The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-12-11
The xoBtSlNos or ttE STA g.
POLITICIANS AND THE PRES
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bcugbt In Its quota OF leading nanKs
EspubItcA1f sons come DO paxe q sls5 No
III the patron ge Esahccifhg. Two mar
IshalsEifp a district MD an asF'staqs
district attoFueystSiGo were ne luscious
plpais aadilnghnsl rich and ripe up9n
HE .lniq tree No NaoHdeF the IA
|trioss pfigrfniagel hit1ler In such gools
n nuw5ers and with sFasEl interest
IL seeu1el to them q. Song time since
there has been such t.dtnss, and they
eacl and every one feIt4a ken inter
lest IN naying something to cay abons
h,w 1T should be tlonc. It reni'ndFzf
slraa q. old times, long while ago
when there was unce1itatd.ty ABOUT iii
ing fsderal jobs
Al this wzet.pE no arFoinI mems
have been; made. ard none hrs been
irrev1cg6iIy decided IRON. ID mr.
sook TO see final act1on taken tn This
week. In the mcnt9me. IL ts ieterest.
ing TO put two and two together and
mike guess. LATER and unexpected
Developments may materially change
the horoscope, but don't look for any
Inl Ee1lal changes. This IS the way 81
reads to be at this particular hour;
II sooks like H.: Roy Waugh. OF Buck
aannon at present State pardon atter-
ney, viii succeed Judge Reese BIZ
zardq as District Attorney for the
INol.hern District and that Major
Charles o. Elliott will be named for
;Ie tfirtl successive time for march
in the sameSfndc'al &ahict. The as,
sfEb4nt district nttorneyshtp in the
yIrre district will go to either John
Marshall, CT Petersburg. or Bliss Nc
crum. of Kingwood. The odds favor
Marsfhlll's appointment, In the South
lern district MARSHAL Frank Tyree, OF
Huntington, viii succeed d1fmgeR.
The realty Interesting contest lis
ever the District Ekorneysaip in TIE
Northern district. Really interesting,
because of the somewhat peculiar al,
ttttHie OF D;strfc; Attorney Blizzard.
tIe hiss never said he was candidate
for rcarpointment to anybody 50 far
rs can be learned. but did siite seT-
aral months ago that he would accept
II 1T were rendered
MIN Upon the strength Of this aita
tude, and upon further and more ex-
lplfcit information given by Judge BIZ
zard himself to Judge Hunter Moss
the latter lbecsne am applicant for the
lappcintment Bhzzard's ATTITUDE as
,frwed by the visiting Republicans
lhcre was embsrrcssin to the sent
tors, espectally to S@a stor Scott Had
lhe srnotnced Sfefin5tefy, rad e2rf4er
in tine game, tll:t he tsrsired reap
losoEntmert, he would Pr@h5ly have
got 1t. But by frI,lirrs ro 10 So a con
test was preciI Itated ard The boyE
lined mp with one or the Other c'f tile
asptrants, and from line !1oEc 8 iiiinss
most of them lhacrl up OF Waugh's
srlr.. Billiards. control OF the Par
kert<Lurg newspapers, f'nIt his sup
posed close business relations with
the Ogden prpers in Wheears, was
at first believed to tend to iEstfl fear
in the Blossoms OF the sert tors. nut,
Il strch it did, It soon faded away. As
ea-Iy as Wednesday, 1t looked like
Ju !Ra Blizzard was os,t Of It a1h
Waugh was the nna1l. Ard It looked
more and more that way on tine days
succeeding.
Few men have ever come to Wash
r.:ton from West Virginia with more
and stronger endorsements than
Waugh. Glasscock, Dawson, Judge
Atlliason's Whites choice after Moss.
swisner, Chairman Mau;heSs. Grant
Hall, Congressman Gaines. we're some
of his most potendEal hackers. while
lie had host of smaller le;ders.
Why, even Arnold ScheIr, told ifah
tlls,. he was for him, which, when 1t
became knoEn anpcng the Vest Vir-
sinaans. caused much speculative taIA
From the very OUTSET, Senator Ellcfns
was Favorable ITO Waugh, while Sen
stor Scott held b.ack, richer friendly
to bEzznr,G However, the ieHer's at
ti:ude, strange and inexpllcable TO ell
most everybody. finally. served to
swing the junior senator around 10 q
more favorable view OF Waueh's cen
diatgcy. 1t is believed tfrE Scott WIS
reStrct ant to let go Cd Blizzard, but,
the talk here ives that BlIszarslHs att
tude was unques tiensbly spea as to
place tlle senator's in a hale, having
the appearances of Il curt holtlatp, On
tlhe other hard. Jtllgo Bl2zard's
friends here, while admitting shat they