The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-07-15

nor; Il he IL not elected governor ne
Will not be governor
The friends Of Judge John william
Mason, Of Falrmont. situated
on the Monongahela river. which by
the way flows towards its mouth and
not towards it's source, and in the
midst Of large coal producing belt,
have 1t all figured out that he will be
the next governor OF West Virginia.
Judge Mason is a strong and brainy
man. He is Judge of the circuit
court for the fourteenth circuit and
usually holds court in the court
houses at Fairmont and Morgan
town as well as in chambers which
need not necessarily be in court
house at ALL He was member of
the Republican State executive com
mittee for twelve years and also
member of the Republican national
committee from 1876 to 1880. Some
years ago, with great presence of
mind and one stroke of the pen that
covered seven columns of the news
paper, he abolished that beguiling
little thing commonly known as the
slot machine in this circuit, and
other bench, judges followed suit I'M
til now the slot machine is virtually
extinct in West Virginia. This
brought him fame which clings close
ly to him no matter how hard he
tries to evade it, If he does try to at
all. He has done several other
things that entitle him to the COVER
norship.
Another prominent figure in the
arena is Clark w. May who was once
boy but now a man. When May
was a boy he was few years
! younger than he is now and spent
his days in growing and grubbing.
He was great newer of wood and
Teller of trees. Later he went to
the university where he got degree
after the necessary knowledge had
been acquired. With Drawn and
brain he then went forth, not to hew
any more wood. as it doesn't take
much brain to hew wood, but to di-
vert his strength and talent to the
cutting of wide political swaths
which all men who have occupied the
lofty position of attorney general of
commonwealth always do as Cen
eral Riley can testify. The juvenile
instinct may in Mays case cause an
uprooting in the political woods of
much wider acreage than when he
was a boy as the woods are larger
and the chance better.
Arnold C. scherr wants the job
too, it is alleged, and his friends
logically claim that he ought to have
it because he wants it. Mr.. Scherr
knows all about wool as he was once
engaged in the manufacture of wool
ems and knowing all about wool he
ought to be an artist in pulling 1t
over other peoples eyes. With few
exceptions all people have two eyes
and the best thing to cover eyes
with is wool, therefore, if scherr
has to get the coveted chair with the
other fellows eyes shut, wool grow
ing in West Virginia will be mater
tally stimulated, but his chances are
not confined to sheep-growers alone
as opticians and others doubtless
look with high favor upon this
splendid qualification. If scherr is
elected governor he will continue to
, reside in Charleston, which is the
capital of the state, and the legisla-
ture will convene there as usual.
Mr., Scherr would also have his gem
eral offices there, 10 3 4! -
Messrs. White, swisher, Mason.
May and scherr are the bitterest
of enemies and maintain the most
cordial relationship of frendliness
both politically and personally
towards each other which protends
political eruption that will doubt
less obliterate the Democratic party
altogether.
Through all this may be seen the
fine italian hands of those masters of
politics. the senior and junior Uni
ted States senator's from West vir-
ginia, in their sacrificing service to
, the State and nation. All United
States senator's have these extrem-
tiles and it would be anomalous, to
say the least, not to credit West
virginia's representative in the ma
tional senate with the possession of
these parts of human anatomy and
the ability to use them.
This resume of the complex polit-
ical situation confronting and af-
fronting the people of West Virginia
is faithfully based upon the pro
fundity of the store of imaginations
and Vaccinations of the political
dope writer's who periodically fill
up columns of nausea in the Charles