The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
IRE GOLDEN FESTIVAL PRIZE
WILL Be AWARDED SATURDAY
TO CANDIDATES Of MERIT
Those Who Finish Strongest are Bound to be Winners
Campaign Closing Very Even-Those Who Hes
itate are Lost-Aim High These Last Days.

There are only four more days OIL
suspense before the winners will bt
known in the West Virginian's Great
Golden Festival. These last few days
are very perilous days for all the lead
ters, however. Everyone is working
az top speed in an effort to cross the
line Just ahead OF his competitors and
gain the thousand dollars in gold, the
five hundred or one of the eight 9th
er valuable prizes.
OF course 1t is to be expected that
this final week the rumors will fly
thick and fast One can hear more
fairy tales these days than there are
contestants. OF course 1t is absurd tC
put any credance in any OF them. Most
of the candidates are too sensible tC
believe any of them anyhow. All real
ize that the stories have been started
TO scare some OF the leaders. to make
some OF the to9 notchers hesitate for
even day If they can secure a halt
in a competitors campaign for only q
day, the scandalmongers have accom-
plished something, for in the mean
time the talebearers are working them
selves with unbeatable energy.
The campaign remains very even
SO there is no hope of determining who
really has the better chance until II
is all over and the judges have made
the final count and awarded the prizes
One thing is certain-the prizes will
go to those candidates who have
turned in the most money on subscrip
tons and who have consequently re
3ceived the most votes. 1t is the votes
that will count, remember that. Nc
one will secure any information at the
finish, as some have so fondly predict
ed. II cannot be done. No one knows
anything about the votes of can
Z didate except the candidate himself
OF course, II he is fool enough to tell
: how many votes he has, naturally he
must expect to be beaten. The only
way under the sun for people to find
out tie standing OF any candidate is
for the candidate to tell of 1t himself
II you don't believe that, Just try to
get little information yourself and
see how easy 1t is, not.
When the Golden Festival was an,
nounced 1t was announced that this
campaign would be different from any.
thing that had ever gone before i'll the
way of circulation campaign. The
manager has kept his word. He has
been absolutely fair and impartial at
all times. He has enforced the rules
lat all times and tried to give every.
onel the same impartial treatment. He
has tried to show all the candidates
holy best to work to advantage. II
SOME do not win who think they should
win, Of course the manager expects
to be blamed, but at the same time
he will feel that he has done his duty
by the campaign and the candidates.
When the votes are counted and the
awards made the public will then be
j assured that the awards went to those
who by their efforts merited them. The
Others will see that they could have
iwon easily had they followed the sus.
+ gestions of the manager and kept
eyerlasting at 1t. They will all sea
that these last few days played the
most important part in the winning o.
all the prizes. Either aim hlsu and
win or sit tight and lose. Your own
efforts these last few days will de-
tcImine Just exactly where yea will
stand on the list of winners.
The campaign is so even, that it is
almost anyone's race for - big