The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-01-25
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I'VE senators 81 PrlyIlege.

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Several Of the Democratic news
papers Of West virginia that are not
owned or controlled by the privileged
interests have the courage to come
right out and say what they think
about the delivery Of the two fed
'erat senatorshtps at Charleston and
Their opinions do not reflect much
credit upon the present manage
mentor rather mismanagement-
of the Democratic parity in this state.
The Wheeling InteBligencer pub
fishes few extracts from these
newspapers and they make highly
interesting reading in view OF the
hypocrttical praises by the Demo
cratic htreling press.
The Tucker Democrat says:
THE Democrats OF West Virginia
have been outraged in the selection
OF William E. Chiffon and Clarence
wv. Watson as United states senator's
to succeed Senators Elkins and
Scott in the United States Senate.
Chiffon is the chief counsel foh the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com
pa1y, and Clarence w. Watson is a
millionaire coal baron and race
horse man. Watson did all he could
against the election of Bryan in 1896.
We understand that John j. Corn
well, one time the Democratic nomf-
nee, did all he could for the election
OF Watson. This could be expected
for II there is a man in the state
who is owned soul and body by the
corporations it is John j. Cornwell.
and all his votes showed it while he
was in the State Senate, While 1t
was bitter pill for great many
to see Dawson governor, yet the
farmer and other taxpayers outside
of the corporations should rejoice
that Dawson was chosen instead OF
'Cornwell,"
Further on the Democrat says the
Democrats Of this legislature will
not go down covered With glory.
and every one who voted IN the DEM
ocratic caucus for Chiffon and Wat
son will be spotted hereafter" and
then pertinently asks: How can a
party succeed in West Virginia
when 1T sends such men as Chiffon
and Watson to the United States
senate?"
The Monroe Waterman, edited by
that brilliant and fearless Democrat,
EAlbert Sidney Johnson, comments as
follows:
let the Democratic members OF
the West Virginia legislature re-
member that no mans voluntary
contributions to the campaign fund,
however generous OF acceptable, can
properly give him prlma facie title
to the United States senatorship.
Other qualifications are indispensa-
BILE. He must show himself fit for
this high representative omce-by
mentality, by education, by loyalty
to Democratic principles, by free
dom from unwholesome influences
and above all, by character. Our
legislators now hold the destinies of
the Democratic party in the hollow
af Their hand-let them take heed
lest they be betrayed into fatal
Il
The Weston Democrat gathers up
enough courage to submit the fol-
lowing:
The masses OF the Democratic
party are clamoring for recognition
and are disposed to complain i'll
their demands are not needed. They
insist that representatives Of the
millionaire interests do not repre-
sent their interests
The Grafton Leader, Col. John T.
MoGraw's home organ, fairly hub
bles over with indignation. 1t says:
Doodle, ehicanery and treachery
did it, and the Democratic party
Will nave to suffer In consequence.
The result of the Democratic caucus
at Charleston for Ulited States sen-
ators emphasizes the fact that those
should be elected by the
popular vote of the people as neither
OF the nominees of that caucus is,
strictly speaking, the choice OF the
rank and file of the Democratic
party in this state"
Commenting upon these utter
ances, the 1nteiiigencer says
This furnishes fair idea of thei
feeling among the Democratic