The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-09-23
HERALD HYPOCRISY.

Some people put themselves forward
as being on the square. honest, pure and
ideal in politics, withoutl even the
shadow of sin, and yet, notwithstanding
that delegates from a county who are
not instructed come to convention and
then it is undertaken to force them to
vote the way the other fellows want
them to and this is dong by unit rule.
1t is certainly ridiculous for set OF
men to get together and vote that all
in the delegation shall vote for the
choice of the set becaussthcy happen to
be in the majority. There were men in
the Lewis county delegation to the
senatorar convention mere VINO came nm
instructed, vet the majority were in.
structed and these after having been
coached here by interested parties 90
together and undertook to work the unit
rule scheme. and this scheme is defend
ed by the Herald as one exemplary of
liberty and individual right. Bosh on
such professions. such trayesty on right
and fairness. The situation was simply
this hat Harrison county was solid for
Thorn, just as it would nave been, if
Hummer Ind carried tie county Dodd-
ridge county le,ld its mass convention
and separated into district conventions.
These conventions did not al lccl9re for
Hammer. although by some wire pulling
af;erward a resolution was passed IN
doising him. In Lewis county regular
district primaries were held. In some of
the districts they gave instructions il;
Others Shey did not. Tittre was a ms
iority OF the delegates instructed, but
the Others were at liberty to do as they
please. Thu county did not decide that
ms Delegates should vote as unit But
here a movement was inaugurated TO
say they should, and because there was
prospect of their not doing so 1t was
advised talat there should be a 1ump
convention. But there was one delegate
from Lewis county who remained ami
did his duty as he saw it and he was
regular in every respect II, was one
who had the proper credentials AMI not
being Instructed he voted as ne Thought
was best and furthermore he voted
regularly. 1t would have been lust as
regular, if he had voted for Hnrmer i'm
stead of Thorn, and. by the way, it is
said he would probably have voted for
Hammer. but, waen he bolted a regular
convention that was enough for this
delegate and he made up HIS mind there
and then that he would stay with the
regular convention. His vote without
the vote from Doddridge county was sui
hcient.
The pretext that no proxies could be.
allowed is pure nonsense. The fact that
the state committee is referred to to
substantiate the contention that no
proxies could h used is sheer bosh, ow-
ing to the fact that the course of the
convention mere was the same as that
OF the state convention at Wheeling on
the matter of dispensing with the com.
mittee on credentials and making the
Temporary organization permanent IT.
Is fact that the runip element repudi.
ated at the very start the course of the
state convention, since t.is recalled that
the temporary organization at the state
convention was made permanent and the
cre'ientiai committee was dispensed
with.
But II was not necessary to have any
proxies for that matter. The twenty
six votes from Harrison and tae one
vote from Lewis were sufficient to nom.
mate without any thing from Dodiridge
and wen The Herald crowd. manipulated
by The Democratic clique, knows it.
TO overcome the fact that there were
enough votes 70 nominats Thorn without
snS preS5es, II Il first publicly asserted
that EoSter, he secrstary OF the con.
yention. ass the entire vote 81 Isswis
eqnfg Eaasllt ia tiiis ~; the asser.