The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-02

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Haven't Any selsie9isis tssles \ ~.
with the alandodmbnt Of these.
issues by fh6 Demo ratio menege
which they had. hoped would proY.e
fefchint and y Give this canlpalensl
me question naturally occurs, WHIT
have they ssubst ituted In their stead
Gentle ones, they have substituted
sembIance 81 q serious issrte-1or one
that arises to the dignity Of such 2
ffifnR Fead ding of their press shows
All az IN tfl:be tfi1es What the paper
and-fnk Fraternity Of that minor party
Is doing Is mostly along the lines OF
trying to disgruntie Republicans ana
thereby influence many OF them %
imagine wrongs that never existed
and do not now and prove traitors @
their party They are harping about
s'bossess and are solemnly and sadly
solicftous as to the honesty and moral
ity of the Republican party. They 90
not say who the bosses are, for. they
cock Is the head of the Republican
party In west Virginia, and what he
says goes Not only what he has
said, but what he may say now or as
long as he is Governor OF West VIZ
ginia The Governor, therefore, must
be the BOSS of this terribly bossTidden.
party of ours, which Bill Chiffon ana
John McGraw are SO anxious 20 see
purified and made clean, and 70 that
END are asking Republicans to stab
their party in its vital parts this year
that they may, one or the other OF
them. go to the United states "a l etle
place Of the loyal Republican ana true
blue old soldier who IS now there ana
who has done so many. many things
for his State and it's people. II they
can get the Republicans to do this
and they must have help OF RepuDl-
cans-they Will see to 1t that the 4te-
publican party is further purified by
a great change OF Congressional 1o-
dicial and legislative districts. That
done, they can rest awhile In snug con-
tentment, fer the Republican party
will have beeh purified and chaStened
and sweetened out OF power till After
the next census which comes along
about the year 1920 It will have no
need Of complaint about bosses t4en.
and those Republicans who nibbled az
the bait showed out to them by Bill
and John and helped them TO purify
the Republican party ana throw on
the frksome yoke OF bossism Will no
doubt be found reciprocating by tn-
Weighing against the bossisms OF Chill
ton and McGraw and button'hohng
democrats to rid their party Of the
bosses that their traitorous votes
helped into power.
This IS by no means impossible
The picture isn't overdrawn. the
lines are drawn true and the colorS
clear. The hope of Democracy In
West Virginia Is based on the BELIEF
that a sufhcient number of members
of the Republican party can be won
over to that side not, by an appear 70
their intelligence and Political man
hood but by stirring up their baser
noIitical passions by false statement.
Misrepresentation and abuse OF Re-
publican leaders and distinguished OF
6ciaIs. and by portraying the Repub-
ican party organization in this state
as something to be Spurned and TO pc
voted against They haven't an issue.
They have Abandoned the very issues
thew chose to make the fight on this
year Finding the public mind unfe-
spousive. they now make an appeal to
the blood.
why Demoeraey's Desperate Flsht2
The desperate fight the Democratic
party Is making this year Is not that
they have any fault founded on pa
trfotism with any line of policy that
the Republican party has pursued In
the government OF the State. nor OF
the nation, for that matter. 1t is be-
cause this year offers opportunity to
the party winning to re-district the
state II the Democrats can win (and
they can only win with the help of
Republicans gone wrong and astray)
they will have the highland you may
be sure. John Henry, that they VIII
avail thepselves Of that right to
juEgle up the Congressional, judicial
and legislative districts IN such man
ner as to pretty"wel insure them the
whole power, or the majority Of power,
In this State for the next ten years.
That Is what they are fighting so
hard for this year. That IS why Chill
ton is running his law partner, Mac
Corkle, for the State Senate In this
district, and other henchmen in other
sections, which Is the same McGraw
Is doing in the northern tier OF coun-
ties. First. their aim Is to catch the
hare before they skin it-get the Leg
lslature and the right to purify" the
Republican party by re-dtstrlcting It
out Of an active existence for dec
ade, and then they will lock horns
themselves to see which one OF them
shall go to Washington to sit in Scott's
seat and misrepresent the majority
sentiment Of the people of West Vir-
RfnIa on the tariR and such other ques-
lions Of national policy in which Noun.
tain State folk are intimately ana
vitality concerned.
This Is the whole situation in nut
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