Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-05
NO EXTRA SESSION
West Virginia Legislature Not
Likely to Assemble.
VIEWS OF THE MAJORITY
Governor at Hot Springs, Va, Re-
operating His Health.
Opposition to Representative
sturgiss, But Not Enough
to Disturb.
OF THE MAJORITY
ecial Correspondence of The star.


Special Correspondence Of The Star.
WHEELING, w. Va, December 4. 1909.
Gov Glasscock has gone to Hot Springs.
Va, to seek recuperation and to decide
finally on the question of calling the
West Virginia legislators in special ses-
sion. Never rugged man. the labor and
anxiety of his campaign year ago and
a painstaking investigation into the de-
tails Of his office since March last have
told on the governor. His vacation was
we'll earned. He is expected to return
sound as ever and prepared to deal with
refractory soions If he calls special
session or to pursue the even tenor of
his way in case he decides he doesn't
want an extra session.
However, the majority of those inter-
ested do not look for special assemblage
of legislators. The recent conference be-
tween the governor and Senator Elkins
is thought to have ended that matter. 1t
is we'll known that the senator opposed
the extra session and used his influence
to prevent it. While the governors friends
would not undertake to say he was dls-
suaded by the senator, they are inclined
to believe the abandonment of the project
with the senator.
Take Another View.
On the other hand. there are members
of the legislature who take another view.
They think there is significance in the
fact that Gov. Glasscock has delayed
giving out any expression of his inten-
tions. If he had abandoned the special
how he ha1,
announced his decision ere this. Conse-
quently they figure on the session some
time after the holidays and believe the
governors trip to the Virginia health re-
sort was largely for the purpose of con-
sidering with himself just what he should
ask the legislature to do.
Half a dozen special elections would
have to be called to fill legislative vacan-
cies in the event of the governors call
There would have to be a proclamation
for holding these elections thirty days in
advance. which, at best would defer the
beg1nnf ng OF the session until late In the
winter. From g. general standpoint, there
fore. the odds are against a special ses-
sion.
Mr.. Sturgiss Takes Notice.
Representative George c. Sturgiss is
concerned over the rumored contest for
his seat by State Senator Fred o. Blue,
q
the letters sent to him by certain pos
sibilities." who inform him they will not
be candidates against him this time and
who intimate their support Of him until
such time IS they make UP their minds
to enter the arena.
OF the six or seven republicans known
to possess congressional ambitions in the
second district 1t is thought Sturgiss.
will have the support of at least four,
/ nr0Vid0d
L. JeffordS of Jefferson county, who has
a law Office in Washington, Is quoted as
one of these. N. q. Keim of Randolph
county, Judge Holt of Taylor and l.. ].
Fornan OF Grant are said to be others.
Sturgiss Is certain of his own county
and figures on Preston without doubt.
while he has ady1ces which lead to the
conclusion that he will also have the
counties east Of the Alleghenies, or more
than enough to nominate. Sturgiss was
always strong in the eastern Panhandle
from the time he ran as the republican
candidate for governor.
Boom for Judge Moss.
The booming Judge Moss Of Parkers-
burg is getting as candidate for district
attorney, to succeed Judge Reese Biz
card, Is construed as including Repre-
sentative Harry c. woodward, who fears
Moss as a competitor for congressional
honors. Moss almost made the try
against woodward before, and woodward
would be tickled to death to see him fixed
SO as not to give him future cause for
worry Incidentally there is no love lost
between woodward and Blizzard. The
latter has always been strong with SEN
ators Elkins and Scott, and he will not be
dethroned without trouble IL he does not
care to step down. He controls one of
the two republican papers in Wood
county, and recently perfected combina-
ton with the other which assures him of
all the newspaper support needed in that
section. AS Moss halls from the same
neighbOrhood, Moss would suffer Just to
that extent if 1t is to be Moss-Blizzard
contest. Moss confidently believes he is to
get the place, and while there are ru-
mors that Blizzard will not be candi-
date there is no known source of author
ity for the statement.
If Blue does not become a candidate
for Congress he will have no trouble in
getting denomination to the state SEN
there will be lively scramble to succeed
him. Stanley Hodges of Pendleton, de-
feated by Blue four years ago, would be
a candidate in that event. Also Erb W.
Martin. w. B. Nutter and j. NJ. N
Downes, all Of Usphur county
Politicians Watch Hubbard.
On the return of Senator Scott from
California some additional interest in the
| case of his succession will be aroused.
Despite the persistent non-commital at
titude of SCOTS felow-townsman, Rep
resentatiye w. p. Hubbard. the oracles
figure he has designs on Scott's shoes.
Hubbard's activity in state way of late
developed that conjecture AS the new
president of the state board of trade
he has been moving around West vir-
ginia, presumably without malicious in
tent on Scott. but wherever he has gone
the politicians have pricked up their ears.
Hubbard has undoubtedly received some
encouragement, but to what extent or of
what pOtentlAfity NOBODY knows His