The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15

in 1915. he threw McGraw Oh the
national committee and took the
place himself after organizing the
state committee, nominated John
Cornwell for governor, reorganizedsI
the state committee, collected an
assortment OF state headquarters
scattered about cIuttering up the
beautiful landscape and combined
them under one roof at Fairmont,
and ran the campaign so that he was
pretty sure to elect Cornwel even Ii
everybody else was defeated, which
was about what happened In eight
years, there ls no one to deny that
Mr.. Watson, like the far-famed
feline Of Muscatine, went some.
Whit kind OF a party boss VIII
Watson make? That is question
much discussed here The prevailing
opinion is that he will be a boss and
no mistake. It is expected that he
will be the old-style boss, and the
reason for this expectation is that
he is tenperamentally built that
way. His methods are of that kind
He is used to having his own way
.
thing he mixes up IN. He never pla-s
Gates they say, but Furnishes He de-
mands abject servility, loyalty above
suspicion. and the delivery Of the
goods, If jimmy has to be used to
get into where the goods are His
idea is that money is the alchemy
which will realize every Aladdin like
wish. Therefore, it is figured that
# he runs true to form he will boss
his party like the old-fashioned party
bosses who were such pie for the
Link Steffens school OF correspond
ents in the undertaking era
Washington expects to see a great
deal of MIR. Watson from now on
He will be. the connecting link be-
tween the White House and the De
.mocrncy Of West Virginia. Nobody
hereabouts has any doubt as to that,
no matter how much may be said to
the effect that Watson didn't strain
his nervous system working to win
the eight electoral votes OF West
Virginia for Wilson. No man so
strongly entrenched and enthroned
at the head of a party in a state as
Watson now is. need to fear that he
will not get all that is coming to-
him from the national administra-
ton. It is an arguab1e question
stronger hold on the Democratic
party in the nation than Watson has
on that part of it which lies within
the boundaries Of West Virginia. AS
a national committeeman, as boss OF
his party in his state, as a captain OF
big business-it matters not IN what
role Watson knocks at the door Of
No. 1900 Pennsylvania avenue; il
will be opened unto him.
Chiffon is shelved, McGraw is so
dead politically that it is waste of
good breath to talk about him ever
coming back, and there is nobody in
the entire party who dares tchallen gel
Watson. He's good for long journey
as engineer Of the new machine.
Chiffon will probably be taken care Of
by the president and Watson will
probably help it along. providing
Chiffon is good Everybody expects
Chilton to be that If he is provided
for. It is said that he may succeed
w. G. Barnhart as district attorney
for the Southern district. That
wouldn't interfere with his profess
sional and business operations, of
Iof higher honor, if not materially
greater emoulents, can be found for
him, he stands a good chance of get
ting It with Watson's o. K.
With the goyernorship under. his
control, Watson Is expected to play
politics with that new-found power
to beat the cars. 1t is expected that
he will play that for all it is worth
With the patronage of that place and
the patronage from the White House.
which he will contrl, he has it in
mind to build up such an organiza-
ton Of the party as has never before
been seen in West Virginia, not even
in the old Bourbon days. The old
IBourbons depended on Overwhelming
numbers rather than strategy and
| business-like organization, anyway.
Will Watson be a candidate for the
limited States Senate IN 1918? That
cussed by the states political colony
| that he will be. Nobody knows Of
this, but he would be the logical can
I.didate for Senator Goffs seat and,
/, in view of all that he now holds in
I! his hands and in view of what he is
| in position to do in the way of build
ling up his organization, the political5
observers are naturally inclined to
Ibelieve that he would be the strong
est candidate that his party could put
up to battle over the Senate seat now
held by the Distinguished and below
ed old patriarch Of West Virginia Res
publicanism. Nathan Con. If Wat
son wants to be his party's candidate,
that will settle it. He will be. There
Just isn't any use spi1ling perfectly
good conversation over the precise
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