The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-09
CONTESTS
GALORE
WILL OCCUPY THE ATTENTION
OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE
COMMITTEE NOW IN SES-
SION.

4 WV - ~ ~ " ~ ~
! SION.
WHAT SOME OF THE PoLITl-
CLANS HAVE TO SAY AsOuT
THINGS IN general.
Wheeling News.]
What with politicians who stand
! high in the sanhedrims of the Repub-
lican party of the State comforting in
the lobby. about the corridors. in the
parlors and halls of the Mcclure
house before. during and after the
meeting of the State committee. the
mated appearance. Local politicians
dropped in" and met the big fellows
from the other corners of the State
and there was much Of making &C
quaintances. handsha king, renewing
old acquaintances, putting of heads to-
eether and confabs of varying degrees
of Importance. The rival candidates
for governor were at all times the
centre of group of adhereuts seek
ing aud giving counsel aud discussing
the possibilities and probabilities Of
the action of tie cs;;-.,nittee on va
RIOTS contests.
w z. Giasscock, of Morgantown.
chairman of the committee, was
busy man during the day. He stated,
to a News reporter that there were
contests il ten counties-Barbour,
Cabell. Wetzel. kanawha, Summers,
Putnam, Taylor, Marshall, Lewis and
Wood. He said the counties would be
taken up in alphabetical order, with
Barbour first on the list. The first
matter to be disposed of was the con-
tention of the Teter folks that Daw-
son had 10 right to vote on the ques-
ton of contesting delegations.
Judge Reese Blizzard of Parkers-
burg, stated that he thought the Wood
county inlbrogiio would he disposed
of in short order: in his opinion there
were no grounds for the seating of the
Dawson delegation. The Teter end
of the Terrapin park convention was
legal in all it's aspects and he thought
the committee would seat the solid
Teter delegation from Wood county
without giving much consideration to
the protest that had been made by
the rival delegation.
Elliott F. Northcott, of Huntington.
would not venture a forecast as to
what action the committee would
take on the contesting delegations in
the different counties. He was hope
full of an amicable settlement of all
difficulties and party harmony.
Senator Ira E. Robinson, of Graf
ton, a Teterite. expressed himself fu-
gubriously over the gubernatorial
fight, which he said had been carried
on all too bitterly. more has been
done this campaign to disrupt the
Republican party in the State than
ever before in the States history
vouchsafed Mr.. Robinson. Il hope
that after this gubernatorial fight is |
all over the Republicans will conde- |
scend to get back to their quondarn
harmony and all will pull with might !
and main for the carrying Of the
State
In Taylor county there was only !
one contest, tIdL III the SITdllOH us
trict. The county now stood 8 for
Dawson and 6 for Teter, but the seat |
ing of the Dawson delegation in the |
contesting district meant a change Of
four votes. He characterized the |
Dawson convention as a rump affair |
and said the Teter delegation would |
seated.
E. c. Henshaw. of Martinsburs, a |
member of the committee. stated |
that the voters of his county had not |
taken sides i'm the gubernatorial fight.
themselves with dividing |
the delegation evenly There were
IT delegates, and it was thought best
not to split one delegate and coin
was tossed, George Bowers winning
the toss and the odd delegate, making
the county for Dawson and for Te-
ter
Ex-Congressman G.. P. Dorr. of
Webster, is a prominent Teter boos-
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