The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1910-11-03
Farty Will Have a Big Ma
jority of Members of
the Legislature.
GREATEST CAMPAIGN
In the History Of the State is
Being Made by the Par
ty This Year.
By cIlnrIes Brooks snilL.l

lBy Charles BROOKS smith,.
CHARLESTON, Oct. % -. One
more week OF campaigning and the
voters of West Virginia will render
their verdict. > Ii will be "a week,
judged from the uuickened interes:
aroused throughout the state in this
week Just closing, chuck ruil of po-
lltical excitement. Some very close
contests will be settled one way or
the other this week.
Acting under advice sent to all
county chairmen by State Chairman
Matthews the Republican committee
in almost every county are making
a whIrlIng finish. Meetings galore
are being held in every county and
the echoes are laden with exploita-
tion OF the issues from Republic
can standpoint. From the very first.
Chairman Matthews has urged couu-
ty chairmen to make an out-in-the-
open campaign. "our party has a
record to be proud of, he wrote the
various chairmen, land the more
that is said about 1t the better. We
do not want gum shoes used by any
of our party. The Republican party
doesn't have to resort to methods of
stealth, deceit. and falsehood. Let
the Democratic enemy use those
methods if they want to, and they
seem to be relying altogether on
them at this time, but that is not
the kind of fight our side wants to
make nor needs to. All we need to
do is to get the issues and the mag
nfficent history of our party fairly
and squarely before the people and
the victory will be won as easily
this year as in previous campaigns.
Therefore urge the holding of as
many meetings in your county every
night as you can arrange for. En-
list the services of every public
speaker belonging to our party in
your community, and do everything
that can be done to stir up the
voters interest and drive apathy
skulking to the tall timber. Get
busy-make a noise. The Republic
can party has a record of great az
complishments. 1t has all to gain
and absolutely nothing to lose by a
rousing campaign filled with excite
ment to stir up the public interest
and stimulate the public intelligence.
Let there be something doing all
the time, and in the last ten days
OF the battle make a whirl-wind, red
hot finish"
That is what Chairman Matthews
wrote to fifty-fve committees several
weeks ago, and certain 1t is that
every local committee accepted it as
good advice and acted upon 1t, for
in every county there are anywhere
from half TO dozen meetings be-
ing held nightly, and as many more
Will be crowded in the coming
week as can be arranged for. AS a
result of all OF this, the prospect for
a Republican victory in West Vir-
ginia next month have frightened
fifty per cent. over what they were
ten days or two weeks ago. The
truth of the matter is that each day
OF the present campaign has seen the
Republican chances grow substanti-
ally better. The same cannot lie
truthfulis said OF Democratic
chances. ,Their prospects were
brighter At the opening OF the cam
paigu than they have ever been
since. They have grown less and
less bright each day, because OF a
lack of issues as well as lack OF
organization. The Republican man
ayers do.-,not deny that they .ex.
peqt the eas5p&. 10 make some gains,
Dut as for carrying the legislature
and chance OF eletApg, perhaps
one congressman, they 'coRcede Moth
ing further.
There is no issue OF statewide
paramount for which. or against
which, the Democrats are contend!
ing. Each local issue is being treat
ed directly as 1t seems best. TariF,
taxation and state administration ex-
trayasance have been tabooed by the
Democratic managers, spellbinders
and editors. But they are hopeful,
bas!ng their hope on Republican dis
afrec.icn. In certain localities they
argue that they viii profit by a WEI
and dry tight, but in others they ad-