The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-10-11
Faithful Few with Badges
Do Most Of the Nose
Making
WILSON'S CANDIDATE
Shows Up as Knocker Judge
Moore Gets SocialistIc
and Robinson Rants.

I - w lIl18M ~ s4US4AESSAAP
son candidate for GoyeFRor. ad
dressed a comfortably flled cour
house room Thursday night, but he
failed to hold his audience as shown
by the fact that men kept constant
l-Iy drifting out after they found Out
his line OF talk. which consisted q
ON of the most reRetlonary speeches
ever delivered before clarksbura
audience.
Mr.. Thompson antagonized every
bit OF progressive LEGISLATION placed
on the statute books the last sixteen
years. He found fault. with every
thing that had been done and every
thing that he believed the RePps-.>
cans would do, IL elected The per
sonnet of the present Republican
state ticket is very obnoxious TO him
he declares.
The speaker declared that the
watson combine would return to the
old and unjust system OF taxation,
If given control Of the state govern
ment. He studiously avoided men-
ton OF the way Ehilton and Watsqa
we're, elected. ana how he himself
was nominated Tor governor. as the
spccial tool of the Watson-lacGor-
kle- Chiffon bunch Of eorrpptionists.
Mr.. Thompson assured the audi
ence that that Old Virginia debt the
old state Is trying to saddle on
west virginia would 0e promptly set
tied il the democratic party got INTO
mower IN this state. The public has
strong suspicion al
the time that that IS the plan the
sBuocrats have and the watson
nominee has confirmed Il.
Thompson bored his audience, ex-
cent the few "faithful'' With badges
ON who. we're there to cheer whether
there was any excuse for applause
ar not. and the badgemen in their
zeal to make a noise did not know
when it was proper. These out
bursts never got beyond less than
one-third of the hearers, while the
other two-thirds mercy smiled at
the oenortorious'' effort TO inject
something into nothing.
Sitting listening to Mr.. ThomP-
son. the machine candidate for gov
ernor. the question that pFetFqdes
itself upon the mind Of any Well
vyarsed man in public affairs, and
will not down, is: How can ne
hiring himself to do h?'' Other I'm
Dressions are numerous as they are
2er+inent. He seems to be suffer
ing from a feeling OF depression ana
boTnted by a fear. You expect him
to turn and look behind him eVery
minute. as if something pursu@
him Mr.. Thompson gives the Inn
weston Of man who IS carrying
too heavy a burden, Whe knows ne
IS reckless of statement and expects
IN he told SO very bluntly By MS au
5jence and his whole mien is that
discouraged. hopeless and de-
Scoring man. ones pity for MN
in his plight is greater than q aeSlFs
ia. censure and condemn INN.
How. one wonders, could he DEln m
himself to talk into the faces OF ms
a,,.I;ence an excoriation OF corporate
@.sa,+b ana its alliance with crooked
noIi+icsq Yet that is what he di0'
sven BOSS Chiffon. the beneaeierS
- the alliance between crooked DoSl-
oass and corrupt politics, did the
. .,r tbins at Charleston, the drst Oh
"a lits - o1d ut EIkins on Wednes-
49, niqbt. Thompson, himself, as
everybody knows. is the DenenciaFy
80 The combination of these VICIOUS
o. in our civic life which the
S,soD1e, Of this country are ~Agntlne
peSs sstbrone. to the extent OF NJ
. - He is their 4ounohns
~ west Virginia. If he should D
eIoc,ed which, thank God!' seems I'M
aSobsbIe. he would be Sthelf man
and not the peoples servant
HOW he could talk Of Republican
.aINodministration with the ghosE
~ the last bribed and corrupted
democratic legislature haunting ms
1,,iz,5 the while, one wonders.
III. 1Jow he could talk Of bosses IN
the Republican party" without
bIDshing and stammeFing IN ms
sneeeh. as the memory Of the cElli-
TnsI bossism OF WatsOn- ton-sAae-
CorkIe swept across his mind Is
more than many in his audience
could fathom.
How he could plead WIN ma