Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-03-28
NEW CANDIDATE LIKELY.
Scherr May Withdra~ From The
Gebernaslonal Race.
SOME SORE DlSAPPolNMENTs
Another Entry At Elsvsntn Hour -
Suggested 10 Defeat ghs Car.
didate N Lead

"T8lk Of Arnold G. scheff Nith8faa
ing from the race for fhr republican
nomination FOR governor j. NOW much
heard and Is not without substantial
foundation ar sehefr was Ia thu
city yesterday from another surprising
defeat al the hands Of Secretary Of
State swisber ia Doddrldee county.
He had reason 10 expect and hope that
IN that county be could at least get
his candidacy started with Few
ure-enough delegates that could an.
mistakenly be counted in his column.
which, thus far IS pretty nee Or
fgeres
But he met with a ggieyous dlsap.
pointment there. the delegates being
given over TO Walter Gribble. Of DodA.
ridge county, to appoint. who Is a
candidate Cor either secretary OF state.
state auditor or something else, aud
is, above all things else, a Swlsher
supporter, it is claimed. So, when
Mr.. Scherr arrived in this city and
went into conference with some OF his
friends, he was feeling gloomy aud his
local friends no less so.
J. w. vandevort, attorney aor the
! Baltimore and Ohio railroad company.
and Judge A. T. Brown, United States
commissioner in bankruptcy, Who are
in charge of the Scherr candidacy in
this section, it is understood, put it up
pretty plainly to Mr.. scherr that ne
would have to change his plans OF
campaigning, unloose a little more OF
the sinews of war to get to work on
an entirely different tack If he is eA.
pected to get look-in
Succession of Failures.
They pointed out that his candidacy
thus far had been a succession OF fali-
downs. even in counties where it was
bought he was strong and had the
best in the way of organization. Bar
bour county, for instance, where a
popular primary was held was count
ed on as dead certainty Tor Scherr
and that it would get mis- candidacy
a start finally. His forces We're led
by Charles r. Teter there, and the A.
fiuence of federal court attaches re.
siding in that county doubtless went
to help his cause along. But Barbour
proved the sensational surprise of the
preliminary campaign Swisher car
ried it with lead over Scherr OF over
six hundred votes. From that un.
happy occurrence TO Scherr dates the
talk of his retirement from the race.
II is stated that at the conference
here Judge Brown took a most pess
imistic view of the Scherr prospects
and virtually advised his withdrawal.
not. however, until some efforts We're
made to get someone else in the race
who might combine the necessary per
sonal and material elements 10 give
Swisher something like a race for the
money. 1t was suggested that Scherr
might combine with Hearne, but, it Is
reported that Scherr expressed lack
VI idltH III iiVdlHc . dUiiitS w w nv
trick. and doubted if he would enter
into any compact 1t is said that
nothing definite came of this confer
ence, but that Mr. Scherr's withdrawal
soon is not counted an improbability.
Five Won by Swisher.
Seven counties have held pri-
maries or conventions and selected
delegates TO the nominating conven
tons. Five of the seven are counted
entirely for Swsher, while three OF
the eight delegates in Writ are put
down in his column This gives
Swisher 1879 delegates TO start with,
divided as follows: Kanawha, SO;
Fayette, 40; Clay, q Barbour, II;
Doddridge, u; Writ, 3. The five re-
naming votes in Writ are said to be
three for Scherr and two for Hearne.
In Roane there are contesting dele.
cations, with chances favoring Swish
en-
The failure of the Scherr candi-
dacy 10 get started is one of the sur
prising, and to many, unaccountable.
things of this most unusual campaign
for delegates. The trouble seems TO
be the inability of Mr.. Scherr to eff
feet an organization. AS an organ
izer Swisher seems to put it all over
his competitors, and, In primary
contest, such as Barbour county, he
| seems to have been the better thought
of by large majority of his party
men voting, thus furnishing most
conspicuous and impressive refutation
| of the oft-repeated declaration of the
opponents of the secretary of state
that he couldn't win out a delegation
in the upstate section when the peo-
pie of the party had an opportunity
to vote directly on the question.
1T is no secret that the antf-Swish
critics are looking around in the hope
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