The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-05
Cap 3oveneT
VIII Out.
fr OHIO COUNTY GIVES a MaJoR:
lTY FOR HUBBARD, SAYS 81
JOHN WALLACE

|lTY FOR HUBBARD. SAYS
JOHN WALLACE
II his sunday letter to the Pits
burg Dispatch John Wallace says
Hubbard is cinc.1 and that Captain
Dovener VIII retire from the contest
under certain conditions The letter
IS as follows
The Congressional district which Of
Sers the Republicans the least en-
courasement is to be the scene OF
their most intense activity for the
nomination This is the Second dis
rrict which Colonel Thomas B. Davis.
captured at special election 10 fill
the Judge Dayton vacancy about
year ago. II is the only one OF the
five districts where there are two
Democratic counties which have good
Organizations and the Democracy
comes nearer TO organization gen
orally in the Second than il any other
district.
The contest for The Republican nom
nation VIII be bitter. Therein may
originate causes for another Demo
cratic victory The Second district
has always been debateabie ground
and only carried by Dayton after the
hardest kind of battling each time'and
now the Republicans are far from the
old time harmony il that portion OF
the State The wounds engecde-ed
by the Dawsor-Teter scrap We're The
The two prominent candidates are
\. G. Keiu of E;Idns and George C.
SturSiss Of MorSantown. representing
formerly 1t they do not now the Daw-
son and Teter divisions. 1t is assur-
ed that the lines will be drawn be-
tween then or that issue, or which Is
about the same. the Dayton and anti
Dayton elements. Klein drawing the
forces which always were a-rayed
against Dayton in conventions
Opposed by Corporations
SturgiSS is 4 maa among men. and
that he would be credit to the State
at Washington is conceded by those
who oppose him for reasons entirely
springins out of his courage and i'm
lcC<1l pOIL4S<14 <A4oAAo -. AAS
announces in his platform that he
is Roosevelt Republican and stand
ing for the square deal II was sim
liar announcement. when he stood for
the nomination for the State Senate
few years ago. that turned the cor
porations against him and blocked
his ambition.
1t IS unfortunate for the RepubN-
cans that bad blood IS likely to be
stirred up by the Hubard-keim con-
test. for it indicates advantages TIA;
the Democracy will receive whether
they fasten the nomination on Col
one1 Davis again against his win or
induce John J. Cornwel1 TO make the
race.
Unless all signs fail W. P. Hubbard
will be the Republican nominee to
succeed Representative Dovener in
the First district Hubbard is now ac-
counted a cinch by the talent. and
Captain Dovener has come out with .
public statement that he will retire
Strued as confession of weakness
Dovener's friends are striving to
stem the Hubbard tide with this APP
peal. and admit that if Ohio county
the home of the candidates. gives
Hubbard majority of the delegates.
Dovener viii not make a contest in
the other counties. This situation is
also based on the assumption that
Lewis, Marshall and Brooke counties
which previously take action, Will go
for Hubabrd as now appears likely.
Senator Scott Explains
Dovener's interest in Ohio county
has called forth a diplomatic expla-
nation from the Senator in a letter
to a. R Campbell. deputy revenue
collector at Wheeling. The Senator
says in the first place that he is tax
OF Hubbard's work for him when Col
onel SchmuIbach Of Wheeling had de-
signs on his shoes four years ago, but
that If Hubbard intends to use his
election to the House of Representa-
tives as a stepping stone to the Sen
ate. he must expect al the opposi-
ton the Senator can summon On this
point Mr. Scott is candid
AS matter of fact Mr.. Hubbard
will rest content with his election
to the lower chamber. the position he
strove for several years ago unsuc-
cessfully in Democratic year.
Opposition TO Senator Scott at the