The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-31
VILE DENS OF lNlQUlTY NOT
CONSIDERED TOO Low o
GET LICENSE
ONLY PROVISION SEEMS TO Be
THAT PRoPRIEToRS SHALL
SUPPORT THE PARTY.
DIVE KEEPERS ARE POLITICAL
LiEuTENANTS or Nc
DOWELL COUNTY.
LICENSE TWICE GRANTED BY
HATFIELD TO MAN CON-
NlCTED IN THREE
COURTS.
lRy George wv. Summers. J

10y 0GOFHG NNs 0uHlfHCFS.J
The chief issue of the present cam
paign, aside from the great national
issues, Is whether the political condi-
lions in the notorious county of Nc
DoweH 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 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.
DIR, IA. d. Hatfield, who is oandi-
date for Governor, has been for many
years the head of the dominant polit-
ical party in Mcdowell county and
it was under his leadership that the
political conditions which have made
Mcdowell county a 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 FOL
discussion and for full investigation
in view of his candidacy for the
high office to which he aspires.
DENS or INIQuITY
HAVE BEEN ENCOURAGED.
Officially, DR.. Hatfield has en-
couraged the dens of iniquity and
vice which have given to the city o.
keystone the title of the most wicked
city in America. keystone is Xix
ened III recently published booklet
to the Sodom and Gomorrah OF Blbl1
cal fame, which cities were destroyed
by the Almighty on account OF thel1
wickedness. In Keystone, many o.
the saloons which have been granted
license to sell liquor by pr. Hatfield
when he was a member OF the county
court, are conducted with houses O
prostitution In connection with them
in the same buildings, with only oper
doorways between them. In thes'
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 womel
for sale to negro men and from thei
profits contribute to the campaigi
funds which Dr. Hatfield as the heat
of the party requires to be provided
with which to furnish the tremen
lous majorities which Mcdowell
county is called upon to return
These places were VIGOROUSLY place
Of the character here described Whel
DR.. Hatfield as a member OF IN
county court, granted liquor license
to them. One of these places is cor
Quoted by a member Of the Republ
can State committee who was a DELE
gate to the Republican National Cor