Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-09-23
NEAL ALWAYS
ON SIDE OF THOSE
WITH M 0 NEY
His Political Record AS Re-
vealed BY One of His
Own Party
DICTATOR OF SALOON VOTE
In CabeII County in Past, Now Run.
ming on the Proh biton
Platform.

George l. Neal. of Cabell county. the
Democratic candidate for Congress in
the Fifth District, is running on a
platform pledging him to vote in favor
of nationwide prohibition.
Mr.. Neal was the legal representa-
tive of practically every saloon anc
brewery interest in the city of Hunt
ington for more than ten years and
up to the time when the saloons van
ished from the state. In the halls OF
the legislature. before the municipal
councils and the county court and al
the criminal bar, Mr.. Neal was always
Ia be found when the interests OF the
saloon man were involved.
He it was who conducted the vigor
Gus campaign against w. c. Hedrick
of Putnam county, for the State Sen
ate in the Fifth District in 1910 Mr.
Hedrick was pledged to vote in favor
of the submission of the prohibition
amendment Mr.. Salmons, the Nea.
candidate, was his opponent. and he
had the backing of every saloon man
in Cabell county, regardless of politics
because Mr.. Neal had told them he
would vote right"
Mr.. Neal has been In the limelighi
chiefly as the representative of the sa
loon and brewery interests, as every
citizen of Cabell county knows.
His change of heart, if such it may
be called, is surprising Now that the
saloon in West Virginia is dead. Mr.
Neal turns his back on his comrades
and is asking the people of the Fifth
Congressional District to send him to
Congress to look after their interests.
particularly in prohibition legislation.
In some of the counties of the dis.
trict where Mr.. Neal has not been Sc
active, Mr.. Neal has accused the Re
publicans of corrupt politics and has
placed the blame at the door of the
saloon. No man has been more re.
sponsible for the saloon influence in
the politics of CabelI county than
George | Neal, the Democratic candi.
date. His strength was always cen.
tered in the saloon vote" and his
duty was to deliver it. This duty he
has always performed nobly.
Democratic leaders foresaw the follv
of making Mr. Neal the Congressional
standard-bearer on account Of his IN.
savory record in connection with the
saloon
BY trickery and chicanery of poll.
tics, of which Mr.. Neal is a past mas.
ter, he secured his nomination by
bringing about the defeat of Senator
ID. b. French, of Mercer county, a man
who had voted for the submission of
the prohibition amendment.
Meals nomination was triumph
for Clarence w Watson and Watson.
ism. Neal is now his most trusted
Lieutenant and the Watson Influence"
will be scattered broadcast on election
eve TO swing enough corrupt votes to
elect Neal
The reputation Of the Democratic
candidate, so far as his prohibition
tendencies are concerned. is an open
book I'm the hands of his own party. II
was made so by one Of his own party.
William G. Barnhardt, the United
States District Attorney for Southern
West Virginia
Writing OF Mr. Meals candidacy. on
June 10, 1914. Mr. Baruhardt said.
"You know who the other cam
didate is for this nomination. and
you know that, to begin with. there
are more than 100 Democratic vo-
ters In each county who Will not
support him at ALL They wont
like him because they believe no
has always centered his political
fights In favor Of those who had
money; and the Democrats who
feel this way are some Of the qood,
DID, substantial Democrats whom
you can't beg 90 vote for him:
they can't be gotten back by any
means. So 90 nominate him would
mean that he would start out
with 40 those elements against
him.
Another thing is that he has
always bee and Is yet retained by
the liquor and brewery interests. A
prohibition amendment is 90 bs
voted upon In Congress and 90 DO
submitted 20 all the people Of tho
United states for ratification. Do
you think that the good old Dem.
ocrats and Republicans who be-
lisve that the liquor business
should he -boFebcd ,.att ....