The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-09-02
COMMITTEE MEETING PROMISES
TO BE A BIG TIME FOR
PARTY WORKERS.
HARMONIOUS ACTION EXPECTED
ON AL SIDES AND EN-
THuSlASM RULES.
TAKES A JOURNALISTIC
coRNwEII FEUp RSoss
Charles Mooks Smith


PARKERSBURG. w. Va. Sept.l.-
They are expecting very large at
tendance at the Republican state conn
mittee harmony and reorganization
powwow at Charleston in october and
the Kanawha club, OF the capital city.
has come To life from the antidote
OF that expectation, has held a meet
ing and is arranging to make the
STAY or the stalwarts convenient and
comfortable
The kanawha club members will
not be disappointed in the size OF the
crowd that will be there. They are
more likely to awake to the happy
fact that II is very much larger than
they had expected or arranged for
receiving. The fact is. that this meet
ing Is being about as widely and per-
sistently advertised as any thing that
has come off in West Virginia OF tho
KIND since the big conventions OF the
last state campaign. The great i'm
portance OF the meeting Is appreciated
by every member OF the party and
the interest OF each Individual in IL
Is already intense. OF course. every
body will not he there. but Inquiries
among the faithful show that almost
everybody who il anybody in a polit-
ical way. and a good many who are
nobodies thus viewed but who hon
estly believe that they are, has II in
mind TO be present when State Chair
man Matthews drops the Ravel and
starts the harmony and reorganiza-
ton business, or as soon thereafter
as possible.
IL Is dangerous to prophesy WHAT
action will be taken, for history
shows us thats party committees are
like American Juries-you never can
tell just what they are going to do.
But II the action taken is based on
the preponderating sentiment which
prevails with the masses of the party.
IL will prove the good sense of those
who are at present in authority. and
vindicate the wisdom of calling the
meeting
IL is no difficult matter to ascertain
what that overwhelming sentiment is
IL is accurately reflected in a majority
OF the party newspapers Of the state,
and iD interviews and communica-
lions given by partymen to them for
publication. The primary election plan
is uppermost in these expressions as
the belieVed-to-be best method OF
electinG new members Of county sen
atorial, congressional and state
committees. also, the best way 10
choose delegates to the various con-
ventions Many go so far as to ask
that the committee consider calling
a general primary election to nomi-
nate all candidates Tor state offices
and TO register the party's will as to
VINO should be elected United States
senator in the event that the next
legislature has a majority on Joint
ballot. There can be no doubt about
II. that the rank and file-the men
who do the voting and who can win
or lose Just as they choose-wants TO
try out the primary plan In its en-
trety. and I'm a most thorough way,
20 find out whether IL is all that its
ardent champions believe IL Is. and
whether II will prove as satisfactory
in the long run as they, themselves,
are honestly inclined TO believe.
The demand f. general, also. that
the reorganization OF the party ma
chinery must be In whole and not in
part, that Il must be from the ground
up. commencing with county commit
ties. In, perhaps. a score OF counties
there are committees which have no
legal or moral standing, and whose
influence Is practically NIL. In sew
ers OF the counties there are two
committees claiming legitimacy. which
neither could sustain II called on for
proof The job Of recognising the
party. II not n big one n everybody
In attendance at the meeting Is really
honest and sincere I'm his desire 70 get
the party on It's feet. 90 that it will
be in n condition to enter the next
campaign with bright prospects OK