Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1910-12-17
ELEVEN ASP|RANTS
FOR SCOTS SEAT
West Virginia Democratic Candidates
PIentifuI-Four Are Open
in the Fight.

parkersburg, W. Va, Dec. 14.--Al-
mos. ais thickly as fell the glistening
flakes which in the last few days
has buried West Virginia under IA
inches OF snow come the names Of
Democratic patriots who would fam
20 10 the United States Senate.
AS grows and grows the ti0y first
chowd, SO grows the band of god men
and true who are ready 10 knock off
work and serve their State anG coun-
try at Washington.
There are enough of them to get up
a big massmeeting among thems Ives;
there seem to be enough TO put down
he Mexican revolution. You butt in
to them in getting off street cars and
IN turning conners suddenly. In many
West Virginia towns today, where the
heavy snow les upon the sidewalk.
The visitor will find narrow beaten
path In he middle. If you meet man
on one of these, SEP out into the deep
snow and give him the path. He may
be the next Uni ed States Senator
from West Virginia Who knows?I
Somebody's got to gel the job. Let
Us honor our Senators!
One thlng is sure, Senator Nathan 3.
Scott, the Republican, goes out with
the present Congress and will re. urn 10
this state to contemplate its glorious
mountain scenery. He will never go
back to the Senate until the late
Democratic landslide shall turn into a
backsllde.
There are all sorts of Democratic
candidates. The main classes are said
to be the active, the receptive and the
deceptive OF course, the receptive
cand ida es are all waiting for the psy
Geological moment, whatever that is +;
but as no political article can possibly
gat along without the use of the terms
receptive cand date" and "psycholog-
ical moment" they are put in here.
Most prominent among these candi-
dates are Clarence w. Wa SOD. West
Virginia's foremost business man, and
Col. John r. McGraw, the Grafton law
yer who has been for 20 years the
acknowledged leader of the Democrat
ic party in the State.
The "receptives," urged on by their
friends. mos ly the friends in their
own sections of the State, are war CHI !
ing and waiting or canvassing under
cover The ''deceptives' are men who,
it is said in whispers here, are being
nominated or proposed by sectional
leaders ITO break up the vote on the
joint ballot of the Legislature, and that
when they shall have succeeded in
this they will quietly disappear from
The scene and let the real battle go to
a finish, frs taking the precaution of
turning their own support in certain
prearranged directions.
Among the men who are out for the
United States Senate are these:
Clarence w. Watson, of Fairmont.
Col. John II McGraw. of Graf on.
Col. l.. r, Tierney, of Powhatan.
Ex-senator Henry G. Davis, of FL
kins.
Stuart w. Walker, OF Berkeley.
Judge L. y. Tavenner, of Wood
John J. Cornwell, of Hampshire.
Sam V. Woods. of Barbour.
Ben II. Hiner, of Pendleton.
Congressman John w. Davis. Harri
son.
William f. Chiffon. of Charleston.
This imposing array of opposing
Democrats by no means limits the pos
sibilities, for the entry list is not nee
essarily closed. and this is free
country. OF the men named above,
he first four-namely, Messrs Wat
son, McGraw. Tierney and Henry G.
Davis-are open and avowed appli-
c&nts for the Senatorial job.