The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-07-25
Campaign Of Misrepresentation.

Campaign of Misrepresentation.
From the very moment Charles
Fooled Teter and Col. Ran stalnaker
trotted out their candidate for gov
ernor, Arnold G. scherr, their cam
paign has been one of gross misrep-
'resentation. Their candidate, pulled,
powdered, curled, scented and
groomed by the B. and o. Railroad
Company, says the Belington Repub-
lican, started out with false rep
reservations. No. One, by claiming
that he had majority Of three to
one In Kanawha county. That was
false and Scherr and the newspapers
knew it when they printed 1t. He re-
fused to go on the ticket in Kama
wha, claiming Swisher would carry
the county by fraud. The complete
answer is, why did he not go in and
win II he had three to one. He didn't
have them and he knew it, and there
fore his representation that he had
was a malicious falsehood.
Teter, Stalnaker, Dayton and
scherr said they had Barbour county
safely tucked away in Ran stalna-
ker's vest pocket Gin Teter's vest),
but they didn't and they again raised
the cry of fraud. That was another
malicious falsehood.
They then contended that Scherr
had eight delegates Of the 16 in Up
shur, but they didn't have a single
one, as the vote in the convention
showed, and they knew they didn't.
1t was another malicious falsehood,
and the Scherr papers ignoring the
truth helped to circulate 1t. These
are just a few samples of the false
representations and fraudulent
claims they have made.
Just before the convention, the
Scherr papers claimed that he had
more than 500 of the delegates, and
would be nominated sure. That was
malicious falsehood and they knew
1t. If he had over 500 delegates,
why did he not go in and win? He
made no complaint of the action OF
the state committee. except in the
Ohio county case. and that county
had only So delegates, and that num-
her deducted from 500 would still
leave more than enough to win, and
If Scherr had the delegates. why bolt?
He didn't have them, and he knew 1t,
and his papers knew 1t, and the re-
suit of the convention shows 1t, for
Swisher had 529, and II Scherr had
had all the others he would have had
356, almost 100 short OF nomination.
and he and his pretended friends and
his newspapers knew 1t, and their
representations were knowingly and
maltctously false,
Did you ever hear OF winner bolt
ing? Only the man who knows he
is beaten and Is politically dead ever
bolts.
swisher had 52s of the regularly
elected delegates, who voted for him
in convention on first ballot, and he
did not receive a vote from the
Hearne delegation from Ohio county.
The state committee did not favor
Swisher when it seated the Hearne
delegation from Ohio county, be-
cause they didn't vote for Swisher,
but voted for Hearne. Scherr and
his papers say they held a rump con-
vention because the state committee
seated the Hearne delegation, but it
will be observed that the committee
on credentials, made up from every
senatorial district In the state, heard
the same contests and unanimously
voted to seat the Hearne delegates,
and the report of this committee
was adopted by an overwhelming
vote in the convention.
Scherr and his followers were beat
en- to a standstill, and 1t was all reg
ular. and they know it, and they re-
fuse to stand by majority rule, and
in order to deceive the people and
cover up their filth they cry fraud
and wilfully and mallcIously misrep-
resent the facts.
Talk about the handful OF rump-
ers being the Lincoln Republican par
ty. This is the joke of the season.
Lincoln was not bolter or a rump-
er. The suggestion is nauseating.
Not one Of that motley array OF mani
acs, who made up or advised. or now