Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1907-11-16
SWISHER TOWAI.k PLANK
Report That He VIII Be Forced
Out Of Race for Goyernorship.
NICE FEDERAL JOB FOR HIM
Recent Conferences Have Been Held
TO Devise Some Way Of Getting
Him Out Of the Field.

has the following spasm on tbe gulser-
material situation.
In an effort to unload the Honor
able Charles Wesley Swisher as a
factor in the race for the gubernator-
| iaI nomination, has an agreement
been reached whereby he is to be Civ
en- sinecure appointment in the fed
| eral service?
Were the meetings that have been
held at Washington between Senator
Stephen Benton Elkins, Mr.: Swisher
and Senator Nathan Bay Scott, for
the purpose of inducing Senator Scott
to agree to assist Svisher to get
such on appointment?
In reply to both of these questions
persons who claim to be next" to
vha is going on, have replied in the
affirmative. 1t is stated that while
Uncle Stephen" has gwen out that
Swisher will have his support in this
campaign, that he is anxious and
willing to dump him for some other
good man, and that in order to place
Swisher out of harms way and pro-
vide him with something that will be
equally as good in the way of a sal
airy II not honor as getting the NOM
! ination for, or even beng elected
governor, the scheme of securing him
AN appointment was evolved and that
| the meetings that we're held were not
! for the purpose of comforting with
regard to the coming campaign, but In
order to devise a way and means for
taking Senator Scott into camp.
| However, Senator Scott has been
in the harness for a good many years
/ and like Senator ElKins IS not
spring chicken and could not be
caught mapping by his willy colleague
and the others who favor this
scheme This was evidenced by the
| fact that after the last time Swisher
went to see the senator, the would-be
candidate of the state did not come
away from the senior senator's apart
ments with the same bouyant smile
he had when he was ushered into the
august presence, but on the other
hand appeared to be considerably
crestfallen.
Another thing is that Swisher does
not appear as boisterous and conf
dent since that last melting in Wash
! ington as he was before. IT Is very
evident that Senator Elkins wants to
dump the secretary of state and put
another in the race in his place who
viii be more popular and make
! better appeal to the people. When
he turned down Hon. Arnold G.
! Scherr state auditor and took up
Swisher. E'kins turned away from
! him one of his best friends he ever
| had a man who worked hard for him
when he was a candidate for re-elec-
ton to the state legislature. Scherr
4 is sore and Elll.ns cannot Dlacate
!! him as he has many others. Elkins
wants a man whom he can control
absolutely and while he might be
able to do that with Swisher. he real
ICES that the present secretary OF
state is having too much opposition
among all classes to win out, there
! fore he IS elected to walk the plank.
Senator Scott has not fallen in, ev-
identity with the plan to give Swisher
! federal appointment, judging from
the reports that have been received
from Washington and Charleston as
we'll as Wheeling, so "Unce Steve
/ and Swisher are up stump on that
score. the result of which will be
/ that Elkins, who always wants to be
on the right side Of the fence and
generally IS. will be compelled to
shove his erstwhile friend overheard
and do the best he can afterwards to
keep him from drowning in the fierce
political seas that are now running.
Had Scott fell in with the plan
that is said to have been broached 10
him and which was fixed up between
Elkins. Swisher and the latters
friends before the senator came back
from his trip to Mexico, there is not
the least doubt that Swisher would
have been out OF the race by this
time and another, possibly Elliott
Northcott. whom Elldns has been
talking with. would have been push
ed forward In Swishers place. and
then there would have been a three
cornored battle-royal between North
colt, Hearne and Scherr, with the
odds in favor OF the latter.
Child Dead.