Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-23
A REPUBLICAN
Who Wants to Know What Claim
Mr.. Hail Has on the state Chair

VINO wants 10 KNOW What Claim
Mr.. Hall Has on the State Chair
manship.
! To the Editor of the Register.
| Sir:-Noticing in your paper of to-
| day an article about she meeting of
the friends of Mr.. Jas. K. Hall, AID
| as an old-fashioned Republican |
! would like to ask by what sort OF
reasoning they have the presumption
to ask that Mr.. J. K Hall be made
chairman of the State Republican
| Committee. Is it because he was SO
pre-eminently filter to run the cam
paign, or is it because he lost heavily
| in his own canvass at Charleston, or
| is it because as some of his very small
| heelers say he must get even-ayen
with whom and for what? Ii Mr. Hall
| has grievance he should first COM
mence his spite on some of his OVID lit
| tie gang, who were mostly responsible
| for his defeat. Why, in the name of
all that's good or bad should he be
| taken care of, any more than any
| other defeated candidate? Why
shouldn't Capt. Travis be brought for
ward for the State Craftsmanship? He
| was defeated for Sheriff and has GER
| tainly more capacity than Mr.. Hall,
! and is far more popular, why not take
him?
! Now as to the matter of Halls de-
| feat meaning a decrease in the Repub-
lican vote in this county it is all nom
sense-the reverse of this is true-for
when it became known here that Ar
mold Scherr had won, didn't hundreds
of Republicans shake hands with each
| other and quietly congratulate them
selves that the party was rid of him.
| If this small gang don't know this to
| be true, then they are more ignorant
| than any one. The only sympathy ex-
pressed was for John Frew. Now as
| to the Intelligencers statement that
Mr.. Hall don't want it-then why did
he get up this meeting with all his
| usual bluff and buster? He does want
| it, but mark my Republican prediction,
| he will not get it, nor does he deserve
| it, or anything else. He has been
| feeding and fattening at the public
crib for years and years, and it is time
| he should earn his own livelihood.
| AS to his fitness he is no more to be
| compared with Dawson than day is to
night Whatever may be said of Daw-
son land | for one have never been an
admirer of his1, he has the reputation
| of being honest and true to his friends,
| and most eminently qualified by edH-
| cation and experience for his position,
which requires hard, steady, methodical
| work, such as he has and can give
/ with nothing to even up and no griev
| anceS. 1t would be a sad mistake II.
| the Republicans would turn Dawson
| down, for no man in this State has the
| party machinery so well in hand nor
could anyone else be so effective. Why
| not take Swisher or LaFollette, they
were defeated as much as Hall, or why
| not take the defeated candidates for
! Attorney General and all others, and
/ no one viii dare say they didn't each
| and every one have infinitely more ca
| pacity than Hail.
Now as to Halls popularity here at
/ home, that's all bluff and buster too.
/ would be willing to wager on square
/ vote that Dawson would beat him bad
| ly for this position in this eity-and as
to Hall turning the delegates from this
| county against Senator Elkins, that's
nonsense. Elkins would defeat Hall by
an overwhelming vote on this ques-
/ ton. Mr. Hall and his little coterie
! are using wind TO very poor purposes.
And last, but not least, Is was simply
grand TO see Hall run up against the
real thing and real man when he tried
TO bulldoZe A. B. Whitehall was
rich-for any one who knows anything
| at all knows that A. b. White is the
last man for a little boss like
Hall TO attempt any blur with.
for he has forgotten more than
Hall or his gang will ever know. And
it was refreshing to see the quiet and
dignified way with which Whine knock
ed all their props out from under them,
and let them come down with q heavy
thud into the mud, where be left them