The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-26
Harlner Tries Daily TO Intimidate
Voters With Threats Of
All Kinds.
CUISINES MEN THREArENED
With Boycott Unless They Prom.
Use TO Vote Themselves and
Clerks for Harmcr.

Clerks for Harmcr.
Mayor Harmer complains that
they have all deserted him. Thus
does he see the handwriting on the
wall.
1t does not take more than a cas-
ual observation to see the panic he
is in. His every act betrays him
and his own admissions prove that
he is discouraged, disheartened and
regrets that he was foolish enough
to believe that the people Of Clarks-
burg would put up with his weak.
yaciIlatlng administration
still another year
An open admission Is made by
him that he has failed to keep the
pledges he made in that public ad.
dress in the court house Just before
the election last year. He is angry
too that the Prohibitionfsts will not
surrender their rights TO him. He
ran on their ticket once and they
thought at the time he was&a Pro-
hibitionist, but none of that for him,
for the very next year he was found
lined up
With Whiskey Party,
sailing under the name of reform,
and, when important times come in
the history of the Prohibition party
he is found bitterly fighting that
party, This is done in county, con-
gressional and state elections. They
have awakened TO the fact that his
profession toward prohibition Is
mere pretense, racket he plays in
an effort to get Prohibition votes.
Scarcely day passes that he does
not
Issue Threats
against some one in order to drive
them to vote for him. This Is not
"nnened alone to city officials and
others in the employ of the city. It
extends TO business men of every
kind.
Within the past few days Mr. Har-
mer has been
Down on pike Street
among the saloonists with big club.
He puts up line of talk something
after the following fashion:
Il understand you are taking some
hand in politics this year"
The reply was about like this:
Well, ! am going to yote.'
Then Mr. Harmer said:
'You had better watch Yourself.
] If you are not going to vote for me
and work for me. There is
Another Day Coming,
! and IL am elected, It will be mighty
tough for you, IL Won do not vote
for me-"
It is also stated that Harmer has
threatened TO get his bunch TO
Boycott Several Merchants
unless they vote for him. He asks
that they also make their clerks
vote for him.
So desperate has he become that
he has actually taken the matter OF
his campaign into mayors court, ana,
perverts justice in an endeayor to
save his official scalp. The criminal
goes before him. confesses or Is
proved guilty. and in all other courts
of justice. fine and perhaps sentence
are imposed. but not in Harmer'a
court now, when III that the convict
has to do is TO tell the mayor he In
tends to vote for him and he goes
free.
These are some OF the desperate
things Harmer is resorting to and
proves conclusiveiy that he and his
loafers and idlers are stopping TO the
Lowest and Meanest
things TO elect Harmer.
Harmer does not stop there. how
ever, but goes into homes and drags
women and fair daughters into his
political-mire, his
Campaign Of Deceit.
his miserable make-shift OF an adj
ministration and deludes them into
doing things that they would not do,
were they familiar with the subter-
fuges he employs. and the coIluslon
he has with some Of the worst ele-
ment Of the city in order to win
the election.
There Is no denial Of the fact that
Doodle and Booze
were employed last year to elect