The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-08

The Fairmont West virginian wants
the State Journal topremember the
struggles and sacrifices Judge Con
has made for his party. Yes. we re-
member that he has struggled into
office from his boyhood to The present
day. What is the work that Judge
Goff has done for the Republican par
ty compared with that the editor OF
the West Virginian has? The State
Journal eve heard of his hustling
up things for the party unless he vas
after an Office for himself. VIII the
Fairmont West Virginian please men.
tion some time when he did?-Park-
ersburg State journal.
The State Journal remembers as
well as the West virginian does that
Judge Goff never asked for an cleo
tive Office in his life. He dldsnot ask
for his present judicial position. Pres
ident Harrison appointed him on ac.
count Of his eminent fitness for it.
President Harrison was noted for
making fine judicial appointments. 1t
was he who made the distinguished
Chicago jurist a United States
Circuit Judge-the Honorable Peter
s. G%rosscup. Judge Golf did not
ask for a Cabinet position. Pres
ident Hayes appointed him Sec.
rotary of the Navy for two rea.
sons-frst for his ability and second
because he wanted the South fifty rep
resented in his Cabinet. When Judge
Golf was nominated and ran for gov.
ernor in 1876 he hired the brass
bands for his meetings and paid all
his campaign expenses. That was a
time when the Republican National
Committee expected no returns from
and therefore would not waste its
money in what was then known as
the Democratic solid South. Judge
Goff's expenses were probably still
heavier when he was made the can
didate for governor In 1888, as in the
contest which followed he was put to
great outlay, and It was all for his
party, as he knew the Democratic
leaders would hold on to their chief
executive-that they would resort to
anything and everything. as they
did. to control their Legisla.
ture in his interest. Judge
Goff vas certainly not "hustling
up things" n after an Office for
himself" when campaigning in Ohio
and elsewhere outside of his State.
The writer hereof happens to know
If the State Journal does not that the
late President Mckinley called the
eloquent West Virginian to Ohio more
than once to aid him in his guberna-
a candidate for any office at this time,
and the fact is he is thinking serious.
ly of resigning the one he now holds.
He feels that he needs n period of
rest" Notwithstanding lie so feels
there is a very large element in the
State that believes that he should
first go to the United States Senate
and seek his rest afterward, and II he
Will consent TO stand as a candidate
that same element does not doubt its
ability to land him there. Indeed,
without his consent there is a dispo-
sition on the part of many to make
him their Senatorial candidate. Judge
Goff has said and no doubt
meant 1t that he is not. has not
been and will not be a can
didate, but it seems that he will
have to use still stronger terms to
stop the stampede toward him. 1t
will, in our opinion, be necessary for
the magnetic gentleman to say that
he would not accept the Senatorship
before the talk in his favor subsidies.
There are but few men who would
say so much. and we doubt IL Judge
Golf himself would say it. There is
only n step above a United States
Senatorship in this countryside Pres.
idency.