The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-03-09
Rank and File
FaUorE EEii1,1for
Us. Senate
Noise !; Y: j Sc: on ]. The Scott
SideVoters are
for Hub bard

WHEELING, w. Va, March, 9. 10 To-
Some of the friends Ct Charles
Crooks Smith In Wheeling, and there
!. are many. were taiks,g last evening
io-ut the humorous sketch, from l,is
n-n which appeared In the Wheeling
Register Of March 6th. We said we
could, in our minds eye. see him at his
Typewriter pushing his flowing locks
out Of his eyes, coa.less and coiiarless,
Eausine now and t!,en to light fresi,
cigarette or reeite a kiplhne poem. but
always piIine up the number Of words
at SO much per. lie starts off -witM a
.'parcgone" Of Colonel George Harvey
and lntima:es that he adnlires $50
colcnel-.but he don't. The Judge
IS no hero worstirer. He likes George
Summers and George Mcintosh and
Roy Nayior and lot Of other. clever
men, but he does not admire any Of
them. In fact to "Judge Smith" every
body is ioke-tife IS Joke. So we
could not take the Reglster letter at all
seriously. We did not quite agree how
to take II, because we did not know
who furnished the themc-~e had ar,
Idea, but were not sure. 1t was just
like Smith to start suc!, a letter 5y
announcing his Intention to take for
his text "No Hunbug. and then preach
a humbug sermon. !5s;$
did net intend to break into this
Senatorial. scrap IN public way, but
sl1is little piece by Brccks Smith is
too great q temptation. So backed py
the solicitations Of my friends who
Elcased and honered me last night
with their presence, here i am. | an,
sending the matter to you-and there
will be no bill for it-because!I doubt
# the lntelligeneer would accept and
publish it and fear If 1t Is sent to the
Fegfsterrit would hurt the feelinge Of
.h- real and quasi Scott leaders In
Ohio county, Y
An analysis OF the Senatorial sit.pl.
tion from this source can have no
weight as applied to any section Of the
State other than the upper Pan Handle
and the counties in cloae proximity
thereto. Such information as an,
axle to acquire would indicate that ali
Brooks Smith writes about organjza.
ton is apparently SO. say apparently
beeause the clever writer did not die.
Iplay his ordinary aetuteness and di1
much below the surface. For here il,
Ohio county we find all the noise In
the Scott campaign is beng made BY
Jim Hall and few of f his old time
hcnchmen, Alex. Campbell. some Of
seotts financial friends In the Dollar
Bank. with a few shouts from Fedora,
offieeholders. And every once In
while George Work or Charley Light
will run IN and be interviewed by an
lnttlligencer man, and say that every.
where the whole Republican party u
for .'scotty.7 &
Along this line II might be well 20
insert the fact that a representative Of
the Intelligeneer Interviewed Mike
King, OF Elklns, when In Wheeling not
long ago. and when M Ike iii sisted that
llf,sany Interview was published nc
must be Quoted as saying that Ran.
eoiph county world give Hubbard a BID
Majority II a primary election wab
held. he was told that n 0 such an In.
terview would 90 In the lntelligencsr
and It didn't. Practically the sans
thing happened to billy Meyer. of Nor.
ganto%n. When the hardware ner.
chants we've holding the convention
mere IN the Old Post Office building,
and there were nearly two hundred
representative West Virginia a n,er.
chants here, an int-lIigenccr reporter.
was assigned to interview some OF
tnGn,. As he could find only about,
three that showed any leaning toward
Scott or Hubbard, he was taken s'otf
the Job" .,:.s .it,is3s 6; n I.
Il These things and others like them,
added 20 seott's little Joke about starS.
ing new glass factories and Spotteries,
and buying out the. American Tin Plarn
Co, for the benefit of the community,
are pretty well known and understood
here. by the rank, and file, and real
party, who do the yota,a. But under:
lying sit all IL the 5fteli ing that Senator
Sect has Brought all this Strogs;e on
himself nv Some of us stlaX XeS not forget
ten tire mess In which he and one OIL
"a r not he Republica i, "a rfvs vv Il st IN.