The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-05-22
SCORES THE OFFICIAL AND LAYS
BARE SOME VERY IMPORTANT
FACTS.
Also Pays His Respects to Taylor
Hinson And Tells Why Both Men
Are Against Him.

nc HudiN,l FNn.
Special Dispatch 10 The intelligence.
MILTON, W. Va. May 2l-in one OF
the mos, mercileSs arraignments ever
given a candidate for Office. Governor
Henry ID. Hatfield yesterday faycd
Abe Lily, candidate for the Republ-
can nomination for governor. The
governor was bitterly sarcastic and
referred 10 Mr. Lilly ms Honest Cou-
pom Abe. the Lilliputian candidate Tor
me West Virginia Coal Operators As
ISOLATION
The governor also paid his respects
10 4. Tayl-r NtnsOn and charged that
his every move was crooked and IN
the interest of the Interests and told
how he had refused Ninsou any favors
which was followed 10y a declaration
OF war.
The governor addressed an over
now meeting here and another at Hur-
ricane this afternoon. Both were ~
markahle demonstrations. The opera
house here was packed To its capacity
and several hundred who were unable
TO elbow their way INTO the building
were compelled to stand outside. The
town hail at Hurricane was also un-
able 10 accommodate the crowd Scores
here Were converted 10 tho tauS. OF
Judge Ira =. Robinson by Hatfield s
powerful address.
Scores Lilly
After eXcoriatine NiuCon. the GOV
ernor turned his attention TO Lilly.
saying in part
Mr.. Lilly Says am against him.
He says he Is not against the admin
~istration. lie claims he f. Embossed
The FIRST of these statements Is
true. The later i've are utterly ana
ridiculously false-a mighty good
average of t~ruthfullness for q man ot
Mr. Lilly's stripe.
Let US take up these claims and
see what there H. in them. He says I
am opposed To him ! ann. and that is
not all. I shall continue 10 BE- so.
And ! want YOU 10 know why I shall
oppose him. This Is not merely a
personal matter between Mr.. Lilly and
myself. II b. a matter in which you
have a deep concern. ! should on
pose any other man Who has been
guilty OF the rcprchruSible things MI
Lilly has been guilty OF.
Reasons For Opposition
How could !. how could any honest
person 10 other than oppose a man
who a. attorney general. would botray
the trust of the people whose interests
he was sworn 10 protect. how could
any patriotic citizen do other than re-.
pudlatv AN official whose whole public
and private career has been 20 Sordid
record of d~lShOnor. how could ]. AS
governor. being responsible To the
people for the safety of The good old
ship of state do other Than oppose tho
Virginia dept litigation. would spend
the lime he should have been dcNoting
TO the solving of hat gigantic and per
picking problem in Ct dtScraCciul dc.
bauch In fashionable Eastern hotels:
and while Ou. d people who's" of
fetal representative D." a while ne
was befuddlinC his brain and cloudinc
his intellect. carrying ON this shameful
AmmHL o. .AUH |HHHL- -H -.Mn HH-
hanging in tho balanC" and could hayc
gone to pot 30 tar as he was con
Ccrned
Everybody's Business
For b attorney general tu have
plunged into such "a riot of royolry ar
such e. critical .Iur was as impc1Ch.
abb. as D. would be for an engineer of
a train with hundreds of lives in his
care. to blind his vision with liquor.
Mr.. IIll' might say that D. iS none of
a~nyhOdN's business what hi personal
habits are. but ] want 10 SAY 10 You
that when his personal practices rem
der him Unfit for IN" discharge of his
official duties th'n they become the
hU-Iu'-s of every man. woman and
child living in the state or having Iu.
tcrtsts roo l.
Mr.. LIN, says I ann against him Tie
complimon'ing bis horses as they
wandered down ,he road al their own
sweet will.
Waiting 900 fl. Bulgarian station
commandau'.s office ] noticed q map
of fhs railway yards nanzIn- ON rHo
wall significantly divided 90 the mid.
die by 81 h.ay, black lime ono side
ole Dog O. heavy hlaes Dine, unc side was
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