The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-01

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state these political trixters have
degenerated to the low level Of
committing political petit larceny OF
votes by robbing the Republican par.
ty of it's place upon the ballot with
the sole aim and hope in view that
many lawful voters will go into the
election booths and by mistake vote
some otherticket thinking from the
position on the ballot that they are
voting the Republican ticket.
The Republican city committee
should not stand for this outrage any
longer than It requires to take the
matter before the court for attention.
It will not be necessary to take this
matter to the Supreme court. We be.
lieve that justice a be had In the
local courts with a less expense, and
the wrong is such a palpable one that
it will not be appealed when correct
cd. An Injunction should be obtain
ed restraining the ballot commission
ers from printing the ballot asEit Is
now made up, and a mandamus
should be secured compelling Them
to place the Republican ticket IN its
proper place upon the ballot. y is a
damniable, d~isgraceful shame that
the courts have to be resorted to in a
land OF freedom, Of schools, liberty
and where Christianity is protested
by many who resort to this d~espicable
methods of obtaining a political
power and advantage that the law
does not intend that they should
have and that no fair minded people
believe they should have. Let law
and order be enforced and the right
will prevail.
Behind ALT his nefarious work is a
we'll developed plan to secure for
these schemerG a continuation CT the
rcins of the city government IN their
hands. Under the provisions Of the
new charter any one. party Is pro-
hibited from gaining complete con,
troll or the government This Is the
plain intention and provision oil the
law and there are good reasons why
this should be so in every city, and
most especially in Fairmont, but to
defeat this provision Of the charter
the Democratic manipulators OF
politics and things that are more val
liable to them than politics are
forming a combine with the
third party to give them three mem
bcrs OF the Board Of Affairs, thus
practically turning the city govern
ment back into the hands Of one par
,ty. 1t cannot be done in the open III
face of the provisions Of the charter
but it can be handled like many men
handle their property in the names OF
their wives. They want this author
ity in the name of some other party
that will answGr their purposes Thts
was planned before the election Off
GERS were appointed. 1t was planned
before the mandamus was secured. It
was a part of this plan to make the
appointments Of election Officials as
they were made and it is a continue
ton of this plan to rob the Republic
can party of its place upon the ballot
OF course this scheme will fail as
it should. The people of Fairmont
will not be a party to such u deal
when an honest effort is being made
to place the city government on a
plane higher than political bias
In order to carry it out to a suc'
cessful conclusion these schemers
would have to deliver the entire Dem
ocratic vote to the third party; a feat
as impossible as carrying the sand of
Sahara on a fork without splitting
any. The rank and file OF the Demo-
~ICrattc party are going to vote for
their two commissioners and then
vote for the best two men on some
other ticket. They arc going to vote
flor Davis and Meredith and many Re-
publicans are going to reciprocate by
voting for Barnes and Bowen, at
least theyt ell us that they are goinG
TO do this. The idea that they have
been sold and expected to be deliver
ed like so many sheep to fulfill u po-
litical bargain Is repulsive to all hon
est Democrats and they are not go
ing to vote to carry out any plans
that they cannot themselves support
as a matter OF principle. So II will
be understood that the net result Of
this scheming will be to promote dis
cord in the new Board of Affairs and
thereby possibly defeat the ambitions
of the best citizens to get the flnan'
cial matters Of the city Strengthened
out and some necessary improvements
made that must be made before thu
city can grow very rapidly. Z,
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