The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-05-19
Rank and File Purpose Il
Turn the Jacobs-Lehnan
Crowd Out There.
RoTTENNESS EXPOSED
Party is Tired of That Gangs
High-handed and Disas-
trous Methods.
tchsrIes prooks smIthl.

which conditions have resulted in al
great county, Republican nominaIly
by 500 to 1000, filling Its offices with
Democrats. That faction Is known as
the Jacobs-Lehman faction whose
long years Of hlgh-handed. arrogant
and selfish rule of party affairs isl
about to be brought to the bar OIL
party opinion for Judgment. So long
entrenched, grown fat and sleek and
impudent by overlooking at the pub
lie crib and at levying extravagant
tribute upon striving candidates. tits
little wonder that this SNUG syndicate
Is in constant training in an effort to
regain Its strength, now that an out
ragged party conscience Is aroused to a
high pitch of determination to rid it.
self of a shameful condition that cam
no longer be patiently endured.
That is the issue in Marion county
now-thc fundamental, vital issue be-
meath and behind the canditorial con-
trorersy between Nathan Bay Scott
and William Pallister Hubbard.
An Accounting Wanted.
The, Republicans of Marion want
an accounting. Doubtless among
them are various county candidates at
the last election who would like to
see that want satisfied. II you were
George Amos, candidate for sheriff,
and put up $4,000 and was counted
in by one vote; IL you were a Jack
Davis. running for county clerk, or q
Bruce Parrish, running for circuit
clerk. and put up $4,000 each; or IL
you were a j. A. Meredith, pursuing a
prosecuting attorneyship, or an A. j.
MeDaniels. trying to get on the coun-
~ court and put up $4,000 each; or
If you were John W. Fleming and
wanted to be an assessor to such an
extent that you coughed up $500
II you were any one or all of these
men and had been hamstrung in q
thousand majority Republican strong
hold, and the treasurer of your COM
mittce, say his name is C. L. Mus
grave, made oath, as per the statute.
that he had received and disbursed
in your campaign but $1,soO-say.
honestly now. wouldn't you like to
have an accounting too?
Well, that is the way great many
Republicans in Marion county feel
about it. They are tired and weary
and mad, and they are in open re-
"elion TO themselves finishing wreck
Ing the fractional machine which
the voters at the polls have been do
ing spasmodically and by piecemeal
as half-million dollar court house
tenanted by complalsant Democrats
filling lucrative official positions, so
eloquently testifies.
Fighting Desperately.
That is the fight, and the Jacobs
Lehman Com. Lit, feeling itself slip
ping from the saddle of authority is
fighting desperately and determinedly
To keep Its seat. The opposition to it
Is lighting just as desperately and de-
ierminedly to unhorse 1t. Desperate
methods begct desperate methods.
Fighting the devil with fire fits the
situation like sweater on maiden's
bust.
II is with this gasping Frankenstein
that Mr.. Hubbard has cast his politi-
cal fortunes in Marion. Upon its
stricken form his solicitations and
illustrations are showered. Recollec-
tons Of earlier associations in more
rosy and robust days touch the tender
cords Of sentiment Who knows?
Perhaps! Fen though that be not
true, 10 whom is there left to turn?
The Jacobs-Lehman coterie are the
iubcard followers in Marion county;
their opponents constitute supporters
q senator Scott. The division on the
scnatarshi. question is natural
enough. But the fight is for prin-
eipie-an honest, efficient. loyal,
sqlare-deal management of the Re-
psbiican partyss affairs in this coun-
y. That is the, vital issue that hangs
N the balance.
Control Is Wrested.
In the first brush control OF the
county committee was wrested from
~ "HNpVS-l<tHIudu CROW NY Tic mar
Fcw margin of one vote. The COM
Mittee is composed of seven members.
on from each of the seven magister-
I'd districts in the county. They were
e.aeted by the people OF their respec-
we districts. This committee had a
chairman and secretary of its own
choice. These two officers were not
Chosen By the electorate.
majority OF the committee. be-
'eming dissatisfied with the way
party affairs were msmanaged. signed
cal! for a meeting to be held on
April %. at 2:so p. m. for the pur-
pose Of accepting the resignation Of
Howard r. Furbee as chairman and
y L Lehman as secretary o. said
committee, and in the event that said
t"o designations are not then and
mere made and rendered. to proceed
g remove said Furbee as chairman
md the said Lehman as secretary and
declare the said two offices vacant
and to iii the offices of chairman and
secretary tmade vacant by the resig-