Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-12-11

About Aspirants and Their Chances
--Martinsburgs Postoffice Among
the Many Others to Be Handed Out
to the Faithful.
Washington ID. c., ID C. Wash
ington, d. c., the mecca Of the West
Virginia politicians abounds with Wis
iting statesmen this week. The meet
ing OF Congress and the Rivers and
Harbors Convention is the excuse for
the coming of many; but the real mo.
tive will be desire 10 get in the first
work in regard to Fed raj apopint.
ments. Practically all of the most
important Federal Offices in West Vir-
ginia are due TO be filled. Here is a
partial list:
Two United States Marshals.
Two United States District Attor-
neys.
Two Assistant United States Dis
trict Attorneys.
Postofflce at Wheeling.
Pcstoffice at Fairmont.
Postoffice at Clarksburg.
Postoffice at Martinsburg.
Postoffice at Moundsville.
Postoffice at Parkersburg.
Postoffice at Huntington.
In addition to these host Ct small
er jobs are to be given out, and it is
not strange, therefore, that there is
going to be a gathering of the clans.
In view of the fact that both Senators
Scott and Elkins are candidates fer
reelection and that the legislature
chosen in 1910 and 1912 will decide
their fates, it may be assumed that
they will not be rash in making an
pointments.
Candidates for all the Federal po-
sitions in the Northern District have
been especially active. II. Roy Waugh,
of Buckhannon, who has been holding
the office of Pardon Attorney under
Governor Glasscock, has been an as
pirant for the District Attorneyship.
Judge Hunter Moss, of Parkersburg,
q
Reese Blizzard, who has filled the DO
sition acceptazly for eight years, has
done little to further his own chances
of reappointment, but some potential
influences have been at work in his
behalf, and the knowing ones are in
clined to the belief that he will be the
appo,ntee.
Major Charles D. Elliott, who has
been United States Marshal, will
net have clear sailing for reappoint-
ment. His most active opponent is
James c. Doyle, of Marshall county.
Doyle has the endorsement OF practic-
ally every influential republican n
Northen West Virginia, and the at
tention of the Senators has been
somewhat fcrcibly called to the fact
that Marshall county, and in fact.
The Northern Pan Handle has had
hands in that a former state admins
trations during the past twelve years.
support Of his own senatorial district,
Doyle has also the advantage of the
almost unanimous endorsement and
support of his own senatorial district,
and at least two adjacent districts.
and at least two adjacent districts.
Friends of Congressman Hubbard
take it for granted that new post
masters will soon fill the offices at
Fairmont and Clarksburg. Both Den
ham and Fleming have been unfriend-
ly to Hubbard, Their terms expire
within a very few weeks, and acor1-
ing to all precedent the congressman
is entitled to name tn ir successors.
Hubbard recommended Homer Will
Jams to succeed Denham when the lat
ter was supposed to have been fired
a year ago, and II is supposed that in
due course of events Williams will
succeed Denham. John L. Lehman
who has been an active Hubbard lea
tenant in Marion county, and is also
an important factor ia the Marion
county republican organization, is is
said, will probably succeed Fleming
All these and many more important
jobs are to be given out in West Vir.
ginia in the very near future, and 1t
is very probable, therefore, that Wash
ington will be very popular place
with West Virginia politicians for
some time to come.
Mr. Thnrn PaAAarde EirApnap