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large well does not indicate that an
other can be hSd n the Immediate
vicinity. Light Jumpers or duStorD
more frequently occur than large pro-
ducers.
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Cabell county has presented a pro-
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Gas compGny'S No. on the E. ".
Hackett farm. estimated to be good
for Z barrels a day in the Big Lime
formation. On Browns creek. Jefer'
son district, Kanawha county, the
Charleston.Dunbar Natural Gas com.
pany has completed a second test on
he J. W. Russell farm and IL is show
ing for two-barrel pumper in the salt
sand. In Cabin creek district. the
Lawrence Oil company has completed
its No. on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad right Of way and has a so
barrel producer in the Berea grit. In
the same district, the United Fuel Gas
eompaly's No. II on the Imperial Coal
company's tract.
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county. Ernest Randolph gave he test
on the Lucy Eddy farm a shot in the
Gordon sand, increasing It's production
from 20 70 % barrels day.
In Church district, Wetgel county
the Manufacturers Light and Heat
company has drilled test on the Rob
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FoR UNITED STATED aRNAIE.

FOR UNITED STATES sENATE
You are authorized 70 announces
am q candidate for nomination b
the Republican party. for the United
States Senate for WeSt6Virginia, sub,
ject to ell the rules Of the Republi
can party, and the laws Of tie state
governing the primary % b0 had N
August 1918. -
JAS. A. HUGHES,
Huntington. W. Va
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POLITICAL AnVERTIanan

TO the REPTSGleANS 81 WFSf
Virginia.
] am q candidate for TIE RoDuhlicsn
domination for United States Senator,
subject TO tAe will Of the voters AZ ~
primary election 10 be held o. August
the sixth.
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FOR U. 8. SENATE

Editor West Virginian: - 4
You are authorized 70 announcs that
Davis ElkinS. OF MoTgantoWn, Moh6n-
gala county, . candidate for nomiha,
ton, By the Republican party, for tie
United States Senate for West Vii.
ginia, subject to all the rules oi tie
Republican party, and the laws q tho
state governing the primary election
to bO held August, folG
ELKINS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
]. H. McDERM0TT, Chairman.
Morgantown, West Virginia
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New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
An American Speaks

In his address at Portland yesterday
ex-President Roosevelt stood in an ex-
tremely difficult position. We are at
war. We are in the midst of world
crisis. Partisan spirit or partisan ad-
vantage can have no part or purpose In
this fateful time.
We think that all who read his speech
will agree that Colonel Roosevelt ac-
quilted himself admirably of his delicate
task. His could be but one thought-and
that thought is the whole nations
thought:
How to win the war!
Colonel Roosevelt's is that ardent and
somewhat impetuous Americansn, ag-
gresslve, impatient, which would throw
the whole nations energy into the strug-
gle without a moments hesitation or re-
serve. The political party in power is
not Of the Rooseveltian stamp or kind
1t is perfectly natural that one of
Colonel Roosevelt's mould should rise up
with his whole soul against the remotest
suggestion of compromise or vacillation,
of inaction or ineficiency. We know
there has been much of all this in the
spirit of the Administrations 1t hest
tated a long time before entering the
war. AS the Colonel says: at drifted
rather than drove"
1t did not at once set about building
up the strongest and most efficient war
machine of which the nation is capable.
1t sufflces to cite the single fantastic
fact that the War Department itself
should have been intrusted to a young,
untried pacifist lawyer, fine type, but
dreamer and not doer, man whose
whole soul revolts at the spirit of war
and is wholly out of touch with that rude
and virile spirit needed to organize for
and fight the war
Millions of good Americans feel as
strongly as does Colonel Roosevelt. We
are sure that virile Americans of all par.
ties will agree that the ex-President cx-
pressed this feeling in far better temper
and with much greater reserve than is
ordinarily his characteristic.
He, too, feels the weight of this heavy
hour.
The profession of faith which Colonel
Roosevelt has made might we'll serve In
broad way for Republican pro-
gramme. But it is great deal more
than that 1t is the credo of big and
loyal American, speaking for all loyal
Americans who would consecrate this
country, without hesitation and without
compromise, to the tremendous task
which it has undertaken.
That is to see that the effort of the
German government and of the German
people to override the earth shall not
prevail.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
The Bandar-Bee Sounds Fr;endlv

'"e Ecltor OF The Tribune
Sir: In The Tribune of March % road
the reprint from "The Engineering Nows
record" "Baniar Log or Bee?" It had
strange and hopeful sound, a sort of tho+,s
Just-what lve-becn -waiting-for note tho+
makes US request to hear mora of 49,
bandar-bee. WIG
we of the middle group, we who are
the winnowers and the sifters STANDING ba
tween the tinkerng radicals and tbo ,,1+vs
conservatives, are searching eagerly fo,.
common ground on which to build safa
ioundatlon In this perplexed and anxion-
hour we are growing restive, resentfnl
because we are being tinkered with ovor
much by the radicals, who are all de,rs;o,,
ana no common sense; impatient because
we are being shackled and bound bv the
conservative and timid We arc w;tho,4
leaders, without doctrines, steadiod on1,,
by vague sense and belief that if wo bo1J
flrmly to our middle course we can snr,,;,,a
thls hour of trial and treachery And On
holding to our middle course. we arc drift
ing to an unknown goal, not even d.r;rn
to let our vision prophcsy.
Eyes fixed upon The present, we can ne;+bo~
look forward nor backward-but tho hu,1
OF the bandar-bec sounds friendly. Is he
the super-thing we wish to be?
MABEL NJ. STEVENS.
Mamaroneck, N. Y, March 25, 1918
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Faith

Optimism at this time is the fatuous
refuge of doubt.
What we need in place of optimism is
the courage to face the truth that de-
mocracy for its inefficiency is in danger
of being overwhelmed.
One may be optimistic about the
weather; or matter of profit and loss,
or the fate of a political party; but a
war which involves the fate of human
rights requires the exercise of blind and
unlimited faith.
We have been so much exhorted to
"hold up our hearts" that we do not see
how ridiculous our optimism is.
1t leads us to say such inane things
as that the Germans make their gains
only by sheer weight of men and guns,
as if that somehow belittled our losses.
1t leads to the grotesque performance
of reporting, as the Washington corre-
spondents did before noontime yesterday,
that Great Britain's call for men, deliv-
cred the night before in New York by
Ambassador Reading, had been instantly
met by a speeding up Of every military
agency and by cutting of red tape in
every direction. That would mean. if
anything, that the government had not
been going full speed ahead and had been
knowingly retarded in it's progress by
red tape.
The saving fact is that we are not that
kind of people.
We are regular people.
We boast lot in the preparation and
end by performing more than was prom
ised. We always have Our technique is
dilatory. Success is our habit. We are
undisciplined, but unbeaten.
With enough faith and no silly op-
timism we might be-we are-the only
instance of invincibility on earth.
1t is not question of whether we shall
win or lose the war
1t is question only of how much we
want to win it.
Let us not be optimistic But let US
believe that the war cannot be lost
Though France be made a second Bel
gium and England be reduced to subnis-
sion, still the war cannot be lost if only
we care enough to win it.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Shall We Smother Congress? g?

Colonel George Harvey, lion-tamcr
and lion-hearted, may usually be counted
on, like that other distinguished colonel
OF Kentucky, to say something piquant
and picturesque. His latest is to sug-
gest that the Congressional elections this
fall shall in effect be abrogated. He
would simply have the leaders of the
two parties agree on the candidates.
In Colonel Harvey's Judgment there
never was less need for such an election.
In our judgment, there has not been
greater need in a generation.
The government of any nation always
tends to drift, unconsciously, in one di-
rection or another. 1t is never static.
In England and France, for example,
the direction, especially in the last gen
GRAFTON or two, has been more and more
toward complete and immediate democ-
racy In both countries the actual gov
ernment can exist only with the direct
support Of the parliamentary body. In
France there are frequent regular cleo
tions. In England q defeated Cabinet
may appeal to the country.
In America the drift has been Just the
opposite; that is, toward the bestowal OF
greater and greater powers on the Pres
ldent; that is to say, toward the creation
of kind Of four-years' Car.
Since our entry into the war Con-
gress has all but abdicated its author
lty and if the Overman bill passes, as
we believe it should, this Capitalization
of authority in the hands of the Presi-
dent will be almost complete.
The cause for this tendency in Ame--
ica is not far to seek Energy and
brains, commanding ability, have very
largely withdrawn from politics in later
years They have gone largely into the
creation of the most intensive industrial
life in the world. The result is a steady
decline in the average of Congressional
ability. No names stand out in Congress
now as such names stood out, for ex-
ample, in our Civil War.
We now face an acid test of these two
opposing systems of government The
trouble with highly centralized author
ity is that in this country it cannot at
present be changed throughout fixed
terms. But this is purely Congress
sional, not Constitutional, provision.
Beyond his right as commander in chief
of the army and navy, in treaty making.
certain veto powers, etc, the present
authority Of the President is almost
wholly creation of Congress itself
1t may be taken away at any time.
The Congressional elections do not
occur for another seven months. Next
November we shall have been at war :;
year and seven months.
II at the end Of this time it is clear
that the war has been prosecuted with
characteristic American energy and eff
cicncy-~n by next fall we have 81 cor.
siderable and well equipped army in the
held, fully supplied and properly pro-
tected against the submarine--the Amer.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Still In the Balance

The battle on the West front still
hangs in the balance. 1t is too soon to
say that the tremendous German often
slve has been halted or that the time has
come for an Allied counter offensive.
Entering its second week. the German
attack has broadened. Heavy fighting is
reported east of Arras, north of the point
at which the new Allied battle line and
the line held on March Il last begin to
diverge. AT the same time, far to the
south, the Germans have penetrated still
further in the direction of Paris. The
tip of their thin wedge, west of Noyon
and Roye, has reached Montdidier. about
n1ty-tve miles from the French capital
the closest APPROACH to it on Germanv's
part since the retreat from the Marne.
South of Noyon there has been a sharn
French advance of two miles, which
threatens TO cut in behind the Germans
IN the dangerously extended Montdidier
salient.
Inc German attack on Arras is in
way an admission that the ATTEMPT to
break through to the north of the Sorome
mas failed. While the British retain the
Arras position and the new line to Albert
Amiens cannot be reached from the
NORTH. The advance to Montdidier NAV
represent an effort to reach Am;ens from,
the south and to dislocate the Allied Eno
az tne junction point of the French ,na
nritish armies. On this sec,or 49,
french have yielded ground freely yot
tne further west the Germans on ~
more they lay Themselves open tn an -
tack on their flank and rear hv tho
French forces which hold a line stra;ght
cast from Montdidier to Lags;gnv and
Noyon and thence along the Ailette
River to Coucy.
FosItionai warfare, as Won Ludendorr
says, has now been superseded by war.
fare Of movement on the fifty-mile rec
tangular.front from Coucy to Montdidjer
and thence 10 Arras. The potentjaIities
of that sort Of fighting, have been lost
sight OF in the West sigce the Battle Of
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
In the Fiery Furnace

Most of US have gone through some
bad hours in the week just ended. The
seven days of the great drive seemed like
seven years in their suspense and mvs-
terry and terror.
There came better news, the expected
better news, toward the end. That
in itself hardly" "eased our taut nerves,
for it was precisely as the great drive
showed signs of slowing down that the
true crisis of the battle was reached.
Then came the big moment of the foot
ball field when the defending team in a
spirit of now or never is besought to
Hold them,"
Yet we think there was perceptible
steadying of nerves for almost all of us
even while the battle still ragged at it's
height and the issue Of the first stage of
TIE battle remained in doubt. In truth.
we have all been through an age-old
test this week, and every one with heart
and courage enough to live in the world
as It is has reacted to the strain and
been strengthened and steadied in his
heart and mind.
No miraculous gun shooting however
so far is half so wonderful as the human
spirit that can smilingly withstand the
menace of that gun. No marvellous aero
plane, of unbelievable swiftness and con-
troll, can compare with the man who
flies it. Not all the mechanical ingenui-
ties of skill and mass which blotted out
their thousands in the great drive are
to be mentioned in the same breath with
the dauntless valor Of those thousands
We are still far from the war-the
most of US. Yet we may all feel stirring
in us the faint beginnings of that
stanchness and steady heroism which
reaches its height on the battlefield. We
have passed through our first blast from
the furnace Of war. May we approach
the next and the next ever clearer-cved
and firmer poised!
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Time to Drop Wagner

The New York Philharmonic Society
apparently doesn't believe in Armaged-
don. On the very day when the Kaiser
was announcing that the first phase of
the wars supreme battle had been won
by the German armies the Philharmonic
celebrated the closing Of its New York
season by playing works of Richard
Wagner, and great audience wended
its way homeWard from the final con-
cert with the music Of "Die Walllire"
throbbing through its brain.
We shall be told that this was a
triumph of American tolerance, an evi-
dence of our spiritual superiority. We
shall certainly hear this from all our
Germans and pro-Germans, accom-
panied by an ill-concealed lecr directed
at our simplicity. And, hearing it, many
of us will feel that it is about time to
clear the air Of the fog of artistic senti-
mentality and hypocrisy in which our
music lovers have been living since the
war began.
The Metropolitan Opera Company has
begun this work by banning Wagner
from its stage. Its directors felt, and
felt rightly, that the German language
is potent weapon in Germany's cam
paign of propaganda. But even more
powerful than the German tongue is
the German spirit as expressed through
its modern music. Wagner may in his
youth have disliked Prussia, but his
mature music, superb as it is, carries
message no less powerful because ut
tered through strings and brasses in
stead of through the human voice. We
need to-day absolute unanimity of spirit,
and art can wait. Wagner, after all, is
German, as German as the Rhine or
Hindenburg. Wagner is the expression
OF the German people, and it is the Ger
man people and all they stand for that
we are fighting. Let us have done with
Wagner in our concert halls, as we have
had done with him in our opera
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29

lean people Will unquestionably sustain
the present government. But if by
then, or later, the present system of CEN
tralized authority, with no immediate
responsibility to any one, should not
prove adequate in this great crisis, there
might be need of radical change.
That is why the Republican party
ought, as The Tribune has urged, to put
forward the ablest and most experienced
men it can possibly find, without much
regard to their party affiliations and
without any regard to local district lines.
Now, if ever, we need in the Ameri-
can Congress the largest measure of po-
litical ability and American energy. It
is not there now
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
Prayer Of the Unrighteous
fFrom The Atlantic Monthly

We had new experience the other dag
when we picked up two boatloads OF sur
vivors from the -, torpedoed withou.
warning. l will say they were pretty gaa
to see us when we bore down on them. As
we neared they began to paddle franticaily'
as though fearful we should be snatcne1
away from them at the last moment. ms
crew were mostly Arabs and Lascars' aha a
the first mate, a typical comic magas'ne
Irishman, delivered himself Of the foilos'
ing: Sure, toward the last some O sh'l'
haythen gifts down on their knees sIs., anu
starts calling on Allah; but sez, SEE l. Wv
up afore swat ye wild the ak handle y
benighted haythen; sure, II TINS boat g's'
saved It will be the Holy Virgin does u "
none at all. at all! Git up sez l."
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
The Touch of Easter

CAN spring return
~ With flower and fern
To this grim, warscarred earth.
Somewhere in France, where. row by ~"
Uncounted wooden crosses show,
Can volets blow
And buttercups have birth!
One bravely died,
Once, crucitied,
Earth trembled with despair;
The sky seemed but n pail of gray
1t was the strangest, saddest day;
Hearts scarce could pray;
Yet, somewhere. God was there.
Oh. Easter, touch
Each life that such
Gethsemane has known;
And bless again with fragrant bloom
The bitterness and cold and gloom
or it's sad tomb,
And roll away the stone!
ALICE E. AILENs'
New-York tribune., 1918-03-29
The Socialist
Retreat
m HE action of the leaders of the local
Socialist party in forming commit
An Interv;eu zcith John Spargo

"NHE actlOn Oh the leaders OF the local
Socialist party in forming commit
tee for the purpose of "modifying
the war policy adopted by the St. Louis
convention of the party last year" is only
part of nationwide movement, according
to John Spargo, the Socialist writer and
lecturer, who left the party on account of
its pro German policy.
"This movement in New York City is only
part of nationwide abandonment of the
position taken at ST. Louis" said Mr.. Spargo
yesterday. From every quarter in the
country come evidences Of this revolt Of
course, this is gratifying, from personal
the soundness and correctness Of ones po-
sition is established in this fashion. How
men and women Of the intellectual calibre
OF many of my former associates could have
been so blind to the most obvious facts
battles my comprehension. 1t is absolutely
lneXplicable to me. Of course, the So
calists who now recanting their posi-
tion have to find some excuse, and they are
saying that the cnangc is justified by the
changed conditions in Russia, by the Presi-
dents insistence on democratic principles
and by the action of the British Labor party
IN supporting the This is the veriest
camoutlage. 1t is form of intellectual
cowardice of the most craven kind. The
Russian revolution fact when the St.
Louis convention met. Russia's needs were
discussed at the convention and by the
mittee which formulated the policy that was
adopted. 1t was quite clear at that time
that the only hope of maintaining the newly
established republic lay in the maintenance
OF stout resistance to the Central Empires
by Russia and Russia's allies.
II said at that time, what is now quite
evident, that the majority report was be-
trayal Of the Russian revolution. The men
who formulated that report were more dan
gerous enemies to the new Russia than the
Hohenzollerns Hapsburgs.
The statements of war aims by the
President in recent addresses are no more
definite and direct in their democratic as
surances than were the addresses which had
already been made before the st. Louis con-
vention met