West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-04-13
PrOnOuncss the Csnsure Of Senator's
ElkiDS and Scott for the
SELECTION CHAIRMAN HOTRHCOTT
AS Internal Revenue Collector IN
warranted = Senators Elkins
and Scott are Adopted
SONS OF WEST VIRGINIA
Which We Justly Feel Proud of-Thsy
Handle the Thermometers ana
Baromstsrs for us.

Those who are censuring Senators
Elkins and Scott for their selection
of State Chairman Northcott for
Internal Revenue Collector are not
familiar with the facts, and they
probably imagine they are justified
in their censure, but when / explain
that next to myself no man in the
State labored as hard as Chairman
Northcott TO correl the colored
brethren and the Standard Oil Com
pany under the Dawson banner dur
ing the exciting days from October
the first until Nov. Sth, 1904. they
may conclude that the Pie Distribu-
tors should not be ungrateful to
their friends.
l judge you have read in the daily
press where we eliminated Senator
Stark l.. Baker and Col. Chas. F.
Teter from West Virginia politics
Well we are eliminating all the anti
Administration Republicans as fast
as it is consistent with humanity.
We still have some consideration
for their families who are in nowise
responsible for the insurgents taking
up arms against the Administration.
Many of their wives and children
plead with them TO be loyal TO our
authority and take no chances of
being banished from the land of
their birth. But they would not
listen To reason and pointed TO Rus
STA as an example If what could be
accomplished il the hungry piemen
hung together and would drop few
bombs under the Administration.
They did not know that it is my
duty to examine all bombs sent to
the Governor. The Governor is
moi permitted to come outside the
walled palace as long as there is an
iDsurgent in town. Now Col. Teter
aud Senator Baker have been two of
the most active insurgents we have
had to deal with. Necessity com
PEELED us to eliminate them as a
warning to others. We had an
inkling that Maj. w. f. Glasscock
was about to accept a commission
in the Insurgent army and we quiet
ly eliminated him. The process of
elimination is steadily going on.
Senators Elkins and Scott are work
ing under the directions of Gov.
Bill Dawson and myself. They are
becoming proficient in the art of
elimination.
Ever since Senator Stephen B.
Elkins arrived from New Mexico
and took up his residence in West
Virginia and subscribed to our
brand Of politics, which is the best
brand on the market today, we have
done every thing to keep him from
getting homesick and wanting to re-
turn to his old home in New Mexico.
although he claimed that the reason
he left New Mexico was ON account
Of the climate being too hot.
Bro. Elkins is to the Republican
party Of West Virginia what the
mercury is TO the thermometer.
When in The generosity Of his heart
he sends US campaign contribu-
tion to advance the cause of Repub-
licanism our spirits raise and we
shake hands all around. But when
he withholds his generosity in order
20 test our faith and our loyalty to
follow where ne leads our spirits
take q sudden drop like the mercury
when il comes in contact with the
cold wave from the West.
When Bro. Elkins came to this
state Of political milk and honey he
took out a grub stake and went to
prospecting His success was so
great and the ont look so promising
that he just staked off the State and
laid claim to H. Just at that par.
ticular time we were sorely in need
Of plunger, as the colored breih-
rem we're slow coming in and the
foreigners had not left their Euro
pean homes. The Pennsylvania
method Of politics was not in vogue
and the out look was anything bu,
encouraging. Gov. Dawson and
myself who we're born in the poliii-
cal excitement of the moon agreed
to harness Bro. Stephen to the char
lot and enter him for the Senatorial
race. lie won the race without
losing one spoke in the chariot.