The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-05-18
Sideighfs on The
State Convention

NNos PhoScSo " adhe sure OF getting
sixteen members OF the committee.
leaving IL TO the people to say about
The other IL In June, feeling certain
that they would almost certainly pick
up enough men OF their kind in tha
primary to give them a majority.
Committee Enlarged.
The present state committee. as is
well known. had arranged that the
new committee should be elected by
the voters OF the party next month.
when the Hubbard-Dawson conven-
ton, acting In the name OF Roosevelt.
put through this revolutionary and
illegal act. enlarging the committee
membership TO thirty-three and NAM
ing the sixteen additional members.
the present state committee got to-
gether and held a meeting. IL met
the move with one that Is bound TO
command the approval and respect
OF the rank and file Of the party. II
arranged to open the entry books for
the primary so far as the committee
matter is concerned. and have the en-.
tire committee OF 80. as provided for
oy the resolution passed at Hunting
ton yesterday. elected directly by the
voters oil the party. This Is the reso-
lution which the committee passed
late last night and il will go" at the
primary next month.
Whereas. there seems 10 be a de-
sire on the part of the members OF
the Republican party, that the state
committee be increased from a total
OF seventeen members to thirty-three
members; and
whereas, The resolution calling for
a primary election to be held on June
4. 1912, provides for the election OF
only seventeen members OF said COM
mlttee. Therefore be IL
Resolved. That there be elected at
the primary election to be held on
June 4. 1912. thirty-three members to
be and constitute the Republican
state executive committee. two 10 he
elected by the voters OF each soma.
torial district. and three members
from the colored race from the state
al Iarsei no two OF the white members
from the respective senatorial dis
trlcts to be residents OF the same coun-
| ty.
Resolved. further. that the rules for
holding the said primary election on
June 4. 1912, be modified so as to per.
NIT candidates for members OF the
said state executive committee 10
qualify and heve their names printed
upoa thAsbaihot % be voted al the pri-
mary elected, up to and including
May "a, 1872; and. that the Official
ballot be published for ten days prior
TO June 4. 1912.
There you have the answer to the
htgh-handed attempt OF Messrs. Daw.
son and Hubbard to get control of the
organization OF the Republican party
IN West Virginia. The committee
which is in charge OF the primary
turns over TO the voters of the party
the privilege TO elect all OF the mem
bers OF the new comittee. and in so
/ doing. and by this method. holds nm
4 to the light OF public inspection the
/ shadowy, questionable and illegal man.
ner in which Dawson and Hubbard
have attempted 10 get a throat clutch
on the party, and use its discipline
and organization for whatever per
sonal-purposes they have in mind.
] Plainly, 10 Is their next move. The
I state committee has put il up to them
I quickly and very neatly. No matter
how much they may dislike Il. how
much this action may embarrass them.
can they afford TO fight b.. Here Is
the comittee handing out to them the
hnest kind OF an eXemplihcation OF
their own let the people rule doe
trine. The people Of the party are 20
elect not merely seventeen committee.
men, but the whole thirty-three the
enlarged number provided for By the
Z Huntington convention
! Don't let the fact get by you. gentle
reader. that In this attempt to take
/ control OF the organization of the
party, was the great and important
TACT Of the convention The other
business transacted by h.. such as the
I election Of delegates and alternates.
and the nomination Of two candidates
for supreme court Judge. was trivial
/ business indeed. compared 10 the
! revolutionary plan 20 put the present
state committee out OF business and
elect practically n half OF a new and
| enlarged committee az a convention.
which had no authority given ~ 10 do
] Isnything OF the kind fn the strange
schemes OF William Mcckius Owens
/ Dawson and William Palisfer Hub
/ bard "the committees the thing" To
U AtA'iN "NiAttN NAlH NihNrl UNlu the hnN
z 10 this political sifuaton-do not for
an instant lose sight OF This very
= large. important and material fact.
judicial Slate Broken.
have said that Dawson and Hub
bard were not able at au times 10
make the Rooscvoltcrs swallow the
doses they had prepared flr them. 1
have referred to several instances 20
prove that Now ] shall tell Of more.
When it came tO the nomination OF
judges. Judge PoferborEer. Of Mason.
vas slated b. them for The slaughter.
Ho was to be- defeated because he
I had the courage and indoprnd.
cnco to b. outapokcn for the nomIn.
alton of Tar and equally a. OUT.
D spoken against tho Roosevelt dose
tines glVen out at Columbus win ro.
ference 20 judges and their docis.
ions. The man selected 90 defeat
. him vas Judge DooiIt'lo. of Hunfnr.
E Ton. who bad been ahouf na out snot
on in favor of fhe nomination of
I Roosevelt DOB the rowl-.ff,-
speeches. the alignment of these tso
Jurists was cHpauarcd upon and er
planned. Direct appeals we're made