The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-03

MR.. DA 8 i.
In Politics as the Result of.
His Opposition to Indus
tres of His District.


Congressman JoAn-7V.Davis=m must
stand. on his record, this year Il.
confrOnts him and he fnds himselI
diGerently situated nov. rom nat
OF two years ago. II was told two.
years ago that -heNas sfpeeztEadsE.
but many. voters believed that he
would throw aside his theories on
the tariff and vote for protection in
this district. He did nothing Of the
kind and he makes vain boast OF
that fact now. In a futile attempt
to defend his course he tries to
make it appear that he knows better
what is good for mill owners. mill
employees. sheep and wool growers.
farmers and others in this district
than they know But, they. espe-
cialIy the mill men, protested to him
personally before he voted against
their interests. but it did no good.
He heard them not. He gave no
heed to their begging requests,
They were for him once but they are
against him now, Can you blame
them2
indeed. a sorry plight is his. one
Tor the sorriest known in current
American politics. The Wheeling In
tenigencer like other newspapers
would be inclined to sympathize
with him as the following editorial
shows but it knows that the welfare
OF thousands of homes in this dis
/ trict are at stake and it like many
others can not and will not overlook
, the fact that Industrial and COM
mercial welfare comes first and the
happiness of homes and the prosper
ity of the people as well. and friend
ship must relegate itself in this in
stance as it should in every other
where so much is at stake:
About the most pitiful spectacle
in the politics of West Virginia -
the present time is the Hon. John
W. Davis, of CIarks6nrg, Nj. Davis
, is a Democratic free trader repre-
senting a protective tariff district
f, In Mr.. Davis's district over 5000
men are employed in the production
OF tin plate. The Underwood tarim
bill, for which Mr.. Davis voted,
would have cut in two the market
for American tin plate. Mr. w u
tFollansbee, an authority on the tin
plate business, states positively that
| the Underwood bin Would have
closed down the tin plant at cIarks-
burg, NIr. Davis's home. Mr.. Davis
supported the Underwood-La Fol-
Iette wool bill. designed to reduce
the protective duty on wool from
sixty to seventy per cent. Mr.. Lewis
Horkheimer, of the great firm OF
Herkheimer Brothers. buyers OF
wool is. authority for the statement
that the Underwood-La Toilette bill
would have taken away every penny
of profit in the wool business OF
West Virginia, Pennsylvania and
Ohio.
Mr.. Davis undoubtedly knew the
probable erect of these bills upon
the iron and steel industry and upon
the wool industry. In fact, repre-
sentatives of these ind ustries called
on Mr.. Davis while the bills were
! pending. presented facts and fgGres,
and besought Mr.. Davis to oppose
these measures. Ais reply to them
was that he was Democrat, and
must ~ governed the decision OF
the Democratic caucus. In other
words the representative in Con
gress Of the First West Virginia dis
trtct. manufacturing and indus,
trial district. was dictated to and
controlled by Democratic caucus
the majority OF whose members
come from the eotton-growiRg states
OF the south. Personally, Mr.: DaVis
lis worthy gentleman. but he is not
in touch With the important inter
ests of his own district. -
The interests of the First West
virginia district are essentially de,
pendent upon the protecttve-===taFi
and the voters OF taat district viii
send representative to Washing
ton who understands their interests