The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1911-09-14
THAT HE WILL NOT BE "A CAN-
DIDATE INTENDED TO
BRING HARMONY ,
FavOrS Judge GOff
As Man for Senator from this State
to Succeed Watson, but the Judge
Has not Yet Committed Himself
State to Have a Congressman at
Large.

States Senator" will not again be a
candidate for the Senate Neither
has he any ambition to be the Re-
Republican candidate for Governor
IN 1912. Honored by his party with
two terms in the United States SEN
ate, the old veteran announced this
week that he had had enough and
was willing to make the fight from the
ranks says The Enquirer.
AT the same time when Senator
Scott publicly proclaimed that he had
no ambition to go to the Senate again
he announced his preference for
Judge Nathan Goff, Of ;Clarksburg,
for that position, stating that in his
Judgment the Federal jurist was the
best candidate upon whom the Re-
publicans could unite and that he
hoped to see the former leader again
step into the breach and make an
aggressive campaign.
Judge Golf, according to the opinion
expressed by the former United States
Senator, would eliminate the factional
rows in the Republican party anu
would draw every Republican in the
state into line. AS for the Cover
norship, Senator Scott stated his am
bition did not tend in that direction.
He advised his Republican brethren
not to commit themselves too early
on the gubernatorial plum, for it
would mean a hard fight for the nom-
1nat1on and he predicted that the
nominee would have a hard task
ahead of him.
Commenting upon the national
situation Senator Scott argued that
PRESIDENT Taft, by reason of his Wig
orous- attitude In the closing days of
Congress-. had rallied his friends and
mad drawn the business interests of
the country to his support. A drastic
tar1n reduction, Senator Scott con-
tends, would mean disaster to busi
ness anu especially to the industries
or west Virginia. Admitting there
may be abuse of the tariff the former
Senator Is insistent that the protective
tarlH must not be wholly destroyed.
The Republican leaders generally
regard the announcement of Senator
Scott that he would not again be a
candidate for the United States SEN
ate as step toward harmony. The
acrimonious conflict last year between
the Scott and Hubbard forces is en-
ded by this announcement and will
not be renewed this year. The state
ment of Scott is taken to mean that
Judge Goff will have no opposition for
the United States Senate If he will
become candidate, as former Sen
ator Davis Elkins, who early in the
year had under way a rather formid-
able organization in the northern sec
ton of the state, announced some
time ago that he was for Judge Golf
If the Clarksburg jurist could be in
duced to make the race.
Publicly Judge Golf has refralned
from committing himself. He re-
turned 1hfs native State last week
from abroad. According to private
advice he-has- told some Of his-per-
sonal friends that he would be a can
didate. President Taft is one of those
whom it is claimed insisted that
Judge Goff should make the race.
Pocahontas County, down on the
southeast border of the state, is the
first of the SIS West Virginia counties
to hold convention, and it has
taken the lead with a declaration for
thd denomination of President Taft.
The Republicans of that county as
sembled this week for the purpose of
effecting reorganization of the party
machinery. A new county commit
tee was chosen and the ship put in
trim for the 1912 campaign.
After indorsing the national and
state administrations, the resolutions
specifically demand the resignation Of
all the state and federal office holders
on the Republican State Central Com
mittee, and further ask that such O.
rule be adopted as will not permit the
election of officeholders on the State
Committee. The Pocahontas Repub-
licans also indorsed the direct prim-
ary plan for the nomination Of can
didates for state Offices and the cleo
ton Of delegates to the next state
convention.
West Virginia, having been present
ed with new Congressman by the
eapportionment bill passed at the
extra session Of the Federal Congress
will have two additional delegates at
the Republican and Democratic Ma
tional Conventions held next year. AS
the last session Of the State Legisla-