The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-18


influence The manufacturer or great
capitalists OF .he country to come ald
locate in our mids YOU may rest
assured that would BE- glad to 50
shoulder 10 ahouideF with me cit
izsnship Q west Virginia and do
what Is nece airy 10 Encourage more
Industries IN our state; that is what
we need g do. my fellow citizens
10 Aid shippers.
I'm my platform ! said again that
I stood for a public service commits
sion thint the time has come
when the people 81 West Virginia
ldemaud pubic service corporation
Commission what Is your condition
in the state today? How can You.
take care Of a proposition when you
feel that you are sggrieved. If you
are a shipper, or II you patronize a
public service corporations There
is only one way. II the corporation
wants to be quarrelsome or trouble
some with you, and that Is by a
special act of the legislature or in
Junction law suit; but II you had a
public service corporation commits
sion in West Virginia with the power
to control and to arrange all Of
these grievances, the result would be
very simple, and you could present
| your claim; you could present your
grievance and the result, or adjust
ment of your grievance, would be
speedily, take care of, and feel that
the public and the corporations
would be benefited. / feel that this
is the thing for the state, and / shall
advocate 1T, should be elected gov
ernor.
Thoroughly in Earnest.
81 have told you what / stood for.
/ want to say to You that j am in
earnest in all the propositions that
have made to you. We are, and
represent, as citizens of West vir-
ginia, one of the greatest states in
the union; and we could build q
wall around the state and be hap
by and prosperous people, If We
would utilize our energies and our
Thoughts as. we should. THERE'S no
question about 1t; we have every
thing; We have the oil, we have the
gas and COAL we have the agricul-
ltural section, and we have every
thing to make us prosperous peo-
pie, and as the. people of West Yir-
ginia we should take advantage Of
1.-THE great things that he have in the
lway of natural resources. You may
say that am a Republican, you may
say that some other man is "a DEM
ocrat. you may say the he repre-
sents his party, You may say that
the Republican man represents his
party. Do You want me to ten you
IiWhat I think Republican is, or
what a Democrat is, or whatever his
4 principles may be? DO you want
me to tell you what think and when
l think a man serves his party best?
A man who serves the people first,
lis the man who serves his party
/ best, (abplause Il and that shall be
my :mottoSSa fair, square deal, equal
privileges, majority rule, serve
the people first; for, when you serve
the people first you have served
your party best. That should be the
motto of every public man; and the
man who does not serve the people
first does not serve his party well;
he can not possibly do 1t; he must
be true to the principles the people
advocate and what the people stand
for. He must stand for it, II he
wants to be true to their trust, and
true to their confidence, and the man
who does not stand for these things
and who, does not stand for these
principles will find himself being
looked upon with suspicion and dis
regard; and should I occupy the po-
sitIon that aspire to / want to as
sure you sincerely-as sincerely as
lit Is possible for man to be-that
my first idea will be for the service
of the people, and when 1 have
served the people, il will feel that
have served my party. That is what
a party representative should do.
Lincoln Typical.
why was the great, immortal
'iLlncoln so grand? Why was he
written upon the tablets of the
memory of every American; why
should his memory be cherished as
one of precious marble? Because
he served the people, because he
served them with all sincerity, be-