The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1903-11-19
SCOTT and
SCHMULBAGH
ARE BEGINNING no MAKE INTER
ESTING POLITICS IN OHIO coUN-
TY ON ACCOUNT OF THE
SENAToRSHIP.
schmulbach's Candidacy, It is said, is
Not Taken Seriously, and Scott win
Get Support Of His Home
County.

SNuhLJs
Wheeling, W. Va, Nov. lO.-Readers
Of The Telegram have doubtless wondered
how much truth there was in the re,
ports that Senator Scott would have Sc.
rious trouble TO get Ohio county's legis.
latiye delegation. The situation in Ohio
county means the situation in the city
Of Wheeling because the city is practi.
cally the county, and consequently city
politics is factor in shaping all other
politics. Inasmuch as the man who holds
the whipIash over the present city coun.
ell, Henry Schmulbach, the wealth brew
er, persistently says he is a candidate
for tine Senate, this has tended to com
pliette things.
But people living outside OF Wheeling
should not take the ScllmulbaGh candida.
cy and more seriously than do those in
Wheeling, which is saying that it is not
taken seriously at all. Everybody knows
SchmuIbach has made no effort outside
Of Ohio county and does not intend to.
He is a shrcwd business man who knows
as well as anybody else that he couldn't
get the honor, that it will be Scott's
without a hard fight, but to satisfy an
old Crude against some business inter.
ests with which Scott men are allied,
SchmuIbach intends to harass and en-.
barrass the Senator in his own town as
much as possible, by keeping up his bluff
about being a candidate until the last.
Through being interested in traction,
telephone, bridge and other corporations,
not to speak of his big pull through his
lbrewerk, SshmuIbach is the recognized
boss in city politics. Senator Scott is a
national figure and never bothers about
petty ward politics, his sole attention in
that line being a faithful attendance at
the polls every election like and other
citizen to exercise his suffrage. With
Schmulbach's sole attention given to 10.
cal politics, and through his business
ramiiications, he has at his back a syn.
dicatc. lie controls the city council Of
Wheeling, but nobody envies him that
honor. Bit men dependent on their city
Jobs for their bread ana butter are fore.
ed to follow S.hmulbach's lead.
The SGhmubach syndicate is not Re-
publican, a. might be thought. 1t is a
combination Of Democrats and Republi.
cans, and Schmulbach controls the Dem.
9cratic members of council just as he
does a majority of the Republican. In
fact, his chief lieutenant, the leader in
the exploitation of the Schmulbach basi.
ness enterprises and likewise his political
ones, not excepting the senatorial, is
John \. Howard, one of the brainicst
Democratic lawyers. in the state, and
who was defeated for congress several
years ago BY Capt, Dovener
The Schmulbach people take credit for
Senator Jake Snyder. Senator Jake is
one Of those accidents in politics that
melody can fully explain. The United
States scnatorship was lost sight OF in
his election, Scottsworkers boosting Sny,
der in preference to accepting S. G,
Smith, who was supposed to be at heart
for W. 7. Hubbard, and who was not
Seott's choice. The Schmulbach faction
won supremacy in the last city election
largely because of the unpopularity OF
the opposing street railway interests, for
it was really fight between rival trac.
lion companies.
That is the situation in Wheeling and
Ohio county. Schmulbach adherents,
who are for him and his interests in
city affairs, will tell you that Scott will
get the county easily. They laugh at
The Schmulbach 'iboom," saying no
brewer could be elected. They likewise
ridicule the Caldwell candidacy and say
Scott will have 80 of the 80 counties.
In all the frothy talk, not one word
against Senator Scot has ever been said
by Schmuloach people, who, after all
really want to strike another faction
through him. They admire Scott to a
man,
Cuyahoga county went to Mark Hanna
when the call came and Ohio county will
90 to Nathan Bay Scott in as pro.
nounced fashion. Senator Scott is to be
reelected and naturally wants his own
county, although not vitally needed.