The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-09-23
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Lbs MISREPRESENTATION.
septations in the Herald
TIE nataiai convention mere are
psbie that even tle management
sheet rcfuses Il father them.
Ii most surprising, when theI
sa 81 ina; paper i taken into con
ton, Dodging sne responsibility.
makes The pretense taat some one
an adjoining county wrote its nar-
ara version of the convention.
strilsihg, error Il makes in the
e9is. WHO was neither a delegate
sernate or proxy, cast the vote Of
Lewis. BY Ring instructions, for Thorn.
TAe fact IS that a. G. Could, of skin
Creek one of Lewis eonnty's most sub
bantial and best citizens cast the vote
an5 not Mr.. Poster, who merely acted in,
he capacity of secretary, and who after
convention very enthusiastically in
ayor OF Thorn, the nominee.
This nails lie Of the whole cloth and
elI the management of the Herald
shows it but being manipulated by tae.
I Denocratic clique in the interest of the
cique's nominees, nothing better is to
bs expected of that hypocritical sheet.
1t also clips a piece from the Wheel
ing 1ntelligencer in which it is. stated
hat the thirteen delegates from Dodd
ridge and the thirteen delegates from
Lewis walked out, leaving only the
twenty-six delegates from Harrison
county behind. Now, the real truth of
The matter is tine Intelligencer stated
that the article in question was from the
Herald source and it can not successful
ly deny it. An attempt was made in
taat dispatch to the Intelligencer to i'm
pose not only upon that paper, but to
anisIead the public. 1t is not true that
the thirteen delegates from Doddridge
and the thirteen delegates from Lewis
other lie is nailed here.
That dispatch to the Intelligencer also
Z talks about Contrasting delegates from
Harrison" This is a bare,faced lie al
50. For. it is a well established fact
that the county executive committee in
arranging for the primary let it be I'M
derstood in resolutions duly passed that
tine candidates who received the most
yote@ in the county We're to nave the
delegates. All candidates assented TO
this Thorn carried the county, No
one attempted to deny that he had not
the delegates complete. No question
was raised about it. Since this is true,
how could there be eontesting delegates
and how did they get their authoritys
Who authorized any man 10 be con-
Nesting delegate? There is nothing
teebnieal in this matter, because Of the
fact tnat it is so plain on its face that
none need misunderstood.
sain. the executive committee an
Y bounced through its chairman the num-
her Of votes each county was entitled to
and the number necessary to a choice.
bsing just one more than half. which
constituted majority. Tine committee
also had been informed on The matter OF
\ TIE credentials and in addition to this
the Chairman Of The committee announc
ed that there had been no confess filed
before the committee. This was Ger
taihly fair proposition, for/it is Gus
tomary tnat where there are contests
t1e same shall be fled before the eNecu-
tive committee. Was it not so in re
gard to the Republican state eonvention'
None viii deny this. There was no at
suPt in the convention to deny that
the delegates were all regular. The
boiling faction did not raise the ques-
ton. They did not say there eSere men
there not entitled to their seats. In
faG no one raised that question.
nfthern'ore, the Herald says a sub
itufe WAS offered for motion and
That the vote was taken on the substi-
Instead of the original motion
Think OF i. win son! Aay man wAo
tine great state of West Virginia
will 50 to the dogs, If he il not returned
70 The legislature. certainly ougnt TO
snow enough about parliamentary prac.
tices not to allow his pretended friends.
those who abused him and voted against
according to their own open declara,
lions and who threatened to soundly
whip him, to make suen raw break,
such ridiculous crack, such an awful
display Of their ignorance.
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