Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-11-23
M|LLIOA|RES
CONTEND WATSON'S
SEAT IS THEIRS
Elkins, Mann, Edwards. Dawson
And Scott Want The Toga.
ALL EAGER TO RUN
WEST VIRGINIA

Republicans Control Legislature. eau.
Gus, nit Primary, oecldes--All BE.
heve the Pi~kines viii be Good
Third Party the Cause Of Fight
Deadlock is Likely.
WASHINGTON, Nooy. Repub-
mean control OF the West Virginia
Legislature has preclritated scram-
Die FOR the United States Senatorship
that promises 10 be historic.
More than dozen candidates are
already in the field and more are
threatening TO jump in. Divisions
and subdivisions have already core
to pass in the old Republican party
over the big office and the end is not
yet
And from reports that filter through
TO Washington, there is no end of
money on hand for the campaign
only millionaires and near million
aires are making any fight for this
plum and tins encourages the supper.
ters OF the respective candidates to
nope that pickings will be good when
the next West Virginia Legislature
meets.
West Virginia Republicans do not
nominate their candidates for the
Senate by primary. The Democrats
OF that state do, but the other party
| stu sticks to the caucus idea. Re.
| publlcans like the maneuyering and
strategy that is necessary when a
leader of their party is elevated to
the big legislative body.
Coal Oil and Railroad
In the beginning of the campaign
to elect a Republican Legislature
there were but three avowed candi-
dates for the Senate. They were for.
mer Senator Davis Elkins, million.
aire railroad man; Isaac r. Mann.
millionaire coal man, and William
Seymour Edwards, millionaire oil
man.
That was in the beginning. That
was when large expenditures we're
needed in the various legislative dis
tricts. That was when tho Democrats
under Watson and Mcoraw were max.
ing stubborn campaign and were
hghting for every incn of ground that
could be contested.
4 NOW however, that the fight has
/ been won and a Republican Legisla.
ture Is assured, other aspirants have
come forward. slippery Bill" Daw-
son, whose multitudinius political af
tliatfons have made him famous. is
willing to go to the Senate. II, c..
Ogden, the newspaper publisher who
mas been able to perform the remark
able feat of printing, simultaneously
and successfully, a Republican, a
Democratic and an independent daily
newspaper in the same state, is equal.
ly willing.
Former Senator Nathan B. Scott is
trusting to luck for chance to get
back into the game, and former Con
gresham Hubbard, wso once ran
against Senator Scott and was defeat
ed, is already GROOMING himself to
succeed Senator Watson. Governor
Glasscock is on deck awaiting a call
TO the bat
Third Party the Cause
This array of candidates is the re-
suit of the strange and strained DO
litical conditions of the Bull Moose
split in the party, a split that has
not been as successful as in many
states. The West Virginia Republi-
cans were unable to agree upon
candidate for President, but they
were able to get together upon a pro-
gram for State ticket.
When the Chicago convention was
held, for instance, all West Virginia
seemed to be for Roosevelt Yet,
when the third party was organized,
Roosevelt was forgotten as a Presl-
dental candidate. Tart was also for
gotten and the national fight passed
up. The whole interest of West Vir-
ginia Republicans, and ex-Republi-
cans lay in eleeting Republican Gov
ernor and a Republican Legislature.
Just the same, the original Roose-
welt men now claim first considera-
ton of the new Legislature. Ed
wards and Dawson are in that class.
Glasscick, too, who was more vehe-
mently in favor of the Colonel than
any of them, is lining up as post
election Bull Moose. He declined to
take sides before the election.
Deadlock Likely
Elkins and Mann are, frankly, Taft
men, Ogden has been consistently
loyal to the President, while Scott
has never been on any other side
Hubbard was for a time inclined TO
insurge, but always within and not
without the party.
This means, therefore that when
the next West Virginia Legislature
caucuses on a Senator the divisions
will come along these lines. The
Progressives will CLAWS the support
OF Progressive legislators and the old
liners will declare that all true-blue
Republicans should excommunicate