The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-09-26

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Talk about the Democrats winning
in the Fifth distr!ct!t,t said Thomas j..
! Minear, Of Greenbrier county, who IS
] a guest at the Raleigh, why 1t can't
! be done. It never has been, and it will
/ not be. am not an old man, by any
| means, but do not expect to live long
enough to see the Fifth congressional
district send anybody other than q Re-
| publican to represent it in the lower
branch The best + chance that the
] Democrats have had to elect one OF
4 their number since the Fifth district
1 was formed fourteen years ago, was
| in 1912. But they failed by nearly
1000 votes. A chance ike that does
! not happen often. 1t will be a long
while before it hapepns again 80
] do not believe for a minute that
/ George 1. Neal has the solid support OF
! his own party, for he has not. The
4 Chiffon wing of the machine, and that
is the stronger in the Fifth, is opposed
4 to him absolutely His election. the
| Chiffon people believe, would be alto
/ gether against the best interests OF
their chief So. they are going to help
| kill him of, declaring that that is the
/ best way to get rid of the pestiferous
! Cabell countatn. On the other hand,
! the few and they are very few in the
/ Fifth-Watson men are for Neal. Wat
son, himself, has helped, and is going
/ to continue to help Neal He would
/ give a great deal to help put him over,
/ but that which Watson can give will
not help enough to switch the. political
! complexion Of the Fifth district.
/ Neal is counting on the third party
I candidate polling. enough Republican
votes to enable him to pull through.
With Cooper-Edward b the Repub-
1 Ican candidate 1t positively viii NOT
| hannen. The reason why it will not
4 is because Cooper is as much OF Pro
4 gressjve as any member of that party.
! He was a radical years ago and he has
Inever stopped progressing. He fought
4 shoulder to shoulder with that crowd
and he stood by the colonel to the last
ditch. but he would not change the
label of his politics. You may just put
| a pin down on 1t that the Fifth district
lis as strongly Republican now as IT
ever was, and twice or three times as
istrong as it was In 1919. Cooper will
Isure1y win"
4 An inconspIcuous phase OF this
/ weeks politics was the getting to-
! getfer of Senator Chiffon, Ex-Governor
McCorkle and Senator Gray Silver in
solemn conclave. Their meeting was
intended to be secret, and their pres
! ence was guarded But 1t is hard to
keep such things quiet in Washing
there are so many amateur HAWK
shaws eterna1ly on the job.
What took place at this conference
is. of course, mostly surmise, but sur
mise is one Of the principal accom-
plishments of the average politician
one meets here. The almost sure rate
of Tom Hodges was discussed. 1t did
I not cause great sorrow or lamenta-
ton, it is said. The gossips have 1t
that Thomas is to be left to his fate,
1T being thought now by the hfgherups
II that 1t is not greatly desirable to nave
him elected Their idea is that u
4 elected he would prove troublesome
and might interfere with certain Chil-
ton plans for the future; that there
is absolutely nothing to he gained by
his election anyway; that his party
is SO divided on his candidacy that
the signs are that every eHort pus
y forth in hSG behalf would be wasteu.
So, 1t seems from all reports, that Sen
ator Chiffon has cooled down as 70
Hodges to almost, but not quite, that
degree of frfgidity felt for his candl-
dacy by Junior" Brown and Mans
field Nicely, and no cold storage plan;
: has anything on these two prospective
governors when it comes to giving
Hodges "the once OVER
What concerned the conferees most
according to the story going tia
J rounds, is the legislature. Getting
control OF it is just now the most fni=
portant thing IN the minds OF Chiffon
MacCorkle & Chiffon, corporatio on
counsel and lawyer lobbyists. Charles
ton, w Va Gray Silver IS no less
concerned for the same reason; while
Watson.s corporate retinue would hnc
Democratic legislature much to thetl
! liking and of prodigious use and valu.
able to them Plans for this hgh'
! were what were discussed. The legts-
Cured OF 11dis>stion-
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