The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-05-20
For Assessor, Lower District
ERNEST L. PIG0TT.
For County Surveyor
CHARLES c. FITTRo

The Democratic paper in this city,
known as the Harrison County Herald,
in order to fool the people into the be
lief tnat ii Is a Republican paper, has
been supporting Dawson for governor,
notwithstanding the fact that he is
known to use the methods, which it
says are also used in this county and
because of which II says it win not sup
port the Republican ticket. There is
no one that doubts that Dawson mas
used money in his campaign and lots of
It. He himself does not deny it. The
manner in which he secured Kanawha
county il known by the Herald and yet
it insists that the people shall support
him, that ne has done perfectly right.
1t knows or ought to know that he
spent money in that county the day the
primary election was held there. II
knows that hundreds of persons voted
many of them from the reports whicn
come from there not being entitled to
vote, having beer imported from other
counties for tie purpose. According to
the understanding Of the situation
there many votes were bought and paid
for by Daw-ons own money. But thai
makes no difference to the Herald 1t
thinks the people Of Harrison county
should vote for him amy way. that is it
says they ought. Int it would be glad
10 see them all vote for the Democratic
nominee for governor. no matter who
he may be. IT is > mere sham that they
favor Dawson at all! y mere blind
That paper can not he consistent in adj
vocating hi. nomination aud election.
since it will net accord like treatment
to the Republican county ticket 1t
condemns Grant Hall in Kanawhn
county for sitting on poll books for The
purpose Of keeping the Dawson crowd
from casting Illegal votes and says ne
ought to have been hanged for that.
That i how true ii is to what it terms
purity of elections. That shows mp its
hypocracy. 1t makes no pretense Mt
supporting the Republican ticket in this
county and it is always boosting the
Democratic side Of politics. Not an Is
sue appears that it does not convict it.
self of being Democratic to the very core
and yet it wants the people to believe
that it Is Republican paper Demo
cratic politicians recognize it as their
organ and praise it for the good it is
doing them and their party. Some of
them think mere OF it as party organ
than they do of the regular Democratic
paper, notwithstanding the fact that it
bears the name of Republican. Some of
its chief officials declared months before
the primary election that they intended
to help to elect Democratic sheriff
this fall and upon that they advised
Republicans not to go to the primary
election. but to stay away from the
polls on that occasion and vote for
Democrats this fall. Some of them did
stay away and some who went voted
for only one or two men on the ticket.
They did not vote for men VINO had no
opposition. They scratched men who
hdve been longer in the service OF the
Republican party than they have and
who have ever been loyal and faithful
to it, no matter VINO We're its nominees.
To-day they are a much In c6llusion
with certain Democratic politicians to
make the county Democratic as ever
they were. There is every thing to
show that that paper and the few who
are in active control of it are not Repuh-
lican this year and that neither tnev nor
the paper intend to support the Repub-
lican ticket. 1t has arrived at that
stage, where the party should make
that paper and those few fellows who
dictate its policy declare themselves.
If That paper Is Republican. the party
demands that it support the Republican
county ticket, which IS made up with
Republicans and which was noninate'
in the regular way.