The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-08-13
False Report Again Exposed.

4WeWAtHnLdllulH6 Tue repeated ue-
mails by Charles w. Swisher and
those in charge of his campaign Of
the report that he is to withdraw
from the race for the governorship.
there are some who continue to
spread the report.
Those who do this have but single
object. That object is to cast as
much doubt on the subject as pos
slble, hoping thereby to check the
lining up of the voters OF the party
for Swister.
or course, those who are spread
ing the report also mention Scherr's
name in connection with the reported
withdrawal and they may speak
with authority as to him. 1t may be
true that he will withdraw, but 1t is
more likely that they who mention
this do so merely as strategy. That
1t is intended for strategy is proved
by the fact that only Scherr people
spread the report and keep spread
ing 1t. The Swisher following knows
he intends to stand pat. They know
he will not withdraw. They know
he has no cause to withdraw and that
any demand made upon him to with
draw is unjust to him and the party
which regularly nominated him af-
ter square, fair. open fight.
Some so-called Republican papers.
which have bolted the party and
Joined new party first started the
report that both would be withdrawn
and a new man named for governor.
They knew at the time that no such
proposition was on hand or that at
any stage of the campaign would both
men withdraw, and they merely
urged the withdrawal of both for the
reason that they knew that Arnold
boilers ticket and not betray the
party which has been SO considerate
of his interests and favored him so
often with remunemtiye office. They
felt, though they failed to say 1t,
that Arnold c. Scherr could not
maintain his self-respect by at
tempting to defeat the Republican
party in West Virginia. They are
all cognizant of the fact that Swisher
is the regular nominee and that the
party as whole will support and
elect him this fail. Still. they cling
to the fake report of their own, hop
ing to cause hesitation and doubt
with some of the voters. That is
their scheme pure and simple, hut
let none be deceived by the trick.
The boilers called themselves the
Lincoln Republican party. They de-
nounced the governor and two United
States senators, who were elected by
the Republican party. Even Scherr
and some of the boiling papers allud-
ed to themselves as representing al
new party-the Lincoln Republican
party. The irregularity of their con-
ference. which they converted into a
so-called state convention though
many of the counties had no chosen
delegates to such convention, also
placed them beyond the pales of the
Republican party. These facts rebut
all the stories they are spreading that
Taft and Hitchcock are to take a
hand in this state. But, should the
national organization turn its atten-
ton this way, it would be only to-
recognize the Republican party and
not the new party or boilers ticket.
The action OF E. NJ. Grant, the
boilers chairman Of committee. is
an open confession that the Scherr
ticket is not regular. II 1t were he
would not he asking the county tick
cts to allow themselves to be placed
on the Scherr ticket, for there would
be no necessity for such asking as the
laws of the state would place them
thereon. In other words, he knows
that the county, judicial and con-
gressional tickets were nominated
with the same regularity as the
Swisher ticket, which is the Republic
that the nomination of all five can
didates for congress was regular and
made by the Republican party. Grant
knows that the candidates for the
supreme court nominated at Parkers-
burg were nominated by the Repub-
lican party by its duly delegated rep
resentatives. Grant knows that
county tickets are nominated by the
Republican party and not by his new
party. In fact, in no county in the
state has there been a primary or con-
yention resulting from any call by
the political party that he represents.
Hence. it is easy to see why he makes
his appeal and Just as easy to see
that he confesses the irregularity OF
the Scherr ticket and the pretenses OF
the Scherr following, when 1t claims
TO be the regular Republican party
Being irregular as he openly confesse.
the Scherr ticket his no right on the
regular Republican ballot, nor neec
he presume to devise a plan with an!
hope OF success to cheat the Repub
lican ticket out of Its entitled stand
Ing on the official ballot