The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-08-04

lof the states have laws that are
4 state wide in their operation, man
datory in character and fairly
complete in their provisions
This was not an indictment ut
tered by some Republican at the
action of the Democrats in blocking
the passage OF primary election
law at the special session OF the
Legislature. .,,.',s.,... s........s.. ~
1t is the exact language used by
the Hon. C. w. CantpbeiI; chairman
of the judiciary committee OF the
EHouse OF DeIasatesIiand one OF the
resngni5sh ieh;dtpg democrats d. the
STATE, and one OF! the gentlemen
whom tn e4d4 emSers who would
kk1lt3t be yan1sd into the Watson har-
I Dor. voted for as their choice for
United States, senator instead of a
man like Watson and his colleague,
Chiffon.
The remarks were made, or rather
read, by Judge Campbell, in oppos-
ing the adoption of the Gilkeson
resolution to create a commission
to draft a primary election law and
report at the next regular session
of the egislature-after a successor
has been selected to Clarence wv.
Watson, the short term senator.
In concluding his remarks, this en-
inent iurist; whose honesty and i'm,
Itegrity has. never been uestioted,'
ply Republicans or Democrats even
in political campaigns, left another
Indictment which the Democratic
party must face in the next election,
and proves what the Republicans
have all along claimed and admitted
by some. of the Democrats, that they,
did not propose TO HperIaft a pri-
mary election. .laws4o he passed. 1T
Ewas mot wanted, the h1emocratic
platform promises notwithstand-
ing. ~
I'm conclusion let me say said
Judge Campbell, that independently
of my obi. cation under the platform
of 19OS and especially under my
personal pledge to the voters of
CabeT county, made during thetcan-i
vas and before my election to this
body. i firmly believed in. a state
wide mandatory primary election
law, thorough-going in all its pro-
visions, and would for that reason
alone oppose the resolution. I re-
greet that a majority of my party
associates feel JUSTIFIED in voting
for this resolution. But I also feel
that / have not strayed away from
Democratic moorings, but stand on
firm ground.
',The Democratic party can all
ways afford to do right and to trust
to consequences"
/ This was uttered as a warning to
the Democratic leaders who were
forcing down the throats of the
members of the House and the Sen
ate the Chiffon Watson schemes,
considered necessary to give to the
short termed senator a chance to
succeed himself In the United States
Senate through se1f-designated
plan-an admission that he could
noe nope TO win in a primary,
despite the fact that such a prom
Use was made in his party's plat
form.
over on the other side of the leg
islature was Senator George w.
Bland. Like Judge Campbell, he
would not be whipped into line to
do the bidding of the Gold Dust
Twins. And because bland had /
mind of his own, he was not held in
the good graces by the squelchers
OF the bribery Investigation. While ,
Bland could not secure control of a
large newspaper to sustain his posi-
ton, he was able to get hold of
little weekly newspaper in Dod=
bridge county. called the. West
Union Record, and in the columns
of that paper he tells some of the
practices of the ChiIton-watson-
MacCorkle. gang. He does not go
around the bush in doing so, but
comes right out, calls things by
their proper names, and issued a
warning that little has yet been
told. Referring to Watson. he says:
"'And yet the dirty ring sheets
and political buzzards say that he
has made good: that he Is making
a great senator; that he Is doing a n
noble work FOR the people.
ut VIII take more than the big