Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-08-19
LILLY SUPPORTER
AGAINST MACHINE;
WITH CORNWELL
PROMINENT HUNTINGTON REPU5-
LIcAN GIVES REASONS FOR
LEAVING THE PARTY
is NOT FIGHTING JUDGE ROBIN
SON, BUT THE HATFIELD
MACHINE
ROBINSON DID NOT KEEP HIS
PROMISE ABOUT STATE CON-
VENTION

1 publican of Huntington is out in let
ter that has caused considerable con-
Germ among the Republican leaders
He says:
81 am one of the men who fought
under the Lilly banner during the re-
cent primary campaign, and | sup
pose l am one of those whom the Rob-
. inson supporters think have been
comforted by the highly advertised
'patch-up' between Robinson and
General Lilly
'But am not made of that sort of
stuff
''While l was fond of General Lilly
and am not going to question his mo-
tives in compromising himself out OF
the fight with the Hatfield machine.
do question his right and ability to
negotiate a compromise for me.
81 was for Lilly for governor be-
cause his platform and his declara-
tons on the stump correspondent with
my opinions as to Hatfield and his
state house machine He did not con-
vert me to his motives he found me
a ready-made convert, and / gloried in
the spunk that he displayed in max
ing an open fight in behalf of every
Republican not a member of the state
house machine. | agreed with him
+J,o pracopf hoaJ of tho admin
istration and those controlled by him
were not representative of West Vir-
ginia citizenship; l agreed with him
that the state money ought not to be
used to foster the campaign of any
candidate; / agreed with him that
there ought. for the sake of the state.
and for the sake of the party, to be
new faces at the state house. in the
departments and i'll the different instr
buttons.
General Lilly's compromise has
not changed my convictions. | am
not convinced against my will. | am
not convinced at all. that what stood
for and what General Lilly preached
to the people was wrong.
st was not Judge Robinson that We
were fighting Let that be perfectly
clear. 1t was the Hatfield machine,
to which Judge Robinson was hitched.
did the compromise unhitch
lin?
'Recent happenings show it did not.
s'Judge Robinson pledged himself
to take on any course that would
bring on a break with Hatfield. That,
at least is reported. The thing
agreed upon was to make Lilly sup
porter chairman of the state COM
mittee. Robinson did not keep this
agreement, but instead selected a
Hatfield member of the machine. And
he did it because Hatfield told him to.
Robinson was to have General Lilly
named as temporary chairman of the
convention now in session here. In
stead he selected one of the hankest
of Hatfield lieutenants.
"Robinson's men are telling us that
Eve ought to be good losers and hurry
out and support the machine ticket
In other words, to keep alive the ma
chine we fought to destroy. Keep IL
alive so that it can keep all the rest
of us dead.
sfWhen, in the name of sense, will
we get anywhere? Fight the machine;
let them steal the victory from us as
they did in Mcdowell Mingo. Cabeli
and other places-call out the militia
TO prevent our people from voting,
then turn around and elect them. so
they can do the same thing all over
again?
Not for me, Pauline.
''And / happen to know that nearly
all of the Lilly supporters feel prac-
tically the same way about it. At
least, so far as | have talked to them.
TT would have been fine compli-
ment TO General Lilly o have sixty
state. compliment him by saying You
are a fine fellow, and so much bigger
and better than any one else that
we want you for our governor.
'.But that wasn't what they said
They said Fine fellow, Abe. You are
with us to crush the Hatfield ma
chine, and we will vote to make you
governor
Because Cousin Abe has laid down
his armor doesn't take the fighting
spirit out of the rest OF us.
As for me, am going. TO vote foi
John ,Cornwen for governor anf
against every other man on the ticket
that is tainted with Hatieldism. NJ
matter what the machine papers say
to the contrary that's Nthe way th'
most Of us feel about it.
Erred Nicholson