Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-12-04
POLITICAL GOSSIP.
Question of State Senatorship
is a Burning One.

Prominent In the Serapping Marion
Wants to Get Even for Past actions,
The following is taken from an ar
ticle in the Fairmont Times relative
TO politics ia this section Of the state
1t shows that there is going TO be a
regular Donnybro9k affair when the
politicians get together in the con-
vention to select state senator:
Under the new superintendent our
SEM torial district is composed OF
Marion, Monongalia and Taylor, and
there are two Senators TO eiect-one
Tor the long term, and the other for a
short term or one session. The short
term election is made necessary by
the resignation of Senator Thos. E.
Davis, of Taylor, who left his place in
the Senate to accept the Office of Col
lector Of Internal revenue for West
Virginia.
This vacancy will doubtless be ae-
corded to Taylor county without con
test. but there promises to be eensid-
cradle scrapping over the Republican
nomination for the long term. This
District is regarded BY Democrats as
almost hopelessly Republican, having
from twelve To fifteen hundred Repub-
lican majority under normal condi-
lions, while Mckinley carried it by
something like twenty-five hundred.
Monongalia county will claim the
Senator on the grounds that by the
principle Of rotation it ought to come
TO her, the term of the last Senator
from Monongalia having expired with
the session of 1899, while the term of
Marion's last Senator expired with
the session Of 1891; but this claim
will be resisted by the Republicans Of
Marion on the grounds, first, that
under the Senatorial eapportionment,
the district being composed of new
counties, there is no just reason why
Marion should not have equal chances
with Monongalia for the first long
term Senator; and, second, that since
Marion county polls within two hun.
dred votes of one-half of the whole
Repu bliean vote OF the district, fair
ness ia representation should give her
one Senator all the time, and the
other should rotate between Monon-
gala and Taylor.
There will be chances therefore for
some earnest chickering's between the
two counties before this matter is
settled, especially as there is good
deal OF bad blood already between the
Republicans of the two counties on
account OF the way the Monongalians
treated Judge Meredith in his canvass
for Congress- last year. II the dele
gates from Marion unite on a candi-
date, with the assistance of one or two
delegates from Taylor, they can
knock the persimmon" despite the
wishes OF the Monongalid Republi-
cans and it would be an act of retrib-
utiye justice if the Marion county
delegation should present Judge Mer-
edlth's name. There is no doubt in
such case but that he could have his
own county solidly behind him and
enough votes from Taylor to enable
/ him to land or first ballot without
any trouble. Whether any other Re-
| publican in Marion can do this is
somewhat problematical.
Monongalia will likely present
Hon. K. M. Grant, who will be backed
by all the resources the shrewd and
clever Morgantowner can Command
/ to secure his nomination. Mr.. Grant
/ has been two terms in the House of
4 Delegates, both times serving on i'm
! p0rtant committees, and measuring
up to pretty high degree of influence
/ and ability 10 the work of that body
He is clean, able and independent,
/ and If elected will wear no mans col
! lar. Neither Senator Scott nor Mr.
! Schmulbach will be able to extract
much comfort from his nomination
i He was not enamored Of Senator
! Scott's candidacy 10 1899, and voted
4 for Gen'l Goff on every ballot in the
caucus. 1t was seen in the Joint as
sembly that he made very wry face
when he recorded his vote for Scott.
/ Mr.. Grant has an old-fashioned notion
/ that something 10 the way of fitness
and ability ought to go with Senator
ial aspirations, and we will miss our
guess if when he goes to the State
/ Senate he will not be found with some
kernlY developed mental reservations
as TO the type of man whom be will
support for that place.
\ CONGRESSIONAL AsPIRANTs.
Speaking Of the bad blood between
Marion aud Monongalia Republicans,
/ it is not to be forgotten that the de-
lection OF the Monongalians from
Judge Meredith's lines gave Dayton
4 the nomination again last year. Ii
Monongalia had carried out the
pledges her leaders voluntarily made
to Judge Meredith, he would be in
Congress to-day is the statement of
many Marion Republicans, and they
are sore to the bone over his treat
ment. When he got out of Judge
Hagans' way for the Judicial nominal
ton, his friends were promised the
everlasting and devoted loyalty of the
Monongalia Republicans in any way
to serve his ambition in any direc-
tion; but the time for their play came,
and then they threw Meredith down