Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-04-06
MARTINsBURG. w. VA, SATURDAY, April 9 1917
TAFT TRYING TOSAVE
WEST VIRGINIA
officeholders Called to the White
House for conferences--More
Effective Wcrk Urged.

Washington, April 5.---t'ollowing the
dispatch of United States Fish Com.
missioner Bowers into Berkeley eoun.
ty West Virginia, to aid In carrying
the Presidential preference primary
to be held there Saturday for Presi.
dent Taft, other Federal cfiioeholders
of West Virginia were summoned to
the White House and told to employ
drastic measures to coprteract the
effect Of Colonel Roosevo]t's speaking
tour in that state
II. Roy Waugh, oG parkersburg.
United States District Attorney for
the Northern district Of West vir-
ginla; Jerome II. Doyle, also Of Par
kersburg, United States Marshall for
the Northern district, aud A. r. Bar
rett prominent republican politician
of Northern West Virginia, were seat
for from the White House and spent
an hour In conference with Secretary
Hilles and other directors Of Mr.
Taft's campaign for denomination.
Their visit follows closely upon the
call of Postmaster A. Brooks Fleming,
of Fairmont, holder Of one of the most
lucrative Presidential anpointve ofli-
ces in the state.
With the West Virginia officehol-
ders at present in Washington is
Delegate Everitt Moore. republican
floor leader of the West Virginia
House of Delegates.
a - e.. ha-
came known that all of them will re-
turn to the state and resort to vigor-
Gus efforts to save West Virginia for
the President.
/ Former Governor William M. o,
Dawson, chairman Of tho Roosevelt
State Committee of West Virginia,
was in conference with the Washing
ton directors of the Gflorel's oaadi-
dacy at headquarters Chairman Daw.
ison is confident that West Virginia
is overwhelmingly for the Colonel
and declares that 1t VIII take more
than official conferences Of the Taft
ofilcehoders to keep Colonel Roose-
welt from corraling every one of his
states delegates to Chicago.
He says the Roosevelt speechmak-
ing tour through West Virginia Is at
tracing far more attention than any
political event that has transpired in
the Mountain State in several years,
and declares that Roosevelt Us the
popular choice ef the republicans of
his state by an overwhelming ma
jority.
Former Governor Dawson has re-
reatedly stated that even the Office
holders cannot hold West Virginia in
line for the administration, and the
visit OF the officeholders at the White
House, whore they were unexpectedly
summoned, means that machine
methods and the use of the steam
roller win be resorted to with unex-
pected zeal.
The only county to hold Presden-
tial primaries so far has turned down
President Taft by an overwhelming
majority.
Acknowledgement Conle,. of West
virginia, is ia Washington preparing
to argue before the United States Sr-
creme Court the Validity of West Viz
ginia's Two4Cent Rate law Although
a candidate for Congress- from the
Second district and unopposed for the
republican nomination, he is taking
little part in politics
Mr.. Conley says West Virginia will
return to the republican ranks this
fall and predicts not only the election
of a republican Legislature but de-
clares that all of the congressional
districts Will return republicans In
place of the democratic incumbents.