Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1912-11-01
VILE DENS OF iNlQUITY NOT
CONSIDERED TOO LOW o
GET LICENSE
ONLY PROVISION SEEMS TO BE
THAT PRoPRIEToRS SHALL
SUPPORT THE PARTY.
DIVE KEEPERS ARE POLITICAL
LiEUTENANTS OF Nc
DOWELL COUNTY.
LICENSE TWICE GRANTED BY
HATFIELD TO MAN CON-
VlCTED IN THREE
COURTS.
(ey George W. summers.)

Rhe chief issue of the present cam
paign, aside from the great national
issues, is whether the political condi-
tons in the notorious county of Nc
Dowell are to be endorsed by the
people of West Virginia and adopted
throughout the State, as they will be
if the man who, above all others, is
responsible for the conditions in Nc
Dowell county, is elected Governor.
Along with this issue comes the
question of whether the career of mad
extravaganza which for sixteen years
has characterized the State govern
ment shall be perpetuated. But
these two issues are so interviewer
and the subject of building up a po-
litical machine through extravaganza
in the public funds and of building
up political machine through the
use of official power are so closely
interviewer that they become in ef-
feet one issue-that of whether We
shall permit West Virginia to be Nc
Dowellized,
Dr. H. D. Hatfield, who is a candi-
date for Governor, has been for many
years the head OF the dominant polit
ical party in Mcdowell county and
IL Wd5 HIS lCduUd snip lhil tiAt
political conditions which have made
Mcdowell county stencil in the nos
trils of the rest of the State and
have made it notorious throughout
the nation have flourished. His
public record as an official OF that
county and his political record as the
boss of the dominant party are pub
lie property and proper subjects for
L F,x1I Inv tar1t Ion
in view of his candidacy for the
high office to which he aspires.
DENS OF lNIoUITY
HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED.
Officially, DIR. Hatfield has en-
couraged the dens Of iniquity and
vice which have given to the city OF
Keystone the title of the most wicked
CITY in America. keystone is lik-
ened in a recently published booklet
to the Sodom and G1morrah Of Bibli-
cal fame, which cities were destroyed
by the Almighty on account of their
wickedness. In Keystone, many OK
the saloons which have been granted
license to sell liquor by DR.. Hatfield,
when he was member of the county
court, are conducted with houses oil
prostitution in connection with them'
in the same buildings, with only open
doorways between them. In these
places white women and negro men;
negro women and white men consort
regardless of color Negro proprie-
tors of saloons licensed by Dr. Hat
field keep in their bawdy houses con-
nected with the saloons white women
for sale to negro men and from their
profits contribute to the campaign
funds which DR.. Hatfield as the head
of the party requires to be provided,
with which to furnish the tremen-
dous majorities which Mcdowell
county is called upon to return
These places were VIGOROUSLY places
of the character here described when
DR.. Hatfield as a member of the
county court, granted liquor licenses
to them. One of these places is CON
Quoted by a member of the Republic
can State committee who was a dele
gate to the Republican National Con-