The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-20

10 work together to bring these into
actual being.
Why There shouid pc COO srstien.
There Is another consideration on
this point OF cooperation. which We
desire to submit the argument In IA;
yor of which We believe Is sound ana
Will appeal to honest alad sincere y0+
tiers. It involves retrospect Of the
political campaign of 1919. Early IN
that year the Republican state com
mttee. In response to urgent demands;
provided for straightout primary
election for all Candidates for state
omces- That primary was held ~
state ticket was Nominated: and there
was never charge that Il was not
fairly conducted, or that any candidate
received his nominations by unfair or
dishonest methods. In that primary
the Progressiyes participated 1t may
Justly be said that the voters who aft
erward supported Colonel Roosevelt,
contributed most TO the nomination OF
that ticket, because they constituted q
majority of the voters OF the Repub-
lican party at the time CT the pri-
mary election. On the 18th OF May
the state convention met at Hunting
ton and promulgated the platform OF
the PARTY OF this state. AS Is shown
by the quotation printed above from
an official circular OF the Progressive
state committee, that convention was
controlled and dominated by the Pro
gressives: they made the platform
upon which our candidates stood dur
ing the campaign, and the Progress
siyes published- it as one OF their own
platforms.
a Common Obligation Of the Voters.
There were two tickets: but the can
didates for state Offices and congress-
men and all below them were the same
on each ticket for each Office; and In
the election OF November, 1912, these
candidates were supported by The Re
publicans and Progressives. Without
the support OF the Progressives they
could not have been elected. Those
candidates were elected and are now
in Office They were the candidates of
the two parties, and they owe al
legiance to the Huntington platform
and it is their duty to strive to carry
It into effect so far as that has not
already been done. This platform was
the platform of the Republican party
in the state, as well as Of the Pro
gressives. Both the parties, and hence
the voters of both the parties, as hon
est men, are under obligations to en-
deayor to carry all OF it into realiza-
ton. Naturally We look to the man
we elected governor to take the lead
in this work We put him upon this
platform: he did not make It; the VOC
tiers made It: he pledged himself TO
use all honest endeavors to carry It
out. Alone the governor can not do
this: he must have legislature to CO
operate and work with him In view
of the accomplishm ents of the' iegisia-
ture of 1913, as above briefly referred
To. under the leadership of Governor
Hatfield. we can not doubt his earnest
and honest desire to have carried out
the letter of the Huntington platform
and to go in its spirit even ahead OF
it In the work OF progressive legisia-
tion. Governor Hatfield asks our as
sistance and snpportAthe support OF
those who mapped out the program,
to help him carry out that program II
we withhold that support. upon whom
will the blame OF failure to carry out
the program fall? Certainly not on
the governor. Having. put our hands
to the pIow in this matter, can We as
honest men now look back? The obli-
cation is not single. it is two-fold; It
rests on the governor and it rests on
us also. We have no more right to
prove recreant to our obligations than
the governor has to prove recreant
to his duty.
II. J. SHERRARD, Chairman.
r. B. BERNHEIM, Secretary.