Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-03-06

promptly loyal West Virginia goes
Republican, and Mr.. Scott doesn't
thank the people. He thanks Mr.. Arch
bold, Standard Oil and "other
friends" A minute after the wires
had licked off the telegram of thanks
they brought this confident message:
Wheeling, w. Va.
Nov. 9, 1904.
J. D. ArchboId,
26 Bway, New York.
State slow in reporting owing to
long ticket national ticket will have
twenty-five thousand state and legis-
Iature republican.
936a NJ. 3. Scott.
i And the ardent Mr. Scott, having
been senator for six years, was up for
reelection Whose senator had he
! been during those six togaed years?
Whose senator would he be in event
of reelection? That eager wire of
thanks" to- Mr.. $Archbod and 'other
friends" should help you to an ans
wer, as should his haste to confirm
the eager hope contained in the first
telegram.
Having worked off his first ecstasy
with kilograms, Mr.. Scott, as one who
reports events to an employer, if not
an owner, sends, Mr.. Archbold let
ter.
I Wheeling, w. Va.
l. Nov. 9, 1904.
Mr.. j. D. ArchboId,
26 Broadway, New York.
My dear Mr.. Archbold:
You, no doubt, have noticed the re-
suit in West Virginia and the desper-
4, ate fight we had to make in this state.
1t was something terrific. Our oppon-
ents spent in some counties alone
forty thousand dollars and by the
lavish use of money they reduced our
majority very much, and came very
NEARLY defeating our Governor. II it
HAD not been for their money and the
liberal use they made of it we. would
have carried the state by $4,000, as it
is it will be about 10000, with the
Governor elected by, about 5000 and
the legislature about % majority on
| Joint ballot, which would seem to in
dictate that | would be returned to the
Senate.
With many many thanks for your
kindness, am,
Yours very truly,
IN. 3. Scott.
\ d
kindness! That4emust have pleased
Mr.. Archbold, smugly in his web for
catching Senate flies at 26 Broadway.
1t was a good letter to get. Most of
us like to have our aid acknowledged.
Besides, the letter would do to stick
under the Senate-nose of Mr.. Scott in
case he became recalcitrant
Kindness" as term is vague. If
the Clapp Committee, recalling Mr..
i Archbold, would insist upon knowing
just what kind of kindness" the
wire-sending, letter writing, grateful
Mr.. Scott, senator aforesaid, is thank
ing him for so unanimously, the pub
lie mind might be enlightened, the
public veal advanced.
Mr.. Scott insists, and sWears be-
fore it before the Clapp Committee
that Mr.. Archbold's Kindness was
not a money kindness But is Mr..
Scott to be relied upon? The Bailey
memory was bad, the Archbold men,
DRY was bad, the Penrose memory was
) bad Are yon to suppose that, the
Scott memory was or is any better?
Mr.. Scott, brought tenderly before
the Clapp Committee, was-acording
, to the record pressed tenderly as
follows:
The Chairman. Do you know of any
contribution made by any one asso-
lciated with any large manufacturing
! interest in this country?
Mr.. Scott. 1 do not.
. TheChairman. Or the Oil Trust?
Mr. Scott. do not, Senator.
The Chairman. With the Beet
Trust?
Mr.. Scott do not. / probably
ought to say, in justice to Mr.. CorteI-
you and Mr.. Bliss that In converse.
!. ton around table like this where
we used to meet, It was generally un.
derstood they would take no con-
tribution from any Of those large con,
4 Germs at all.
n The Chairman. Was that discussed
in your conferences?
Mr.. Scott Yes; sir it was discuss.
led, OF at least, know was present
I lEhen It was said they would not take