Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1916-05-04
REPUBLICAN VOTERS
WANT ABE LILLY
Rank and File of Party Stirred
by Appeal of Popular
Candidate.

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Charleston. w. va.-Abe Lilly is
the CHOICE OF the rank and file Of the
Republican party for Governor of West
4 Virginia. That assertion has been
demonstrated beyond doubt by the
popular demonstration he has received
in the remarkable campaign he is
waging fol. the Governorship. The
4 voters listen attentively to his oppo-
nent; they give ovations to General
Lilly, That Is the marked difference
between the meetings, of the rival cam
didates for Governor.
Fight EN- Abe Lilly aroused the
| fighting spirit in the Republicans of
West Virginia in the campaign of 1912,
when, without regard for his own con-
test for Attorney General he spent six
weeks on the stump in behalf of the
! Republican candidate for Governor.
| In the primary campaign for tie nom
/ ination he has stirred the Republican
/ voters to action and when a few of
| the party bosses have attempted to
say that the Governorship shall go to
another, Abe Lilly has brushed them
aside and gone direct to the people.
abe Lilly viii win the nomination
If it isn't stolen from him." is a com
mon expression heard throughout the
State when the Governorship is dis
/ cussed.
Now, my friend, don't be alarmed
about that" is the smiling rejoinder
Of General Lilly your Cousin Abe
knows the Republican voters are going
to make this nomination in primary
l know they have attempted to keep
me from getting a square deal in
couple Of counties, but they won't sue.
coed My friends are vieilant and will
remain on guard in every precinct OF
West Virginia until the polls are
closed.
In Kanawha county I have been
refused representation at the polling
places by a few men at the State Cap
itol who are in charge Of the county
committee but their action in refusing
square deal has convinced so many
people that they want at least an OPP
portunity to do crooked work, that it
has helped me over the State. The
people want a square primary
In spite Of the peculiar position
taken by the opposition in refusing
me representation in KaAawh county,
I / viii carry ILanawha county by a
good. big majority. It may be sur
prisiDe but there are magisterial dis
triets in Kanawha County where the
opposition to my candidacy is so small
that my opponent will have difficulty
in securing election officers.
This campaign for the primary
nomination has demonstrated one
thing the State oficeholders who
have been using the public funds in
travelling about the State opposing my
! candidacy, do not control the Repub-
/ lican voters who make the fight for
the Republican ticket in the election.
For instance, the State House follow
ing, which is controlled for my oppo-
nent, has not made a denton the
Republican organization in Kanawba
! County. Several hundred ofIiceholders
live at Charleston, but the Kanawha
! County leaders who make the fight for
| the party year in and year out are for
Abe Lilly.
! There is a formidable group of
officeholders at the State Capitol,
working under the control and domi-
nation of Governor Hatfield, who are
travelling over the State at the expense
of the taxpayers, using your tax money
, and mine, who are required to abuse
me and praise my opponent. but they
! have not influenced the Republican
workers in the several counties. They
cannot influence the result in coun-
ties like Kanawha, Wood, Fayette,
Harrison, Ohio, Mercer, Summers,
Cabell, Wayne aud numerous others
where the Republican workers are pre-
pairing to give me substantial major
tiles"
General Lilly spent the closing days
of April in the Second Congressional
District making speeches in behalf of
Hon. George M. Bowers, of Martins
burg, the Republican nominee for
Congress in the Second District. He
was heard by enthusiastic Republican
! audiences in Preston and Berkeley
Counties where he appealed to the Re-
| publicans to redeem the Second Dis
| trict and send to Congress man who
was in sympathy with Republican
principles.
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