The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-07-20

embody the primary plan to which
the party was committed by the Re-
publican members Of the Legislature
and at the same time the holding
Of convention would satisfy those
who We're opposed to direct prima-
| ries.
| The Canadian reciprocity bill was
one Of the subjects which was und er
discussion at the recent meeting at
White Sulphur Springs. Hon. J. d.
Moore, Of New York, a prominent
after-dinner speaker, made an ad-
dress in opposition to the reciprocity
pact, speaking on "Unpublished
Phases Of Reciprocity"
| Senator Theodore Burton, Of Ohio,
although he was not billed for a
speech on the reciprocity treaty,
made and address on the subject
elaborately discussing the agreement
| and approving the course of the
president. ,4n~s
Another address, made at the
meeting Of the Bar Association,
which has excited considerable COM
| ment was that Of Dean Charles e.
Hogg, Of the law school at the State
University. He was one of counsel
| for West Virginia in the Virginia
! debt case, and he addressed the gath
ering on that subject, detailing the
suit from its inception to the re-
| cent opinion Of the United States
Supreme Court ealing upon the
states to confer and arrange an ami
cable settlement of the wartime
debt
Just about the time that the Re-
publican organization in Fayette
County believed it had sown the
seed for harmony harvest and reg
ulars and insurgents We're being
coaxed into line, Colonel Samuel
Dixon, for years one of the domi-
nant leaders of the organization,
pulls tomahaWk and announces
that he is on the warpath. Dixon
ran amuck when he rode into Fay
| etteVille and ascertained that the
County Court was going to show no
faVOrs in the distribution of saloon
licenses, and that the regulars and
| and those who had Joined the inde-
pendent movement in that county
last year would be treated alike The
Court believed this policy conducive
to party harmony. Colonel Dixon
| wanted one license issued to one in
dependent spirit, but when the Court
became to generous the Macdonald
coal operator stood up in meeting
and announced that he had parted
| company with the Comfy Court ana
would make the fight alone. Some
warm -#efds-+Wefe- -passed-but-th
Court was firm. The retirement of
Dixon from the regular organization
may mean new alignments in the
1county. The independent forces may
be REINFORCED by Dixon, who may
IN time become a reformer. and
then, again. the Court may cnnrt The
favor Of William McKell, and thus
break the backbone of the coalition
between the Democrats and Inde-
pendent Republicans in Fayette
County.
| RQam Brown LlttleDage, auto
biographer par excellence and men,
Der Of congress from the Third West
Virginia District was home during
the present week, "exhibited noble
qualities Of mind and heart" Incl
dentally told the boys how Speaker
Clark had honored him by asking
him to preside over the deliberations
Of the House of Representative for
several hours during the present
] special session Of the Federal Con-
| greSs and casually referred to the
wise and conservative course he was
pursuing at the National Capital.
| There's nothing to it. Congressman
Adam gets away with that stuff on
! all occasions. Every newspaper in
! the country, from the New York
Sun to the Boone County Booster,
directed few shafts of sarcasm and
satire at that autobiography of
| Adams, but the old fellow up the
creek, who ekes out q living on
three acres Of yellow ground, read
! talk with the various interpretations
Of applause and sputteted something
about that New York Sun fellow
being jealous Of Adam Littlepage.
Regarding Adam some pert para
grapher remarked during the week
that he was being "panned" because
he was a Democrat, whereupOn
George Collin Mcintosh remarked
that he had not noticed anyone pok-
ing fun at John w. Davis, Of
Clarksburg, the successor Of VIM.
| p. Hubbard.
George w. Bland, State Senator
| from the TWelfth District has hloa-