Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
AFTER SCOTS SEAT
Fight for Senatorship Opens
in West Virginia.
w. P. HUBBARD IN RACE
First District Representative Issues
Formal Announcement.
ODD LINEUP OF THE FORCES
Former Adversaries In Republican
Politics Join Hands Under the
Respective Banners.
ODD LINEUP OF THE FORCES
pecial Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence of The Star
WHEELING, w. Va, January -. 1910.
The fight is on at last between Sena-
tor n. B. Scott and Representative w. i.
Hubbard for the formers senatorial
berth. 1t is contest which has been
expected to materialize OFF and on for
nearly six years. but more particularly
within the last two years. 1t will be a
battle for blood" with the storm center
in the Wheeling district, where both re-
side. No quarter will be asked. Between
them is personal friction of long stand
ing. giving currency to the general fm-
preston that next to defeating Scott him
self Hubbard would be equally gratified
to see some one else turn the trick.
Hubbard himself said as much in his
formal candidacy announcement this
week, sent from Washington to all the
state papers. He declared he got into
the fight because nobody else could he
prevailed on to oppose Scott csndi.
date. Hubbard's statement was disap-
pointing to those who expected him to
outline a platform on which he proposed
to make campaign other than say
ing that nobody owned the Office and
that he wanted the issue between him.
self and Scott decided by primary con-
tests, Hubbard offered nothing as an Is.
Makes No Specifications.
He made general statement that there
was dissatisfaction with conditions and
that representative republicans of all
elements had urged him to become a can
didate against the incumbent, but he did
not specify a condition. Probably later
on Hubbard will go into detail, and all
who know him can rest assured he will
be vigorous and caustic in his declama-
ton against the conditions in mind.
The Hubbard announcement followed a
gathering in Washington of county fac
tors in sympathy with him. Although
there have been some denials of being in
Washington for that purpose, Ii was sig
nificant that there came together at one
time Charles F. Teter, defeated can
didate for governor: S. G. Smith of
Wheeling, Judge Frank Cox and r. NJ
Grant OF Morgantown. c. L. Topping of
Charleston. George NJ. Jacobs of Fair
mont, Arnold c. Scherr, former auditor OF
the state and late candidate for governor,
and some few others.
There will without a doubt be cross
ing of the old factional lines in the franz
ing up Of a Hubbard organization, for
| at the outset his supporters include some
whom he most bitterly OPP osed i'm their
ambitions a. few. years ago, during the
DawsOn-Teter contest. For the most
part however, Hubbard will draw from
the Scherr or Lincoln party organization
OF 1908, with perhaps a scattering from
the Swfsher crowd In other words, the
Hubbard organization will be composed
largely of those elements which can best
be classified as anti-organiZation.
Scott Lineup.
At first sight it would seem that Senator
Scott will be the organization candidate.
To an extent he will lose ex-Gov. Dawson
and his personal following, because Daw-
son and Hubbard have an understanding
and because Dawson also has senatorial
port Of leaders In the southern coal coun
ties who were allied formerly with the
Teter and Scherr candidates..
One split at the go-off is notable While
ex-Gov. Dawson will line up with Hub
bard, ex-Gov. White will back Scott. Per-
haps White and Dawson never before diff
fered in their long association i'm state
politics. White has been beneficiary at
Scotts hands and at the same time has
done Scott valiant service, doing as much
as any other man to have Scott elected
the first time over ex-Cfov. Atkinson.
Dawson is for Hubbard because it is part
Of the game he intends to play, but he is
Furthermore indebted to Hubbard for his
political history.
Hubbard's Work for Dawson.
Dawson's Indebtedness on this score
goes back to the state convention in
Wheeling, when Hubbard as the floor
leader overrode all opposition in succeed
ing in having a committee on credentials
dispensed with. and the report of tie
Dawson domiuated state committee.
which certified to a substituted roll from
the contested counties. In view of the ac-
knowledged fact that this unprecedented
procedure lost the governoFShfp to Tetcr
and aroused from Judge Blizzard, a prin-
nj, Toto nd q II
citation and implied threats. 1T is hard to
realize that Teter is now in the Hubbard
bandwagon and that Blizzard is giving in
direct announcement TO Hubbard, $ candi-
dacy. But politics as of old makes con-
trarieties lie down together.
The reception of the Hubbard announce
ment throughout West Virginia indicates
a waiting game is to be the thing among
the most of the 'infiOoences. Judse
Blizzard, through his Parkersburg paper
saws only that Hubbard does a proper
and popular thing in demanding a PR
mary contest. But Blizzard Will announc@
his position definitely later on when the
skies are cleared. stating that there will
likely be additional candidates. especially
from the southern part OF the state Ihere
is more than a suspicion that the judge
figures on becoming candidate himself
Since he failed to be recommended by the
senators to succeed himself as district at
torney the Judge has displayed unexpect-
ed insurgent proclivities.
Candidates In Waiting.
The southern end has in Representative
Joseph H. Gaines and Isaac T. Mann two
senatorial candidates in waiting. EN-
Governor Dawson is prepared at mo-
ment's notice to jump in if the water
looks fine not to speak of a side glance
ex-Secretary Of State c. w. Swisher may
cast at the whirlpool. 1t was evidently
this prospect which induced Hubbard's
announcement to include his belief that
there would be no conflicting candi-
dacies." which is construed as a wish
giving birth to the thought, for in the
Wheeling section there is general fear
that Hubbards entry may eventually
mean the elimination of both panhandle
candidates and the loss to the first city
of not only a senator, but the placing
of another man from one of the other
seyen counties in Hubbard's district 10
succeed him in the House, thus deprivins
Wheeling and Ohio county, for the first
time in twenty years, of representative
in Washington.
This is to be the Scott battle cry in
the home county fight The senator has