The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-02-17
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way Up to position Of Importance
There is something in the conrad
ship that is born Of the midnight ex
press, the long-rolling thunder Of thu
freight, the roundhouse and the shot,
which would make railroad men firm
in the fraternal spirit even II thel
had not their brotherhoods; and THU
fraternal spirit extends to the mer
in the lone towers at the telegraph
key, with their hands on spark
that guides for safety over switch
and frog-and in this very vigil ovel
life and death on the rail. William +
Hlte took up the toll to manhood
Today he Is rated as a man will
means, not so rich as many believe
perhaps, but his life has not been one
Of luxury and ease, and all he ha!
he cleaned along the stony path o.
hard work and earnest endeavor
Every American admires success il
any citizen and when this comes {
brother of the man at the switch ant
telegraph key and throttle. in thu
person of the former telegraph op
orator and freight superintendent
now the candidate for the United
States Senate in West Virginia. rail
readers are not slow to see in him
an ideal developed out OF the fiber OIL
their own lives.
Jack Nightingale, commissioner OIL
labor, in his report for 1914, gives
the number OF railroad trainmen II
West Virginia as $500; locomotive
firemen and enginemen, 2,400; loco
motive engineers, $500; railroad tel
egraphers, 500; railway carmen, J.,
$50; railroad conductors, 2,100-t
total Of about $4,000 railroad work
ers in the state, and great proper
ton OF them are native West Virgin
ians and nearly all Of them are vot
ers.
Hite, the candidate for the United
States Senate, is not personally 81
we'll acquainted in the northern emf
of the state as he will be by June 6
the day of the primaries, but Hite
the star on the West Virginia Uni
versity football team, is known t
every university alumnus and ever.
young man with the red-blood low
OF clean athletics in his veins from
one end Of the state to the other
The popular football half-back /
the candidates nephew. and "Uncl
Bill" had garnered basketsful o
votes among the young men Of tn
state the moment his candidacy wa
announced. IF Uncle Bill can bucl
the line anything like that lad at tn,
Varsity" say the Varsity rooters
in every county, he's going through
for touchdown and q goal"
Then, too, in addition to thes
bids for popularity among the PEG
pie, reaching, 1t will be noticed, t,
important branches Of industry ant
education, the candidates name per
meates like the network Of the oil
Indian trails that have become tn
highways Of the state today, ever
year Of West Vlrginia's history datinI
back to the first expeditions of thos
hearty pioneers who crossed tn
mountains into the frontier to tn
West. Without attempting to trac
the decent of the name, perusal Of tn
states history shows Jacob Hit
breaking wilderness on the Potoma
in 1927, and Joist Hite leading
colony Of fifteen families from York
Pa, into the eastern panhandle II
1892, The family name is now wei
known in both North and South 0
the state. The Huntington candl
date for the Senate was well alon
in his railroad and Industrial caree
when Ex-Governor White moved int
the state and continued his newpape
talent in the rapid Development Of tn
Parkersburg newspaper which h
purchased; the two men early be
came acquainted in FRIENDSHIP
which has never been broken, an
which In the present guarantees cleal
and honorable methods of canvas
which bids fair to be one Of the salts
flying features Of the campaign.