The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-10-24

III | could do anything to help bring
about his election to the Senate on his
lewn platform of devoted and faithful
service to Country and President /
would gladly. of course. But | do not
feel taat with propriety can say
more than this: in my old age it fills
my heart with JOY TO realize thai the
man whom know is best equipped
for service is willing and anxious to
give tc the Nation the best that IS in
him, al the fruit of his life study and
experience, all the energy o. his mind
and body, an memorable will to give
full and free pubic service, for Amer
lea and for West Virginia.
Should Get Support, Says McGraw
Colonel John T McGraw. National
Committeeman says:
Colonel Watson. in my iopinion, will
be elected. He should receive the
nearly support of every Democrat, not
only because OF his own personal
merits but for the further reason that
he is aow the candidate o. the Demo
cratic parry and the fight is no longer
personal to him, but is a contest OF
the whole party and not of any indi-
vidual within it,
Father a Sturdy Pioneer.
can importans factor in Colonel
lSNatson's strength with the people haa
been the part taken by tae Watson
family in West yirginia's i Industrial
Developments particularly in the Mo-
nongahela and Ohio valleys, policy
covering more than a half century, the
settled, fixed and determined result of
family of strong men who have pur-
sued a line o. development in which
they have been eminently successful.
james Otis Wason-a sturdy old
oak-was the pioneer in the develop
ment of the coal beds in the upper
Monongahe'a Valley, and for over a
half century stood as a sentinel, in
protecting the valuable Pittsburg coal
field OF that section, by insisting that
the arbitrary state line which sepa-
rated the two states, had not made
such material difference in the coal
deposits, by which the coal of the
.iPittsburg side was of superior value
and worth three times as much coal
on the West Virginia side
i The Watson Brothers.
HE left these coal properties, which
by industry, he had gathered about
him, to triumyirate OF sturdy sons,
1 and they have done more ion. its de-
/ yelopment than all of the Legislative
Statutes written in our books. s. L.
Watson. affectionately called Bud
: by his friends, the eldest of these sons
under his father, learned the coal bus
! mess so thoroughly that he knew all
about the practical working of a coal
| mine, along scientific lines; ]. E. Wat
son, the second son, did more than
: any other person in organizing the
r coal plants and developing the coal bus
/ mess, in the earlier deye opment o.
t thaat country than any other man il
7 the state 1t was a calamity 20 this
l state when the latter failed in health
5 because he was a master OF the sci
J ence of coal economics. When il
: health came to ED" Watson, Clarence
3 Watson the youngest son, stepped
I into the breach, and the result of tht
j development of the upper Mononga
i thela Valley is the best tribute that
= can be paid to mis- abilities, as eyi
+ idenced by the industrial life and com
= mercial section of the state Of which
S F'airmont is, and has been, the cen
Y ter"
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