The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29


treasurs of West yiteihia Anybody
kHoas dat
In other words me Gazette heIieves
II IS more gifted IN prophess than IN
the PRONUNCIATION o. useful and much
solicited knowledge. 81
When this organ gets down the list
to Bledsoe IT shines out brightly and
gives us the following light on that
question:
WHO is Bledsoe?' The man who
Is the next encouragement, viii look
after the States, interest in the vir.
glnia debt matter, and not permit
100000 of the peoples money to be
paid out yearly to political non.
lawyer, as was done in the case OF
W. NJ. o. Dawson by the Republican
machine"
This organ might have added to
this statement ttat Bledsoe is a
young lawyer with no experience that
would qualify him for the important
position OF attorney general OF the
State. that he has been in the State
only few years coming from Virginia
and his sympathies are like those OF
TIE law firm OF Chiffon. MacCorkle
and Chiffon, with the mother State
on the Virginia debt question Mr..
Bledsoe Is very close to this firm
and Is their personal representative
on the State ticket. He was one Of
the accidents OF the Huntington con.
yention and was never heard Of out
side OF the city Of Charleston and old
Virginia until he by the influence OF
the machine was put on the ticket.
Outside OF that Mr.. Bledsoe may be
all right. -s
The Gazette further wobbles on this
subject as follows: X
In addition, they are men who. ates
not Machine dominated, Machine;
bossed and Machine owned, as arel
the lot of chronic ofilceholders and
ofilceseekers who compose the Repub.
lican Machine ticket"
This is too silly to be granted the
dignity Of a reply because every voter
In West Virginia who reads the news
papers and has intelligence enough
TO distinguish truth from fiction will
know that this statement comes un.
der the latter head but will never be
one OF the "best sellers"
Here is the difference. Every Re-
publican on the State ticket with the
exception OF the two judges went be.
fore the people III 4. State wide priiI
mary election. system which the
Democrats, pledged TO the. people in
their platform lbut failed to, carry out,
IN actual practice), and received their
nominations at the hands, Of the vot-
ers who were, Tree TO express their
choice and did so. The unknown
Democratic ticket was named, lat a
boss controlled convention, without
respeat to, the desire or expression or
the voters. The machine i,,ereatedI
this, ticket and will own it and, boss 1t
unless 1t through its mouthpiece, the
Gazette. intends to repudiateeit. 80
"a Referring once more to the Virginia
debt'matter. Governor Dawson knows
moreh about the fiscal affairs of West
Virginia in one minute, than young
Mr.. Bledsoe will ever know and his
services to the State at $1,000 a year
would be cheaper and a better invest.
ment than those OF the inexperienced
Bledsoe If he would pay the State
$4,000 for the privilege of represent.
ing our tax PAYERS. It will be re.
called also that when the Virginia
commission visited Charleston to con
fer with our officials they. first visited
the law offices OF Chiffon, MacCorkle
& Chiffon and made 1t their head.
quarters on their visit. Can this in
any way have any bearing on the con.
nection their personal organ. the ca
zette, gives Mr.. Bledsoe with the Vir.
ginia debt question? ms