Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-02-24
DAWSON IS A BIG FIGURE.
Famous Letter to Tillman Raises
Him Into Great Prominence.
SMOKED OUT SENATOR fLKlNS

OWUNEU W OLShtOH GINfN0
Latter Declares He Stands With the
President In the Matter of Rail.
road Rate Legislation.
Senator Elkins has treated West
|. Virginians to their second distinct
.hock on the railroad rate issue within
! week. He has fairly dazed them
! BY his announcement that he has been
! in hearty accord with President
tsRoosevelt's views from the start.
This avowal is regarded variously,
nut there Is no difference of opinion
ON the proposition that Governor
$Dawson's now famous letter to Sem
stor Tillman smoked out the senior
senator from this state.
II. Gov ernor Dawson's Tillman letter
was happy stroke at the opportune
moment 1t has made him with one
dash of his pen bigger man in the
republican ranks than his long la
borious struggle in the Icing and Bit
ter state tax reform controversy.
The Governor by his prompt denial
of an ambition to succeed Senator
'Elkins, put quietus on the Elkins
lamp. Governor Dawson was positive
in saying that he would serve out his
term. and, he added with equal posi-
Il ~ ha
ernorship higher and more exalted
station than a United States senator.
ship.
Governor Dawson did not deny his
ambition when his govrenorship ten
lure is ended to go after SCOTS shoes,
which persuit will then be timely.
The wildly enthusiastic reception
given TO the Dawson stand for rail
}road regulation moved Senator Elkins
ITO deny opposition to the president.
and when a call for signed statenNd
was made he followed with his sig
aature appended to his denial. Sec
ator Scott has since let it filter out
that he has also been wrongly classi
fed all along, and that he, too, like
his colleague, stands for rate bill
endorsed by the president. Both have
Supplemented this statement with the
Information. however. that the bill
must undergo certain amendments,
one of which is supposed to be fol
Judicial review, and on this rock the
I'D Ia .,,t &c tor
htors may split.
The celebrated Red Rock Fuel, Co.
pase against the Baltimore and Ohio,
which precipitated the Tillman-D aw
on correspondence, is now up in q
ederal court in this state, and the
Aople OF West Virginia. who had
Atle interest. apparently, in the sub.
let at issue formerly, are watching
he attitude of their senators with a
cen eye A Moundsville humorist
bclares that Everybody in West Vir.
MIA now thinks of rate regulation,
cludipg our old man -
Eleven months hancs Senator Elk
Is will he reelected or defeated In
few weeks M must be active in
ing up his fences, which have be-
me sadly impaired since the Yule-
g. The legislature will he the
zoe de- resistance, and Republican
ticipation will need lot of illum
ton to scatter the confictiuR clouds
Fed by the break between Elkins
Dawson. Besides wanting q leg
ture TO enact his railroad susg s.
ps. Dawson wants one that will !,
II to lis tax propaganda. Ons or
other issue must give way. If
Rtor Elkins ca establish q clear
ss rate regulator by his voie in
season, he will clear shr at
pierre. and be,wen break with
ted affiliations end his re-. lection
hardly tarry lc. g in choosing.
democrats are raZ d by The
30 ne-shifsing. and the joke
, to on Owen 8. Mckinney,
man If their staIe xecutivc COM
.. who latelv booted ut the IDA
rail cad regulation d.t@il Gu ;
he fsure il has developed with
A Cleveland Parker .onserva-
hs wanted TO iisilt on para
reaffirma ion of his party's