Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1918-10-26
AL MERIT OF CANDIDATE DE-
SUPPORT NECESSARY DE-
COMM TEEMAN.

IF could do anything to help bring
about his election to the Senate on his
Town platform of devoted and faithful
service to Country and President |
would gladly, of course. But do not
feel that with propriety can say
more than this: in my old age.it fills
my heart with joy TO realize that the
man whom i know is best equipped
! for service is willing and anxious to
give-to the Nation the best that is in
him, all the fruit of his life study and
Experience, all the energy o. his mind
and body, an inexorable will to give
full and free pubic service. for Amer
lea and for West Virginia"
Should Get Support, Says McGraw
| Colonel john T.. McGraiw, National
committeeman says.
! Colonel Watson, in my opinion, will
! be elected. He should receive the
lihearty support of every Democrat, not
only because of his own personal
merits but for the further reason that
he is now the candidate OF the Demo
cratic party. and the fight is no longer
personal to him, but is contest of
1.-The who.e party and not of any indi-
vidual within it."
Father a Sturdy Pioneer.
! IAN Important factor in Colonel
fWatsan's strength with the people haa
been the part taken by the Watson
family in West Virginia's Industrial
Developments particularly in the Mo-
lnongahela and Ohio valleys, policy
towering more than half century, the
settled, fixed and determined result of
family of strong men who have pur-
sued line OF development in which
they have been eminently successful
James Otis Wason-a sturdy old
oak was the pioneer in the develop
lment of the coal beds in the upper
sMonongahela Valley, and for over a
| half century stood as sentinel, in
protecting tine valuable Pittsburg coal
/ field of that section, by insisting that
1.-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
lPittsburg side was of superior value
and worth three times as much coal
ON the West Virginia side.
The Watson Brothers.
! "He left these coal properties, which
Iby industry, he had gathered about
him, to triumvirate OF sturdy sons,
and they have done more for its de-
ivelopment than all Of the Legislative
STATUTES written in our books. S, l..
ilWatson, 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
mime, along scientific lines; ]. E. Wat
son, the second son, did more than
any other person in organizing the
coal plants and developing the coal bus
ilneSS, In the GARNER development ol
lthaat country than any other man in
THE state. 1t was calamity to this
Estate when the latter failed in heal h
because he was a master OF the sci
Ience of coal economies. When i'll
Health came to ED" Watson, Clarence
! Watson the youngest son, stepped
into the breach, and the result OF the
development of the upper Mononga-
hela Valley is the best tribute That
can be paid to mis- abilities, as evil
denced by the industrial life and COM
mercial section of the state of which
Fairmont is, and has been, the cen
ter"
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