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

There would be senator elected as
colleague to Mr.. Elkins. A Democrat
ic Legislature would mean a Demo-
cratic senator. This excited the watch
full Mr.. Archbold peering spiderishly
out from his Standard Oil web at 26
Broadway.
Mr.. Archbold possessed a suspicious
confidence in the Standard Oil fitness
of Governor Fleming's democracy.
Having tried it in the green, he be-
lieved he knew what it would do in
the dry Therefore, Mr. Archbold
summoned his faithful stenographer,
and indited the following to that
same Mr.. Clark who two years later
would prove SO useful to Mr.. Elkins.
Personal.
November 80, 1908.
Mr.. N. F. Clark, y ~
Pittsbure, Pa. L
Dear Mr.. Clark.
AS West Virginia seems to have
gone Democratic, which will give her
a Democratic United States Senator
to succeed Faulkner write to ask
whether Governor Fleming has made
any intir1ation Of his Intentions in
respect to a candidacy for this place.
There is probably no man in West Vir-
ginia better qualified or who would
make more capable and honorable
Senator than he. If he has said moth
ing to you won't you please raise the
question with him and tell him that
we all. here would be greatly inter-
ested in having him make an effort
for the place, and would be only too
happy to extend any aid that may be
in our power. ! would like to hear
from you just as soon as promptly pos
sible on this subject. If it is possible
for you to confer with him either per-
sonaIIy or by telephone at once, will
be glad to have you do so, and please
telegraph me in cipher the result.
Very truly yours,
Jno. D. ArchboId.
How illuminative the word sci
pher!" How illuminative the prompt
readiness Of our little Satan of 26
Broadway to carry Democrat Fleming
up into the high places and show him
the kingdoms of the world and the
Standard Oil glories thereof! 1t was
Ia false alarm, however. The Republi-
cans and not the Democrats had car
ried West Virginia.
If you will re-read Mr.. Roosevelt's
1904 remarks, delivered across the
White House mahogany to Mr.. Root,
you will observe that he expressed
a fear lest papa" Scott had collect
ed campaign funds from Beef, Sugar,
Tobacco, and Standard Oil. Papa"
Scott was Nathan Bay Scott, and his
home state West Virginia. He had al
ways been a Hanna man, and never
a Roosevelt man. In a Baltimore
speech in 1904-this was just before
the nominations-he had spoken of
the latter as this man Roosevelt,
whom everybody is for and nobody
wants." But he had been dining some
what heavily, and Mr.. Roosevelt let
this burst of humor pass without re-
mark. Later, the humorous Mr.. Scott
assisted about the Roosevelt head
quarters.
The West Virginia 1898 Legislature,
Republican and not Democratic, as
EMr. Archbold had feared, elected Mr.
Scott Mr. Roosevelt's papa" Scott
Ito the United States Senate. There
| is nothing of documentary kind, in
the possession of this magazine, tc
snow now lar MI. AICuDOIA duu otdA
dard Oil were forces in the Senate
lelevation of Mr.. Scott. However
from Mr.. Archbold's instant interest
| in the business, when he thought thai
1.-The Democrats had carried the State
as evinced in his letter to Mr.. Clarf
directing the attention of Governor
FLEMING, one is free to assume thai
he had hand in the Senate making
of Mr.. Scott. The two were on speak
ling terms surely in 1904, when Mr.
lScott sent this grateful wire to Mr.
lArchbolds
i Wheeling West Virginia.
II November 9, 1904
III. D. Archbold, .ss
Il 26 5wsy, New York.
II Thanks to you and other friends w
have West Va. by twenty-five tilous
4 and state ticket safe think.
n 3. Scott.
How tender how touchings hoy