, and
that is really the principal objection
the Republican leaders have against
him. He antagonized the admins
tration early in his official career be.
cause he would not allow any raids
on the State Treasury that he could
prevent, and turned down Governor
Atkinson himself on some extrava.
CANT bills for travelling expenses Of
his gorgeous staff of Colonies, who
started out to travel for their health
and exhibit their beauty and the
magnihcence of their uniforms at
the States expense. AS there was
no appropriation for"beauty shows"
big DRINKS and private junkets, the
Auditor refused to honor drafts on
the State Treasury for such pur-
poses, and thereby brought down
great and sulphurous wrath upon
his head. They first tried to bully
him into it, but having the law on
his side, he stuck to it, and they
refused to play in his back yard or
sit on his front porch ever since,
and have sworn that he must get
out and give way to some fellow who
will stand in with the crowd. The
gang even kept La Follette's own
county from instructing for him.
Arnold Scherr is a good business
man and deserves we'll at the hands
of his party, and Preston county
will naturally be for him through
the influence of his brother Julius,
OF Eglon, member of the Legisla-
ture from this county, but if the
latter thinks he has the delegation
solid, he had better call the roll and
poll the jury again. Arnold and
Julius have lately returned from a
big trip down along Ohio river and
in the southern part of the State,
and the former feels good over the
outlook, as will be seen from the
following item in a Parkersburg
paper, but if he really believes all
he claims about the First and Sec
ond districts, and the result in gen
eral, he is an optimist of the highest
order
Arnold {. Scherr, one of the Re
publican candidates for Auditor.
and his brother Julius, arrived here
last night and will remain for sew.
cral days putting few rails on the
fences here. Mr. Scherr claims he
will have the solid vote of the Sec.
ond Congressional district in the
State convention and considerable
strength in Halls district as well.
and has no doubt of his nomination
Charley Swisher, Of Fairmout,
has been trying to get into the race
for Auditor, but has never been
taken seriously by anyone but him
self
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