Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-22
Republicans Will Storm Every
West Virginia County.
ALL TO TALK PROTECTION
National Issues Will Be Forced
to the Front as Much as Posi-
BILE, for the State is Much In
terested in High Tariff.

Parkersburg, Sept. 22.-Repub-
lican spellbinders are on the
move in West Virginia this week.
A great speaking campaign has
begun, with protection as the slo-
gan. The mountains and valleys
between here and Harper's Ferry
have been made to yield millions
from coal and lumber in the last
seven years. Naturally enough,
West Virginia is a strong protec-
ton State. The orators will also
claim that the wonderful develop
ment is due in large part to Re-
publican State administration,
but it would be difficult for them
to explain why the coal and iron
regions of Alabama have also in
creased marvelously under Demo-
cratic State rule.
State Chairman Elliot North
colt Of Huntington, who has his
headquarters here, and who is
one of the ablest and most popu-
lar young Republicans of the
State, explained today the COM
prehensive speaking program.
eve shall keep approximately
fifty orators in the field" said
he, land we intend to have fifty
speeches delivered every day
from now till election time.
There are fifty-fve counties in
West Virginia. We shall try to
assign these speakers so that
there will be one speech daily in
almost every county.
democrats want to fight this
campaign on local issues We
will meet them there, but we pro-
pose to put National issues, espec-
tally protective, to the fore.
West Virginia is vitality interest
ed in the protective tariff. Ex-
Senator Davis has been regarded
in our State as a protection DEM
ocrat, but in his speech of accept
ance at White Sulphur Springs,
he came out squarely for the ST..
Louis platform, which denounces
protection as robbery. That has
hurt him with West Virginians. -
"What character Of literature
are you circulating?''
"Chiefy protection cards. re-
pile Mr.. Northcott. eve secured
from the National committee an
assortment of cards, bearing on
one side extracts from speeches
in the Congressional Record on
protection. We are sending these
out in large numbers to the vo-
ters.
"By these speeches we hope to
stir up enthusiasm in the cam
paign. Thus far the interest has
not been marked outside of the
workers and the politicians. We
shall have some star orators to
help us, whose every speech will
be an event of Importance.
Speaker Cannon, for instance,
will come to the State in Octo-
Der. He has a date in every
Congressional district.
The chairman s words about an
aggressive campaign are fully
borne out by a visit to Republican
headquarters, where a good-slzed
force of lieutenants and clerks
are engaged. The work is well
organized and is proceeding
along methOdical lines. Cam
paign chairmen are generally Sc
cretive about money matters, es-
pecially in such a State as this,
where money counts for so much
in winning, but it is learned from
several reliable sources that Maj.
c. D. Elliott, the Republican trea-
surer, has a comfortable sum in
the party Golfers. There will be
no lack of the wherewithal to
keep a campaign humming.
w. NJ. o. Dawson. the candi-
date for Governor, left yesterday
for Clay Court House, where he
and Sen. Scott delivered speeches.
Mr.. Dawson is to make an extern
sive speaking tour in the south
ern part of the State. He is an
expert politician, having been
State chairman many years, and
in every town he visits will put
in hard licks toward getting the