The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-10
AT Republican State Head
quarters and Air of Conf
dence is Spreading.


the following dispatch to his eastern
newspapers and the Cincinnati Com
mercial-Tribune:
cLARKsBURG, W. va, Sept 90
There is an alertness and ACTIVITY
about this years Republican organ
ization now doing business at head.
quarters at clarksburg. w. va, that
is cheering to the visitor and more
than cheering to Republican man
ayers at national headquarters in
New York and Republicans through
out West Virginia. What impresses
you most at first is that an actual
bushes organization with compre-
hensiye plan, and procedure like that
OF big, corporation or commercial
institution and the systematic meth.
DDS employed by Chairman Lakin
and Advisory Manager Highland can
not fail in the achievement OF a Re-
publican victory in November, /
have been familiar with political
campaign management and head
quarters, state and national, for
many years, but have yet to find a
more carefully arranged system and
splendidly geared party machinery
than is now running twenty-four
hours day in clarksbnrg.
We recall that Virgil L. Highland,
chairman of the advisory committee,
is an eminent banker and, business
man in the rugged and, rich region
of the state, and he has evidently
applied the business methods of his
banking, and other corporations to
the running Of campaign for the
welfare of the American people gem
orally, and for West Virginia. citi-
zens especially. The careful assign
ment of duties to departments, the
holding responsible of each commit
tee associate for his department and
the general "geeing" up OF things
each day reminds one OF the meth
DDS in a big, business or financial in
stitution. Both Lakin and Highland
know their business whether 1t is for
the state or. for private good and
profit, and the same spirit that has
characterized them in other ayoca-
tons is evident in the atmosphere
that pervades the new state organl-
cation headquarters.
/ The marvel of the Clarks-
burg headquarters to visitor
coming in from other states is not
only the method but the size of the
staff Something like score, of Of
fee rooms in Judge Goff's business
block occupied by tue Lakin COM
mittee give signs of activity not
only all day, but up to midnight and
then some. The wonder is that
West Virginia Republicans with five
congressional districts and a regis
tration one-fifth that of Ohio, have
a larger campaign stan in the
! Clarksburg committee rooms than
the Ohio Republicans at Columbus.
OF course the Ohio managers have
substations and sub-managers in the
large cities and populated centers,
but this years West Virginia head
quarters might well be a pattern for
state campaign managers all over
the country.
During my stay in Clarks-
burg 1t was cheering to come into
contact with the splendid and
rugged Republican workers who
came in from different sections OF
the state and outlined conditions
wonderfully changed since month
ago. Indeed, from present observa-
tion and reports made during my
stay at headquarters, there can be
no doubt Of the general getting-back
to the party phalanx OF battle for the
for the remainder of the campaign.
I.6epOrIS TO the mdud5STS Dy PhohSt
word of mouth and letter all con-
firmed my Impressions and it means
too, that much of the spirit of things
now SO evident in the Cor building
at Clarksburg is spreading out
through the state. When you look
over the list OF state managers for
the Republicans of West Virginia
this year, you do not wonder much
| at the business spirit of things which
pervades even the rooms where the
pretty girls, fifty or more, are send
Ing out the printed wisdom and cam
paign literature to, the voters, There
| is a spirit OF cheer and confidence
from chairman to janitor..
All West Virginia Repub-
licans know the ability and
resolute methods of James $.
Lakin, the chairman OF the gener-
al committee, and | happen to know
.4 - hoe olraady received much