The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-10-06
In the Event He is Elected a
Member Of the State
Senate.
SENATOR SCOTS VISIT
In the Capital City Brings
About Harmony in Party
in Kanawha.
Charles Brooks Smith,

foFthe Republican party locally. Feel
ing among some OF the local party
leaders had not been of the best. but
SCOTS visit was the occasion Of the
greatest Ratchet burying ceremony
among the rivals that has been pulled
of here in number OF years, The
boys" came in voluntarily and de-
ciared their loyalty to the party and
Its candidates and their willingness to
get out and work for the success OF
the ticket from top to bottom. There
was Jarrett. and Rummel, and Cross
cup, and score OF other influential
ones, and each and every one of them
pledged to put forth his very best ticks
from now on so as to make sure of
Republican success in old Kanawha
this year The minority party leaders
here, who had been counting on the
breach remaining Enclosed till cleo
ton day. are displeased and disguised
There is no power on earth to keep
these d-ned Republicans from get
ting together when q campaign gets
going" declared veteran Bourbon in
the Kanawha lobby today, which is
pretty much the truth at that. The
last gubernatorlal campaign. however.
still stands as the most conspicuous
and remarkable example
Brings Harmony About.
Senator Scott, because of the Pc
culiar situation as to his candidacy be-
fore the primary in this county last
spring, was just the very man to bring
about harmony here. 1t will be re-
membered that a legislative ticket
uninstructed as TO Scott and Hubbard
was nominated by an alliance of the
forces of Ex-Governor Dawson and
Graft P. Hall. The presumption at
that time was that the candidates on
that ticket were not ever Jealous and
friendly to the political fortunes Of the
junior senator, and it was very reas-
enable presumption. One might
think, not knowing the always I'M
wavering loyalty of Scott to the Re-
publican party at all times. that, since
his known and avowed friends were
defeated for legislative nominations,
that he would not trouble himself to
help the election of legislative candi-
dates who were classed as opponents
of his candidacy. But such a pre-
sumption would show that the one
holding it did not know Nathan
Bay Scott. Instead OF taking an atti-
tude of that kind. we find Senator
Scott coming into Kanawha, smiling,
good natured, with the glad-hand OUT
stretched and keeping sweet" as
General Elliott would and always
does, and advising his host of friends
to buckle on the armor and do battle
for every candidate of the party no
matter whether he be Scott man, or
supporter of somebody else. sena-
tor Scott taking such position as
that, 1t is easy to see how 1t was that
there was such a getting together
among the leaders and how easy it
was to inject the harmony germs into
the local organizations system. Sen
ator Scott left here delighted, and the
good results Of his visit are already
beginning to appear on the surface OF
the Kanawha county political situa-
ton.
Will Abide by Caucus,
But there occurred another thing
during the Scott stay that is Of great
Importance to the senator's candidacy
for reelection. It came about during
conferences with Ex-Governor Daw-
son. Grant P. Hall and John A. Thay-
er. Hall is the nominee for state SEN
ator opposing Ex-Governor MacCorkle
and Thayer is on the county legiala-
tive ticket. Both Hall and Thayer told
the senator voluntarily that in the
event OF their election they would
agree to go into party caucus on the
senatorship matter and abide by the
decision OF majority of that caucus
that they had never contemplated do
ing otherwise, While they could no
speak for their colleagues on the tick
ct, they felt that they would do like
WISE And so, this would seem Il
pretty effectively estop the speculation
on what the Kanawha legislative nom
inees will do on the senatorship mat
ter in the event OF their election. It,
another spoke in the Scott wheel, ant
makes It all the more certain that tn
will OF majority OF 10000 Republi
cans expressed in primaries and con
ventlons last spring viii be carried gu
next January.
Delighted with Platform.
'Dee-lighted," accompanied by a
imitation Of the Roosevelt smile an
dental display, sums up the feelings o
Republicans gathered in the capita
city, when they read and re-read tn
splendid platform written by the Col
onel, and adopted with a hurrah b
the Empire state brethren assemble
at Saratoga. Everybody here OF Re
publican affiliations Is nightly pleas
ed with the pronouncement. Espec
tally Is this true of the leaders OF tn
Republican campaign in this state thi
year. Governor Glassconl, copoaa,,