The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1907-12-25
ADAM LITTLEPAGE
CHOICE OF MASSES
IN THIRD DISTRICT.
KANAWHA MEMBER OF STATE
SENATE LOOKED UPON AS
SPLENDID INTERNATIONAL
TIMBER
OLD TINE POLITICIAN
DISCUSSES SITUATION.

A Register reporter ran aoross
an old.time politician from the
Third West Virginia Congressional
District, yesterday, and esked, who
is the choice of your people for
GovernorP"
(which do you mean, Repub-
loan or DemocratP" be replied.
Upon receiving an answer that
his We've as to both would be in.
terssting, the politician replied:
"You know 1 have not taken
much interest in state politics for
some years. 1 have been attend
ing strictly to business. but since
it seems that both our state and
national governments have gone
off after strange gods, and are at
tempting to subvert the good old
time governments of our fathers
we old-timers have been doing q
good deal of sober thinking down
our way. We used to attribute the
money panics and all of our ills to
the Democratic party. Not long
ago one of my business associates
said to me: Did you ever think
there has never been a financial
panic in the United States that
did not OCCUR under a Republican
administration, since that party
came into powerp just think of
that terrible panic of 1873 under
Grants administration, which
blighted this country for five long
years. 1t closed manufactures, it
Frustrated all line of business and
established the first soup houses in
all large cities, which kept from
starving tens Of thousands of men
out of employment. Then the
panic of 1893 brought on under
Harrison's administration, which
our Republican friends tried to
shove over on to Cleveland; and
now the Roosevelt. rich man'a nan.
10, which our Republican friends
say is simply good object lesson
to show the world what our great
country oan stand l began to
think there was q good deal of
truth in my friends statement
But how about the gubernato-
rial choice of the third district2"
We'll, / have just returned from
q business trip through many of
the counties of the Third, Fourth
and Fifth Congressional districts.
have found about all of the prom
insnt Republicans. excepting those
holding Office and those connected
with the State administration, are
earnest and outspoken for Auditor
Scherr. They say he is honest,
capable, conscientious and not con
nected with any ring or controlled
by any man or faction.
"Who is the choice of the Dem.
ooratsP"
Adam B, Littlepsge of Charles.
ton, is the only man 1 have heard
mentioned by them for governor.
Il seems that all of the Demc Gratis,
most of the labor element and
many of the Republicans are for
Adam, first, last and all the time.
Everybody calls him Adam down
our way. 1t seems that he knows
about everybody and about every
body knows him"
The politician, in reply to fur.
Their questions. gave some interest
ing facts concerning Mr.. Little.
page. He was born down in Ka-
naWha county amid the roar of ar.
tillery and the rattle of musketry
dvring the civil war. His father
was a gallant soldier, who was
killed in 1863 He was left an or
phan with widowed mother, and
has fought his way manfuIly, sim
ele-hsnded and alone, up to the
high position he now holds in the
esteem of his people They say
he is four square, a Jeffersonian
Democrat, laboring man, and has
many Republican friends, as was
proven when elected to The last
state senate, in strongly Repub.
lican district, over one of the best
and most popular men in the Re-
publican party, who had made an
honorable senator and WAS a can.
didate for reelection; that he, like
SCherr, is also honest. capable and
conscientious, and abont every
thing else required to make an
ideal Governor; that he is indeed
one of the people, and a hustler
from RRY back. who navar firas or