The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-09-12


don latl5le energy and great exc
entlVe ana Originating ablilttes- That
was followed ~ suece lll enloEee7
.ment. How 1t vas done. nobody
who knows the resources Of the
ygatson=C Chiffon bosssship need be-
told. Br. Grarbery was. 'slugged
from behind /" and ne Wag ordered toI
pack up ana leave West Virginia 70
take passionate IN KENTUCKY. In e
frank statement OF farewell to the
public given BY him to che press
here, Br. GFanbery closed with these
significant words: 81 have tangible
evidence that few. stung by my
light for political idealism. are not
sorry that I am to leave these parts
and had hand IN enecting my re-
.moval
DR.. Cranberry is a very fair hght-I
Ter. he was ont in the open and
nobody would charge him with do
ing anything In an underhand way
to gain his point. An example OF
his fairness and Justice was given
In July. when partisan newspapers
attacked Dr.. a. D. Hatfield. the
popular choice for governor in this
state. on the prohibition amendment
issue. Dr.. Granbery, in a lengthy
article quoted Dr.. Habae1d's frank
declaration made IN the personal
platform issued by Dr. Hatfield last
April when he formally announced
his candidacy for the Republican
nomination. In fact, It Will be re-
membered, DR.. HATFIELD declared
that II the amendment was ratified
he would see to its strict enforce
ment; II 1t was not, that he favored
the enactment of the most stringent
local option laws. This declaration
was ampuhed by Dr.. Hatfield in his
speeches, he declaring time and
again that he would enforce the
amendment If ratified even if it
were necessary for him to keep the
state MILITIA in the field to do &c
DR.. Granbery quoted all OF these
statements; also. he quoted from
letters received by him from the Re
publican candidate he said that
these declarations were entirely sat
isfactory to him oGranberry)-thati
.ethey are perfectly satisfactory to
me-" He referred to the fact that
the Democratic candidate for COVER
nor had never said a word bearing
on the issue. and that IS true now
the same as when Dr.. Cranberry mem
TONED It. Thompson has been dumb
on this issue from the time he aen=
tered the arena as a candidate up
t the present time, although every
EFFORT has been made. especially by
the friends of the amendment, to
force him to make some sort Of
declaration in reference to it.
The case OF Dr.. Cranberry is SINH
lar to others. When a man incurs
the opposition OF the Watson-chil-
ton machine he is liable to "get
his'n'' at the most unexpected time
and in the most unexpected way.
This example of the power. resource
fulness and vindictiveness OF the
combination is more interesting
than the others because it shows it
self inside a religious tabernacle at
work. and there many would sup
pose that even such an aggregation
of audacio1s schemers would not
dare to try to enter and carry on
their work. secu1arly-that is. in
business nfe-men have felt the
revenge of politicians in .dsxious and
circuitous ways, but this IS the first
time. so far as is known, that polit-
zeal bosses ever worked upon the
organization Of great church to
bring success to selfish and un-
Worry projects and to avenge fans
cied grievance on mere individual.
By the forced departure OF Dr.