The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1915-06-11
CAPITOL
NEWS NOTES
Stuart Calhoun Fits In
to Position In New
Department.
Political Situation in Center of a
Dead Calm, But Will Shortly
Brighten Up.


Politically speaking, We are i'm the cen
ter OF dead calm" Just what is GO
ihg TO happen no one seems to be able to
predict. or better. no individual cares to
take the responsibility of such predic-
ton. 1t might have been more aptly
put TO have said lust what is going e.
happen next for il is An hundred to
me shot that something is really going
70 happen, and that soon. and when l.
does I is coming like a ''Conemaugh
Swash." Up 70 date our good friend
Hon. Houston Young, candidate foI
secretary OF state. is the only individual
who has had the temerI'y to come ont N.
the open anu declare himself. We are
of the opinion that in this Mr.. Young !
making no mistake. lie is a bright,
lever, able, competent young man, de
''idedly familiar with the inside working,
the Office to which he aspires. and a.
line type Of q Repnbl can a. you car.
I'd meet He Is answering the call @
the epoch for young men in public al
lairs, and right we'll will he measure uI
to the demands. lie IL young man
that will bear watching from the view
point of rapidly rising in the world o.
men and things. The future will brinl
forth multiplicity of candidates for
each office 10 lie filled and from among
them many competent and availabl,
ones, there is no doubt, but that ths
electorate of the state will make wiss
selections.
Some short while since, Gov. Hatfield
communicated with Mr. Joe r. Parsons,
deputy sheriff of Mcdowell county, re-
questing that he look about for some
young colored man, with proper qualifi-
cation, to accept the position of a mes
senger IN the newly created office OF thu
compensation department of tine public
service commission. Mr.. Parsons chOic,
ultimately tell upon young Stuart Cal
houn, son Of A. l.. Calhoun, of Key
stone. Mr.. Gal h oun, accOmpani-
ed his son 20 the city, arriving
here Monday morning. He had a con-
ference with the governor and his sol.
has been duly installed, and from the
latest report Is fitting into the Office with
a nicely that II commendable TO every
body concerned.
The haccalaureate sermon to the grad
ue.ing class, preached by Rev. Carroll OF
tie NJ r. Church, this city, sunday
last, in that church, was we'll attended
and the occasion duly observed. Ger
tsinly the sermon OF Rev. Carroll war
one OF the most practical that il has
been our pleasure 70 hear in many
moons. Rev. Reed, of the First Baptist
Church, and Rev. Cow, OF the A. VI. r.
Church, together with Rev. Downes.
presiding elder in the A. NJ. r. connec-
ton occupied the pulpit.
Dame Rumor, and by the way, she l.
one sly old lady" has il that there il a
storm ''s-brewin'. " and all over th..
presidency Of the West Virginia Col
Iegiate Institute. We confess that W.
did not set in on the ground floor Of the
furry. and the opposing batteries in this
action evidently unlimbered away back.
about the time the Black Cabinet
from all over the state met here during
the first term Of the legislature, which
was the regular term, 70 look after the
interests Of the coloIed people in the
Full Grew bill and 70 do sundry other
things, which, in their judgment, they
felt ought 10 be done, and for wi ich, in
their opinion, (and rightly so) the legis-
lstors have and had a penchant for over
looking. Whether this was the first Of
the matter or not cannot be asoertaIned.
but suffice 10 20 say, that il was the frst
definite expression Of 70. IL has grown
with accsleration, been accentuate-d by
astute inuendo. assumed the proper
ton Of msgni6cstion By q process OF
gradual gradstion, a. well A. other nice.
big-worded, hIgh-sounding, dignifed.
formal terms We might use, until now IL
seems 10 have Developed into a real hard
down scrap. with the president Of the In
stitute and his friends on the one hand
and the dark horse and his followers on
the other. Who the dark borse II - the
mystery Of tins late movie, which has
just been staged in the last iew Inonth-.
There y an inkling that the state super-
intendent hss been visited by friends Of
both fsetions, but he has kept his lips
hermiticsily sealed - far. Later infor-
nation hss it, however, that he - not a
neutral, nor does he dwell in the neutral
zone, but there Is difficulty in ascertain
ing 10 which side he will throw his IN
hoence, in 90 far a. he is member Of
the board The matter - icing followed