Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1906-07-28
MUCH At STAKE IN STATE
Campaign IN West Virginia win Be
a Notable One.
HOW WASHINGTON VIEWS IT
Republicans Urged to Get Together
and Send Back Senator EIkins
and All Five congressman.

and All Five congressman.
Special Correspondence to TIE Word
WASHINGTON, JnIv p 1T has cen
many year since West Virginia had
as much at stake in an election as it
will have at the coming election
The republican party has made the
state what ii is according to the
testimony Of those who are best able
to judge. And now comes ny the
question whether the policies through
which the party has done these
things shall be maintained or not 1t
is a question from a state and from a
national standpoint.
Shall West Virginia's two votes in
the senate of the United States be
cast in favoz of those great national
policies which have done SO much to
add to the growth and glory OF the
country, or shall one of them be cast
with that great school of directors and
negative statesmen? That is one of
the questions that must be answered
at the polls in November. Senator
Elkins is a candidate for reelscion.
A vote for democratic member OF
the legislature will mean vote for
the democratic candidate against
Senator Elkins. 1t has practically
resovled itself into a question of
whether it shall be Senator Elkins or
John McGraw for despite the denial
of the Honorable John 7 he is
figuring ON the senatorship as sure as
he is a foot high. He knows that he
can best promote his candidacy by
pretending that he is not candidate.
And as sure as democratic legisla-
ture would be elected you would see
him bob bling up as the democratic
nominee. Would it not be pretty
spectacle to see him step in to the
shoes of man of giant intellect like
Senator Elkins. \ vote for demo-
cratic candidate for the legislature
will be vote toward promoting that
spectacle.
Then here are five congressman to
be elected. Shall they be five men
who will stand up for the interests of
the state, men who may be relied
on 10 vote for continuation OF the
present policies of this government
policies which has made America the
foremost nation of the earth? Or
shall they. too, be selected from that
party which has been for nearly fifty
years trying TO tell the republic
cans how TO run the government. but
who came near TO running ii into the
ground the only time they have been
Entrusted with its complete control in
all that time. Shall these representa-
tives come from that party who have
never done anything but object to the
triumphant policies of the republican
party in all these years. and predict
disaster that never comes? All re-
publican leaders concede that this is
year for getting down to work. The
delegation that West Virginia sends to
the next honse may determine its
political complexion and organization.
1t is conceded that there is trouble
in some of the states. and that some
districts will be lost by the republi-
ans. 1t is therefore OF the first i'm
portsnce that the republican candi-
dates be elected They may be the
men who will determine whether
present policies shall be continued or
whether the idle theories of the dem
ocrats shall triumph. 1t is certainly
up to every man who appreciates pros
perity and wants il to continue to see
10 it that their votes, as we'll as those
Of every friend they have, are cast for
the men who advocate those policies
under whose working the United
States has grown SO phenominally.
And then there is the Legislature.
That the republican party nationally
has done for the nation at large the
West Virginia republican party has
done for the state Take the ques-
tion of taxation. Candidly, when
r has there ever been time in the his
tory of the state when the burdens of
taxation have been so uniformly dis
tributed as they are TODAY. When
have the great corporations ever
been made to bear their share of the
taxes as they are today. Shall this
continue? Get ready To vote right
this fall.