The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1909-07-22
Signs Of the Times Point to
Harrison County's Fa-
yorite Son.
STATES BIG ORATOR
Is Arresting Wide Attention
and Commanding Adj
niiration;
tBy CIlarIcs Breoks SIMON,

piping, strenuous times. calls for the
exercise OF future piercing talents. i.
is one continual looking ahead and
figuring on eventuaiities that are like
ly to occur. The most seeming spon-
taneous bcstowal OF political honors,
upon examination will likely be found
TO be the elimination OF the deepest
and longest laid plan of procedure.
Your skilled and experienced seek
err In hot pursuit OF office and emoIu.
ments In West Virginia need not he
told these things. He knows them al.
ready. and he works along these ac.
copied lines accordingly. We find the
game being played right now, quietly
TO be sure, which, is the way to pia,
It, among coterie Of doubtless worth
les who are already clamorIng to the
theights to strike an Ajex-defying-tfe
Tightening attitude although the
gubernatorial storm is a long ways
of.
The latest to take his alpine stock
In hand and start up and out into the
open, where any stray bolt of light
ming is likely to couple itself with his
hefty and picturesque embonpotnt Is
the Honorable Stuart +. Reed. the
secretary of West Virginia. Mr.. Reed
would a governor be. and having
wouldst thus. he has a-governing
gone. He hasn't told anybody about
II, because that is not the way to hunt
an office OF that kind unless you have
firmly established the business in the
minds of the gentle public like
Charley Swlsher has. But the Reed
like notes sound for.all the world like
a siren song trying to. lure the light
ming from the skies and stimulate n
public call which he doubtless homes
and expects toincrcase In volume to a
bowling zip, said call being the same
old call that has hcen stimulated from,
the time politics was born and which
is preliminary to Destiny getting busy
with another favorite child.
The Honorable Stuart f. Reed is
the champion heavyweight word
painter of the Glasscock administra-
tion. Whenever the Glasscock regime
has any job OF language daubtng that
calls for II high class artist, William
Glasscoeisrs presses the buzz
button on his polished mahogany and
summons Mr.. Reed. Stuart says
he, The Christian Operators society.
for the Eviction OF Miners is going to
hold a prayer meeting, in the New
River district next Thursday and they
want, the administration to lead in
prayer" or, says the governor.
the Ladies Silent Sewing Circle. of
Rogfennel. Preston County. wants this
administration to press the oratorlcal
button and open their annual bunkem
bazaar and sandbag social. Are you
on" says the governor, says he.
Is he on? Should say ne is. with
both feet and pair of crutches.
Your Excellency's sublime insinua-
tions and casual inundoes get next to
me without the help of falling brick
house, replies Stuart. and he de-
parts hence and does the job. and he
does 1t in such thorough and salts
factory manner that he comes out
from It all to the candy as an orator
who is altogether the classicst and
fossiest oFatorical article that any adj
ministration has offered for the
amusement and edliicatlon, not 10
mention Instruction, since George
Wesley Atkinson offered himself.
Reed talks West Virginia. He
makes heroes of her people; lights up
the lofty mountain peaks with fine
spun sentiment; and turns on the con
tap full-head that the joyful Jolly may
soak in good and a-plenty. All gov
ernors and would-bes talk their. state.
~ is expected of governors, who. be-
ing eN-would-bes, have the habit and
don't mind 1t bit. But when man.
who isn't governor. gets the habit 1t
Is an odds on bet that he hopes TO be
governor some day. This isn't the
strongest evidence that can he offered
tending TO convict Mr.. Reed of g,iber-
Material ambitions. but 1t is pretty
strong. 1t is not necessary Just now
10 bring forth other evidence at hand.
The downright truth of it is that.
Reed" says the governor. "the
Hollcr Than Thous want
this administration to speak at the
next regular monthly meeting on the
portentious. not to say prodigious sub
iect. Governing West Virginia as Je-
sns Would Govcrn.lt.' Slip up there
and tell Fem about West Nirginia,s re-
sources in your own sweet and win
ming way and they won't know the
difference" And Reed he Just slips.
Mr.. Reed is not the only one In
The waiting, hoping and longing class.
There are others who have sent up
their kites. strung with metal keys
with which to unlock the gubernator-
al lightning from itsischaIns. They
ike to hear their names coupled up
with the job. Fred o. Blue. of Phil
ppi. wouldn't for the world dlscour-
age any talk OF himself in this compile
connection, and George E.,
Work believes so strongly in that SUI
perstition which marks the internal