Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-04-28
A VETERAN REPUBLICAN
Calls FOrcfbIe Attention to the Pc
culiar Campaign of James X.
Hall.

(UAIS EOEcIDhC AttCntAOh = thS z
culiar Campaign of James X.
Hall.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, April 26.
To the Editor of the Register.
Dear Sir:-It looks as though Candi-
date James X. Hall, ofNOhio county,
who wants to be Auditor of State, is
running a literary bureau for his spec
ial benefit. Anything favorable to Mr..
Hall always finds a place in the Intel
ligencer, but all ~unfavorable reports
are either garbled or not published. L
hate to write for a Democratic paper
and complain about the treatment re-
ceived at the hands of my party organ,
but l do not now see any other way of
letting the public know that nothing
can find a place in the Intelligencer
that is ~unfavorable to Mr.. Halls can
didacy.
During the last few days reports
have appeared in the Intelligencer and
other papers coloring the situation, SO
far as Mr.. Halls candidacy is concern
ed. These reports are mostly untrue
and do not render justice to the oppo-
nents of Mr.. Hall. 1t is reported in
the Intelligencer, and at least one 9TH
er Wheeling paper, and possibly in
several ring Republican papers
throughout the State, that Hall has
secured the Kanawha delegation prac-
tically solid. This was in connection
with the further statement that C. w.
Hall had Withdrawn in the interest of
James K. Hall. Now l will tell you
why c. w. Hall withdrew. 1t was for
no other reason than the solid Kan
awha delegation was opposed to him,
and is now and will hereafter be for
Peter Silman for State Treasurer. G.
w. Hall had no support and had no
delegates to turn over to James K.
Hall. The delegation from this county
will go to the Republican State Con-
vention uninstructed 20 far as Auditor
is concerned.
Information has been received here
from the Eastern Panhandle that
Scherr received the solid delegation
from Mineral, with instructions to vote
for him first, last and all the time.
Further information from the Eastern
Panhandle is to the effect that Hamp-
shire county is solid for Scherr, l am
informed that the above information
was te~legraphed or written to the
Wheeling Intelligencer, but all of it
was carefully suppressed in the inter-
est of son-in-law James K. Hall.
am also reliably informed that
Scherr will receive ten of the nineteen
delegates from Lewis county. 1t was
published in son-in-law's paper that
he had secured the solid delegation
from this county.
1t seems that Mr.. Hall, of your coun-
ty, is getting all the delegations on
paper, or through the Intelligencer and
other Wheeling papers, but you can put
it down as an absolute fact that Ar
mold Scherr and La Toilette will have
the delegates who do the voting in the
convention. Their delegates will not
be paper ones, but the real thing"
BY the way, Mr.. Hall seems able to
get information favorable to hts can
didacy into the Democratic papers, as
we'll as into his own organ. How is
this? Does he own the press of the
State?
When Mr.. Hall was in Charleston, he
said it would not do for the Second
district to hold all the good offices. Fog
instance, he said that La Toilette was
Auditor and Elkins Senator, both from
the Second district, and that the people
would not consent to the important Of
fee of Auditor going to the Second dis
trict the second time. Now, Mr.. Hall
forgot to note the fact that Governor
Atkinson is from the First district, and
from the city of Wheeling, Ohio IL
ty; so is Mr.. Scott, so is Mr.. Dovener,
and now Mr.. ]. X. Hall wants the best
job within the gift of the Republicans
of the State, and he is from the same
town, county, district as the said Dove
ner, Atkinson and Scott. 1t would be
well for Mr.. Hall not to dwell on this
feature of the situation very strongly.
1t is not very good political argument
for him.
| hope that you will see to it that
your correspondents in the future give
the several candidates for Office among
the Republicans a fair deal, and not
permit your paper to be run in the
interests of Mr.. Hall in the shameful
and unfair manner in which he is con-
Quoting the Intelligencer, owned as it
is principally, so l understand. by Mr..
INhn EreW his father-in-laW