Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-08-24
The KEYNOTE And The Issue.


of sundry newspapers, especially OF the
Wheeling Intelligencer, has sought to
dominate the Republican party in Ohio
county, but this is the first campaign
where he has blosSomed out as budding
boss of the entire State. AS the defender
and champion OF Governor Hatfield and
his administration as the main support
er of Judge Robinson for the gubernator-
ial nomination and as the chief villifier OF
Abe Lilly and his friends and supporters,
il was but natural Governor Hatfield
should pick Ogden for chairman OF the
Huntington convention to sound the key
note ofthe campaign. And he sounded 1t.
First: He branded as threadbare and
false the charges of extravaganza made
against Governor Hatfield's administra-
ton and extoled them immoderately.
Second: He paid his respects to the
Democratic candidate for Governor, not
as we had anticipated, as a political tool
or corporation hireling-thai will come
later-but as "a whittier OF store boxes
on the peaceful street corners OF ROM
ney." Thanks, Ogden, heartily. Sincere
is the candidates regrets that there is not
little of the truth in your charge that he
is street corner loafer, for life has been
lust a little too strenuous for him the pas
few years and quite gladly, indeed, would
he resign himself TO the job OF loafing for
Just little while, could he get TO it.
Third: He waved the bloody shirt.
The ignoramus, in his blind partisanship
and superb egotism, sees this section OF
West Virginia as place "where the
remnants OF the old South still linger in
West Virginia, still fighting the battle OF
Gettysburg where our Democratic
friend the candidate for Governor can
rest in peace and dream OF the Southern
Confederacy, of Jefferson Davis. and
Robert E. Lee and the golden things that
might have been-but dream and nothing
more"
Now there you are The Democratic
candidate for Governor is first whittier
of store boxes and a street corner loafer.
Second, he is an old Confed-dreaming
of the Confederacy and Jefferson Davis.
These are the issues OF this campaign as
outlined by Ogden, Governor Hatfield's
champion. The new State leader OF a
great party which, under real leadership
has accomplished great deeds, takes from
the grave OF sectional animosities the
"bloody Shirt" buried in the long ago.
and waves it against the Democratic can
didate for Governor who was born since
the great war.
That is the keynote, or one OF them.
Republicans OF West Virginia, how do
you like it, especially those OF you who
have known the Democratic candidate
for many years ?
This same Ogden then turns to Attof-
ney-General Lilly, whom he and Gov
ernor Hatfield, before the primary, de-
nounced as a drunkard, a debauchee, a
crook and an incompetent, and lawns
upon him. What does Lilly and his
thousands of supporters think Of such
hypocrisy?
The Republicans OF West Virginia
have the keynoter's measure, and his
Huntington speech will likely beaccepted
at IFS worth. Nominated by State con-
yention OF the Hatfield machine for dele
gate-at-large to the national convention,
he went as such, but when the returns OF
the primary were all in il was found tnat
he had received but A, III votes while j..
w. Dawson, OF Charleston, an anti-nla-
chine Republican, who had gone on the
ticket purely on his own account, had
gotten 5S, ,l36 votes. But the convention
had then adjourned. Yet Governor Hat
field and the machine picked Ogden to
make the keynote speech. repudiated as
he had been by his party-a usurper oi
place to which he was not elected.
Verify the Governor is more interested
in his own endorsement and in applause
for his own acts than in the success OF
the Republican ticket.-johHJ. J. C0HWel
in Hampshire Review.
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