Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-09-18
EXGOV. DAWSON
WASTING TIME
Appointed TO Important Mission in
China, He Holds Back to Watch
Scotty and Steve.

Somehow it seems TO official Washing
ton thaa the former governor of West
Virginia, Dawson by name. is losing
lots of time i'm taking up the work o.
fered him in China and the Orient
Many months back Dawson then seek
ing health, WIS told to prepare for a
very pleasant and healbhful vacation
tached to give him a surplus for his
family and then a few dol airs for the
development of his coal lands in West
Virginia counties. Dawson got a lit
tie better in health and much better
in political healhh, as he saw trouble
looming up for Scotty and others now
aissum ng to control the state. so he
held back about taking the appoint
menb s~uspecting, too, thai Scotty and
Steve were anxious TO get him out Of
the country.
Not long ago, when urged to give
some sort of reply as to what he would
do about the job Dawson pleaded for
more time and WAS allowed until
january | to accept or finally decline.
Now in the big newspapers col
unns of stuff about tine work OF the
| United States i'm Opening mp greater
trade relations with China, and it is
predicted that the new Far Eastern
bureau OF tine State Department wifi
achieve a good deal both for this coun-
try and for benighted China, VIII Oh has
1ong been asleep, according to our no
tions.
There has long been . lot Of fgur-
ing about the exports and imports be-
tween this country and China, also
Japan. and the balance of trade
THANKS to tea and such, a been
against this nation. Last year this
country paid Japan SIG, 000, GOO, and
Japan paid only $26, 600, 900 for our
products. 1t was nearer even with
China, as she beat us but $1,000, 600.
Am OF Asia sent the United States inn
ports valued at 97,000,0 0e, while
this nation sent TO all Asia only a
trife over $40, 000, 900 wou'th of our
products. "SSaI-EEisft in"" '~--
Such figures are worth thinking
about, and while the State Depart
ment lis getting in it's work, the for
mer governor of West Virginia ought
to be busy in behalf of the Commerce
and Labor di vision, which Will supper
intend the Dawson work and pay him
a big salary and expenses. While
Dawson cIngs TO the debt case job,
patyimg him liberal expenses and Civ
ing him association with really great
lawyers, The can afford 10 let the China
place await his pleasure, but There
! are other West Vir&.nians who, when
told of the Dawson holdup, urge that
they be given the designation n uey
promise to begin work at once.
The query is i'm Washington why
Dawson should be allowed to hold the
appointment up SO long while other
younger and smarter men Won k
to devote themselves TO it on the jump.
II has not yet been explained in Wash
ington, certainly not in the Commerce
department, THAT Dawson is so great
a figure in West Virginia that he can
tell the national government to be
| ratient and that he will so when he
gets good and ready.
Possibly Dawson is worried over the
! recent suggestions that a new combi-
nation is being formed in the Repuo-
lican PARTY of West Virginia, and tna'
he is not even considered as one-two-
three by the new c~onspirators. This
new combination plans to make Ike
Mann senator, and the activity OF
Mann's friends and I've ,atiVes in secur-
ing control of certain newspapers IN
the state warrants in great part the
Cham that he lis not going 10 wait UNI
til either Scotty or Elkins get through
with their terms. With The Ike Mann
combination is to be the great Cover
nor Glasscock, who, after q taste on
his honors. Is willing to join the rich
coal man in fixing the state so that
Mann may first be senator. and hhen
G 4asscock. the powerful man In pres
ent days will come to his own soon
enobgh. This gossip has been going
on ever since Ike went to Europe
and the last man with whom he went
!, over the home situation was GlasscocR
/ here in Wash ngton. Net only did the
/ governor appoint Mann's choice fol
5 the public service board, but the clos
est adviser of Ike in southern WEES
E Virginia, Hite, o. Huntington, was
made a general on the G0sscock stan
That last appointment told the story
e as to the prospect of a Mann an'
] Glasscock combination and the friend'
= of both Elkins and Scotty insist tina
I they had a Ioi to do with it all. Ike i
+ the man both senators wiz have u
t watch from now on, with an eye ais
on Charlestown.
To Meet in Switzerland.
Paris. Sept. 13.-Neither Miss Kath
airline Elkins, her mother nor he
Q brother, who arrived here yesterday
t would make any statement as 70 thei
h nlans. 1t is reported mat the Duke
l. after going to Italy, VII proceed Z
- ~-a--ra-d w,hnrn he tgi11 vannr Mis-