The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1908-08-20
GAINES SETS
THE EX ANllE'L
For The Other West Virginia
Congressmen to Eoliow in
This Campaign.

mornings Parlsersburg Dispatch
News IS long article purporting 10
be an interview betwaen some un-
known person and three Congress
men. VIZ: SturSiss, Woodyard and
Iiubarth In which the gentlemen
named are made to say various
things to suit the opinion of the
gang which is running the Dispatch
News
! In the first place there was no In
Iatercst manifested out in the state
over the so-callod conference, If
there was any such. and in the sec
tond place. 1t would not amount 10
much II such conference was held
from the fact that the matter IL be-
fore the public now for settlement
goes. on to say that no statement
aud not to candidates and o..icc-
holders. The article in question
goes on TO say that no stcatcment
was given out as to what subjects
were discussed yet the article goes
on to state what the gentlemen sail
The question has been asked
, throughout Barbour county whnt
right any Office holder or candidates
have TO change the ticket as put up
in the wlewam at Charleston July S
and .. The convention met regular
according to a call.issued by the par
ties authority as vested In s. commit
tee and the routine Of the ccnvcn-
ton was carried out according to the
we'll known rules OF the Republican
party
Messrs. sturgiss. Woodyara and
Hubbard are all Republicans and
nominated regularly on the Repuhli-
can ticket aud there is no danger OF
their allowing their names TO go on
rump ticket or any new party ticket
| The respective districts are largely
Republican and they do not need to
80 out and get their names on any
other party ticket. They just as well
seek to get on the Democratic ticket
Lincoln rump ticket.
Mr.. stsrgiss Is made to say that he
| has no hope of settlement betwccn
the Swlsher and Scherr people and
that the swishor people have appeal
led to tho national committee to add
I Just the situation. There is no de-
sire among the real Republicans to
compromise with this rump ticket as
there is no reason why the party
should 20 out to compromise with
any such body of men. The
Swisher people have not appealed to
the national committee and there is
no Likelihood of their doing so any
way soon.
Mr.. sturgiss is also made to say
that there is two ways out of the
mudtile, one by having both Scherr
and Swishcr come off the tickets and
another substituted, or have the
presidential electors placed on both
the tickets. AS to the first PROPOSE
ticn it Is silly from the fact that the
Republican party has regularly nom
mated a full ticket and placed Mr..
Swisher ut its head. and why should
he be pulled off because a few rump-
ers have cssayod TO put in the field
n new party There is no reason
j,why Swishcr should he thus treated
simply to crafty q within of scherr
| in fair and open fight. As TO the,
men who were put on the Republic
can ticket as electors are Republic
cans and they should not he insultca
by asking them 10 place their name
on rump new party ticket. We do
not believe that Mr.. Sturglss would
make any such statement from the
fact that he himself IS a Republican
from the ground UP and we do not
think he would ieopardize his own
cause by allowing his name to 20 on
4 n rump ticket or having anything TO
do with such ticket
| The talk that is put into Mr..
! Woodyard's mouth is equally as silly
as that the correspondent makes Mr..
I Sturgiss say and as to the matter of
I the Swisher people believing all Is
! lost that Is fabrication out Of the
whole cloth and needs but one
I phrase to speak 1t and that every
word of 1t is fslse and misleading
! We believe that any man who de-
I sires to have his namc on the rump
ticket should be allowed to go but
\ the committee to which the ticket he
( was on is amenablc should declare a
vacancy In the Republican ticket and
should at once I'LL the vacancy with
I some loyal Republican who believes
/ In the party principles and is willing
K ia stand or fail by those principles.
I 1t is not ali a question of being
elected but r. Is question OF stand
ing for the principles of the G.. o. r.
which have proven Of so much value
to the people of this great country
of ours.
4 1t is a shame that Mr.. Scherr, AT
ter being so long in the C. o. T.
should allow his few so-calle6
4 friends to lead him astray and from
his moorings of the old party and
start him as an old man on an un-
tried political bark on the stormy
\ waves of a political sea and espe-
I cially SO when there is no demand
for new party. We feel sorry for
(! the old man thus duped by few
rule-or-ruin sort OF fellows who are
out to dictate who shall reign and
rule over us.