Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-01-11
AS USUAL.
News Standard Makes a Few
Bad Breaks.

odu DTGakS.
Criticisms of that State Ably Refuted
by Parkersburg Sentinel Instances
Given the Over Line Paper to Show
How Wrong ii is--West Virginia
Wants Talent But Does net Like
Freaks
The Uniontown, Pa. News Stand
ard, very respectable newspaper in
the coal regions of Southwest Penn
sylvania, is blessed with an editor
who belongs to the class Josh Bill
lings had in mind when he said it
was better not to know so much
than To know so much that wasn't
so says the Parkersburg Sentinel.
In late issue of the hyphenate the
editor, referring to Prent Delivers
political good luck in Iowa, said:
'sBut it is fortunate for Mr.. Dolli-
yer that he went from West Virgin.
la to Iowa instead of from some 9th
er state to West Virginia. There is
class of provincials up in the lat
ter state who raise the absurd cry of
foreigner" outsider" carpet BAG
ger" against rising young men who
come from other states to become
members of the teaching faculty OF
the state university or who aspire
there to rise in political life. We
heard one man say that it was nee.
essary to reside in West Virginia
for 30 or 40 years before he could
expect to escape entirely this pref
udice against outsiders. =
Perhaps there is no state in the
union where the geography of a
mans birth place cuts less figure
with the voters than in West Vir-
ginia. The liberality Of sentiment
in this state toward people born and
raised elsewhere who are seekers af
ter political honors is matter of
comment at home and elsewhere,
In no other state is there so little
contention against man because
OF his nativity, religion or creed, as
IN West Virginia In truth nearly
all our present officeholders are for
eign born. Our present governor,
and several before him, the governor
elect, both United States senator's
and at least half our congressman
were born in other states, and one
of our senators never has in fact
lived in the state. Senator Elkins
claims his home in West Virginia
and votes here and he has the resi-
dence of prince in Randolph coun
ty, but he only lives there part of
a summer now and then. He also
has home in Washington and one
in New York. The only opposition
there is along the lines referred by
the News Standard is the jealousy
of individual competitors who fail
where others succeed, and that is
the outcropping of human nature.
No one in business, or in politics,
seeks to bring in rivals to contest
for what they consider an already
overcrowded field. 1t is unlikely
that the News Standard is trying
very hard to induce other and com
peting printing plants to move to
Uniontown to contest for the work
in its line We never see mer
chant encouraging a competitor
from elsewhere to move in and di
vide the trade with him. Nor do
we ever find the office holder or of
flee seeker endeavoring to bring in
others and new men to contest for
the political Jobs that are to be had
But when new residents from else
where do assemble in a community
it is generally found that those who
must endure the competition are the
ones who complain, and not the peo
pie at large, for as a rule the people
are too busy attending to their own
business to bother themselves about
rivalries or political competitors
1t is safe wager of many to one
that the imam whom the News
Standard heard say" is some bilious
officer seeker whom the people have
refused to endorse and whose ambi
lions they have repudiated, and he
failingto appreciate their action as
based upon his unftness and incom-
potency, the true causes, foollshly
thinks that his having been born
elsewhere is the cause of his politi-
cal disappointments, and he vents
his spleen through pretended an
guish for others not native born.
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