The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-06-18
NEWS NOTES
From the Nations Capital, Of Interest TO
West VirginianS.
(By George w. Summers)

Republican primary election ir
West Virginia and the action oil
the Republican National Com.
mittee at Chicago, has brought
confusion to the Republican par.
ty in West Virginia, which had
apprantly fallen into the hands
of the Dawson faction of the
party. BY an overwhelming
vote the Roosevelt-Dawson fac
ton was placed III control of the
party at the Huntington Conven-
ton, May 16, Mr.. Dawson stepp-
ed gracefully into the saddle, Sc
lected his own state committee,
and started out to control the
Republican party in West Vir-
ginia; to name the candidates for
the various Offices and to commit
the party to the recall of judges
and other doctrines of Theodore
Roosevelt.
But the rank and file of the
Republican party in West Virgin
la decided that Governor Dawson
should not be their leader and in
order to defeat him they chose
what they seemed to consider the
lesser evil and threw the control
OF the party back into the hands
of the same old gang of bosses
who have been debating to the
Republican party in West Virgin
la for many years.
For while it looked as though
the West Virginia Republicans
had grown tired of the bossism
of Nathan B. Scott and the same
old gang of which Of which ne
was the head and had turned to
the former boss, w. M. o. Daw-
son, for change. But, as soon
as Mr.. Dawson came into tempo
rary control he undertook meth
DDS which outraged the people
and the result was that when the
statewide primary election was
held on June 4th, Mr.. Dawson
and his were utterly repudiated
and the same old bunch which
has been controlling the affairs
of the party for many years was
reinstated to power. Mr.. Daw-
son wrot an open letter declaring
G. w. Dillon to be his choice for
Governor. But, DR.. Hatfield,
who had been induced to become
candidate at a conference in
Washington at which State
Chairman Highland, former SEN
ator Davis Elkins, H. G. Ogden
and other anti-Dawson Republi-
cans were present, received an
overwhelming vote and won
the nomination with ease. Even
in the matter of the new state
committee, Mr.. Dawson was
badly beaten. While in full con-
troll of the Huntington Conven-
ton; Mr.. Dawson put through a
resolution increasing the mem
bership of the state committee
by sixteen and naming sixteen
Dawson followers for the places.
The old state committee held that
these additional members must
be voted for at the primary cleo
ton on June a and also put up
some other candidates. The re-
suit of the primary election is
that out Of the 33 members of the
new committee the anti-Dawson
crowd will have about % insuring
the reelection of Virgil l.. High
land as Chairman of the state
committee and depriving Mr..
Dawson of any control whatever
nyer the committee.
While the Dawson and Roose-
welt faction captured the dele
cites TO the Chicago Convention
! from West Virginia and an
nounced Governor Glasscock as
candidate for Vice-President,
their influence seems TO have
stopped there. The action of the
Republican National Committee
in deciding the contests owe
delegates to the National Con
/ vention indicates very clarly tina
sident Taft will be renominat
ed at the Chicago Convention
which will convene one we9l
from today. With the Sat
committee in the hands Of Tai
men and with Taftas the regula
Republican nominee, ald Will