The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-10-02
POLitics und
Sc liticia.as
NVEEKI DOPE LETTER cocERFt
ING MEN AfsE MEASURES OF
THE STATE.
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P4RkERsBuRs5, Oct. 1.-The clos
ing week has been one thick with ru
mcrs 81 politics; OF the Sly words am
atealty movements Of politicians. Yer
Hfiy, the gum shoe brigade Is abroad Il
tine land, and the Remingtons ar
Clicking day and night the breezy gos
4 sip to podigions proportion Of an in
atenigent reading public that likes T.
4 be regaled by it. Scott has been Of
4 along tue. Great White Way, makint
/ handing the Monongalia people tht
! merry with the Hrdson-Fulton cehe
bration: Elkins has been taking tn
AQUA pt1ra punishment at the yirgiai
Hot springs; and Glasscock has been
handing the Mongolia people tn
pleasing palazza over th,ir "Homecom
ing" In the meantime. rpmors .po!
sessing qualities of more or less ere
dence, with .fnnse touching the extr
Legislative session attaining the high
est altitude.
Governor Glasscock's reticence ha.
served to add fuel to the controversial
flames. At Morgantown. in public ans
private talks, he allowed no slip of tht.
tongue to disclose his hand. To on.
of his most intimate. friends there h
discussed teh subject, but let NO wor
crop out that would hint at his inten
tions. Prior to his departure froT
Charleston ne discussed the stibtec
with another close to him. man hig
up in oficial life. but the letter fror
the latter which lies on the desk be
fore me Is heavy with doubt.
Amazing indeed would be meditatio
over the present furlyburly about tn
mooted extra session subject If it wer
not for the silly, yet serious shaft
that impugn nte motives of many e'
cellent men of the press. That tend
to weaken public confidence in tn
probity of the paers. 1t taints an oa
erwfpse instructive and interesting dis
cussion with sinister suspicion. Thos
who are for the session say the lobb!
lists Of the Interests" are fghttn
strenuously against it for selfish res
sons, as if the lobbyists would hav'
the heart to throttle the goose tina
lays the golden egg! Lobbyists liV
ON legislatures; what profteth peac
to The fighting man? They and thei.
kind would, IL they could, have sesst
sfons perpetual instead OF bi-ennia
And those who have been thrummin
their harps against the extra sesslo
nave been so unldnd as to allege the
those who want 1T expect to profit pr
cuniarily therefrom. Those who know
their Charleston in legislative time
know full wen that any blind hog
able to pick up a few Juicy acorns
plentiful is the crop. Editors who OF
pose the calling Of an extra session
therefore, lay themselves wide open =
the suspicion Of being honestly an
genuinely sinners, Of holding the pull
lies welfare above their individual ir
terests. The paradox is as pleasant a
It Is unisue.. In Wheeling, Parkersbur
and Huntington there is not Republ
can newspaper advising the extra Sc
sion. The Charleston Mail Is. Tn
wheeling Intelligencer says sit ha
counselled againct 1t, and still believe
that htere is nothing at this time tho
would Justify call for one" which
potential and interesting. because j
was thought that the States leadin
Republican paper was on the othe
side of the proposition. Senator Ere
o. Blue (he is one found at last who's
motives are not likely to be impugr
ed) is the latest State Senator and IN
portant party factor to add his volc
and counsel against an extra session
And to add more gayety to the debate
along comes Brother Tom Hare, apoF
tie of the Drys, who raises his parchcf
yotce In the desert and says that Ii
didn't say it-that is, that he didn'
SAY that Governor Glasscock told mir
that there would be a special or ~
"uxtry." And thus the riddle OF tn
sphinx ages with the riddle still Ut
solved.
Lightning rods are being lifted hief
ar in q number of senatorial district
until they are quite plainly discernibl
lsiIhouetted against the political sky
In the Arst Metnherr Bente, he Of Oh
golden haloed head, and profussion o