Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-26
FIGURING ON RESULTS:
West Virginians Lined Up
for Voting Day.
REPUBLICAN SLOGAN
APPEAL TO PARTISANS AGAINST
SCRATCHING THE TICKET.
Probabilities in the Congressional Dis
tricts-Dayto Hard Fight
in the Second.
REPUBLICAN SLOGAN

| tory in the West Virginia campaign. There
| are very few voters at this stage who have
not made up their minds how their votes
| will be cast. The republicans are exercised
| in regard to getting out the vote, and to
I that end orders have been forwarded to the
county chairmen to organize in precinct
| squads of four, having captain and three
| lieutenants AS is generally the case, the
| dominant party's plans are more easily de-
tected. hence the purposes of the republican
organization are plain compared with the
democratic plans for election day. About
! the democratic ways and means there Is
| sort of mystery which refuses to be pune
tured and 1t is inspiring the republicans to
rigid efforts to hold their lines intact.
Vote the ticket straight, is the republic
| can slogan. 1t was started few days ago,
when Dawson's chances for the governors
chair assumed most gloomy colorings. 1t
| has been taken up by party workers, who
are more concerned in the national ticket
and who secretly do not care a continental
| for Dawson. These realize the possibility
of Dawson dragging Roosevelt down with
| him just as those more interested in the
state ticket trust to Roosevelt's popularity
| confrOnts republicans is the danger of de-
| posting spoilt ballots, rendered SO by
scratching, for in West Virginia the Aus
tralian ballot So-called, is delicate affair.
While the party TICKETS are captioned as
democratic, republican and so on, there is
no party emblem and there is no circle or
cross. man wanting to scratch has to
write directly under the name of the candi-
date scratched out the name of the candi-
date he prefers. Furthermore all his pref
erences must be in one column, regardless
of the intent of the voter. This was de-
termined by the state supreme court after
much controversy.
Lining Up the Voters.
The republicans are putting forth their
best ticks through all the recognized chan
nels to line UP the voters, and the leaders
| claim the situation is growing brighter
every day. They admit the state ticket
was in bad shape up to a week ago, but
express the belief that the storm over the
new tax laws has blown over and that dis
satisfied republicans have finally decided
to trust their party to make any needed
amendments rather than to vote for demo-
cratic candidates. The majority of these
diSgruntled republicans had talked of yot-
ing for Cornwell for governor and the
democratic legislative candidates. They are
being informed that democratic legisla-
ture would not attempt to monkey with
the new laws until they were tried for
few years, and that therefore there is no
need of cutting the republican ticket at
this time; and the possibility of John T. Nc
Graw using a democratic Legislature to
elect himself as the successor to Senator
Scott is being dinned into their ears with
some effect.
Whether enough of the dissentients will
agree to swallow Dawson will be developed
the day after the election There is no ac-
curate means of finding out the extent of
the dissatisfaction because there is a large,
silent vote to take into consideration All
the republicans who have threatened to
knife Dawson have been besieged with
pleas to withhold the knife, so others hold
ing like views prefer TO remain quiet and
escape this bother. AS the state campaign
proceeds Cornwell is being held up as
corporation man and unfrendly to labor.
From now to election day working men
will hear the corporations assailed in order
to discount Cornwell. His course in the
legislature on the tax laws is declared to
be inconsistent on the vital issues of tax
ing corporate interests.
Letter on Labor Question.
A letter written by Senator Cornwell to
r. H. Williamson of Huntington, chairman
of the legislative committee of the rail-
readers federation, two years ago, has
been duplicated in circular form and is be-
| ing handed around among workngmen.
particularly the miners. In his letter
Cornwell replies to Williamson's request to
! support the felow-servants bill and other
measures to come before the last regular
session of the legislature. His reply is
| frank and direct. He stated he had voted
| against several bills designed to take away
the common law rights of labor. but de-
| clared he lost interest in labor for voting
| for party that had been hostile-meanine
Of course, the republican party. He says
in place:
Labor is long on talk but short on vot-
ing, and l am getting tired of helping
those who won't help themselves
In expressing belief that the railroad
ere had one of the best and sanest organiza-
tons. Cornwell said he was Disguised with
the way the miners had voted in his con-
| gressional district two years ago He was
chairman of McGraw's campaign against
Dayton that year. when evidently the min
ers did not rally to the democratic stand
ard.
Cornwell is being gradually worked into
the defensive and this fact has been in
strumental in cheering the Dawson men.
1t is reflected in the betting, which con-
t.nues at even money, but there is more
Dawson money being offered which may
have significance. Chairman Northcott
and others declare there has been a reaction
and that the democrats used up their pow
der too early on the tax question but this
roseate View IS not generally maintained.
The governorsnip fight will be the hottest
known, and likewise the bitterest because of
its several complications.
Probable Results.
Senator Scott Is coming home from the
New York headquarters and will make
speeches in the fourth and fifth districts.
where the legislature needs stiffening up,
| and he will wind up his tour at his home in
Wheeling. He will speak in Cabell, Wood
| and Ohio counties, which will elect ten
members of the house and control three
| senatorial districts. The democrats will
| likely win Cabell and Wood, because of To-
| cal fights. but the republicans will hold
| Ohio by reduced majority. Representa-
| tIves Hughes and woodward have interest
| ing fights in the fourth and fifth districts.
but the large normal republican majorities
| will help them cut.
Representative Gaines prospect for re-
election is fair His rival. w. s. Edwards.
allowed the time to elapse for filing as an
| Independent republican candidate. The
democratic candidate, Henry B. Davenport.
| Is waging a great fight and will come very
near beating Gaines II ne does not accom-
plish 1t. All depends on whether the re-
publican factional sores In that district
have been healed.
Neil j. Fortney is the only republican as
pirant for Office who has not taken himself
| out of The small army of straggers that
was in the field in the late summer He Is
an independent candidate for circuit judge
| in the Taylor Preston district against Judge
Holt. the republican nominee, and he has
been Endorsed By the democrats This is in
Dayton's congressional district. likewise the
district OF Davis. Elkins. McGraw and Corn
WELL the real fighting ground of the state.
Parker's Mother Reconciled to Defeat.
A dispatch from Derby, Conn. says:
Judge Parker's mother. who lives here with
her daughter, has told several friends