The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-17
4F,ithful" Few with Badges
Do Most Of the Noise
Making. lx
CANDIDATE
Sbows Up as Knocker, Judge
Moore Gets Socialistic
and Robinsoh Rants.

william R. Thompson, the Wat
]. candidate for governor. adj
'....e5 comfortably filed court
,or,e room Thursday night, but he
sIIed to hold his audience as shown
|, me fact that men kept constant
!, drifting out after they found out
4. line of talk, which consisted OF
1, IT the most reactionary speeches
IN delivered before Clarksburg
gdience.
Mr. Thompson antagonized every
i, Of progressive legislation placed
/ tbe gtatute books the last sixteen
,,,n He found fault with every
Sipg that had been done and every
slBg that he believed the Repu5ss
ans would do, If elected. The per-
eapel Of the present Republican
r,,e ticket is very obnoxious to him
b declares,
The speaker declared that the
g,tson combine would return to the
nj and unjust system of taxation,
given control OF the state govern
rmt He studiously avoided mem
ion o, the way Chiffon and Watson
r.re elected and how he himself
vas nominated for governor as the
recul tool OF the Watson MacCor-
is.GhIlton bunch OF corruptionists.
Nj. Thompson assured the audi
me- that that old Virginia debt the
IA state is trying to saddle on
Vast virginia would be promptly set
td il the Democratic party got into
UEer in this state. The public has
etertained a strong suspicion all
NJ time that that is the plan the
ctnocrats have and the Watson
pnlnee has confirmed it.
Thompson bored his audience, ex-
spt the few faithful" with badges
n who we're there to cheer whether
here was any excuse for applause
not, and the badgemen in their
raj to make a noise did not know
then 1t was proper. These out
satso never got beyond less than
re.thIrd OF the hearers. while the
rher two-thirds merely smiled at
be "efortorious" effort to inject
pnething into nothing.
Sitting listening to Mr.. Thomp-
%, the machine candidate for gov
saOr, the question that protrudes
hell upon the mind of any we'll
rfsed man in public affairs, and
vii not down, is: "How can he
hing himself 10 do it?" Other i'm
ressons are numerous as they are
rttlnent. He seems to be suffer-
b. from feeling OF depression and
hunted BY a fear. You expect him
b turn and look behind him every
lnute, as II something pursues
Nm. Mr.. Thompson gives the i'm
ressIon Of man who is carrying
10 heavy a burden, who knows he
reckless OF statement and expects
be told so very bluntly by his au-
lence, and his whole mien is that
/ a discouraged, hopeless and de-
plrlng man. Ones pity for him
This plight is greater than a desire
! censure and condemn him.
How, one wonders, could he bring
himself TO talk into the faces OF MS
ulience an excoriation of corporate
nalth and its alliance with crooked
plltCs? Yet that is what he did
Eren Boss Chiffon, the beneficiary
1.-THE alliance between crooked busi-
iss and corrupt politics, did the
nne thing at Charleston the first Oh
lie week and at Elkins onsWednes-
lay night Thompson, himself, as
Nerybody knows, is the beneficiary
4 the combination OF these vicious
dement's in our civic life which the
eople Of this country are fighting
b dethrone. to the extent of M
Domination. Tic is their foundlins
h West Virginia. II he should be
Elected which, thank God! seems I'M
lrobable, he would be their man
nd not the peoples servant.
How he could talk of Republican
administration with the ghos1
y the las, bribed and corrupted
Democratic legislature haunting his
bind the while, one wonders.
How he could talk of bosses IN
he Republican party without
slCshing and stammering in his
i9ee>h as me memory OF the Grim
nal bossism Of watson-Chilton-Mac'
Vo'kle swept across his mind, Il
a'Fe than many in his audience
'orld tathom.
How he cpuld nlead with hi!